Ziyan Zhou


  • Using CVS in Microsoft Windows

    It sucks when I found out that if you want to collaborate a C# project with somebody else using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you actually need to purchase a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, which is not only expensive but also complicated to install. However, CVS in UNIX, Linux, Apple or Net [...]

  • Sociology vs. Economics

    Sociology and Economics are two courses that I am taking this quarter. But the funny thing is that they tend to oppose each other and have unsolvable conflicts.
    The sociologists argue that capitalist economy is bad for people since it will eventually lead to monopoly that monopolists set the price and quantity produced according to Marx. [...]

  • AniSearch: Not A Long Run Solution

    Yesterday, I quickly made a simple web UI for the project AniSearch. It should now be on http://search.ziyan.info. Although, users could freely search anything they want and get results, it is still not a long run solution for search engines. Some people on the Internet wrote article about meta search engines. They criticize the idea [...]

  • Pick Up AniSearch Again

    Spent all night yesterday building a simple meta search engine. This idea was raised about two months ago and now I pick it up again. The AniSearch idea is to build a .NET distributed search engine that provide Ajax WebUI and machine interactable sockets. The result of yesterday’s developement is a simple search engine that [...]

  • Plan of Action – Academically

    Among all aspects of university life, academic might be the crucial part for RIT students. Studying probably is the purpose of entering a college in the first place. As a first year RIT student, having a good start in college by maintaining a decent GPA is extremely important.
    First year RIT students not only work hard [...]

  • A Packet From China

    Received my books yesterday that were shipped about two months ago from China. Look at how many stamps they got on the envelope.

October

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