Techie Diva also launches the HP Magic Giveaway competition today. You can read all the contest details here.

If I were to win this competition, I certainly will share the prize with my some really good friends. I won’t keep all the prize for myself nor I will sell any of them. Well it’s about sharing anyway, that’s the main message of the whole competition. Friends are important to me, they keep me entertained everyday. Without friends I am not sure what will I become. Also making them happy also make me feel very happy as well.

Notebooks.com’s Magic Giveaway with HP and Microsoft. Notebooks.com is one of the selected blogs that run the HP Magic Giveaway competition. Their competition is today so head over to their site now to have chance of winning it.

just found out this on ubuntu forum

current id3 tag situation

It’s a good read.

Dear LazyWeb,

I’m in a need for a tool to tag my avi videos, is there any tag editor for videos just like easytag for audio? This what I currently use

mencoder input.avi -oac copy -ovc copy
-info artist=artist:name=title
-o output.avi

It works but it also changes other properties that I don’t want to change like encoder. So anything better than this is welcome. Thanks.

I just found out that free internet stations at Sydney Airport use Ubuntu. When I came there a year ago they’re still using Windows and IE. Now they’re using Ubuntu and Opera running in kiosk mode. I took some pics.

Opera browser.

These are what you see when Opera crashed.

The station itself.

This is how to make realplayer stop crashing when scim is running
- edit /usr/bin/realplay
- add this line after bash declaration

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim ; export GTK_IM_MODULE

from ubuntu doc

Mac OS X Leopard

• Hasta la vista, Vista.
• Redmond has a cat, too. A copycat.
• Vista’s gonna suck LOL!
• Redmond, start your photocopiers.

Gotta love those ..:)

Ok this post serves as a note to myself

don’t forget to generate hal-fdi after installing new version of libgphoto2 as gentoo ebuild does not do it automatically

/usr/lib/libgphoto2/print-camera-list hal-fdi > /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi

as mentioned on the website

Here is a nice utility I found on gentoo forums. elogviewer is a nice portage log viewer written in pygtk. You need at least portage 2.1. Since version 2.1 portage has a new logging mechanism called elog. You can get elogviewer from here. Many thanks to synss and nmbrthry.

F-Spot 0.1.11 ebuild just hit portage. It uses sqlite3 now instead of version 2. I found this post interesting on how to upgrade f-spot database to version 3. Basically you need to do the following (copy & paste from the post).

cd .gnome2/f-spot
sqlite photos.db .dump|sqlite3 out.db
mv photos.db photos.db.backup
mv out.db photos.db

Now you can unmerge sqlite2. Happy f-spotting .