A couple of days ago, I just re-install Windows 7 on IBM X60 based on the flash drive, now the new bought Sandisk Ultra USB flash drive is no use now, so during the National Holiday, I just install a Live-CD type Linux on it so I can play something different with MS stuff latter.

I choose Knoppix largely because of it's size: Knoppix has the largest size among other Linux distribution like puppy/Slax as well as it's popularity, you can Get Knoppix via a BT client like µTorrent. After you get the 3.68GB DVD ISO downloaded, the step to custom Knoppix to fit your needs will be quite simple (yes simple, but it must be consider in the Linux standard):

Many people know when drag the small black square in the lower right-hand corner of the cell in Excel, Excel will auto fill the value, fewer people know drag the small black square in right mouse-key will pop-up the context menu and let you select Copy Cells, Fill Series, or other options like below picture:

It should be weird that a Shanghaiese say he is on trip in Shanghai, but it is true. In the recent years, the city area extend so much I believe Shanghai as a geography concept should be refer as a providence rather than a city now. Shanghai is already one of four direct lead city in China since the 1949, quite a long time ago but in the first 50 years it remain relative small. The aggressive extension is happen in the decade together with the subways construction. This phenomenon largely result low profit industry moving to suburb and center area property price boost at the same time and finally lead the people leaves traditional shanghai center because the job or financial reason.

Now it is no much people live in the center area, most of them are now in the suburb, but they need to trival huge distance every day and spend 3~4 hours on the road, Goverment call that modernization but I would rather call that timing suicide.

IBM X60 is very legacy PC, very light and have active hard-drive protection so X60 is quite reliable. but due to its hard drive AHCI mode and no CD-ROM, it is really a nightmare when you plan to re-install the windows.

But fortunately, you can use the USB disk to install the Windows 7 very easily and fast (no driver problem in windows 7 for X60), so the key problem for install the Windows 7 on X60 become how to build a bootable Windows 7 installation media on USB disk and how to successfully boot it in the X60 when startup.

In Windows platform, most quickly way to building up the Google App Engine SDK is install ActiveStates Python 2.5.6.10 and the MSI version of GoogleAppEngine 1.5.3.

But after you finish installation and get ready to deploy your first application, you will got the very annoy error which require SSL module for python, it is very hard to find such SSL module in internet as most of the links is source code code and require you build SSL by yourself in a C++ VS2003/MingW environment.

So I just upload a version in 115 disk for you download. (yes, binary version so you have to trust me there is no problem...)

I would like to thank XuMing and his Micolog, it’s very small blog program on GAE but functional is quite complete. Micolog is a good reference source code if you are newly to Google App Engine. There is also someone who write a article about how to upgrade the exist Micolog from Django 0.96 to Django 1.2, the article is download is broken and still have some problem about template safe notation modify here and there.

So I would like to contribute a modified version of Micolog v7.412 source code, which I spend quite several days to debug and merge the change both in the new github.com and old SVN on Google Code code repository, I also change/enhanced the feature as below:

• Update tinymce editor to version 3.9.4
• Fix IE6 can not comment bug
• Fix sys_plugin can no load error
• Minor change Pixel theme css
• Add IE9 pin site feature in Pixel
• Do some python code standard layout and import optimize
• Allow suppress logo and other not needed copyright in admin page
• Fix email notify in sys_plugin after upgrade to 1.2
• Add replay via comments
• New paging facility

The source code is also used in this blog and seems quite stable and I hope you will like it.

Conclusion: SAE price is a little higher than Google, specially the bandwidth.

I used to write the blog in MS live space, the word press, cnblogs.com and in Sina's weibo.com, but Now I'm start to write the blogs as an independent blogger!

I know the complexity of launching the website, but I think it's worth as every aspect of my blog site are all under my control, so building up according to the highest web standard is now possible!