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One reason that I like Post2Blog is the way of link creation, especially tag link, e.g. Technorati and Wikipedia. This functionality is not available in Firefox yet or Drupal yet. So I have to find a good replacement and finally I found Interwiki module. Anyway, this module doesn't support Technorati tag in nature but there is a patch to make it support rel attribute. However, that patch can't be applied against latest code in CVS due to new form api in Drupal 4.7 and lots more (Interwiki is a bit old). Luckily, everything is opensource so I patched them manually. My patch is posted here.

One of my friend would like to set up a personal web for controlling BTQueue backend through web interface using PHPBTque. It is a good idea in case of you don't like ssh and command line. Unfortunately, he got some weird problem like "permission denied (13)". This error message was not ejected by BTQueue for sure. So where it came from is the key to fix this problem. Since the system he is running is Fedora Core 5, I guessed it should be SELinux and it is. SELinux is great in security but it is very difficult and too complicate to configure in general purpose server. Usually, I disabled SELinux in my all FC instances. By the way, other may like SELinux enough to configure SELinux for maximum security.

If you have read my blog for a half year, you might notice that the update rate has slowed down for a month. The main reason is I switched to Ubuntu and I don't have [Post2Blog][1]. Post2Blog is very powerful and it helped me to blog as fast as I expect. In Ubuntu, I have [Performancing for Firefox][2] which is a cool stuff but not comparable to Post2Blog in any criteria. Today, I have just decided to

It seems everybody is moving to other version control softwares, e.g., Subversion, Bazaar-NG, and Mercurial. What's about CVS? Yesterday I tried to checkout latest code from CVS repository at SF.net. Unfortunately, I got connection refused. It may be just a temporary failure but I have never expected to see this kind of thing at SF.net. By the way, my office is still CVS. There is no exact plan to migrate. Personally, I like Bazaar-NG but Subversion is much more simple in development model. My team don't want to make development process too complicate so Subversion is our choice by now.

If you have been to be a Windows user, you might notice about DNS cache feature in Windows platform. This is one of the key to speedup the whole system while surfing the internet especially when you are home. In case of you are an ADSL subscriber, average query time for popular domainnames is about 35 msecs while unpopular domainnames is about 300 msecs or more depending on number of hops to your origin name server. If caching enabled, the second try will be 1 or 2 msec constantly!

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.