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Since I am a menter in , I would like to update what I and my student was done last month. My student is working hard on developing XUL-based Drupal Manager project. That's a short description. For a long one, he is developing a next generation of graphics user interface based on XML technology, aka XUL, proposed by Mozilla. XUL is a candidate for Web 2.0, another one is AJAX. AJAX seems to be better because it runs on most browsers while XUL can only run on Mozilla-based browsers. However, in other point of view, there is a possibility to run XUL on any XUL engine. Some day, XUL engine might be integrated into OS like Java or .Net.

Actually, I don't have my own video except only the screencast captured by ffmpeg on my laptop. That's only one I have by now. So I would like to see how Google Video works and how well it is. As a result, is uploaded successfully. And I also would like to see how to embed into my blog.

My former laptop, Laser Ovill 1500, is not a famous one since Laser is a local brand in Thailand. I don't know much about hardware specification so finding drivers is a painful process. I can't remember its website. So I searched for in Google. As I expected laser is too common. So I added more keywords. As far as I know, the company is something like or cpt. I also tried as Google suggested and found www.laser-computer.com by keyword ovill 1500. Eventually, I added the part no., jw2, to the keywords. In particular, the keyword is . Bingo! I found www.laser.co.th. My drivers are in the download page.

Most of my works relate to grid technology and AccessGrid is one of them. I would like to install AccessGrid on my Ubuntu laptop in proper way. I mean to install AccessGrid via standard deb package plus a repository for next installation. Unfortunately, I have not found any sources for rebuilding on Dapper.

Since I rebuilt some Ubuntu packages such as pure-ftpd and ffmpeg, I think it would be better to keep the packages where I can get it back quickly whenever I need. I have a host for hosting my files. Anyway, the host is CentOS and it does not have any APT tools. In addtion, I don't know about Ubuntu or Debian repository. Fortunately, I found a good article and a good howto. The most important thing in Debian-based repository is its directory structure. What I have is as follow.

I was assigned to record a screencast for demonstrating look-and-feel of a portal. By the way, my laptop is Ubuntu right now. I don't want to find another machine to do this job so I have to find a way to record my screen effectively. I found How to Create a Screencast in Ubuntu. This is a good article which helps me realize additional capability of ffmpeg. Anyway, the standard ffmpeg does not support this functionality so I have to recompile ffmpeg by myself. Well, I do not like this idea because I will have two versions of ffmpeg in different directory. So I continue finding and finally found how to rebuild ffmpeg in proper way. As a result, I combined 2 approaches as follows.