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Some nice themes for GNOME (mostly Ubuntu) on gnome-look.org .
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VMware acquired SpringSource

VMware announced they have acquired SpringSource for a mix of approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options.

$420 millions! Good news !

Ubuntu Firefox sucks?

Firefox on Ubuntu seems to have slower performance than on other OSes.


Symptoms:
- slow on page with flash, or hang when scroll fast, or unbearable slow (invoking CD-ROM) when type in address bar, especially on "backspace" key, ...


AFAIK, there are 3 major causes:
- FF's database SQLite becomes big and defragmented
- weak graphic card (usually on laptop)
- IPv6 is higher priority than IPv4 in FF by default.


Recommended work-arounds:
- change Visual Effects to "None"
- disable IPv6 in "about:config"
- clean up SQLite unused entries: first, install sqlite3 client
sudo apt-get install sqlite3
then enter these commands
find ~/.mozilla -type f -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 ‘{}’ VACUUM \;
find ~/.mozilla -type f -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 ‘{}’ REINDEX \;
or use these commands instead
for i in ~/.mozilla/firefox*/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $i vacuum; done;


Alternative browsers:

+ Chromium (Ubuntu)
http://ubuntugeek.com/install-chromium-google-chrome-web-browser-in-ubuntu.html

+ Konqueror
( sudo apt-get install konqueror )


+ CxChrome
( http://ftp.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/ )

Some OSS manual in Vietnamese

Một số tài liệu được biên soạn bởi văn phòng Công Nghệ Thông Tin, thuộc Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ :

Tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng phần mềm Soạn thảo văn bản OpenOffice.org Writer, phiên bản 3.0
(hanoi.centre-linux.org/IMG/pdf/HDSD_Writer_V3.0.pdf – 2,5 MB)

Tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng phần mềm bảng tính điện tử OpenOffice.org Calc, phiên bản 3.0
(hanoi.centre-linux.org/IMG/pdf/HDSD_Calc_V3.0.pdf – 1,6 MB)

Tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng phần mềm trình diễn hội thảo OpenOffice.org Impress, phiên bản 3.0
(http://hanoi.centre-linux.org/IMG/pdf/HDSD_Impress_V3.0.pdf – 3,4 MB)

Tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng phần mềm Mozilla Thunderbird phiên bản 2.0, Mozilla Firefox phiên bản 3.0, Unikey phiên bản 4.0
(hanoi.centre-linux.org/IMG/pdf/HDSD_Thunderbird_Firefox_UniKey_V3.0.pdf – 4,3 MB)

Tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng và cài đặt Ubuntu (8.04) cho máy trạm.
hanoi.centre-linux.org/IMG/pdf/Ubuntu_20090703.pdf - 10 MB



Comment: Chuyện sử dụng phần mềm mã mở trong chính phủ vẫn thuộc dạng mà Mediocre-Ninja nghi ngờ về mức độ hiệu quả, nhưng coi bộ lần này các bác làm nghiêm túc hơn nhiều so với Đề án 112.


Have fun (^o^) !

Eclipse NetBeans PHP

Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) new features:
http://infoq.com/news/2009/06/galileo

1. P2 provisioning which provides for a more efficient update process for Eclipse
2. OSGi Declarative Services, which allow OSGi services to be configured and installed based on XML prior to the start of the bundle's service
3. Improved target platform management, which allows the runtime platform to be configured easier
4. Mylyn WikiText, which can be used to edit bugs via Mylyn or transform into other documentation formats like DocBook
5. The addition of the Eclipse Memory Analyser, which can analyse the JVM's heap usage
6. Install into Self, which allows plugins to be developed and installed into the currently running Eclipse platform
7. Eclipse Modeling Project refinements, which reduces the size of the EMF runtime requirements
8. Improved RAP styles to allow your RAP based application to be customised
9. Enhanced JAvaScript bridge, which allows embedding of widgets like Google Maps into an SWT browser
10. Java compare editor enhancements which allow JavaDoc hovers, hyperlinking and other goodness from the compare page



NetBeans 6.7 new features:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyNB67



PHP 5.3 new features:
http://vn.php.net/releases/5_3_0.php




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VN opensource sites

Some Vietnamese websites for OSS and Linux/Unix fan:

http://vnlinux.org/
http://forum.vnoss.org/
http://viettug.org/
http://diendanlinux.org
http://forum.ubuntu-vn.org/
http://ubunvu.com/
http://saigonlug.org
http://hanoilug.org
http://saigonlinux.org/
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Also some blogs:

http://saylinux.wordpress.com
http://kythuatmaytinh.wordpress.com
http://zxc232.wordpress.com/
http://silverhat.wordpress.com/
http://projektantos.wordpress.com
http://tuyetkiem.wordpress.com/
http://xelnaga.wordpress.com/
http://moriator.wordpress.com/
http://phamkhoa.wordpress.com/


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If you want to update your OSS website/blog here, feel free to post comments :-)

Pidgin Y!M connection

Sometimes the Y!M pager server is down for maintenance. Therefore Pidgin clients encounter connection problem.

You may fix it simply by changing the pager server settings:
(Account -> Manage -> Modify -> Advance)

default: scs.msg.yahoo.com

change to: cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

(or 66.163.181.166)



P.S: Kopete clients issue can be fixed in a similar way, too.

Books for programmers

Top 10 of books (recommended by me ^^ ) :

1/ How to Win Friends and Influence People

2/ The pragmatic programmer

3/ Peopleware

4/ Mythical Man Month

5/ Coder To Developer


6/ Don't make me think

7/ The productive programmer

8/ Facts and Fallacies

9/ Code Complete 2

10/ Applying UML



Runner-up:

- Getting Real




Honorable mentions:

- Introduction to Algorithms

- Dragon Book

- Rapid Development

- Design Patterns GoF

- Refactoring