http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/30/arctic-monkeys-suck-it-and-see

Some of the songs I checked out:

Incubus – Consequence

Incubus – A crow left of the murder

Arctic Monkeys – Teddy picker

The Beatles – Don’t let me down

Discover & enjoy it now: http://www.sintel.org/

On the other hand, Telltale Games launched a NEW Monkey Island game called “Tales of Monkey Island”. Brought to us in five “short” chapters instead of a “long” game, as it’s usual for the company. They have all been released now and I must say they highly exceeded my expectations. Bringing a new, fun, playable and state-of-the-art Monkey Island game to life. This might be the result of being developed by a company founded by ex-LucasArts employees.

I think it’s great that Monkey Island is back. It is one of my favourite games of all times. I love adventure games, They were gone for a little while; replaced by action games like shooters (i.e: Counter Strike) or sports games (i.e: Need for Speed). I hope this will help moving the direction of game companies towards developing Adventure-like games.

Links:

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland2/

http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland

Also it provides a menu to select the translation of the entire web-page or to open a form (like the one in translate.google.com) for real-time translation.

Highly reccomendable.

You can found the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jlhlebbhengjlhmcjebbkambaekglhkf

And Google Chrome, here: http://www.google.com/chrome/

The second programmer replies, in obvious repulsion:
- “Ugh, you used goto!”

LOL

So far, so good. I really like it. I am happy. :D

Just follow the instructions described in this page: http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Snapshots at the bottom of the page under the title “Ubuntu”.

Beware to use the information found at the PPA for Troels Liebe Bentsen page. That is:

1) the repository information for your Ubuntu version (for Intrepid use: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tlbdk/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main & deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tlbdk/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main)

2) the repository signature found here.

First of all, LucasArts is re-launching “The Secret Of Monkey Island”, the first game of the saga with a completely new look. Check it out:

You can find more info at: http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/

Secondly, the company Telltale Games is launching a completely new 5-chapter game based on Monkey Island. It will debut July 7. Check it out at: http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland

This is probably my favourite game of all time. This game was my entry-point to the computers world. And, probably, the reason I became a software developer. I always wanted to develop games, but my professional life took me in another direction. However I don’t loose my hopes on starting developing games sometime in the future! (Maybe when I retired. Hehe)

See more at: http://rymden.nu/exceptions.html

View all Cordoba events on Eventful ]]> http://www.unnaki.com/2009/04/help-me-get-incubus-to-my-city/feed/ 2 http://www.unnaki.com/2009/03/vacations/ http://www.unnaki.com/2009/03/vacations/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:15:49 +0000 Leandro Del Teso http://blog.eunaki.com/?p=106 I hadn’t wrote anything lately. The reason, I was tired, I needed some vacations. So now I got them and I’m back fresh as a lettuce (as we say in Argentina. Hehe).

What:
Partition your hard drive in two drives. In the first partition (C:) install Windows and all the programs (Excel, Word, Adobe, etc); and in the second (D:) put your home directory A.K.A My Documents folder (your documents, your music, your pictures, etc).

How:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial116.html

Why:
it is highly probable that you will need to format your hard disk, because Windows suddenly stopped working or a system file got damaged or simply because Windows gets too slow after a few months. So you will need to format your hard drive, having this partition layout you will avoid losing or backing up all your data because you will be formatting and reinstalling Windows on the C: drive. Once you get the OS up again, you will find your data intact on D: drive.

2-Keep Windows updated

What:
Install every patch and security updates available.

How:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/windowsupdate/learn/windowsxp.mspx#ELB

Why:
Windows is really unstable, unsecure and unreliable yet the most used desktop OS (for now. he he). That’s why probably more than 90% of viruses, trojans and malware target Windows. That lead us to step #3…with capital letters.

3-INSTALL AN ANTI-VIRUS!!!

What:
Install an anti-virus. Keep it updated on daily basis. Run it every 10 days.

How:
I will recommend two of the best anti-virus available for free:
Avira http://www.free-av.com/
Avast! http://www.avast.com
I recommend (if you can) go and get the paid versions of these which have a few more features. Or get a paid anti-virus such as Kaspersky (http://www.kaspersky.com/) or NOD32 (http://www.eset.com)

Why:
Here you will find independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software: http://www.av-comparatives.org/
And I repeat: “Windows is really unstable, unsecure and unreliable yet the most used desktop OS (for now. he he). That’s why probably more than 90% of viruses, trojans and malware target Windows.”

4-Don’t use Internet Explorer

What:
Don’t use Internet Explorer instead use another web browser.

How:
Get Firefox!

Why:
Internet Explorer might be the worst software created ever! Is buggy, slow, insecure, it uses ActiveX (which is one of the many ways of getting infected) and it doesn’t follows any of the standards of HTML, CSS, JavaScript,…

5-Install a few admin tools

What:
Install a few admin tools to keep your system as fast and clean as you can.

How:
Download and install CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/):”…CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner…”. Run it once per month approx.

Download and install Defraggler (http://www.defraggler.com/). This is a tool similar to Windows Defrag, but it is better, faster, light on resources and it lets you decide what files to defrag. Run it once every 3 or 4 months.

Why:
Windows registry sucks! Apps add a lot of data to the registry but they don’t control it, leaving it there even if it is unused (f.i. when the app is uninstalled).
Windows file system sucks! After a few months of use, files get fragmented everywhere and this slows your computer down.
Windows temp files sucks! Windows Automatic Updates will generate hundreds of megabytes of temporary files that are not used after installation. Some apps do this as well.

6-After a year start with step #1

What:
After a year or so start with step #1.

How:
Read this post.

Why:
No matter what precautions you take or how careful you treat Windows, it will simply get slower, slower and slower…

http://www.wobzip.org/

an “online uncompressor”. It supports many file types (7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS) and files up to 100MB.

Hope you find it useful too!

Cheers.

For all of you out there that doesn’t know what the hell I’m talking about, let me say that The Clean Energy Project is a volunteer and distributed computing project that uses BOINC to find new materials for the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices (see here for more).

I always wanted to help in this project but since it was created there haven’t been much action, but now I’m glad to have found that it is on-rails under the World Community Grid umbrella.

If you still don’t have any idea of what I’m talking about, please take a sec and visit the links in this post to find out about BOINC, The Clean Energy Project & the World Community Grid.

There are a lot of projects that needs your help to continuing their work. All you have to do is install BOINC and donate some of your CPU idle time. :)

Cheers!

To get this working, this is what I did:

1) In order to use it as a service, you have to download transmission-cli package which has the transmission-daemon & transmission-remote bins.

2) Before this, I added a new apt sources to the /etc/sources.list because Ubuntu’s sources has a very out-of-date version. So open /etc/sources.list and add the following lines:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bortis/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bortis/ubuntu hardy main

Then update & install.

3) You should now have the client intalled. But to use it as a service / daemon, go to:

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsageDebian

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsage/General
and follow the instructions.

Remember to set the correct permissions to the TRANSMISSION_HOME & TORRENTFOLDER directories to allow writing & reading to the user you set in USERNAME.

I had some problems with transmission populating the default config file “settings.json”. What I did was to manually create the file and add this default content:

{
    "blocklist-enabled": 0,
    "download-dir": "\/shares\/internal\/PUBLIC\/Torrent\/work",
    "download-limit": 100,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 0,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "pex-enabled": 1,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": 1,
    "rpc-access-control-list": "+127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-authentication-required": 0,
    "rpc-password": "",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "",
    "upload-limit": 40,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 1
}

You can find out what options for this config files are available at:

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles

Hope it helps, cheers!