When I was in university, the best way to some problems was going to library and hopping to find a reference book. Nowadays is Web 2.0. The people are well connected via Internet and the content are created by users contribution I suggest if you face a problem, you go to a product forum or user group forum and post your question. Maybe, in somewhere, someone faced the same problem before.
In this case, that is very common in Open source communities. Most of open source projects have not any huge financial support. The peer users supporting is playing a important role! All support functions are from Forum or email list. So, I suggest if you are new to I.T. industry, you have to get used for using forum.

I delivered the Ubuntu Laptop to my friend. After that, I found the laptop cannot play VCD. I have tired VLC player and xine. None of them are not working at all. Finally, I installed a Gmerlin player! That is working fine now! The laptop can play vcd, video and audio are alright too!

When I did my shopping at Westfield Carindale, I found there was a roadshow for Microsoft Surface. That was interesting! In front of the counter, there was a Christmas Tree which is made of Surface. That sounds very geek! Beside that, there is something real! There were a few surface 2 and surface pro 2. I tried a surface pro2! That is cool! It has Windows 8.1, not the RT version! Moreover, it has a touch cover, which has a physical netbook size keyboard. That is better than surface which has only a soft keyboard. I think if I have money, I will buy that as a chirstmas present for myself!

I am just about to build a new website for a client with Joomla 3.2. However, after I checked the requirement of Joomla 3.2, that requires PHP 5.4+. That doesn't support by the client's webhost yet.

If you plan to have Joomla 3.2, please check with the web hosting company first. I have worked with a number of budget web hosting companies,they are using php 5.3.x. Thus, before you install Joomla 3.2, please please check the php version of web hosting company!

I built an Ubuntu Kylin 13.10 laptop. That is because my friend's laptop got a virus, and it need to be re-build. I am not able to find a recovery disk and I aimed to find a way to fix that laptop without any charges. Thus, I got a linux reflash on the laptop. At first, I got a KUbuntu, because it has KDE which is very similar with Windows. But I cannot get the Chinese input method working in OS. So, I installed Ubuntu. That works very fine, all hardware drivers missing and Chinese input method is working fine too. Personally, I like that UI more. That is a side bar for all frequent use programs! I wish my friend like it!