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To begin with, a hotlink is when someone links any kind of file from an external site to your server. The link can be targeted to an image, a video, a pdf document, a zip file, etc, etc. There’s nothing wrong about this except for two possible reasons: You have private files you don’t want to [...]
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Lessons of Darkness – Werner Herzog 1992 This is a magnificent work by Werner Herzog about the aftermaths of the most stupid thing ever invented by men: the war. This film is a mixture of documentary and sci-fi with footage of real post-war scenarios on the kuwait desert, although the film never mentions any relevant [...]
The second beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) is out! Here’s a quick view of the new exciting features it comes with: A dramatic look and feel overhaul with the new radiance and ambience themes. The task panel comes with renewed indicators and provides integration with instant messaging (empathy), email (evolution) and social networks integration [...]
This is a way to create an incremental automatic periodic backup of any folder located in a remote machine via SSH in a linux/unix machine. A pair of rsa keys are used for authentication with the remote server, rsync is used to copy the archives and cron to run the script periodically. All in all, [...]
A new firmware version (50.0.5) is out . You can follow the same steps described in this tutorial to update your nokia 5800 with this latest firmware. The mayor improvements over v40 are kineting scrolling in all the phone menus (including app menu, etc) and a new look for music player, along with bug fixes [...]
This is a guide on how to set up dreamweaver on ubuntu, it requires to have windows installed on a different partiton. This was tested on ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 (karmic) with winXP/vista/7… should work in any version tough. Requirements: A working windows system (dual boot) on the same computer with dreamweaver already installed in [...]
This is a quick and very useful tip, you can open a terminal with the path of the current folder from the context menu (right click -> open in terminal) by installing the nautilus-open-terminal package… 1. In a terminal type sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal 2. Restart you GDM session (or restart the computer) to see this option in [...]
Windows 7 is the most recent of microsoft’s operative systems. There are mixed reviews about windows 7’s performance on the internet but all of them seem to agree with one point: it’s better than windows Vista. So if you have windows vista just go ahead and install win 7. If you have XP it depends, windows [...]
The UDF (Universal Disk Format) is a format specification of a file system for storing files on optical media, usually DVD’s. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are two examples of DVD containing this file system. By default when you mount an ISO image with the UDF ISO 13346 file system with the Archive mounter (by double [...]
This is a quick guide on how to change the old win XP Luna theme to a better looking one. The most popular themes are luna royale black, Zune and Vista basic. The only previous requirement is to have SP3 installed. Some screenshots: Luna Royale Black: Vista basic: Zune: The default win XP theme: Luna 1. Check if you have [...]
After a fresh Ubuntu Desktop install you’ll have, by default, all necessary programs to write documents, spread sheets and presentations (open office), burn cd/dvd (brasero), edit and manage your Photos (fspot, GIMP), send instant messages with most of the instant messaging services (Empathy), manage your email accounts (Evolution mail), Organize and listen to your music [...]
Art Nouveau [aʁ nuvo] is an artistic movement proliferated during the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Flourishing in France, but with a strong presence in Belgium, Germany (Jugendstil), Italy (Stile Liberty or Stile Floreale), Spain (Modernismo), Holland (Nieuwe Kunst), and other European countries, as well as [...]
Sol Seppy is a cellist, pianist, singer-songwriter and producer from the United Kingdom with Greek and Australian influence. Her real name is Sophie Michalitsianos. When she was twenty-three she moved to the US and after beeing a contributor on two sparklehorse albums, she was eventually able to afford moving to upstate New York, where she set [...]
In this guide I’ll show you how to setup a fully encrypted dual boot system (except for a small boot partition) with windows and linux (in this case win XP + Ubuntu Karmic Koala) using a LVM encrypted partitioning scheme for linux, and truecrypt for encrypting the windows partition.
freeNX is by far the easiest way to configure remote access management in a computer. It is also fast and secure as the information between client and server travels encrypted and compressed. This guide was tested on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (ubuntu 9.04) but should work as well for any ubuntu version as long as the [...]
This is a guide on how to set up an AMP server (Apache MySQL PHP) on Ubuntu. This method has been tested on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 1. Install the necessary packages: sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server 2. Install phpMyAdmin sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Note: when it [...]
The magic lamp effect is my favorite when it comes to minimizing windows, but there’s one problem with it, you cannot configure the “Magic Lamp Max Waves” to zero due to some copyright crap from apple (since they think they invented the effect or something). Fortunately there’s a cure for this, you can patch compiz [...]
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Cualquier PC o laptop con 1 GB de memoria RAM o menos va a ser muy lenta con Vista o el nuevo Windows 7. Para estas computadoras, Windows XP sigue siendo el mejor sistema operativo de micro$oft. NOTA: esto no significa que winXP sea el mejor sistema operativo existente en el mundo. Distribuciones de Linux (como [...]
10 años atrás, el 12 de junio de 1999 fue el lanzamiento de uno de los grandes discos de Sigur Ros, Agætis Byrjun. En conmemoración de este suceso, Sigur Ros acaba de hacer público un video de la noche del lanzamiento de este álbum en la Icelandic Opera House en Reykjavik: http://vimeo.com/4608579 Agætis Byrjun, que significa “Un [...]
Elisabeth Charlotte Rist, mejor conocida como Pipilotti Rist, nació en 1962 en Grabs, en el valle suizo del Rin, estudió “Arte comercial, ilustración y fotografía” en el Instituto de Artes Aplicadas en Viena (Universitat Für Angewandte Kunst) y posteriormente “comunicaciones audiovisuales” en la Escuela de Diseño de Basel (Schule für Gestaltung). Su apodo Pipilotti viene [...]
Después del horror ocasionado por el cataclismo de la segunda guerra mundial, en Europa y otras partes del mundo, había un espíritu de idealismo generalizado originado por la idea de reconstrucción, principalmente en países que no quedaron cubiertos por la cortina de hierro. Se intentaba hacer las cosas mas abiertas, mas claras, que funcionaran mejor. [...]
Que tienen en común los siguientes discos: Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel Muse – Black Holes and revelations Metallica – Death Magnetic The Flaming Lips – At war with the mystics Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication …Que todos se oyen distorsionados! Todos estos discos tienen un tipo de distorsión llamada “clipping” que se origina por amplificar demasiado el volumen del [...]
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