I saw from the on-line Fido bills that my monthly plan is to allow 100 MMS starting Sept (not sure what's the catch....), so finally motivate to setup MMS on my Moto Ming.

Google once again the best way to find answer. I don't even bother to call 611 since they will have no clue how to set up MMS on the unsupported Ming.

Saw here about how sound setting works in Fedora. But in my case it doesn't, for some reason PCM setting always reset after reboot.

On the other hand, installed Aeroread following this instruction. It is needed so I can read embedded pdf file from many web page (i.e. Fido on-line bill).....

So, with the new ATI driver installed from Livna (kmod-fglrx), I still cannot enable desktop effect... why?

On the other hand, don't know when the Bluetooth file transfer no longer work..... I was using it to send files from my Moto Ming to T60. I hope F8 going to improve this area....

I've been thinking about upgrade to Gallery 2 for quite some time. The new version is much more feature rich and with enhanced usability. It has some Ajax function, but it seems made response slower over ADSL-link from home.

So far, the basic setup is done. The migration from G1 is relatively painless, but not fool-proof. Album permissions is much more sophisticated, but a bit too complicated for me. There are still some stability issue related to PHP setup, I think.

Really busy at work this week so didn't do much.....

- Open one bug report on Livna about mplayer could't install because dependency missing on libdts. Right now I am using totem, but lost the function to watch Divx and DVD.
- Finally try out the close source ATI X driver from Livna. Good to see I can run GoogleEarth and other 3D applications now, but the laptop suspend function no longer work...

Saw this introduction on Yahoo Pipes and decided to try it out.

A mashup is created from a GUI that one can drag and drop components to construct the logic (aka programming...).



A user can select the source of data, perform processing to data source, and display result.

Components can classified into 3 types:
Input - various data sources like RSS feed, Google base, CSV, user input, and etc.
Processing - There are filter, sorter, and various of data processing to massage the in-coming data.
Output - where results are show on the web

A result of the pipe is display in a page, which can be subscribe as RSS feed itself. A pipes can also be published to allow sharing with others.



I have not spend too much time on it but wondering how powerful this tool is, and yet to figure out how to do more complicated processing:
- Get the contents of each item in a feed, and extract all links and display it.
- Get each item from a feed and search and display all links to it.

Maybe I will try some more later to how to do these.

This seem like a better week in Fedora world.

- A work around is found to the GNOME sensor applet problem I reported. It seem like udev is the problem that thinkpad_acpi is not loaded for my T60. A new bug report is opened.
- laptop suspend seem to work now. wireless is shutdown on suspend and restored when T60 waked up. Cool!
- Nautilus mem leak turns out to be a side effect of rotating wallpaper image often.... but still no real solution except kill/restart it.

So, F8 is coming. There are many cool things on the feature list, can't wait.

This week, I reported 2 problems.....

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 adapter failed to work after network manager/firmware upgrade. Few days later it was failed with a kernel upgrade to 2.6.22, but it caused a new problem on Gnome sensor applet.