William Computer Blog

My browser is always opened with twenty or more tabs opened at the same time viewing different pages. Some of the pages are HOWTO, news, etc that I haven’t got time to read. I would like my browser to be able to save and restore opened webpage when I quit or crash the browser.

I received an e-mail from echa this morning and she notified me someone out there published a modified version of my Golden Grey Theme.

That theme was my submission to the Wordpress 1.5 Theme competition held by alexking.org.

The rules of the competition was the theme must be released with a GPL compatible license. So, I’ve already prepared myself to get my work modified and get republished. I should’ve used the creativecommons license if I wanted credit for my work.

The only thing I regret is, he modified the theme and break the web standard validation of the theme.

Console manufacturers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo announce new video game consoles coming in the future. Sony Playstation 3, XBox 360, Nintendo Revolution.

FreeBSD 5.4 was released last week and it featured a new command tcpdrop. tcpdrop is obtained from OpenBSD and is used to close selected TCP connection. Description of the command:

The tcpdrop command drops the TCP connection specified by the local address laddr, port lport and the foreign address faddr, port fport. Addresses and ports can be specified by name or numeric value.

Example of when to use this command, if a connection to httpd is causing congestion on a network link, one can drop the TCP session in charge:

fstat | egrep ‘httpd.internet.<—’

           www      httpd      21307    3* internet stream tcp \
                   0xd1007ca8 192.168.5.41:80 <-- 192.168.5.1:26747

Use the following command to drop the connection:

       # tcpdrop 192.168.5.41 80 192.168.5.1 26747

First we had text blogging, a traditional style blog like this blog. Then people had an idea to post photography on their blog called photolog.

Kevin Marks, Adam Curry, and Dave Winer then created a way to publish audio blog called podcasting.

Today, people are starting to create a new way of blogging called vlog, short for video blogging. A vlog is a blog where video is included in blog posts.

You can use your digital video camera, or anything that can be used to create a video. Because video is huge, you need to use Quicktime to compress the video.

Once you’re done, you can upload the video to a webserver or use ourmedia and link it to a blog entry.

The feed for vlog is the same with podcast. You need an RSS feed with enclosure. You can publish your feed via Feedburner or if you are movable type user you can use MT-Enclosure.

There are special resources on vlog out there, here are some of the one I find interesting: A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free, A place to find vbloggers, and Video Blogging Yahoo Groups.

Vlog is useful on my blog because I can now create a computer tutorial using a video to illustrate the reader, instead of using words to explain.

Last time, I wrote about exporting photos from iPhoto to Gallery.

This time, I would like to upload my photos from iPhoto to my flickr. I went to flickr upload tools and I found Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto.

These are the photos I uploaded from my iPhoto to Flickr.

Virtual Network Computing, VNC for short, is a remote control software which allows you to control your computer remotely.

VNC is a client-server application. The server is the program on the machine that shares its screen, and the client (or viewer) is the program that watches and interacts with the server.

I work with my macintosh most of the time. There are times when I prefer to bring the laptop to the couch, another room, or even worse, the toilet.

Sometimes, I wish to do something on my Windows or Linux (Desktop) but too lazy to stand up and walk to the computer room. VNC is the solution. This time I’m going to share my experience with VNC.