How to show user's queue in the channel #bookz of IRC Undernet

In the channel #bookz of IRC Undernet, you might want to know the current status of those queues after you have put your desires file in someone's queues and started waiting for your files, since when your position comes up, no message is shown in the conversation window.

Today I have just known a new command to fulfill that task.

@someone-queue

The result will be shown in a private message window.

My first attempt to run Flex compiler on Ubuntu

Today I tried creating my first Flex application, so I downloaded Flex 2 SDK from Adobe website and extracted it on my just-installed Ubuntu. Then, I started to search a tutorial of Hello World program on the Internet and found one. After gradually following his steps, I got an error while the problem is being compiled by Flex compiler.

$ mxmlc first.mxml
Loading configuration file /usr/local/flex2/frameworks/flex-config.xml
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

I had no idea why mxmlc crashed whenever I tried to compile a mxml file. Finally, I found an article stating about this problem in LaunchPad. As a result, I did what he said immediately and it's perfect. There is no problem anymore.

According to the article, the problem is that Ubuntu’s default JRE doesn’t like Flex SDK. Thus, I need to download a new JDK from Sun or others. The instructions below is the steps to install JDK. Please be noticed on step 4, since it's very important. In my case, even though I chose to follow the option 1, I still need to do step 4 of the option 2.

How to Install JDK (Refer to Space Program Blog)

1. Option 1:
1. run: sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
2. Option 2: (if option 1 doesn't work)
1. download jdk 1.5 from sun, the Self extracting linux version, .bin extension (NOT rpm)
2. run: sudo apt-get java-package
3. run: fakeroot jdk***.bin
4. run: sudo update-alternatives --config java
   - select the j2sdk1.5-sun option
5. run: java -version
   - just to make sure it's the new version