Sunday, February 19, 2023

How to finish your assignments faster

I can say "ctrl + F" is one of my favorite hot key on computer. Not only can we navigating in the word document but also in a browser. Searching some specific content in dozens of pages, I only have to click on "ctrl + F" and navigate to the page related to the keyword. This makes me look up somethings quickly especially when I'm doing a online assignment. For example, when I'm doing the Anthropology's MC questions, I can look up the keyword from the question and soon find the correct answer. Just make use of the "ctrl + F"! Work smartly and be lazy!

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Minecraft Server

I am making a RPG Minecraft server with my friend and thus I have to host a server. I bought a computer for the server at my Hong Kong's home, connecting to my wi-fi. Then I downloaded the server kit for Minecraft and set it up. At the moment, a Minecraft server was done. Players could connect to my server and played ,but it was only available for those connected to my home wi-fi. That sounded like a joke for a server because we didn't even have to host a server if we were stick together. Therefore, I searched the tutorial of publishing a server on the Internet and made ports for TCP and UDP accordingly for the sake of posting my server online. Honestly, I didn't really know what they were until I saw "2.5.5 Internet Protocol Facts". I understand that through Transmission Control Protocol, players can correctly download files in high speed and connect to my server.

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Send me a lossless photo please

Recently, a girl sent me her selfie from Instagram inbox and I found it pretty fuzzy. Then, I saved the photo and looked at the detail of the picture, figuring out that the size of it was only 274.02KB. Usually, a photo taken from a phone is at least 1MB above. I know that she is not using the Nokia 3310, a old generation phone, so what is the reason of the blurred selfie? I solved the doubt by reading file compression facts from chapter 1.1.14, realizing that it is a lossy file type, the JPG. It is believed that the compression algorithm in Instagram heavily alters the data and thus the selfie loses more than 70% of the resolution. The best solution would be asking her to resend it through Dropbox in order not to compress the picture or seeing the real person.

PS: the photo isn't authorized by the girl.