Software

foobar2000 0.9 - a powerful and light-weight audio player

What is your favorite audio player? I don’t know all of them but it should be one of popular players such as windows media player, winamp, and jetaudio. I just want to introduce another one: foobar2000. Strange name? If you have music in your mind, you might want to listen to music all the time even working time. Music could help us to concentrate to the work. So, the audio player should not consume all memory and cpu. All popular players come with too many features that you may never use and don’t know their existence. foobar2000 is a small but powerful audito player for all of us. The secret behind its design is simplicity and extensibility. Its concept is very similar to Firefox. foobar2000 itself just provides minimal functions to play most popular audio format with very simple user interface. Everything is clean and clear. If you want more, install external components to extend the base functions. The foobar2000 has just released version 0.9. Give it a try.

phpMyAdmin released new version!!.

I found the phpMyAdmin project is released new major released version 2.8.0.2. It change to improvement features.

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How to fix corrupt partition table

Have you ever seen 80 GB free space in 15 GB hard disk drive? I have just seen in my very old hard drive. I would like to install Ubuntu 5.10 into this drive. Unfortunately, the process always hangs during formatting. I also tried to use only first 15 GB with no luck. My thought is there might be something wrong in the partition table and I have to clear them all. Fortunately, Ubuntu comes with lots of hard disk utilities such as fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, parted, and hdparm.

First of all, I tried to see its cylinder, head, and sector recognized by BIOS and kernel. hdparm -i and hdparm -I shown that raw information and current information are different. Something wrong here. So I should make partition table with the correct information. parted and fdisk are not useful for this situation. Instead, I have to use cfdisk or sfdisk which allows me to override cylinder, head, and sector by the correct ones.

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บางครั้งคุณอาจจะรู้สึกเบื่อหน่ายในการแก้ code บางอย่างใน terminal ของ *nix หรือ linux เนื่องจากมันไม่มีสีแยกแยะให้แก้ไขได้ง่ายๆ ดังนั้นเรามาลองทำกันไหม ว่ามันทำได้อย่างไรบ้าง (ขออ้างอิงจาก linux เป็นหลัก และบาง distro เท่านั้น ในที่นี้ขออ้างอิงจาก centos ในเรื่องของ pkg)

Ruby and BitTorrent

As of today, we know what BitTorrent is and how to use it. The original implementation of BitTorrent has been written in Python by Bram Cohen. From the BitTorrent, Python is now one of well-known language wider. Thanks! The original implementation then has been modified and extended to support more sophisticate features and some of them are so popular right now, e.g., ABC and BitTornado. Then Java, C, C++, and C# have been used to implement in different ways, e.g., Azureus, libbt, BitComet, uTorrent, and etc. Where is Ruby?

Virtual IP, Virtual Host, Virtual Domain, Virtual User

According to previous comment which pointed me to an article about Virtual Hosting in Pure-FTPd, I think that there are some misunderstanding about these ambiguous terminologies: Virtual IP, Virtual Host, Virtual Domain, and Virtual User. Before continue reading below paragraph, I just want to note that this post is based on my understanding. If you think it is incorrect, please let me know.

  • Virtual IP - One machine has many IP address and many domain names. One IP address has an unique domain name. Actually, this is not the feature of application but it is a TCP/IP specfication. An service may bind only on one network interface, one IP address.