Mac Pro

Mac Pro

Mum, Dad, Mr. Jobs, please gimme one for Xmas.

Thank you!

Rick

[tags]Apple, Mac Pro[/tags]

5 Days…

… Almost there…

15 Years of the Super Nintendo


Super Nintendo

The Super Nintendo (or SNES for the fan boys out there) celebrates this year it’s 15th birthday.

This console is, IMHO, one of the most important consoles in the Nintendo history, not only it marks the 16 bit gaming era but also an entire generation of gamers. I know people who bought this console with the Super Mario All Stars cartridge and never bought any other game (and were quite satisfied with that), proving that a single title (well actually 4) and a great console can fill ones gaming needs.

Anyway, the SNES has it’s own history and 1UP has a very nice piece on the 15th birthday. Enjoy!

[tags]Super Nintendo, Super Nes, SNES, Nintendo, 15 years of the super nes[/tags]

Mugshot on Ubuntu

Mugshot

Easy steps to install Mugshot on Ubuntu, it will save you a lot of searching and segfaults with all the other deb packages arround.

1. In your home directory: wget http://www.nighton.net/nighton_key.asc
2. Open Synaptic Click on Settings, Repositories, and then click on the Authentication tab.
3. Click Import Key File. Select nighton_key.asc and click Ok.
4. Click on the Installation Media tab and click Add.
5. Click Custom.
6. Type the following into the Apt Line field: deb http://www.nighton.net/ dapper main
7. Click Add Channel.
8. Click Close.
9. Click Reload.

Tada…

[tags]Mugshot, Ubuntu[/tags]

Aptana

After getting to know about Aptana‘s existence via João Pedro Pereira, I decided to take a look and install it on my Ubuntu box.

The instalation runs smoothly, but there’s some tricks here and there that should have been documented. So, here’s a little tutorial for the rescue:

  • Download the install file from here.
  • Open a terminal window
  • Aptana has dependencies so you’ll need to install Mozilla and libswt3.1
  • sudo apt-get install mozilla
  • sudo aptitude install libswt3.1-gtk-java
  • Chmod the install file to make it executable – chmod +x Aptana_IDE_Setup.bin
  • Excecute the file – ./Aptana_IDE_Setup.bin
  • Now, the installation should be easy, just read and answer the wizard’s questions until it’s finished
  • Aptana needs a environment variable set for mozilla so we’ll have to code ourselfs a little script in order to set the variable evert time we need to run Aptana and not just once inside the terminal window.


    touch aptana
    sudo gedit aptana

    Now copy this

    #/usr/bin
    export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla
    ~/Aptana/aptana

    and save the file.

  • Chmodit so it can be executed. – chmod 755 aptana
  • Now you can copy it to /bin – sudo cp aptana /bin/

You’re ready to go! You can even create a menu launcher and use this nifty icon I made.


Aptana Icon

Enjoy!

[tags]Aptana, Ubuntu, Linux, IDE, How to, HTML, Javascript, CSS[/tags]

Poll of the Day

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Thank you!

Update: PHP added as requested…

Surfing Safe While at Work

Are you’re tired of the prying eyes at work? Try the new WorkFriendly!
Get ready for a lot of wordprocessing work 😉

[tags]Safe Surfing, WorkFriendly[/tags]

Geo Tag Photos With Sony


sony_gps.jpg

Found it via Engadget, the GPS-CS1 uses time and location recordings to geotag your photos. According to the article, the GPS session (time stamp, longitude and latitude) is downloaded to the PC and syncronized with the photos, all this using the supplied GPS Image Tracker software.


map_image04_lg.jpg

My opinion: it might be handy, but paying $150 just to geotag photos is a little bit expensive IMHO. I’m yet to see a nice digital camera with GPS integrated… meawhile let me dream.

[tags]Sony, Geotag, GPS-CS1, GPS Image Tracker, Photo[/tags]

10 Days

Almost there…

[tags]WTF?[/tags]

Disciplining

  1. Organize 100 GB of stuff cluttering my HD
  2. Delete e-junk in order to raise some space
  3. Backup my entire data
  4. Delete Windows XP Partition
  5. Re-Partition HDs
  6. Install Windows XP, install drivers, run Windows Update, install antivirus and firewall, install Firefox
  7. Don’t touch Windows ’till Xmas
  8. Install Ubuntu
  9. Install Automatix
  10. Install XGL and Compiz
  11. Configure Evolution
  12. Tweak Gnome
  13. Enjoy

[tags]Linux, Windows, Ubuntu[/tags]

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