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June 17, 2005

Fedora Core 4 is My New Friend

I got a few hours to test drive the latest Linux release, Fedora Core 4. This is really one of the coolest release of 2006! Upgrade over my existing Fedora Core 3 installation was as smooth as silk. Reinstallation on my Dell D600 laptop went as well. MySQL 4, PHP 5, and Apache 2 came out of the box and saved my hours' efforts in compiling and configuring. The only pity was that I seemed to have difficulty to bind HTTPD on my favorite port 88, which by default seemed to be taken by Kerberos 5; and the built-in IPW2000 driver still treated my intel wireless card as ethernet card, which required further patch with the driver and firmware from AtRPMs. Anyone who uses and/or plays with Linux should definitely try it out!

June 10, 2005

Free DTS Audio Downloads

I recently bought a Onkyo home theatre system. It somehow did not come with any demo CD/DVD. In order to test and adjust my system, I did some quick search and found two nice sites that offer multi-channel DTS audio downloads. These are Sveriges Radio and Norwegian Public Broadcaster. Simply download the WAV files and burn them into Audio CD or Audio DVD then you are all set. European rocks!