It's a monster and it's a 12cm, 12V DC Fan!

I have just got a 12cm fan from my company's scrap parts. It is a poweful fan that I have just installed in computer. To do that I know a Dremel would be a great tool for case mod like this but I don't have one. Using a hacksaw, a plier and a set of files, I was able to cut a hole at the top of the casing and installed the fan. It wasn't great, but it works.

I can't post any picture yet as I don't have a camera with me now and my camera phone was stolen :(

Because the fan is so powerful, when it is powered at full speed, it will suck so much air out of the casing that it interrupted the air flow into the PSU. Therefore, I'll need to build a PWM controller circuit to control the fan speed.

Adobe Flash Player 9 beta for Firefox/Linux

If you are getting fustrated that you are still using Flash Player 7 in Linux and many sites are started to require minimum version 8 or 9, you can try using the Flash Player 9 beta.
The following are the few simple steps I took to update mine:
1. Download the player from Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
2. Extract the GZip file which will contain 2 files: readme.txt and libflashplayer.so
3. Following the instruction in readme.txt. For my SuSE 10.1, I just copy the libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins which of course requires root login.

After that, most of the sites that require Flash Player 9 seems to work pretty well.


UPDATE: Linux Flashplayer 9 is now release, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/gntray_dl_getflashplayer instead!