HOWTO : VirtualBox 2.1.4 on Ubuntu 8.10

Introduction
VirtualBox is one of the products of Sun MicroSystem now. VirtualBox is improved a lot after purchased by Sun. The current version is 2.1.4. There are free and non-free editions. Non-free is not open sourced but free to download. Free is open sourced. Non-free is more powerful than free [...]

HOWTO : Chinese characters not displaying properly on Adobe Flash 10 under Ubuntu 8.10

No matter your Ubuntu 8.10 box with flashplugin-nonfree is installed by Live CD or alternate CD, you may encounter a problem of Chinese characters not displaying properly on websites with Flash like YouTube.com. However, it is very easy to fix.
Step 1 :
sudo nano /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
Step 2 :
Replace the last fourth line where “sans-serif” with “sans” [...]