Talking

Only one hour left,

we will kick off 2008 and wishfully to hug with a fantastic 2009.

Waiting the moment coming,

it’s a new beginning;

it’s a new hope.

We have the same wish at that wonderful time:

Happy New Year 2009!

Yesterday I said I got some sources to download the leaked Windows 7 beta 1.I’d downloaded it successfully today and so could try it immediately.

As it’s a ISO file,I had to burn it into a DVD and then started my installation.

The procedures of installation are quite similar with the earlier versions of Windows(XP,Vista etc).

All options are user-friendly so that the installation may be even done by some newbie.

The installations took approximately 30 minutes in my laptop.

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Beverley held several times of ‘Beverley’s choices’ to share her collections with her friends and I picked one of them as a new year gift for my girlfriend.Well,Beverley is so nice to help me wrap it up in advance and sent it on the dot.Thus, I received it in this afternoon-the last day of 2008.

Yes,it is a simple movable blossom necklace.I had asked my girlfriend to show it up,but till now I haven’t seen it.Surely I will post it on later when she wears it.

Thanks Bev.

The official source spoke out several days ago that Windows 7 beta would be open to public in coming January,2009.But since yesterday,some downloading method could have been leaked out.Today,I’ve found some screenshots posted by some bloggers.DOWNLOADSQUAD reported the case on Dec. 27,2008.

  From the comments left on the net,most of them are positive.So I think I should test it by my own to know about the props and cons of it.I’d tried to download it by BT,but it moved very slowly due to some unknown reason.Tomorrow I’ll try it again and if successfully,I will install it and post up my senses at once to share with your guys.Stay tuned!

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The broken undersea cables were said to be repaired by December 31,2008.However,it doesn’t seem to be realized now.

A recent report from The National said a representative from UAE-based Telco, Etisalat said repairs along the cable system stretched beyond Thursday, as initially projected, because of complications in a cable located off Egypt.

I did some loading tests on speedtest.net .Let’s figure out:

This result was tested on a nearest local server.It could be treated to be a rough reference. 

Those two results were tested to the servers in China.It was considered to be fair performances.

These two were tested on the servers in UK and US.The congestions may be caused by the reroutes from the other affected areas by the incident and so leads to high ping and lower speeds.

Egypt is influenced hugely by the incident.The above one was tested on the server there.The snaillike speed and high latency have shown the issue clearly.

It’s only the thing happened in Mediterranean sea,but impacting on almost all countries.Thus,this current incident may just describe that Internet makes the world smaller in an abnormal way.Of course,I think it also tells those Telecom giants that investments are strongly needed in order to build up more ‘broad roads’ to eliminate or relieve some congestions.

I believe that most netizens are looking forward to a faster Internet service,so do I.Hopefully the repairs could be done the sooner the better.