Official site: http://www.telltalegames.com/walkingdead/page1

More info: http://www.aullidos.com/videos-juegos.asp?id_juego=4&vid=0

After digging around I found that the upstart job /etc/init/lxdm.conf ran and stopped inmmediatly. A couple of weeks later (BTW, upstart debug log sucks!), I found that in this file there’s a condition that checks the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager (line 28) and expects to found “/usr/sbin/lxdm”. In my case, the content of the file was “lxdm” therefore the condition was not satisfied and lxdm failed to start (actually it was being forced to stop).

After changing the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager to “/usr/sbin/lxdm”, lxdm (LXDE) started to work at boot time showing login screen as expected.

Really interesting, simple and useful script to install proper NVIDIA drivers on your Linux box.

http://smxi.org/docs/sgfxi-manual.htm

Simply run:

cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/sgfxi && chmod +x sgfxi && sgfxi

as root user (or with sudo) and the script will automatically decide which version to install and will set up the xorg.conf file for you. It also works with other graphics cards manufacturers.

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Edit: this should have been fixed by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634058

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I came across this error the other day running a java application on Debian Wheezy:

java.security.ProviderException: Could not initialize NSS
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:201)
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:103)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$3.run(ProviderConfig.java:262)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$3.run(ProviderConfig.java:244)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.doLoadProvider(ProviderConfig.java:244)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.getProvider(ProviderConfig.java:224)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProvider(ProviderList.java:232)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getIndex(ProviderList.java:262)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProviderConfig(ProviderList.java:246)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProvider(ProviderList.java:252)
at java.security.Security.getProvider(Security.java:473)
at jd.http.XTrustProvider.install(XTrustProvider.java:70)
at jd.http.Browser.init(Browser.java:1317)
at jd.update.Main.main(Main.java:119)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/libnss3.so
at sun.security.pkcs11.Secmod.initialize(Secmod.java:186)
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:197)
… 18 more
ERROR Could not initialize NSS

Apparently an update broke the configuration of the OpenJDK installation. So to fix it I had to manually edit the file /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/nss.cfg:

name = NSS
#nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib
nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
nssDbMode = noDb
attributes = compatibility

Commenting out the highlighted orange line and adding the highlighted green line. The reason of it is that OpenJDK has split this configuration according to the box architecture (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/+bug/778726). However on my box it failed updating the reference to the new location of the libnss3.so file (I am on Debian Wheezy which is not stable yet so I guess something went wrong).

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

The “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. (…) LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as, netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. LXDE can be installed with many Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. It is the standard for Knoppix and lubuntu. LXDE also runs with OpenSolaris and BSD. (…)The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the the General Public License and partly under the LGPL.

I have it installed in an old Pentium 4 with 1.5GB of RAM and it works smoothly and flawlessly. If you need a lightweight desktop environment or want to try something different or you are simply tired of KDE an Gnome, well LXDE is a great alternative.

Check it out at: http://www.lxde.org

I was able to solve this by setting my ~/.asoundrc config file to:

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pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm {
        type dmix
	ipc_key 1024
	slave {
		pcm "hw:0,0"
		rate 44100
	}
    }
}

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This caused my CPU usage to drop from ~30-40% to 2-4%.

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Source: http://blog.sarine.nl/2008/12/21/dmix-the-pain-or-mpd-high-cpu-usage/

Check it out at http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfburn

• Create a working copy of the deleted folder’s parent. You can use -N parameter that indicates “No checkout”. This will prevent from actually downloading any code. Run:

svn co -N SVN_PARENT_URL .

• Get a copy of the deleted folder from the revision before the deletion. Run:

svn copy SVN_PARENT_URL/DELETED_FOLDER_NAME@REV DELETED_FOLDER_NAME

• Commit to HEAD. This will actually commit a new revision with the contents of the revision before the deletion. Therefore restoring the “original” folder. Run:

svn commit -m “Restoring” DELETED_FOLDER_NAME

Source: http://www.freshblurbs.com/svn-restore-deleted-folder-revision

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]]> http://www.unnaki.com/2011/01/restore-deleted-folder-in-svn-after-commit/feed/ 0 http://www.unnaki.com/2010/12/search-learn-practice-and-become-a-rock-star/ http://www.unnaki.com/2010/12/search-learn-practice-and-become-a-rock-star/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:51:15 +0000 Leandro Del Teso http://www.unnaki.com/?p=328 For all of you wannabe rockers out there, check out this site. Free and accurate tabs: http://www.songsterr.com

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

• you can control as many DBs as JDBC drivers exists out there (MySQL, Oracle, Postgresql, etc, etc.)
• you can run it in Linux, MacOS, Windows, etc, etc.
• it’s free.

Check complete features and screenshots here.

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

It is very interesting the history behind the Blender project. I recommend you check it out. It is one (of many) success cases in Open Source development.

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

Check it out here:

http://2dboy.com/games.php

I hope companies start believing there is a “Linux game market” out there waiting and wanting games to run natively.

• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1 (Installation)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 2 (Data model)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 3 (Data model 2)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 4 (Thrift Client)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 5 (Thrift Client 2)

Edit: links are dead :(

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/StandardsPhases.html

Enjoy!

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html