According to my previous post regarding my eyes, I have already changed my desktop theme to Neutronium for a while. It works so great. As a plus, I get an hour battery life from my laptop without optimizing anything else. Cool! To promote this healthy eyes campaign, I have also changed theme of this site to be more eyes-friendly like you might see right now.

I guess that all of us may live all day all night with computer, e.g., desktop or laptop, and we are happy. Anyway, I have just found that this life style may be dangerous in some cases. Most of the problem will happen to our body especially one of the most important one, the eyes. Working with computer generally needs your eyes for recognizing things on screen. In contrast, your screen may be harmful to your eyes. For my case, I have lived with computers more than 12 years from CRT to LCD. Yesterday, I went to a hospital for checking every parts of my body and of course, the doctor informed me about my eyes.

Linux is one of the best operating system. Its default settings are almost perfect especially network parameters. I said almost because they are not completely perfect for all situations. Actually, it works perfectly on many situations, e.g., desktop, workstation, and server. For such a normal server, Linux is sufficient for all of us. However, in high performance computing area, the default settings might be not enough at all. So we have to tune network parameters to obtain the top performance.

Today morning, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5. Actually, Herd 5 was released a week ago. The only thing made me wait is to run vmware-player. In Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, everything has been working almost perfect for me including built-in soundcard of BenQ Joybook S52 which I had built additional package with a small patch to alsa. Anyway, I would like to try Feisty Fawn early by the way.

ASX is usually referred to a kind of media streaming service based on Microsoft protocol. It is not the standard format recognized in Linux environment. However, it is possible to play ASX on Linux using Mplayer with a simple trick.

I have contributed 2 modules and a translation at Drupal such as IP to Country (drupal.org), Search Keywords (drupal.org) and Thai Translation (drupal.org) for a year. However, it seems I forgot to release such a stable release. I apologize for this missing piece. It is because I am too familiar with development but not releasing and I have no exact plan for next release. Thanks to the issue posted today to point me out about this missing piece.