Development

Building OpenOffice.org for Ubuntu Gutsy again

Last time, I built .deb packages of OpenOffice.org for Ubuntu Gutsy with backport patch, i18n38, that fixes critical bug regarding ICU. Now it's time to redo it again to the latest source.

Patched OpenOffice.org for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon amd64

Two weeks ago I published (1, 2) the patched version of OpenOffice.org to fix freezing problem on Ubuntu Gutsy. Anyway, it is only just for i386 architecture since I have only i386 and someone said no problem on amd64. I have just received 2 confirmations about this problem on amd64 so I tried to recompile it again on amd64 architecture.

Tuning Thai Fonts in Ubuntu Gutsy

อัพเกรดจาก Ubuntu Feisty ขึ้นมาเป็น Ubuntu Gutsy ได้ซักพัก แต่พึ่งสังเกตว่า Firefox เปลี่ยนไปนิดหน่อย ผมยังคงมีปัญหาเรื่อง PANGO ใน Firefox อยู่เสมอ เมื่อก่อนก็จะสร้างไฟล์ $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/rc แล้วใส่แบบนี้

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=0

ซึ่งทำให้ Firefox กลับมาแสดงผลสวยเกือบเหมือนเดิม แต่บน Gutsy ทุกอย่างมันเปลี่ยนไป /usr/bin/firefox ถูกปรับปรุงให้ดีขึ้น เป็นระบบมากขึ้น หลังจากนั่งดู /usr/bin/firefox พักนึงก็พบวิธีตั้งค่าแบบใหม่

How to setup fglrx 8.42.3 and compiz for Ubuntu Gutsy

After long waiting, fglrx 8.42.3 with AIGLX is here (Phoronix, Blognone). And now my laptop is Ubuntu Gutsy so my old instruction is obsoleted already. I note what I have done here in this post for further references.

Patching and compiling OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu Gutsy

If you noticed, I seems to disappear for 2 weeks because of freezing bug in OpenOffice.org. I spent 2 weeks for only one task; compiling OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu Gutsy. I'm not familiar with development environment used at Sun and in OpenOffice project. There are so many technical terms to learn. By the way, I finally add a patch from #81519 to OpenOffice.org 1ubuntu5 which my request #140878 is not responded yet. So it's time to share what I have done in this 2 weeks.

What do Drupallers look like?

Every communities have their own culture, perspective and skills so what's about Drupal? Dries also asked this question to more than 1,000 Drupal users what they are and what they want. And now the result is here.