OOo 2.0 Beta 2

Last Sunday, i wrote about "Where is 1.9.125?". Today, i have found the answer. It's now released under Beta 2 version of OOo 2.0, so you won't find it in developer directory, but in stable directory, where it usually for 1.1.x release. It's not ready for production yet, but if you are curious, you can try this version and give your comments.

Captcha on Blogger

Blogger has a new facility, word verification, sometimes called Captcha. This can be used to reduce spamming on posting comments, because robots can't predict the word that was automatically generated and it became an image. You can activate this setting via Settings > Comments. Enjoy your blogger :)

Google Talk

Yesterday, i tried Google Talk and it worked in my Linux platform, even though the voice support was only in Windows platform. I used Gaim as my client and using Jabber as the protocol, as the Help page. Today, i will try to use it in Windows platform. It uses GMail account as the login information, so if you don't have one, please ask your friend to invite you. If you are in US, you can sign up via mobile phone. You will also need a better Internet connection, since it sends a voice and not just texts or emoticons

Where Is 1.9.125?

Recently, i browsed some mirror for an update to OOo 2.0 beta and i found that there has been a directory for 1.9.125, but after i checked few days later (and today), it's still empty and the last update date was 23 August. Where is 1.9.125 build? Well.. perhaps it's delayed and replaced with another build, but who knows? We will see that in a few days later.

Another Install Fest

Jogja LUG will hold another Install Fest in next September along with other events to celebrate the Software Freedom Day. It will be a two day events. The first day will be watching a movie together and also a discussion about GNU/Linux. The second day will be the Install Fest party where you can bring your computer and we will help you to install GNU/Linux on your computer. You can choose which distro will be installed, but we will prepare some of them also.

Mandriva 2006 Coming Soon

The third beta build has been shipped for Mandriva 2006, the upcoming distro from Mandriva. Here are the changelog for the Beta 3 build:

# Mandriva Linux 2006 beta 3
* 250 bugs fixed since 2006-0.2
* 5621 packages rebuilt (811 ppc, 1681 x86_64, 614 noarch, 2506 i586)

# DrakX 1.1063 / Drakxtools 10.3-0.48mdk:
* Fix a bug for configuring Mouse
* Fix some modems firmwares loading
* Enhance grub device.map parsing (17732)
* Client tree edit fix (17653), Write to floppy (17655)
* Printerdrake,
* Removed stuff for automatic print queue setup when starting CUPS.
* When printerdrake's first-time dialog appears on plugging a USB printer, the user can now also turn off print queue auto-setup before starting printerdrake and so without needing the printing infrastructure to be installed.
* Added automatic setup of Ethernet-connected HP printers with HPLIP.
* When one chooses "Printer Connection Type" in the "Edit" menu of an Ethernet-connected printer which is under the control of HPLIP or HPOJ, "LOCAL" was pre-selected as connection type and not "SOCKET". Fixed.
* Made matching of detected printer model name with HPLIP database more reliable.
* Harddrake, use the new way to blacklist modules (12731)
* Packages installation, don't fork anymore to install rpms during install, use "nofsync" for rpm database (=> speedup x2)

# kernel 2.6.12-10mdk
* 2.6.12.5
* WARNING: Security Hyper-Threading enabled by default (at boot time use ht=off to disable)
* applied patch to cpufreq support centrino.
* ACL support to NFS
* XEN configs updated (enabled more options)
* only build xen on x86, will enable on x86_64 later
* Advertise the megaraid_mbox as megaraid_mbox (and not megaraid) in sysfs
* Ndiswrapper 1.2
* Updated ipw2100 to 1.1.2, ipw2200 to 1.0.6
* e100 and e1000 drivers update (e100 to 3.4.8-k2 and e1000 to 6.0.60-k2)
* Set the pwc driver to use non compressed mode by default.
* added XEN support
* resurrect legacy megaraid for { 0x9010, 0x9060, 0x1960 }

# GTK 2.8.0
# gaim 1.5.0
# sane 1.0.16
# epiphany 1.6.5
# kat 0.6.2
# amarok 1.3
# udev 068
# Now OpenOffice.org is included in the x86_64 ISO files
# DVD version have the Powerpack theme

Cool ha?
Well.. let's wait for some time before the final version that will be (i hope) released in next September (based on their release schedule). It will be a great release :)

Fantastic Four

After i was able to watch DVD via my laptop, i borrowed my cousin's movie, Fantastic 4 and i watched them. It was a quite cool movie, but the quality was not so good. It was dark and the subtitles weren't good either. So, i have to listen the actor was saying and it was quite hard, since the sound quality wasn't so clear. Well... at least i know the whole point of the movies :)

Xine

Yesterday i tried to play DVD movies on my laptop in both platform. First, i tried in Windows and i used Windows Media Player, but it won't play any sound. So i downloaded PowerDVD and yes.. it worked perfectly. Now, for the Linux, mplayer couldn't do the role, so i gave a chance to Xine and yes... he did it perfectly, even though i have to add the file manually, but it worked. Now i can watch DVD from my laptop in both platform. Thanks to my friends who helped me in MM UGM yesterday :)

An Issue

My uncle has just called me and said that there is an issue that there will be an major shutdown on electric power on 5 PM. It will be happen in every Java island and also Bali, because he is in Bali right now. Well... gotta quick typing since it is 4.44 PM right now :)

New Session

Starting last week, the English Premiere League has started a new league session, started by a community shield event that was used for a charity purpose with Arsenal and Chelsea were fighting for the title and won by Chelsea 2-1. MU has won 2 continuous run and this is a good sign that they will be back for the title that was lost to Chelsea last season. Ruud Van Nistelrooy has also scored twice and proven that he was still active and productive. Well.. still 36 more matches and it's a long season. Let's continue to watch the match every weekend.

Jackpot

Yesterday, i went to Galleria Mall with my girlfriend and also my cousins. We went to TimeZone and also Fantasia game station and played some games. First, i played Bishi Bashi, an old game that was available on PlayStation, and now it's available on arcade machine. It was fun and cute and i defeat my cousins more than twice. Next, i got 2 jackpot from the other games... yeahhh.... cool way to reduce stress :)

Busy Week

This week i'm kindda busy by a lot of task and it will be like this until next week. One of the task i should finish this week is making an IT-related article and also editting the other article for our first edition of Informatica magazine. It's a monthly magazine that will discuss about technology and also computers. Check the schedule for our first release which will be in September (if there are no major problems)

Will IE Dominant Again

After the release of IE 7.0 Beta 1, the developer start their way to Beta 2 which should include many facility and updates to the latest IE 7.0 development progress, such as CSS enhancement. This is what i need in IE, CSS support. In some websites, there are some reports that said Firefox's is slowing down. Will IE be dominant again after the 7.0 final release? We don't know yet, but as long as security become the open door in IE, people should start migrating their browser to another product, such as Firefox or Opera which are safer and also faster.

War of The World

Few hours ago, i have just seen the latest movie from Steven Spielberg, "War of The World". It was a great combination of thriller, action, and a little bit of horror. Unfortunately, i don't really like the ending, since it wasn't totally finished yet. There are still a lot of tripod-like aliens around in other town and it didn't reflect the war too much. But i have to admin that the effect was great and brilliant.

Independence Day

Today is our 60th independence day and it should be a crowded day, since most people will celebrate this day with a lot of events. But we should rethink about our status right now. Are we really free with all the problems that happened to us in the last 5 years? Many things aren't right and not being fixed at all. Well.... it's independence day anyway.... lets celebrate it :)