Vietnam was under Chinese control for a thousand years before becoming a nation-state in the 10th century. Successive dynasties flourished until it was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century. Efforts to resist the French eventually led to their expulsion from the country in the mid-20th century, leaving a nation divided politically into two countries. Bitter fighting between the two sides continued during the Vietnam War, ending with a communist victory in 1975.
Emerging from a long and bitter war, the war-ravaged nation was politically isolated. The government's centrally-planned economic decisions hindered post-war reconstruction and its treatment of the losing side engendered more resentment than reconciliation. In 1986, it instituted economic and political reforms and began a path towards international reintegration. By 2000, it had established diplomatic relations with most nations. Its economic growth had been among the highest in the world in the past decade. These efforts culminated in Vietnam joining the World Trade Organization in 2007 and its successful bid to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in 2008.
Bang Pa-In Royal Palace (Thai: พระราชวังบางปะอิน), also known as the Summer Palace, is a palace complex formerly used by the Thai kings as a summer dwelling. The palace is located on the Chao Phraya River bank in Bang Pa-In district, Ayutthaya Province
King Prasat Thong originally constructed the complex in 1632, and though it lay empty and overgrown throughout the late 18th and early 19th century, King Mongkut began to restore the site in the mid-1800s. Most of the present buildings were constructed between 1872 and 1889 by King Chulalongkorn.
The facilities include vast gardens and landscaping, Wehart Chamrunt (Heavenly Light), a Chinese-style royal palace and throne room; the Warophat Phiman (Excellent and Shining Heavenly Abode), a royal residence; Ho Withun Thasana (Sages' Lookout), a brightly-painted lookout tower; and the Aisawan Thiphya-Art (Divine Seat of Personal Freedom), a pavilion constructed in the middle of a pond.
The palace remains largely open to visitors, as King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his family use it only rarely for banquets and special occasions.
What is YPOPs! ?
YPOPs! is an (OpenSource) application that provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It works with all know email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora etc.
YPOPs! 0.9.5.1 for Ubuntu released.
changes:
* Based on YPOPs! 0.9.5.1 as on 04.10.2007
* GUI configuration wizard (debconf)
* Auto-update notification of new releases
Please leave your comments/suggestion here.
How to install YPOPs! for Ubuntu:
You would need my PGP public key: E22CF38B. Save this to a file (say tskariah.gpg). And then use the following command to add the key:
$ sudo apt-key add tskariah.gpg
deb http://tskariah.000webhost.com/ubuntu ubuntu main
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ypops
How to (Re)configure YPOPs! for Ubuntu:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -fgnome ypops
Other front-ends could be "dialog" (default), or "web". The old /etc/ypops.ini would be saved as /etc/ypops.ini.bak
How to remove YPOPs! for Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get remove ypops
How to start YPOPs! for Ubuntu manually:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/ypops start
How to stop YPOPs! for Ubuntu manually:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/ypops stop
How to automatically start YPOPs! for Ubuntu at bootup:
Use the configuration wizard.
Directory structure:
/etc/init.d/ypops - init script
/etc/ypops.ini - config file
/usr/bin/ypops - executable file
/var/log/ypops/ - log directory
/var/run/ypops.pid - pid file
WARNING: The log directory is readable by all. If the log-level is set to Advanced, YPOPs! would dump all the HTML pages there, which might contian private information.
I prefer a clean desktop with no icons cluttering it up, but by default Ubuntu adds icons to the desktop for every single removable drive that you attach to your system.
Having recently transitioned to using Ubuntu full-time at home (instead of just part-time), this was one of the first things I wanted to disable. Sadly there's no option in the default configuration screens, so we'll have to use the "registry editor" for Ubuntu, called gconf-editor.
Just type in gconf-editor into the Alt+F2 run dialog to open the app.
Now browse down to the following key:
apps \ nautilus \ desktop
You should see a key in the right-hand pane called volumes_visible. Remove the checkbox from it, and the icons will instantly disappear from the desktop. Remember that you can always access the drives from the "Computer" icon, or easily in the file browser.
I'm much happier now with my beautiful desktop.
Because a KDE application will appear very large/small on GNOME desktops. You can use either the kcontrol or the qt3-qtconfig package to configure the appearance and other KDE/QT applications. Of these two, the QT Configurator (qt3-qtconfig) has far fewer dependencies than kcontrol and may therefore be more convenient for people who mostly use non-KDE software. See also QtGnome for how to make Qt applications look more like Gnome.
A quick fix, without installing any configuration packages at all, is to make a file qtrc in your $HOME/.qt directory, and put these two lines in it:
[General]
font=Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
You can start QT Configurator with the "qtconfig" command. On the "Fonts" tab, choosing Font Family Sans Serif and Point Size 10 will give something that resembles Ubuntu's GNOME desktop.
If you install the kcontrol package, you may run it by entering kcontrol into the Applications/Run Application... prompt. Expand the Appearance & Themes menu and select Fonts. Press Adjust All Fonts and select Size. Lower this value to your preference (size 10 or 11 is usually satisfactory). Press OK and Apply and exit the KDE Control Center.
Your Bookmark Icon
Whenever someone bookmarks a website (using a favicon-compatible browser), a tiny logo-type icon is displayed in their bookmarks next to the link to that site.
That icon is called a favicon and you can create one for your own site!
Here's how:
Make a tiny image, no larger than 16x16 pixels with no more than 16 colors.
Name the icon favicon.ico
Put this icon into each directory (folder) on your site that you want people to be able to bookmark.
You can specify a different favicon for each page of your site! Add <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="pagex.ico"> to the page and upload that .ico file into the page's directory.
Resources
Here are some resources you can use to create your own custom icon.
You can use a free icon editor program from:
Download.com
Favicon.com
IconForge
Or you can use a graphics program:
Microangelo
Paint which comes with Win9x
PaintShopPro
Freeware image editors
IconEdit32 v1.0
If you have to, you can save the file as a favicon.bmp or favicon.gif and then use IrfanView to convert it to an icon file favicon.ico.
Notes
Favicon doesn't work with older browsers (pre IE 5.0 or pre Netscape 7.0). In some browsers, like the new Apple Safari, for instance, the little icon stays in the visitors address bar as long as he or she is on your site.
However, everytime someone clears their cache your Favicon will disappear until visited again.
When you see favicon in your stats you can see how many people (using Favicon-compatible browsers) bookmarked your site. If you see favicon in your 404 errors stats, that means people are bookmarking your site and you don't have a favicon to go with it.
This is a howto (provided by Nailor) shows how to sync Nokia E-series phone (Symbian 9.1, Series60 3rd edition) with Gnome Evolution in Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) and Feisty Fawn (7.04). This has been tested with Nokia E50. Information on how to sync Nokia E65 is available here. Kubuntu users may be interested in this.
1. Add required repositories:
Add following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
deb-src http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
To add key for the repo, do the following:
gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net/ --recv-keys CB210090B029CB84
gpg --export CB210090B029CB84 | sudo apt-key add -
2. Install required software
sudo aptitude install libopensync-plugin-* libopensync0 opensyncutils msynctool mulstisync-qad bluez-passkey-gnome bluez-gnome
3. Configure msynctool
You can configure opensync via a graphical interface using multisync-qad (using similiar settings as below) or you can use command line. Guide below is for command line. Note, that the command line is reported not to work flawlessly on Feisty. You'll bet better results with GUI
Add a new group of preferred name (I'll be using nokia in this example):
msynctool --addgroup nokia
Add plugins to group. If you get errors in this face, they are propably due to missing plugins so check you've installed all required plugins.
msynctool --addmember nokia evo2-sync
msynctool --addmember nokia syncml-obex-client
Next is the 'trickiest' part. Installed plugins need to be configured. First, you have to find your phone’s MAC. Use hcitool to do that:
hcitool scan
It should return something like:
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx PhoneName
Now, configure the syncml-obex-client:
msynctool --configure nokia 2
Replace the context of the configuration (should be open in separate editor after running previous command) with the following XML:
Where bluetooth_address is your phone’s MAC address you just discovered.
After configuring the syncml-obex-client it’s time to configure evo2-sync. Open configuration file with command:
msynctool --configure nokia 1
And modify it to look like:
Replace USERNAME with your username.
Edgy note: With the latest update from jahn repositories, this works with defaults. You can configure Calendar as calendar_db to syncml-obex-client setup to make calendar syncing work
4. Sync!
You should be good to go now, so you should try synchronizing:
msynctool --sync nokia
On my system (kernel-2.6.18, udev-103) when I plug USB cable and selected PC Suite mode on my Nokia phone proper drivers are loaded and proper devices are created automatically. This is really how it should work! After phone is connected /dev/ttyACM0 device should be created.
If you have problems with it try to load drivers manually:
modprobe cdc_acm
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0421 product=0x044dwvdial modem setup is also very simple (DTAC specific):
sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Username = dtac
Password = dtac
Baud = 460800$sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add this line “deb http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/ubuntu ./” and save with “wq!”
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install libcnbj-2.5 bjfilter-2.5 pstocanonbj
System > Administration > Printing, Add Printer, Select from List
Everything went ok. I've already had all needed deps. If you are not that lucky and something says 'failed dependencies' try fixing it with apt-get install or apt-get -f install.
After that I suggest creating symlinks:
$cd /usr/lib
$sudo ln -s libpng12.so.0 libpng.so.2
$sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3
$sudo ln -s libxml2.so.2 libxml.so.1
105a106
> *Resolution 300/300 dpi: "<>setpagedevice"
106a108
> *Resolution 1200/1200 dpi: "<>setpagedevice"
108a111,118
> *OpenUI *CNQuality/Quality: PickOne
> *DefaultCNQuality: 3
> *CNQuality 2/High: "2"
> *CNQuality 3/Normal: "3"
> *CNQuality 4/Standard: "4"
> *CNQuality 5/Economy: "5"
> *CloseUI: *CNQuality
>
/etc/init.d/cupsys restart
$gnome-cups-manager
The model stand opposite direction to the sun. Use a reflector to light her face up.
A Trip to Ayuthaya, The Formal Capital City of Thailand
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