Pandora – Find Music that You’ll Like

Six years ago, a group of music lovers started Music Genome Project, where they analyze each song by using up to 400 distinct musical characteristics, resulted in most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected.

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Search Online Video with Truveo

Digital video has increasingly gaining popularity with the advance of technology, making video taking and capture an easy task. So do video search on the web, with increasing numbers of internet users searching for high quality, most popular video.

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Important Tools and Utilities in One Google Pack

Google has packed all the most essential and the best software for personal computer in a package named Google Pack for the ease of computer users.

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Watch Streaming p2p Live TV on the Internet

The advance of peer-to-peer technology (p2p) has make possible the distribution of video and TV streams via p2p network. p2pTV is the software application that doing basically that, designed to redistribute video streams on a p2p network. p2pTV is not the old method of downloading movies, dvds, tv episodes by using bit-torrent or edonkey or other file sharing network, and then watch the videos after […]

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System Tray Icon Missing from System Tray in Windows XP

Symptoms After the computer started, not all icons that should be present in the system tray (nowadays also called notification area) of the task bar is showing. Often, one or more icons are missing and disappearing from the task bar notication area.

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Checking Free Disk Space on FreeBSD Server

How to check and display free disk space available on a FreeBSD server? df command can be used to display the capacity, used and free disk space of all filestystems on a FreeBSD server. The diskspace will be output in the number of blocks, in which each block is equal to 1KB in size.

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Unable to Map (Net Use) LPT1 in Windows XP

Whenever try to perform “net use lpt1” command, the system cannot and unable map to the printer share/queue properly. Instead, it will prompts you for user id and password (if no user id and/or password is specified when issued net use commad). For example, Command Prompt:\> net use lpt1: \\computer_name\printer The password is invalid for \\computer_name\printer.

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FireFox 1.5 to Provide Better Web Experience

The new version of Firefox has been released by open source group Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that rose from the ashes of Netscape after it lost out in the market to Microsoft in the late 1990s, promising a number of performance enhancements to the world’s second most popular internet browser, including speedier browsing, swifter updates and better pop-up blocking.

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PPLive – P2pTV to Watch Online TV

Introduction to PPLive PPLive is another P2p streaming video network that allows streaming video, including TV channel to be much more smooth. Another program similar to PPStream. PPLive is a peer-to-peer streaming video network created in the People’s Republic of China. It is part of a new generation of P2P applictions, that combine P2P and IPTV.

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Running apachectl status Returns lynx: not found Error

When apachectl is called via any of the following commands: ./apachectl status ./usr/local/sbin/apachectl status an error is returned as follow:

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Subversion (SVN) Issues and Problems on mod_dav_svn in FreeBSD

mod_dav_svn is an Apache server module for Subversion server. The mod_dav_svn package allows access to a Subversion repository using HTTP, via the Apache httpd server. The following applicable to svn version 1.2.3_1. Install subversion by using FreeBSD’s port doesn’t compile and install mod_dav_svn.so

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Portdowngrade – Downgrade to Previous Version of FreeBSD’s Ports

After you upgrade or update the FreeBSD’s ports, you may found out that there is some buys with the lastest version of a package. For example, after I ran CVSup on all ports collection on my FreeBSD server, it updated my subversion to svn version 1.3.0-rc2. The problem is, when I tried to restart Apache server, there is error that saying mod_dav_svn.so is missing.

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