Found a video tour in CNET to let you turn a laptop to a hot spot. Actually I did this before at least 3 years ago.

Basicly, use Windows XP’s connection sharing, and make the wireless network working on ad hoc mode. Other laptop use “ad hoc” mode to join the ad hoc network and share the same Internet connection.  (The computers in a ad-hoc wifi network is just like computers connected to a hub)

From the video tour it seemed that with Windows Vista and Mac OSX, it will be much easier.

Though it worked, believe me, it’s much better to buy a Apple Airport Express, its user expereince is much much better.

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pretty useful batch script.  Copy & paste it in to a file named “clean.bat”, run it to delete all temp files.

@echo off

echo Deleting IE temp files…
del /f /s /q “%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*”
del /f /s /q “%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*”

echo Deleting *.tmp *._tmp *.log *.chk *.old…
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*._mp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.gid
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.old

echo Deleting recycle bin, temp dir, etc…
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak
del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.*
rd /s /q %windir%\temp & md %windir%\temp

echo Clean system disk…
%windir%\system32\sfc.exe /purgecache

echo Defrag system drive…
%windir%\system32\defrag.exe %systemdrive% -b

echo Finished！

echo. & pause

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Via: Clicky

	Clicky.com	Google Analytics	SiteMeter	StatCounter	Mint	FeedBurner
Customizable dashboard
Juicy details about each individual visitor
Track custom data for every visitor (usernames, shopping cart ids, etc)
Get your stats via RSS feeds
Track outbound links
Aggregate (multi-day) view for all data
Real Time Stats
Official WordPress plugin for easy integration with your blog
Google Maps integration
Filter visitors based on country, browser, referer, search, etc
Detailed visitor geography
Full dynamic referer tracking
Free service
Affiliate program to earn you cash or free premium service

= Not by default. Requires hack and/or manual HTML editing and/or third party plugin.

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PHP & Java version

Link: http://firestats.cc/wiki/ip2c

IP2C ¶

IP2C is a small library that provides IP to country resolution using a binary file.
The binary file is compiled f2rom ip-to-country free database and takes only about 500kb (the CSV takes about 3.5mb).

License ¶

IP2C is released under the terms GPL v2.

Supports ¶

• Command line
• Java
• PHP

Performance ¶

All tests done on an Athlon XP 3200+.
PHP:

• No cache: About 1200 searches in a second.
• Cache: not implemented (Want to help?)

Java:

• No cache: About 8000 searches/second.
• Memory cache: About 180,000 searches/second.

Download ¶

ip2c 1.4.3 (Database version : 2007.3.5)

C# version

http://www.extremeoptimization.com/resources/Concept/

Source download: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/IPLookupOptimise.asp

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Statcounter is one of my favorite web statics site. I like it because:

1. Almost realtime to display the traffic to the web site; (In Google analytics, you can only see data  24 hours ago)
2. Very fast to response when install the tracking code, static data is almost immediately appear after the install. (Google analystic will let you wait at least 24 hours and there are several boring “verify” steps to make it work)
3. Hidden tracker even for free version
4. Multiple sites tracking in one account
5. Simple but good enough for personal site

The only thing bad is, free version statcounter only track the latest 500 activities, so all static information are only based on those latest logs. Even a paid version only increase the log size bigger, so it’s not possible to view the whole picture of the web traffic.

What suprised me is a story in BusinessWeek:

The booming Irish Web analytics startup was launched by the top vote-getter in BusinessWeek’s young entrepreneur contest when he was just 16

 In 1999, at the age of 16, Cullen launched Dublin-based StatCounter, an online service that lets clients measure the number of hits they get on their Web sites, plus the geographical location of visitors, the pages people view, and the keywords they use to find a site.

That turned out to be a smart move for the young Irishman, now 24.

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