Off Topic: MCE 2005

Today when I tried to play files using MCE2005, I found video, music and few other options were missing fron the MCE. After hunting around, I found this instruction which successfully bring back all the options: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forumarchives/windowsmediacenter/Sep2005/post23921289.asp

Improving media playback

Media playback on Ubuntu can be improved by installing extra codec from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Opera mini and my nokia e63

After reading many good post on the discussion forums about Opera mini, I decided to give it a good on my Nokia E63 as the Nokia browser come with the phone is slow and buggy at times especially these sites with Javescripts. What can I say, it is much better experience with the Opera mini on this phone. Browsing the WWW is reasonable ... in fact, I am typing this post with my phone using the Opera mini

xorg.conf

I just found this little utility called xorg-options-editor-gtk which allows me to customize the xorg.conf "graphically". Although I would like something simpler, it guess this will do for now. It is a lot better than customizing the configuration file by hand with a text editor!

Linksys HP200

Finally, Linksys release the driver for Linksys&at;Home HP200 Wireless PC Card. This model was particular troublesome as it seemed Linksys&at;Home was a special brand for Tesco. Hence, there was no trace of such product on Linksys page before. Anyway, if you like me who has a Linksys&at;Home HP200 card, grab the driver from Linksys before they change their mind.

Printing with Windows shared printers

If you want to print to a printer connected on a Windows machine, you need to have samba-client installed. This will add an extra option onto the printer configuration which allows you browse and connect to a Windows shared printer!

Chinese ... another step closer to ditching Windows

Today I have found a little Java utility, called HanziLookup which can do Chinese handwriting recognitions. Windows comes with a utility which can recognize Chinese handwritings. This is very handy for people like myself who cannot type Chinese. I have been looking for something similar in Linux world and this discovery means I am another step closer to leave Windows world.