Drupal 5 has been released for a while. It comes with lots of changes in APIs as well as in the core engine. One of the reason to drive changing the core engine of Drupal is performance. If you remember the performance comparision of Ruby on Rails, Django and Symfony (read here) last year, the performance result was Django, Ruby on Rails and Symfopy, respectively. Django was outperformed because Python is generally run faster than the rest. Moreover, PHP is always the slowest one even with any kind of accelerator.

Anyway, Drupal may break above results. It's just a matter of time. Drupal 6 is one of the promising CMS I imagine.

If you notice some weird in this site, there are something wrong since I used this theme. This theme is bluebreeze. It is nearly perfect especially for SEO except only one big problem regarding anchor (see issue). Well, it is also beautiful at least for me. The theme is good but the layout is too advanced for standard CSS. I found another good layout in Aberdeen. Anyway, the theme is not for me at all. So my solution is to use Aberdeen's layout with the bluebreeze's theme.

In the past, I usually posted about my success of doing something but not this post. I have been encountering big problem that is not solved yet. It is more than 7 days from the beginning. Generally, I will leave tabs relating to my current interesting in Firefox until all problems are solved. Then I will post what I did here or somewhere else. In my opinion, 7 days are too long for such a problem. I should suspend this topic for next chance. So I will post everything involved to this topic here as the checkpoint.

The problem is about running a C++ applications on mipsel platform. In particular, the applications are all examples of libtorrent and the mipsel platform is Asus WL-500g Premium. libtorrent is written in C++. That is not exactly the cause of this problem. The real problem is it relies on Boost library and this library uses many C++ features that are not available in uClibc++.

According to my previous post, my package was incorrectly assigned version number as well as missing gstreamer. As a result, you will never see ALSA or ESD in sound options. I don't know why but it was all my fault since I have never unmuted my sound for so long (7 months). In addition, upgrading to official version may not go smooth as expect since its version was 2.0.0+beta6-1ubuntu0.1 which is absolutely not comply to the standard. In fact, it should be 2.0.0+beta6-0ubuntu0.1. So I post this one to apologize and fix it.

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 6 has just been released officially yesterday. According to the release note:

Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other goodness.

Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.

Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)

Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes, thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to be delicious. :)

The only thing noticeable is UI changes where the avatar icon in Buddy List is scaled down. Anyway, there are so many bug fixes included in this beta. Another ones are Google Talk features. In the past, there is no special cases to support extensions introduced in Google Talk. Now, some extensions are implemented. In fact, it just supports . Good start though.

Flash Player 9 for Linux has just been released. I'm going to install it on my Ubuntu Edgy. You may adapt my instruction to match what you have.