MBPurple 0.2.1 for PortableApps

New Microblog-Purple for Pidgin 2.5 PortableApps, where you can store your Pidgin on thumbdrive and bring it wherever you go, is released! Download it here

Thanks to rottnkorpse for very quick help!

Adium port for MBPurple released!

Thanks for @jsippel for your hard work. Now the first release of Adium port for #mbpurple is here (base on 0.2.1). Enjoy!

Using PS3 to view MKV with Thai Subtitle

No, the subject is misleading. Actually I found no viable solution for viewing MKV on PS3 properly. Many will thought that I found a way to do this on Linux, but no.

The problem is sound driver. It seems that with latest mplayer-ps combination with spu-medialib, HD MKV can be viewed without any problem. (not to mention that latest mplayer now has improve x264 support + multi-thread decode on ffmpeg!). However, sound driver for any PS3-base Linux support only 2 channels!

The method I am using right now is very simple. I use mkv2vob to translate the MKV file into AVCHD-compatible format on my 80GB USB HDD. mkv2vob also handle size-limit on FAT32 by separating file into small pieces. The only problem lies in subtitle. I want the thai subtitle to be displayed on PS3!

The solution is to use SSA sub, with Thai font specified in SSA, and then use mkv2vob with "load subtitle file" enabled!. I tested this with Eagle Eye and it worked well! Thai subtitle displayed correctly on my TV screen!

The only problem is that movie screen is not in the middle of my TV. I saw on some forum said that this was because the size of original MKV file is not exact 720p or 1080p. Anyway it is a very minor point, at the least we have lots of space for subtitle.

MBPurple 0.2.1 released!

It's about 3 months from the last release. This release contains both major & minor bug fixes and some enhancement, mainly to Twitgin. Please proceed to download the latest release here

Don't forget to enable Twitgin in Tools->Plugin This version contain major bug fixes and some improvements

• Twitter, Identica, and Laconica now serve mainly as protocol only plug-in. You need to enable Twitgin in order to get old fancy output in conversation windows
• Fix SSL connection bug that may crash Pidgin when connection is unstable
• Clicking reply link now add in_reply_to_id http parameter (make the message appear sa "reply to message" in web-site)
• Remove "twitter.com" label. Now conversation showed as if coming from each individual user
• Add * (Favorite) and RT (Retweet) link for easy favorite and retweet (thanks to @nopparat)
• Move "Enable reply link" preference to Twitgin "Configure plug-in".

We are also working on Adium port of MBPurple. Hopefully this will be released very soon!

PackageManagerCheatsheet - Naked Ape Wiki

PackageManagerCheatsheet - Naked Ape Wiki

This page include Debian, Red Hat, Sun package management cheatsheet.

Faxing in Ubuntu

Today, I have a mission to send out as many fax as possible to attract customer with my laptop and modem. I don't have much choice, Windows used to have good faxing support but that's gone from Vista (fax only available in Vista Business or Ultimate), so Hardy is my only quick choice now (not mentioning other commercial software for Windows).

efax command line works well and can send fax, but I have some problem on converting postscript printed file into tiffg3, because all page is not being converted, some part is being cropped. And I don't want to use command line all the time. Anyways I will document how to do that here.

• Have your file ready in PS format, easiest way is to use "print to file" option in Print menu of Oo.O.
• Use ghostscript to convert from PS to Tiffg3, format accepted by efax program

  gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=letter-%03d.tiff invitation_cmu.ps < /dev/null

• You'll get letter-001.tiff - letter-00x.tiff, counted by number of pages in the PS file. Last, use efax to send it out
  

  efax -t  file...

I search again and found that gfax might be my helper. Anyways, gfax is not working with my mode, although I told gfax to use efax. I don't sure why, but from quick search it seems that some initialize modem command might not compatible with my modem. And there is no debugging or customize initialize command configuration available. So I try efax-gtk next. And efax-gtk works quite well on my Dell XPS M1330 Modem!

• efax-gtk can send out single/multiple PS file by itself. I just need to change modem initialize command a bit. The key is
  

  .... M1L3

  Command in the latter part of Modem Init command dialog box. Also, the modem reset command is not working well, so I replaced it with hang-up command
  

  H

  Note that all command will always being prefixed with "AT", as normal modem command. Ah... I miss the AT command
• Next, I don't want to just use efax-gtk. I want to print form OO.O directly to efax-gtk!. That can be easily done. First, add a new printer through system-config-printer GUI utility. Select "New Printer" -> "AppSocket/JetDirect" and specify "localhost" and port "9900" in the diaglog box (Yes, efax-gtk is also a network server)
• Next printer type is "Generic", and model is "Raw Queue", which means we'll just get PS file from printing. After that, name the printer anything meaningfull.
• Now open efax-gtk and leave it run in tray, then print directly to the new printer. After a while, a efax-gtk dialog will appear to ask for telephone number. It works!

Office2007 on my hardy

Just want to mention that the instruction here is really working, even with my Office 2007 Thai Edition (btw, licensed to my organization).

(The transparent floating windows in the middle is Compiz effect on gimp whole screenshot acquire)