Once in a life time, you might want to have big, big, big storage such that no more remove operations are required. I don't know other but I really want to have one. Cluster is a good approach to make my dream come true. There are so many solution out there. I will not talk about commercial product since I don't have enough money support to buy one so this post only focuses on open source solutions.

In browser war, there are big three player in this game. The first one and my favorite is Firefox. Anyway, it seems like Firefox is beating by IE 7 and Opera 9. While other competiters trying to promote its usability and resource usage, Firefox is still focusing on extensibility and performance. One big problem here is not performance but resource consumption. In other words, Firefox is growing up and it is not for machine with main memory lower than 512 anymore. Well, to make it more fair, we are engineer and we talk by exact value. I found a comparison. Let's skip to the resource usage. The article measured memory usage in MB with no pages load on MS Windows XP Professional SP2. The result turned out that Opera 9.0 consumed 53 MB followed by Firefox 2 Beta 1 at 42 MB and IE 7 Beta 3 at 24 MB. After loading 6 tabs, Firefox 2 Beta 1 ate 73 MB, IE 7 Beta 3 at 70 MB, and Opera 9.0 at 52 MB. The last performance test is startup time in seconds. Opera 9.0 was the winner in this criteria while Firefox 2 Beta 1 is the slowest one.

My favorite feed reader is because I can read all entries without moving mouse pointer. The former one is Sage which is a Firefox extension. Sage is good but big at the same time. One good thing of Sage is cookie. Since Sage is integrated to Firefox, it read feeds with cookie authentication perfectly. Anyway, Sage is not the right one for me so I switched to Google Reader which is much more simpler. I had lived with Google Reader for a few months without problem until last week. I went to seminar in a hotel without network. That was a sad story. I was unable to read any feeds at all. So after I came back, I looked for an offline feed reader for the next chance. Eventually, I found Liferea, standed for Linux Feed Reader. What's a good name?

Skype seems to be the best VoIP right now in terms of capability and scalability. In addtion, it officially supports many Linux distros like SuSE, Fedora Core, Mandriva, Debian and its families, and other Linux-based system by static binary format. For debian package, especially Ubuntu, it works nicely. I got menu immediately the installation finished. In this latest beta version Skype for Linux 1.3 BETA, it supports both OSS and ALSA. Luckily, it also lets me choose ALSA device by myself so I can use my USB sound card easily.

Actually, I don't have my own video except only the screencast captured by ffmpeg on my laptop. That's only one I have by now. So I would like to see how Google Video works and how well it is. As a result, is uploaded successfully. And I also would like to see how to embed into my blog.

My former laptop, Laser Ovill 1500, is not a famous one since Laser is a local brand in Thailand. I don't know much about hardware specification so finding drivers is a painful process. I can't remember its website. So I searched for in Google. As I expected laser is too common. So I added more keywords. As far as I know, the company is something like or cpt. I also tried as Google suggested and found www.laser-computer.com by keyword ovill 1500. Eventually, I added the part no., jw2, to the keywords. In particular, the keyword is . Bingo! I found www.laser.co.th. My drivers are in the download page.