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GreatNews Change Logs

Happy Niu Year 2009!December 31 2008

2008 is an eventful year for many people, me included. I hope everyone went through it unscathed just like me. 2009 is the year of Ox, which is spelled as ‘Niu’ in Chinese PinYin and pronounced as ‘New’. So it sounds like going to be a really wonderful year. I wish everyone a very happy Niu Year 2009!

Build 383 confusionAugust 28 2007

If you are using build 383, and got prompted to get newer version, please download the release version from download page. The nightly debug build of 383 will display upgrade message, while official release build won’t. Sorry for the confusion.

Tips on installing Vista on Dell Dimension 9200 / XPS 410July 16 2007

I’m back from a great vacation!

And finally decided to upgrade to Vista on my machine.

Then found it’s not as easy as I thought…

After 2 days of struggle I finally figured out the root cause of the problem:

If you have a Dell Dimension 9200 / XPS 410, and got BSOD “worker_thread_returned_at_bad_irql” during setup, or you worked around the setup problem but your Vista pauses for 15 seconds every 5~10 minutes, here is how to fix it:

Open your dell machine case, check where the DVD/Burner are connected. Most likely you will find SATA0 is connected to the only hard disk, and SATA1/2 is connected to DVD/Burner. Disconnect DVD/Burner and reconnect to SATA4/5. Mission accomplished!

It seems Vista’s RAID driver has a hard time to figure out a DVD driver is very different from a hard disk…

Out for vacationJune 17 2007

I’m heading out for a vacation for several weeks. I will turn off comments at this blog temporarily to prevent spams.

Have fun everybody!

Site Migration CompletedMay 7 2007

Over the weekend, GreatNews website has been migrated to a new hosting company with much greater bandwidth and storage. Hopefully this will address download problems some users reported. Here are top level domains collected at the new server. If you still see the “Moving Website” message at the front page, you are still accessing the old site. The DNS change can take 2~3 days to propagate.