rosterwithimagesWow! Google Talk has just  with avatar and theme support. This version is numbered as 1.0.0.92. There are 2 noticeable look and feel changing. Now you can see avatar and, of course, you can set your avatar using your own photo. Not just that simple thing, you can change look and feel of the chat window.

AllPeers are spreading limited beta version

I have just received a notification e-mail indicated that AllPeers are available for beta tester. Anyway, in this first beta release, an activation key is necessary. Fortunately, the developers allow beta testers to invite 3 more friends to test the program.

For more information, go to read the first announcement and the latest clarification. I am very exciting to try AllPeers. According to the reply message, I have to wait for a few days to get my activation key and download instruction.

How to install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 5.10

Once you installed Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy as a guest OS in VMware, you have to install VMware tools to make it work perfectly. Anyway, some components, e.g., vmhgfs, are unavailable as a pre-compiled module for up-to-date kernel in Ubuntu. Fortunately, VMware offers source codes to recompile on our machines manually. However, the problem is the kernel was compiled using gcc-3.4.5 while the default gcc installed by Ubuntu is gcc-4.0. VMware don’t let us to compile in this situation.

How to download archives of TV program from MCOT into your computer (Linux version)

Introduction MCOT has a site, http://hiptv.mcot.net , used to distribute Thai TV programs that already were broadcasted on public television at channel 9. It is more convenient, if we can download our interesting programs into our computer and see them later anytime as we want. Requirements mmsrip: use for ripping the stream into our computer (http://nbenoit.tuxfamily.org/projects.php?rq=mmsrip)

How to Integrate LDAP to Drupal

Today I have an urgent duty to integrate LDAP authentication to Drupal. Fortunately, ldap_integration module saved my life. Anyway, in order to make it work under Drupal 4.7.0 beta 6, I have to patch a bit regarding _user_authenticated_id(). This function has been replaced by a constant value DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID.

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Krukle in beta

Krugle is going to start distributing beta account to all requesters one by one tomorrow. They also present a short demo preview the power of tag. Krugle is not just a common specific search engine mainly aimed to index only source codes, but also their specification, description, manual, and a lot more regarding the source codes.