Software

Flash Player 9 for Linux beta 2

It was about a month since Flash Player 9 for Linux beta has been released in the wild. It works on my Ubuntu Edgy perfectly. However, it is not good enough in term of production use since someones still get some buggy things. Now, it is the time to welcome the beta 2 of this software series.

Tuning Thai Fonts in Ubuntu Edgy

หลังจากที่ได้อ่านวิธีปรับแต่งฟอนต์ภาษาไทยบน Ubuntu Edgy ตอน 1 และ ตอน 2 ของคุณ Kamthorn แล้ว ผมก็อยากลองเป็นอย่างมาก แน่เนื่องจากใช้ Tahoma แบบใส่เองมาซะนาน เลยไม่ค่อยมั่นใจว่าจะสวยเท่า เนื่องจากตอนลงเมื่อนานมาแล้วมันไม่มีความสวยงาม เอาซะเลย จนสุดท้ายทนไม่ได้ต้องเอา Tahoma มาใช้

Updating Ports Tree in FreeBSD

Ports is one of the correct approach to install softwares on FreeBSD like RPM of RedHat-based, APT of Debian-based and Portage of Gentoo. Anyway, FreeBSD is not as easy as others because you may install FreeBSD as small as possible. In that case, there is no something called Ports Tree. This is a way to get the fresh and the most up-to-date ports tree.

How to run a Bridge for AccessGrid 3

In some situations, you might want unicast support in Access Grid because multicast is not available or impossible to implement, e.g., VPN. Fortunately, Access Grid comes with built-in unicast-to-multicast bridge support especially Access Grid 3. However, it is a kind of undocumented feature. I found a few tutorial how to run it. Actually, there are many possibility to run a bridge in Access Grid 3.

How to trace incorrect route in Internet

I am getting trouble to access some web sites without any error messages. It seems some packets being loss. I would like to identify the problem to fix it as soon as possible. The tool I used is not the classic traceroute because I can ping to the web site successfully. ICMP is not enough. I guess that the problem should be only effective to TCP or something in higher layer.

How to solve "Error entering venue" in Access Grid 3 for your own Venue Server

I had a chance to deploy Access Grid 3.0.2 for an intranet where as a private venue server is required. However, installation didn't go smooth as I expected because I got Error entering venue whenever I tried to connect to the server. It used to work perfectly when it is Access Grid 2.4. Anyway, I'm not only one got this error, at least I found this thread. The situation looked like Everybody role were not allowed to call GetState() of the venue.