Ubuntu Edgy Eft comes with Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1. Anyway, Gaim 2.0.0 beta 4 has just released. There is no official update yet. I found many threads in Ubuntu Forums discussing about unofficial deb of beta 4. For example, cookbook, beta 4, and beta 4 deb. There seems to have workable deb for Edgy Eft. However, I don't like anyone of them because most of them were built by checkinstall or Debian source package. So I decided to build one myself by modifying from Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1.

According to Blognone Tech Day 2.0, I have recorded a set of video and also converted them into AVI, 3GP, FLV and JPG. Some might not know what is FLV and how to use it correctly. FLV is actually very popular for last few years since it has been used in major sites, e.g., and . Basically, FLV is a kind of container like AVI such that contains stream of video and audio separated into many chunks. It is suitable for streaming by its own file format. I distributed videos of Blognone Tech Day 2.0 in FLV because you might want to put it in your web site by your style. Google Video allows you to embed the videos but you can't change its theme to match your theme. FlowPlayer might help you in this case.

In my situation, I am going to develop a web application for running on a a web application like Apache Tomcat. The main IDE is Eclipse for sure. The problem is that development PCs are very old and have not much physical memory. It is not possible to run both Eclipse and Tomcat on these PCs. As a result, they will share a centralized Tomcat server for running in development process. That means the web application must be deployed on remote server instead of the localhost. All developers are not familiar to this infrastructure especially when remote server is Linux and their PCs are all Microsoft Windows XP. I am responsible to find the easiest solution.

In some cases, you may want to use your DSL router as a modem or you have a DSL modem and a linux box. It occurs to me right now since ZyXEL Prestige 650R-31 is not quite good for large network and its routing policy doesn't enable nat loopback by default. I managed to enable that feature via cron by the linux box but it seems sometimes not work properly. So I decided to switch it back to bridging mode (modem) through PPPoE. Setting up PPPoE in Ubuntu is very easy.

Images from Navy Fear festival in the halloween night. We visited the haunted house, $14/head, sadly, they were no scary at all.

For those who have never tried FreeBSD including Windows and Linux, I would like to recommend to try it just once. FreeBSD is one of the most efficient operating system for heavy-load internet server. Below are what I did to setup a web server on FreeBSD. In this article I will focus on FreeBSD 6.1, Apache 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.26, PHP 5.1.6, FastCGI 1.09, eAccelerator 0.95-rc1, and LimitIPConn 0.22.