Saturday, December 19, 2009

How to make google chrome browser play youtube.com video with sound in Linux Ubuntu 9.1

"No Sound!!!" When playing youtube.com video with google chrome in Ubuntu 9.1.

Here is how I solved it:

# sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /opt/google/chrome/plugins

Close/restart chrome browser.

Voila!! there's sound when playing youtube.com video

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

PPStream Totem Plug-in

Plug-in for Totem to play video from PPStream.com

PPS Totem Plugin

Top things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Enable pidgin twitter support in Ubuntu 9.1

To enable twitter plugin in pidgin IM one only need to install pidgin-mbplugin package

sudo apt-get install pidgin-mbplugin

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Logitech Quickcam Express + LInksys NSLU2

This project is to configure a live webcam server.
Hardware:
1. Linksys NSLU2 with Debian Lenny installed.
2. Logitech Quickcam Express.

Software:
1. Quickcam Express driver.
2. webcam server.

Install:

1.Install Debian on NSLU2. I followed instruction from http://www.nslu2-linux.org

2. Install lighttpd webserver.

3. Install Quickcam driver.
a. sudo apt-get install module-assistant qc-usb-source qc-usb-utils

b. sudo m-a prepare.(follow module-assistant menu selection to Prepare, Compile, and Install quickcam driver.

4. reboot after install.

5. install and configure webcamserver follow instruction here