Today, I’m invited by Google Adsense team to join Adsense Webinar. Last time I’m tried to attend webex webinar using Linux, I haven’t succeeded (several years ago using other distro). Thanks god, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron + Firefox. What I’m to do to fix this is:

Step 1: Type this command on your terminal:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 sun-java6-plugin

Step 2: Edit your ~/.profile and add these two lines:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.66
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Step 3: Restart X session by logging off/on or ctrl+alt+backspace

That’s it, I’m done, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu Linux! Thank you for the author who posted this superb tips on his blogs.

Sometimes, my friends ask me to help them downloading their files from Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Gigasize, etc. Normally, I just copy-paste the url in Firefox, waiting for the countdown time finished and start download the files (since I’m only free user) but now it’s a different story. While I’m browsing to Getdeb.net, I find an application which can help us manage our download via rapidshare, called Tucan Manager.

According to Getdeb.net, Tucan is a graphical manager to upload and download from the most famous file hosting sites (e.g. rapidshare, megaupload). What’s the interesting part for me is, I just pasteall of the url links, then Tucan will take the rest of the job. if you have premium account, then Tucan can download simultaneously, or if you free user, Tucan will automatically download the files one by one.

You can download Tucan Manager from Getdeb.net

Several days ago, my sister bought notebook, IBM Lenovo 3000 G430. She asked me to install Linux on her new notebook, then I tried Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, as I assumed that Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distro which have one of the best hardware support. Installation was running successful. Almost all of the hardware was running well, except for synaptics touch pad.

Then I tried to googling further to find more information about this problem. Refer to this Synaptics Touchpad Community Ubuntu Documentation, I should enable SHMConfig in order to make the touch pad work. How to enable SHMConfig? First, open your terminal, then type this command:

sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi

Copy and paste this into the file:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<deviceinfo version=”0.2″>
<device>
<match key=”input.x11_driver” string=”synaptics”>
<merge key=”input.x11_options.SHMConfig” type=”string”>True</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Save and close gedit then reboot the machine. Is it all done? No, not yet, I still can’t make my touchpad work, then I tried to find keyboard combination to activate the touchpad, which is Fn - F8.  I hit it twice, then voila.. Now I can make my touchpad work.

I’m sure that this is not final solution, cause I still have to hit keyboard Fn - F8 twice everytime I boot into GNOME Desktop Manager. But, don’t worry, in the next Ubuntu release (9.04) Jaunty Jackalope, I hope this problem can be solved 100%.