I have so many instant message accounts, says an ICQ, a Yahoo! IM, 2 MSN, a Google Talk, 2 Jabbers, and an IRC. To online on all of them, running standard IMs are not working properly. For example, MSN don’t let me online 2 accounts on my laptop at the same time without unofficial patching. So, I have to choose other IM. Running ICQ, Yahoo! IM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, and IRC client on my laptop is not funny thing. They might consume all my physical memory.

According to the official announcement, Steven expected that RC2 would be the last release candidate. Anyway, I didn’t upgrade howforge.com to RC1 yet so the plan is to upgrade to the official 4.7.0 when it is available in next few weeks.

To help Drupal development, I will upgrade my test instance running in VMware to make sure it works. Go to get it right now at http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-4.7.0-rc2.tar.gz.

Have you ever tried OpenOffice.org? OO.o is a multiplatform and open-source office suite. It could replace MS Office someday, not today, due to lacking of some features and its default performance. Current version of OO.o is only suitable for geek because of its highly configurable options. Yes, the problem is its options being too configurable and defaults suck! I have just tried OO.o 2.0.2 for a week without impression according to its very slow response time. For example, I have to wait more than 30 seconds to start Impress.

Wow! 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.

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.

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.