User:Minghong



Hi, I'm Martin Ng (Ng Ming Hong 伍明康) from Hong Kong. The nickname "minghong" is usually used instead as it is shorter and easier to type (for me). It also fits nicely with the 8.3 filename limitation in FAT partition (thought I've never used it). I graduated in computer science (Bachelor of Science) at City University of Hong Kong in 2005. I will start the Master of Science in Systems Engineering & Engineering Management programme from Chinese University of Hong Kong in the upcoming 2006-2007 academic year.

Since 2003, I've been editing various Wiki pages in the English Wikipedia, so as to correct the wrong/misleading information and fill the missing information that I think is important. Most of my contributions are related to Hong Kong, computing and anime/manga. I try to contribute as unbiased as possible. I was once being nominated for adminship, but failed.

Since 2004, I've been addicted to Mozilla, web standards, open source/free software, wiki and blogging. Now Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are the default web browser and e-mail client respectively for my Windows 2000/XP machines. It is not likely to be changed in the foreseeable future: when it comes to web standards, usability, extensibility, customizability and security, Mozilla-based applications will hardly turn you down.

I've been spreading Firefox before the creation of Spread Firefox community site. In fact, in the starting of the semester A, 2004, I convinced the Department of Computer Science to install Firefox on the Windows workstations that are open to the CS students. I found that a significant proportion of my classmates is already using Firefox as their default browser. That's really exciting!

Besides spreading Firefox in the real life, I set up a climateprediction.net team named "Spread Firefox" at September 26 2004. The team is hence known as "SFX@CP.NET" for short. Thanks to Robin Monks of MozNews, I was able to have an official website for the team. In less than 2.5 months, the team managed to become the second most productive team (but now being the seventeenth). The power of Firefox community is simply amazing!

After graduating in 2005, I work as a contract web application programmer in Avalade, a consultant company that offers marketing solutions based on open source software. Over the years, my title was changed twice and I'm now a permanent staff.

I've started hiking weekly since the end of 2007. Call me if you are interested in hiking in Hong Kong.

Favorite internet services

 * Google
 * Gmail
 * Blogger
 * Flickr
 * del.icio.us

Favorite software

 * Mozilla Firefox
 * Mozilla Thunderbird
 * Gaim
 * Adobe Photoshop
 * IrfanView
 * Hugin
 * Media Player Classic
 * Real Alternative
 * QuickTime Alternative
 * FileZilla
 * eMule
 * BitComet
 * PuTTY
 * Crimson Editor
 * vi
 * pico
 * MinGW Developer Studio
 * 7-Zip
 * TUGZip
 * IZArc
 * ffdshow
 * LAME
 * VobSub
 * VirtualDub
 * Nandub
 * DVD2AVI
 * SmartRipper
 * Apache
 * MySQL
 * MySQL Administrator
 * MySQL Query Browser
 * Oracle
 * SQLite
 * Firebird
 * PostgreSQL
 * Microsoft SQL Server
 * Microsoft Access
 * Ultr@VNC
 * Remote Desktop Connection

Favorite computer languages

 * C++
 * JavaScript
 * PHP
 * SQL
 * CSS
 * XML
 * XSLT
 * XHTML
 * XUL
 * DTD
 * XML Schema
 * Qt
 * Cangjie method

Favorite codecs

 * DivX
 * XviD
 * RMVB
 * MPEG
 * MP3

Favorite archive formats

 * 7z
 * gzip
 * bzip2

Favorite image formats

 * PNG
 * SVG

Favorite Studio Ghibli

 * Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (日)
 * Castle in the Sky (日)
 * Grave of the Fireflies (日)
 * My Neighbor Totoro (日)
 * Kiki's Delivery Service (日)
 * Porco Rosso (日)
 * Pom Poko (日)
 * Whisper of the Heart (日)
 * On Your Mark (日)
 * Princess Mononoke (日)
 * Spirited Away (日)
 * The Cat Returns (日)

Favorite Osamu Tezuka

 * Mitsume ga Toru (日)
 * Phoenix (日)
 * Black Jack (日)

Favorite Ghost in the Shell

 * Ghost in the Shell (日)
 * Innocence: Ghost in the Shell (日)
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (日)
 * Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (日)

Favorite science fiction

 * Parasyte (日)
 * Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (日)
 * Crest of the Stars (日)
 * Banner of the Stars (日)
 * Appleseed (日)
 * Voices of a Distant Star (日)
 * Kumo no Mukou Yakusoku no Basho (日)

Favorite Gundam series

 * Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (日)
 * Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (日)
 * Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (日)

Favorite giant mecha

 * Patlabor (日)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion (日)
 * Geneshaft (日)
 * Vandread (日)
 * Fafner of the Azure (日)

Favorite comedy

 * Love Hina (日)
 * Azumanga Daioh (日)
 * Yotsubato! (日)
 * Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (日)
 * Sgt. Frog (日)
 * Gakuen Kino (日)

Favorite fantasy

 * Tokyo Underground (日)
 * Haibane Renmei (日)
 * Last Exile (日)
 * The Twelve Kingdoms (日)
 * Kino's Journey (日)
 * Alison (日)

Favorite mystery

 * Madlax (日)
 * Monster (日)

Favorite daily life

 * You're Under Arrest (日)
 * Boys Be (日)
 * Detective Conan (日)
 * Gaku: Minna no Yama（日）

Favorite subculture

 * Genshiken (日)
 * Welcome to the NHK! (日)

Favorite manga

 * A.I. Love You (日)

Favorite cartoon

 * Animaniacs

Favorite film series

 * Alien series
 * Death Note series
 * Die Hard series
 * Lethal Weapon series
 * James Bond series
 * Men In Black series
 * Movies featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger

Favorite science fiction films

 * Contact
 * I, Robot
 * Sphere
 * The Abyss
 * The Day After Tomorrow

Favorite comedy films

 * Catch Me If You Can
 * Forrest Gump
 * Mr. Bean's Holiday
 * 200 Pounds Beauty (韓)

Favorite action films

 * 300
 * Eight Below
 * Letters from Iwo Jima (日)
 * Saving Private Ryan
 * Sengoku Jieitai 1549
 * Vantage Point
 * Vertical Limit

Favorite TV series

 * Dae Jang Geum (韓)
 * Densha Otoko (日)

Favorite TV shows

 * Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Favorite video games

 * Little Big Adventure
 * Relentless
 * Twinsen's Odyssey
 * Tomb Raider series
 * Tetris
 * Puyo Puyo series
 * Bomberman series

Favorite card games

 * Big Two (中)
 * Uno

Favorite board games

 * Aeroplane Chess (中)
 * Chinese checkers (中)
 * Jungle (中)
 * Land Battle Chess (中)
 * Sea-Land-Air Battle Chess (中)
 * Reversi
 * Monopoly

Favorite puzzle games

 * Battleship
 * Mastermind (board game)
 * Minesweeper
 * Nonogram

Other favorite things

 * Origami (日)

Internet services

 * Orkut
 * Friendster

Software

 * Microsoft Windows
 * Internet Explorer
 * Opera
 * Safari
 * Konqueror
 * Mozilla
 * Mozilla Application Suite
 * SeaMonkey
 * Netscape
 * Netscape Navigator
 * Netscape Communicator
 * Netscape 6
 * Netscape 7
 * Netscape Browser
 * Microsoft Office
 * OpenOffice.org
 * IIS
 * VC++
 * MySQL-Front
 * SQLite Database Browser
 * MiTeC Interbase Query
 * SQLExecMS

Computer languages

 * ASP
 * Java
 * JSP

Codecs

 * AAC
 * Ogg Vorbis and Theora
 * Monkey's Audio
 * QuickTime
 * RealAudio
 * RealVideo
 * WMA
 * WMV

Archive formats

 * ZIP
 * RAR
 * ACE
 * LHA
 * CAB

Image formats

 * JPEG
 * GIF
 * BMP
 * TIFF

Firms

 * The Da Vinci Code
 * Curse of the Golden Flower (中)
 * Amazing Grace

TV series

 * ER
 * Sex and the City
 * Six Feet Under

My Pets

 * Red-eared slider
 * Painted Turtle
 * Florida Redbelly Turtle
 * Tri-colored Guinea pig

My Wikipedia creations
For detail list, see also my contributions.

Main articles

 * Anti-phishing software
 * Audio player (software)
 * Audio player
 * Caret navigation
 * Channel Definition Format
 * Chemical Markup Language
 * Client-side JavaScript
 * Criticisms of Internet Explorer
 * data: URI scheme
 * Documentation generator
 * DOM Events
 * DOM Inspector
 * ECMAScript engine
 * Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier
 * Fafner of the Azure
 * Features of Internet Explorer
 * GTK-Qt
 * High Street, Hong Kong
 * History of Internet Explorer
 * History of Mozilla Application Suite
 * History of Mozilla Thunderbird
 * Incremental find
 * JavaScript engine
 * Li Sing Primary School
 * Mozilla Add-ons
 * Mozilla application framework
 * Mozilla China
 * Mozilla Corporation
 * OML
 * OPML
 * Page zooming
 * Same origin policy
 * Server-side JavaScript
 * Spatial navigation
 * Stylesheet language
 * Tabbing navigation
 * TUGZip
 * Usage share of web browsers
 * Video player (software)
 * Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
 * XPInstall
 * XTF
 * Yellow screen of death

Lists

 * List of bitmap graphics editors
 * List of BitTorrent clients
 * List of computer algebra systems
 * List of content syndication markup languages
 * List of document markup languages
 * List of documentation generators
 * List of download managers
 * List of ECMAScript engines
 * List of e-mail clients
 * List of file archivers
 * List of FTP clients
 * List of FTP servers
 * List of general purpose markup languages
 * List of hierarchical database management systems
 * List of HTML editors
 * List of image viewers
 * List of instant messaging protocols
 * List of instant messengers
 * List of IRC clients
 * List of JavaScript engines
 * List of layout engines
 * List of lightweight markup languages
 * List of media players
 * List of Mozilla Foundation products
 * List of object-oriented database management systems
 * List of object-relational database management systems
 * List of office suites
 * List of personal information managers
 * List of relational database management systems
 * List of stylesheet languages
 * List of text editors
 * List of user interface markup languages
 * List of vector graphics editors
 * List of vector graphics markup languages
 * List of video editing software
 * List of video players (software)
 * List of Web service markup languages
 * List of word processors

Comparisons

 * Comparison of document markup languages
 * Comparison of documentation generators
 * Comparison of file archivers
 * Comparison of FTP clients
 * Comparison of instant messaging protocols
 * Comparison of layout engines
 * Comparison of layout engines (DOM)
 * Comparison of layout engines (HTML)
 * Comparison of layout engines (graphics)
 * Comparison of layout engines (XHTML)
 * Comparison of layout engines (XML)
 * Comparison of object-relational database management systems
 * Comparison of relational database management systems
 * Comparison of text editors
 * Comparison of user interface markup languages

Disambiguations

 * AUS
 * Bluff Head
 * Chung Wan
 * Golden Beach
 * Junk Island
 * River Beas (disambiguation)
 * San Shek Wan
 * Yuen Kong Chau

Images

 * File:Internet Explorer 4.png
 * File:Internet Explorer 6.png
 * File:Minghong.png
 * File:Mozilla Firefox usage share.png
 * File:Mozilla logo history.png
 * File:Mozilla Thunderbird logo history.png
 * File:Netscape classic logo.png
 * File:Netscape Navigator usage share.png
 * File:Sai Ying Pun early street planning.png

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Categories

 * Category:BitTorrent
 * Category:BitTorrent clients
 * Category:FTP server software
 * Category:Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 * Category:HTML editors
 * Category:Hydraulic engineering
 * Category:Image viewers
 * Category:Internet suites
 * Category:JavaScript dialect engines
 * Category:JavaScript engines
 * Category:Layout engines
 * Category:Lists of software
 * Category:Markup language comparisons
 * Category:Mount Davis, Hong Kong
 * Category:Mozilla Application Suite
 * Category:Mozilla extensions
 * Category:Object-based programming languages
 * Category:Pak Shek Kok
 * Category:Stylesheet languages
 * Category:Tai Lam Chung
 * Category:Tiu Keng Leng
 * Category:Uninhabited islands of Hong Kong
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 * Category:User sql-1
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 * Category:User xml-4
 * Category:Waterfall Bay, Hong Kong

Sister projects

 * Wikimedia Commons

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