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隽扬居然看起老夫子漫画，还看得津津有味，还会笑。

今天是超高兴的。下班就赶着回酒店，看李宗伟对李炫一的奥运单打半决赛。因为到酒店已经是七点多了，只看到第三场。当时是李宗伟领先 10:4。那个时候李炫一突然发威，连取三分，比分追成 10:7，后来以 11:7 换边。那个时候可以看到李炫一的对角回球让李宗伟出其不意。而且李炫一的对角劈杀也是相当有杀伤力的。把比分拉近到 12:10。李宗伟过后就积极进攻。证明了李宗伟的劈杀、速度比李炫一的更致命。终于以 21:18，13:21， 21:13 昂首进决赛。

我不知道李宗伟的第二场是怎么打得，尤其是中间有一段，李炫一连取十一分。这显示了李炫一的实力。

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士林夜市。

钱柜卡拉OK。

台北远东国际大饭店。

Shangri-La Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, 201, Tun Hwa South Road.

刚刚结束的奥运羽球男子单打，黄综翰以 21:19 21:16 击垮陶菲克。黄综翰这一场球打得十分主动，而且保持低失误率，拉锯中险胜。在位置好的情况下，黄综翰的凌空劈杀还是蛮有效的，取了不少分。最可取的是黄综翰敢枪网。

陶菲克明显的不处于最佳状态，信心打了折扣。不过以技术来说，陶菲克场上的动作还是很流畅。反手劈杀还是那么致命。天才球星就是天才球星，球拍就像他身体的一部分。

黄妙珠也打了胜战。

早上的时候，李宗伟也传捷报。21:13 21:14 淘汰 Ronald Susilo。Susilo 虽然努力，可是技术上没有办法和李宗伟拼。

北京奥运顺利在鸟巢掀开序幕。开幕典礼没有让人失望。印象深刻的是那个像脚印一般的烟花，从远处漫步到鸟巢体育馆。

张艺谋导演得像一出大型舞台剧。没有已往中国杂技、体操的刻板表演。带过中国的四大发明，纸墨笔砚，长城，木偶戏。还有孔子的三千子弟念着：“有朋自远方来不亦乐乎”。赞。

可以想象如果置身现场的话，气势一定澎湃。可是在电视里，听觉效果就很差。序幕的那一场击鼓，音效带不出来。还有孔子三千子弟的话也听不清楚。

This is a painful process that I need to go through every 5 years.

But I must say the standard of service from the Malaysia High Commision in Singapore has greatly improved. I reached there at about 7.45 AM. The forms were submitted at about 9 AM. I was allowed to come back in the afternoon to collect the passport. The collection is done within 0.5 hour.

One thing to note is that, they requested for Singapore address to be filled in the application form, also a photo copy of the Singapore blue IC.

With the findings that I have about 迅雷. I am wondering if a joker with the software running on his laptop goes online in a MacDonald outlet, will he be hogging the entire bandwidth ?

Similarly, if there are a few users inside a same HDB block, will these few jokers jam the internet ?

I remembered Starhub limits the bit torrent uploading speed. Is it because of this reason ?

But the fact that I still can use 迅雷 to its fullest. I do not think Starhub is currently blocking 迅雷. They should do something about it.

There is a very good wiki here.

I spent the whole day looking for a software to limit 迅雷's Bandwidth. I tried Netlimiter Pro 2. It does exactly what I need. Unfortunately, it crashed consistently after running for a while, It is a brutal BSOD.

I switched to Bandwidth Manager from Softperfect. It actually works for me. Unfortunately, it does not limit the bandwidth by application.

I have created 3 rules. The 1st rule is to allow all PCs / laptops connected to my home network to access the PC that runs 迅雷 with virtually no bandwidth limitation. I need this so that I can access this PC through RealVNC and FTP. The 2nd and 3rd rules are to limit the incoming and outgoing speed.

However, even with this settings, whenever Xunlei is running, other applications such as IE, utorrent will not be able to access internet. This solution works for me, because my PC is dedicated to run 迅雷 and utorrent (not at the same time).

I would call this software unscrupulous, unethical.

Firstly, the user interface is only available in Simplified Chinese (GBK). The characters appear as garbage on my English version of windows XP. I do not understand why people cannot design their software using Unicode.

Secondly, the entire application is cluttered with advertisements.

Third, whenever it is running. it is hogging my entire broadband bandwidth. Other PCs, laptops connected to my home router will have intermittent internet connection. This has really pissed me off. I went googling over internet. What I have discovered is, this software is probably the fastest download client available now. The way it achieves such a high speed is by forcing other client PCs to download files that are requested by these PCs. In other words, if PC A is downloading file X, it forces other PCs B, C, D to download file X (or part of it) even though PCs B, C, D have never requested file X. PC B, C and D are then made to upload file X to PC A.

Even on the same machine that  迅雷 is running, IE & utorrent are entirely paralyzed. They have virtually no acces to the internet.