Archives for 2009
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 [...]
(Let the right one in) This is a great film directed by Tomas Alfredson. It’s been a while since I last saw such a good movie. The genre of this movie is kind of hard to describe, is a mixture of drama, horror, romance and thriller. To myself, it’s a movie with just the right amount [...]
Amants du Pont-Neuf?). Como pasa con las peliculas de Kubrick, la gran cantidad de simbolismos y sus posibles relaciones convierten la interpretación de este video en un árte, y como era de esperarse, ya hay innumerables interpretaciones del significado de la historia. Yo no estoy 100% de acuerdo con ninguna de las que he leido [...]
Bænken, Arven y Drabet, son tres peliculas de historias desarrolladas dentro de la clase baja, alta y media (respectivamente). Antes de filmar estas películas, Per Fly pasó mucho tiempo con personas de cada clase social, lo que le permitió crear historias de mucho realismo, y aunque están planteadas en la sociedad Danesa, son igualmente válidas [...]
(Nosferatu, una sinfonía de horror) Esta película de 1922, dirigida por Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, esta basada en una adaptación libre de Henrik Galeen de la novela “Dracula” de Bram Stoker. Es una obra maestra de horror perteneciente al movimiento expresionista alemán que, en el caso del cine, tuvo su esplendor en los años 1919 – 1930, [...]
NOTA: desde la publicacion de este post, han salido varias distribuciones mas recientes de ubuntu, sin embargo esta versión, al ser LTS (long term support), aún puede ser descargada y cuenta con soporte hasta abril de 2011. Según estadísticas publicadas en mayo del 2008, aproximadamente el 90% de las computadoras a nivel mundial utiliza alguna version [...]
William Seward Burroughs II (1914 – 1997)A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to [...]
Ever wanted to program a complete database automated backup? There are several scripts avilable on the internet, but this is probably the best one. The features (taken directly from the web site) • Backup mutiple MySQL databases with one script. (Now able to backup ALL databases on a server easily. no longer [...]
To backup all mysql databases: in terminal type: mysqldump -u username -p –all-databases > filename.sql It will ask you for the password and create filename.sql in the current working directory To restore all databases: mysql -u username -p < filename.sql It will ask you for your password and restore your backup. Note: this works in windows too, you just have to run [...]
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