HK-Shenzhen tech park in Lok Ma Chau Loop

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Charles Mok e-Bulletin

The government announced this week that it will partner with Shenzhen to develop Lok Ma Chau loop into a innovation and technology park. While I agree that more land supply for R&D is positive, given the huge investment in infrastructure that our taxpayers will pay for, we have the responsibility to ask the right questions to make sure Hong Kong will get value for the deal and generate positive impact, not rely on empty promises — granting entry permit waiver for “verified” Shenzhen workers, criteria and requirements to the tenants in the park, strategic role that this massive project carries in relation to other planned R&D land use at new development areas in the New Territories.

Transparency and accountability must be ensured throughout. I demand the government to release more details of this project, especially the cost estimate of development and what will be included in the proposed tech park, such as the proportion of land reserved for e-commerce, data centres.  

Raspberry Pi Wireless Connection Control

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Introduction

recently, I found a software to manage wireless connection under Raspberry Pi (i.e Lunix), it called wicd-curese. It is easy to install it by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install wicd-curses

However, it request to install quite a few other packages but those daemon run in the background.

After installed, you can run it with command:

sudo wicd-curses

Then, the following screen will display for your setup control:

wireless-control

  • Right Key “->” to Configure
  • R to refresh the list.
  • D to Disconnect
  • C to Connect
  • F10 to save

You must be capital such as [SHIFT] C to connect. If you get a message saying no networks detected press P  and type in wlan0 in the wireless interface field and press F10 to save.

It is also manages the connection so it will reconnect to any configured wireless access points if it drops out for whatever reason but it will also try to connect to any available networks.

You might have to press C to connect to the access point. If you were wired that will most likely kill the LAN interface and bring up wireless, so, be careful for network connection.

 

Hong Kong Tech Voucher now open for application

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SMEs which operate in Hong Kong for at least one year can now apply to the Tech Voucher Programme (TVP). Subsidy up to $200,000 will be provided on a 2:1 matching basis. Funding areas under the voucher programme include: technology consultancy; purchase, rental or subscription of customised equipment or hardware, software and technological services or solutions.

Check out our info kit here and the official guidance note to know more about the TVP. I will closely monitor the implementation of the voucher programme and identify the areas for improvement. You are welcomed to write to me about any issues you see in the TVP.

Policy proposals to the government

The government is soliciting views on the 2017 Policy Address and 2017-2018 Budget and each year I will submit to the government a list of policy and funding proposals to elevate the sector growth and push forward the innovation and technology development in Hong Kong.

I have submitted a proposal comprising 20 key recommendations on 10 areas, including: IT Talents And Employment Support Programme to foster partnership between IT businesses and universities to train more IT specialists; $1-billion InnoTech Studies Fund; establishing Technology and Law Reform Committee, InnoTech & Economic Transformation Working Group; creating Startups Accreditation Programme, Digital Marketplace Trial to help startups and SMEs win projects; overhauling the STEM education; establishing a Smart City Sandbox for innovative developments; increasing land supply for technology development and more. Your views are appreciated.

 

IT人在工廠日記 – 飯店捉老鼠

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此照片是我在一間大陸飯店吃午飯時拍下的，當時伙記們很落力地捉老鼠，完全沒有顧慮到在座客人的感受，但是大陸人也很奇怪，這好像是平常事，而我也跟其它客人一樣，留在座位觀看，只求老鼠不要躲過來便算，這就是大陸的生活。如果事情發生在香港，客人會奪門而走，而這飯店肯定要見報被投訴，可是在大陸，這便是一件很平常普通的小事。20161121_130709

URL block List for a China Company

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1.  Introduction

To protect company network from malware, worm, virus, spam, etc in suspected malicious web sites, we need to define an URL block list (in next section), and setup to restrict those URLs in our network Firewall. This post will list out those suspected URLs, and we will submit this document to management review and approve.

2. URL Block List

2.1 Sports

2.1.1      General Suspected URL:

 

2.1.2 China Suspected URL:

http://sports.sina.com.cn/

http://sports.sohu.com/

http://sports.ifeng.com/

http://sports.163.com/

http://sports.qq.com/

http://sports.cntv.cn/

http://sports.pptv.com/

http://sports.youku.com/

http://sports.letv.com/

http://china.nba.com/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/sports/

 

  • Streaming Video:
    • General Suspected URL:

 

  • China Suspected URL:

http://player.baidu.com/yingyin.html

http://www.iqiyi.com/

http://tv.sohu.com/

http://www.tv189.com/

http://www.baofeng.com/

http://www.youku.com/

http://cbox.cntv.cn/

http://www.ku6.com/client_ku6speed/

http://tudouva.softonic.cn/

http://y.qq.com/player/

http://www.fun.tv/

http://www.kugou.com/

http://www.ppxyy.com/

http://www.kankan.com/

http://v.baidu.com/

http://www.uusee.com/

http://www.56.com/

http://www.pptv.com/

http://dl.xunlei.com/

http://v.qq.com/download.html

http://www.p2psearchers.com/

http://www.lmtw.com/

 

  • Social Media
    • General Suspected URL:

 

  • China Suspected URL:

http://wangwang.1688.com/

http://skype.gmw.cn/

http://popo.163.com/

https://messenger.yahoo.com/web/

http://cn.msn.com/

http://www.qq.com/

http://uc.sina.com.cn/

http://feixin.10086.cn/

http://webim.feixin.10086.cn/

http://im.baidu.com/

http://cc.163.com/

http://www.alicall.com/

http://www.gtalk.com.cn/

 

  • Software downloads
    • General Suspected URL:

 

 

  • China Suspected URL:

http://raysource.softonic.cn/

http://www.115.com/

http://xf.qq.com/

http://www.flashget.com/cn/

http://dl.xunlei.com/

 

  • P2P sharing
    • General Suspected URL:

 

  • China Suspected URL:

http://www.emule.org.cn/

http://soft.p2psearcher.org/

http://dl.xunlei.com/

http://www.bttiantang.com/

http://www.poco.cn/

http://www.btchina.net/
http://www.verycd.com/
http://www.btpig.com/
http://www.3e-online.com/
http://www.bbsmovie.com/
http://www.21ou.com/。

http://www.jlpzj.com/
http://www.dream2008.cn/
http://www.cnxp.com/
http://www.btbbt.com/

 

 

  • Torrents
    • General Suspected URL:

 

  • China Suspected URL:

http://www.mininova.org/

http://thepiratebay.org/
http://isohunt.com/
http://torrentz.com/
http://btjunkie.org/
http://torrentportal.com/
http://www.gamestorrents.com/
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
http://www.sumotorrent.com/
http://www.seedpeer.com/

 

Reference Sites:

http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download

http://www.squidguard.org/blacklists.html

http://www.business-in-site.com/webmaster-articles/huge-list-of-156-video-streaming-sites/

http://www.blogsdna.com/923/top-20-best-peer-2-peer-p2p-file-sharing-programs-applications-software.htm

https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites-110828/

Introduction of ITIL v3 Framework

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WHAT IS ITIL?

ITIL is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management in the world. It provides a practical, no-nonsense framework for identifying, planning, delivering and supporting IT services to the business.

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ITIL: OVERVIEW AND BENEFITS

ITIL advocates that IT services must be aligned to the needs of the business and underpin the core business processes. It provides guidance to organizations on how to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth.

The ITIL best practices are currently detailed within five core publications which provide a systematic and professional approach to the management of IT services, enabling organizations to deliver appropriate services and continually ensure they are meeting business goals and delivering benefits.

The five core guides map the entire ITIL Service Lifecycle, beginning with the identification of customer needs and drivers of IT requirements, through to the design and implementation of the service into operation and finally, on to the monitoring and improvement phase of the service.

Adopting ITIL can offer users a huge range of benefits that include:

  • improved IT services
  • reduced costs
  • improved customer satisfaction through a more professional approach to service delivery
  • improved productivity
  • improved use of skills and experience
  • improved delivery of third party service.

ITIL USERS

ITIL has been adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide, such as NASA, the UK National Health Service (NHS), HSBC bank and Disney™. ITIL is also supported by quality services from a wide range of providers including examination institutes, accredited training providers and consultancies, software and tool vendors and well known service providers such as IBM, Telefonica, HP and British telecom (BT).

A comprehensive qualifications scheme offering a variety of training courses and certifications has been developed against the guidance. This scheme can help organizations to effectively implement ITIL, achieving success by ensuring that employees have the relevant knowledge, skills and techniques, but most importantly, ensuring the entire organization is using a common language and are fully invested in the process.

ITIL Best Practices also underpin the foundations of ISO/IEC 20000 (previously BS15000), the International Service Management Standard for organizational certification and compliance. Organizations can therefore implement ITIL to achieve organizational certification.

How to protect you against Android phone loss/theft

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How to protect you against Android phone loss/theft

(1) At Android smartphone
1. Select “Settings” icon, then “Location and security”
2. Select “Device administration”
3. Enable “Android Device Manager”
(2) At PC
1. Go to https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
2. Login your Android related Gmail account
3. Now you can LOCATE, RING or LOCK your phone or ERASE your phone’s data in case of theft or loss.

中國內地遺失回鄉卡/證的補領手續

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由即日起，香港中旅社為應付港人於中國內地遺失回鄉卡/證的情況，現可替港人即日辦妥出境證件(即臨時入出境通行證)。 因此，如在內地失卡，必須於當日下午3:30前到羅湖補卡中心代辦補領手續一般來說，可即日領取臨時入出境通行證返港，免遭滯留內地。如於當日黃昏及/或晚上才到羅湖補卡中心代辦補領手續則可於第二天中午12:30前領取臨時入出境通行證返港。
該補卡中心之地址及辦公時間如下：
地址：羅湖中旅社補領中心 ─ 連廊2樓C4室 (即羅湖商業城對面)
辦公時間：星期一至星期日(上午8:30至下午9:30)
查詢電話 : 852-2334-8833 或 86-755-8234-7136
費用：人民幣230-250元(如能提供證件相片2張，費用為人民幣 230元，否則需支付人民幣250元)
補領手續及時間由中旅社作最後的決定。返港後 , 必須到香港的中旅社辦理補領回鄉卡的手續。
中旅社亦提醒市民到內地前應影印身份證、回鄉卡及護照。如對以上有任何問題, 請致電 852-2334-8833 或 86-755-8234-7136作出查詢。

 

Refresh to display a web page using Python

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Python Program Example 1.

If you’re going to need a refresh on the same tab, you’ll need selenium webdriver. After installing selenium using pip, you can use the following code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
while True:
   time.sleep(10)
   driver.refresh()

If you are browsing a static page, you can pass a parameter in it and run, for example passing "pycon" to search as below script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()

Python Program Example 2.

from link http://geekinessthecoolway.blogspot.hk/2013/05/tired-of-refreshingscript-for-automatic.html

A script will automatically refresh the page after every few seconds,so that my keyboard’s F5 button is spared. But still there is redundancy, one has to keep looking at the same thing again and again to check if any change has happened. So,I added few more lines to the script. Now whenever the result will be declared (or there will be any new notification) a song will start playing automatically.

Here is the resultant script:

import urllib
import time
import os
import pygame
uri = “http://upresults.nic.in”  #url where result will be declared
source = urllib.urlopen(uri).read()
nw_source=source
cntr=0
flg=True
while nw_source==source:
if flg:
time.sleep(5)  #refresh every 5 seconds
try:
nw_source = urllib.urlopen(uri).read()
except IOError:
print “Error in reading url”
flg=False
continue
cntr+=1
print cntr,” times refreshed”

flg=True
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load(“kar_chale _hum_vida.mp3”) #pass the path to the music file
pygame.mixer.music.play()
while True:
pass

Using Webdriver under Selenium:

WebDriver是主流Web应用自动化测试框架，具有清晰面向对象 API，能以最佳的方式与浏览器进行交互。

支持的浏览器：

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Apple iPhone
  • Android browsers

Selenium WebDriver 又称为 Selenium2。

Selenium 1 + WebDriver = Selenium 2

标准的安装步骤

  1. 选择Python的版本。Python主流的有两个大的版本，2.7和3.5（请注意，从Python的3.5版本开始，不再支持Windows XP操作系统，Windows XP用户请安装3.4版本）。我们的例子将会选用面向未来的3.5版本。
  2. 在Windows安装Selenium2.0，有两种途径。使用pip命令行或者源码安装。以下两种方法，使用任何一个均可。推荐pip的方式。
    1. 方法一：pip命令行安装，运行 | cmd，打开命令行，-U其实就是--upgrade，升级安装。 
      pip install -U selenium
    2. 方法二：源码解压安装，前往https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium下载最新版的PyPI版本的Selenium，解压后执行 
      python setup.py install

Source Information: http://www.jianshu.com/p/3ce95cbc65be

Selenium 3.0.1 出现的问题以及解决

3.0.1 更新以后，需要做两个操作：

  1. Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH。Geckodirver的下载地址：https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
    报错内容:

    WebDriverException:Message:'geckodriver'executable needs to be in Path

    geckodriver是一原生态的第三方浏览器，对于selenium3.x版本都会使用geckodriver来驱动firefox，所以需要下载geckodriver.exe。放置在Path 环境变量可以访问到的地方。例如 C:python34

  2. 需要将火狐的安装路径放到path，然后重启（必须重启电脑）
    报错内容：

    selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

    参考地址：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40208051/selenium-using-python-geckodriver-executable-needs-to-be-in-path/40208762