i’ve tested some office products as substitutes of MS office prducts. and found gnumetric is perfect for that usage! thanx gnumertic team! it’s nearly unbelievable that open source product’s quality is amazingly high. if you are using office in common usage, you may not need to buy MS products. one exception in this case is a font problem. there is no good open source font, especially Korean or Japanese.. that’s the main problem to solve. (spreadsheet is free to this problem)

it takes 5 or more seconds when i test something using the splendid jUnit toolkit on my eclipse 3.2 with callisto, so now i need more cpu power for TDD. (TDD is the key of next generation development) to be focus only on development, test time should be less than 3 seconds.

i researched current cpu markets and found that soon there’ll be intel’s core duo 2 cpu, code-name conroe, ensures magnificient perfomance enhance,  in 3rd quarter of 2006. but that improvement are only a story of a cpu side.

it may take two or three year for 64bit and dual or quatro core cpu market’ll be matured. this is not only for price, but also for 64bit, multi-processor support softwares including os.. (there’s few of 64bit applications in the market.)

there are many kind of problems when using 64bit cpu. do you know there’s no flash plugin for 64bit linux? only that reason, i can’t use 64 bit distribution linux now.. -_-;; kill me.. (i need itunes, flickr uploadr, MS office(excel, word, power point, onenote), and Nate On messenger for linux.. if that can be  done, there’ll be no reason to use ms windows..)

it’s not a good time to buy a new pc. vista and conroe will change the market drastically. so i’d better wait for the quad cpu

new version of mplayer is available since 11, Jun, 2006.
it takes a year for new version, so a lot of parts are changed

http://mplayerhq.com/

it compiled so well in my openSuSE 10.1, unlike previous version ^_^;
just type like this

./configure
./make
./sudo make install

that’s all!

and in order to view MS media format, you have to download essential codecs package, it can be downloaded from same page. copy all codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs

what i want is just playing wma to my firefox 1.5, so i installed mplayer-plugin too

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

it needs gecko sdk 1.8 when you compile, you can get  it from YaST or apt or ports or anything your modern os package manager.

./configure
./make

and

cp mplayerplug-in*.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in*.xpt /usr/lib/firefox/components

yeah! baby, yeah! you can see windows media format file is played in your linux firefox machine!

P.S. auto-play is not supported because of security problem. you have to right-click the mplayer module and select play.

리눅스버전의 FF에서는 동영상(특히 MS 고유포맷)의 재생이 지원되지 않는다.
현재까지 쓸만한 유일한 솔루션은 FLASH로 만든 동영상이다. (요즘 동영상
호스팅 서비스 사이트 들은 동영상을 업로드하면 플래시로 자동 변환해준다)
그렇지만 플래시도 8.0버전은 리눅스에서 동작하지 않고, 언제 발표될지 모르는
8.5버전부터 지원을 하겠다고 하니, 당분간 리눅서들의 동영상 생활은 그다지
신나지 않을 듯하다.

웹에서 음악듣고 동영상을 보는 일이 하루에 몇번은 있는 나로서는, 이 편리하고
아름다운 리눅스 + 파이어 폭스 시스템에서 모든걸 해결했으면하는 바램이 있어서
혹시나 가능한지 알아본 결과 mplayer의 존재를 알게 되었다.. 두둥..

일단 스펙상으론 리눅스에서 윈도우즈 미디어 포맷을 볼수 있는게 사실이다.
단지 미디어 포맷만이 아니라 QuickTime이나 RealMedia같은 거의 모든 동영상
형식을 지원한다.

그런데 다운받아서 설치해보니 컴파일에러 -_-;; 아직 정식판이 나오질 않았다.
계속 개발중인 상황이다. 아마도 1년은 기다려야 원클릭으로 설치만하면
리눅스의 FF에서 동영상을 볼 수있는 시스템이 완성될거 같다..

최신기술로 만들어진 리눅스 배포판을 쓰다보니 윈도우즈는 이제 구려서 못쓰겠다..
내 블로그도 리눅스 파이어 폭스에서 보는게 훨씬 이쁘게 나온다. 요즘 세상이 너무
좋아진 듯하다.. 이렇게 하나둘씩 좋은 소프트웨어가 나오면 윈도우즈는 쳐다보지도
않는 세상이 곧 올 것같다.

There’s a plugin to show embedded movie in linux browser(especially firefox)
it is based on mplayer, the newbie of linux media player. mplayer surpport
almost every video, audio format include window media. so i tryed to install
but failed by compile errors.

it may take a year or so, till the usage of mplayer goes simple as just one click.
but it’s ok, linux softwares are going well, and someday i can live with only linux.

anyway do you know this word press blog is more beautiful in Linux FF than Windows IE.
surprise, isn’t it?