A witty advice
My netbook webcam doesn’t work properly on BlankOn Nanggar. It can capture images, but it will be displayed upside down. After several hours googling, I finally get some sure workaround to solve this problem.
*Try holding your computer upside-down*. Dead simple, no? 
Even though I already used the libv4l library, the webcam still displaying images upside-down. Maybe the webcam still haven’t been included on libv4l table on Nanggar release.
Well, it’s not like I badly need to use the webcam. But I do hope it’ll be fixed on the next BlankOn release. Maybe it’s already fixed on Ubuntu 10.04.
Getting Ubuntu .deb packages using apt-web
At home, I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 for my main OS. Unfortunately, it’s not connected to internet. Whenever I need to install anything, I had to download it manually from Ubuntu repository. (Well, I also using BlankOn 5.0 at my workplace, but since BlankOn 5.0 is based on Ubuntu 9.04, I can’t just copy its packages in apt cache and copy them to my Hardy machine.)
Manual download has it own cons. Ubuntu repo website do lists the dependencies for a .deb package, but how do I know what’s the dependencies for the dependencies, or whether some of the dependencies are already installed or not?
This is where apt-web, a web-based .deb package finder application developed by mas Fajran “Iang” Iman Rusadi, came in. It helps me to know which packages I have to download and gives package URL on chosen repository mirrors for any specific release. For instance, if I want to install inkscape on Hardy, apt-web let me know that I only need to download two packages (inkscape & libmagick++10), either from Kambing, Buaya, UGM or other mirrors.
Neat, eh?
To try apt-web, you can visit http://apt.web.dahsy.at
BlankOn incompatibility?
This morning I was accessing this blog with Opera 10 on BlankOn Nanggar. Everything went fine till about noon when suddenly my blog displayed only as text. No image, no CSS whatsoever (save for the Facebook badge, which rendered fine). And to make matters worse, I couldn’t even access the admin page.
It’s quite strange, as the blog is accessible using Firefox on Windows XP (else there’s no way I could write this post). Wondered what went wrong…
