I have used Adsense Status for Google Deskbar for sever months without any critical issues. However, now I'm on Ubuntu so there is no Google Deskbar here. By the way, there should be this kind of thing available on Ubuntu to help me realize latest status of my revenue at a glance during work hours. I found Adsense Notifier for Firefox. It is a good one but I still think Adsense Status looks better.

Today, I decided to migrate OS in my laptop. Actually, all of my works are almost based on Linux or scripting language like Python or PHP. It would be better to have Linux on my laptop instead of Windows-based machine. However, OpenOffice.org is not as mature as I expected. As a result, Windows system should be still remained some way. In fact, currently, I am running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake in VMware on Windows XP host. So, I would switch the configuration so that Ubuntu is my main operating system and Windows XP would run in virtual machine instead.

When I found OpenVPN, I thought it was the best and easiest VPN I had seen. However, it still requires very long configuration and port forwarding behide NAT. Luckily, it is able to run over TCP to prevent problems caused by NAT. Today, I found alternative promising solution called Hamachi. It states that it offers LAN over Internet with zero-configuration VPN and secure peer-to-peer technology. Amazing!

According to Blognone Tech Day #1, I recorded most presentations by a video camera because I didn’t have enough space for real-time recording directly to harddisk. Now, it’s time to capture those videos to digital format. Unfortunately, my video camera is a bit too old. It is completely analog technology with poor quality USB port for emulating video capture device in MS Windows. So, to get the highest quality video, I have to use video capture card. What I have is LifeView FlyVideo 2000.

I have just read about OpenCARE project to convert any data format to EDXL. This is a good idea to integrate incompatible data formats that conceptually indicate to the same meaning. For example, organization A may store people database in MySQL, organization B stores people database in MS Access with totally different schema, and organization C stores people database in MS Excel. It is also impossible to force all organizations to use the same data format so OpenCARE is designed to convert any data format to XML-based format like EDXL which is an oasis standard.

In addition to how to install OpenVPN on Fedora Core2, RedHat 7.2 needs more step to make OpenVPN works properly. The missing device in RedHat 7.2 will make OpenVPN unable to create TAP/TUN devices automatically. So the trick is to create a device for TUN.

mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
chmod go-r /dev/net/tun