Mac OS X is now available in Intel’s x86 processor so there might be lots of x86 fans interesting to give it a try. Everybody knows how it is beautiful. Anyway, there were not so many softwares and applications for end-users so many of them didn’t use Mac OS X in real life including me. Well, Intel Mac is going to change the world. More applications are going to release a new version for Intel Mac so users are going to increase dramatically.

So, everyone want to get a piece of cake in this new market share. Search engine is one of them for sure. Google has continuously released many small piece of gadget to run on Mac. The latest one is the new  which is able to run on both PowerPC and Intel. Mac already has most of desktop search functions in itself including sidebar architecture so Google seems to try not to push Google Desktop on Mac.

What is your favorite audio player? I don’t know all of them but it should be one of popular players such as windows media player, winamp, and jetaudio. I just want to introduce another one: foobar2000. Strange name? If you have music in your mind, you might want to listen to music all the time even working time. Music could help us to concentrate to the work. So, the audio player should not consume all memory and cpu. All popular players come with too many features that you may never use and don’t know their existence. foobar2000 is a small but powerful audito player for all of us. The secret behind its design is simplicity and extensibility. Its concept is very similar to Firefox. foobar2000 itself just provides minimal functions to play most popular audio format with very simple user interface. Everything is clean and clear. If you want more, install external components to extend the base functions. The foobar2000 has just released version 0.9. Give it a try.

The CentOS 4 has released new major version to 4.3. Now availability for i386, x86_64 and ia64 and s390, s390x, alpha, ppc and sparc inprogress build pkgs for announced later.

This's version is upgrade and update some features.

• Including yum-plugin-fastestmirror into released (CentOS-Base.repo)
  
• Add and support Frysk, InfiniBand Architecture (IBA), and z/VM hypervisor.
• Update security some packages.

The Frysk is analysis tools (RH call execution-analysis technology) some as DTrace project of Sun MicroSystem. But the Dtrace support (solaris,opensolaris) only. If you want to know Frysk or Dtrace please follow link in below.

I found the phpMyAdmin project is released new major released version 2.8.0.2. It change to improvement features.

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Google has just  , a new financial search engine, to the wild and it is also posted in slashdot. The official announcement has been posted at the . It is not absolutely the new idea for specific search topic like this. There are so many financial search engine right now, e.g., , FinanceWise, TraderBot, and . Wait a minute! Google Finance is not as simple as all existing services. Below are noticeable differences at a glance.

Have you ever seen 80 GB free space in 15 GB hard disk drive? I have just seen in my very old hard drive. I would like to install Ubuntu 5.10 into this drive. Unfortunately, the process always hangs during formatting. I also tried to use only first 15 GB with no luck. My thought is there might be something wrong in the partition table and I have to clear them all. Fortunately, Ubuntu comes with lots of hard disk utilities such as fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, parted, and hdparm.

First of all, I tried to see its cylinder, head, and sector recognized by BIOS and kernel. hdparm -i and hdparm -I shown that raw information and current information are different. Something wrong here. So I should make partition table with the correct information. parted and fdisk are not useful for this situation. Instead, I have to use cfdisk or sfdisk which allows me to override cylinder, head, and sector by the correct ones.