Category: General
2008-08-27
2008-02-01
12:03:15 pm, Categories: General Well folks, here goes nothing! :)
I'm starting my Car PC project. Nowadays everybody seems to have one!
The plan is to build a multimedia system for my car, with full internet capabilities.
The control is done by a touchscreen and all development will be done on a virtual machine and then all updates will be downloaded (like most OSses nowadays anyway).
At the end I hope to have:
- Full internet access in the car (via a GPRS connection)
- Music
- Pictures
- Videos and Movies (to display for other passengers, not the driver!)
- GPS location. Been able to display were I am (via google maps) and then upload my position to the web in real time (for other to know where I am)
- Skype Phone, with dial-in number
- Weather forecast (via Weather Underground) and real time Rain Map (via Met Met Éireann) as it rains a lot around here!
- Internet Radio so I can listen to Irish and Portuguese radio stations with good quality. I also wish to be able to pause live radio if a call comes in
- Done in Ubuntu (because that's what I know best!)
- Full touchscreen interface
Feel free to comment people!
2007-11-26
04:47:26 pm, Categories: General from http://www.interwebby.com/blog/2006/02/04/3/
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>The End</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function killIt()
{
window.open('','_parent','');
window.close();
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onLoad='killIt()'>
You will never see this. Unless you're really fast
</BODY>
</HTML>
In firefox 2.0 this won't work out of the box. You also need to:
about:config
dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows = true
2007-09-11
14:17:01, Categorias: General Recentemente colocaram-me esta questao e nao pude deixar de colocar aqui a resposta.
Na raiz do site crie o ficheiro "robots.txt" com o seguinte conteúdo:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
e pronto! Nao há motor de pesquisa, bem comportado, que lhe pegue. Para os mal comportados (ou seja os que ignoram o ficheiro robots.txt) a única solucao é proteger o site com password.
2007-08-29
09:59:41 am, Categories: General I had an issue trying to change the default root password on a PowerEdge 2650 DRAC. The web interface did not have the option to do this (version 3.35) andI had to use the racadm command from the RedHat ES 4 that the system was running. The command was:
racadm -r {DRAC_IP} -u root -p {OLD_PASS} config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 {NEW_PASS}
And it worked! Notice that the command only worked using the remote option.
2007-07-24
04:04:25 am, Categories: General Performed standard install of Feisty to the hard drive. Copy the tar to the Desktop and open a terminal window and type:
$ sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.org
$ sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ mkdir Notes8Beta3
$ cd Notes8Beta3
$ tar xvf ../notes8_linux_beta3_prod.tar
$ sudo ./setup.sh
You will now get the InstallShield GUI. It'll make sense when you go through it, and except for selecting all components, it's just the straight defaults.
Next (Intro screen)/I accept both terms/Next (License)/Accept default path (/opt/ibm/lotus/notes)/Next (Path)/Select all features/Next (Features)/Install (Summary)/ (Wait a while ) /Finish
After the install, you will have to change the parameters on the /etc/lotus directory.
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /etc/lotus
Another problem: if you run the client with the "lotus" directory that is created in your home directory, the client will not run. It seems that it is not created properly as part of the install, but it will be correctly created as part of the initial run. So...
$ mv ~/lotus ~/lotus.org
No icons are created as part of this install. Others have mentioned icons, but I've never gotten any icons...
So, now to run the client. AFAICT, no icons were created as part of this process, so how do you start it? From the command line:
$ /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes
That should be it.
2007-06-05
12:14:16 pm, Categories: General Here are my favorite add-ons for Firefox:
Google Toolbar
Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web
Reload Every
Reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes. The function is accessible via the context menu (menu you get when you right click on a web page) or via a drop down menu on the reload button ...
Reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes. The function is accessible via the context menu (menu you get when you right click on a web page) or via a drop down menu on the reload button
Flash Block
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on...
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
Flashblock currently blocks the following content types:
* Macromedia Flash
* Macromedia Shockwave
* Macromedia Authorware
I just can't live without these ones... :)
2007-05-09
15:12:38, Categorias: General Como os leitores habituais deste blog já sabem, nem tudo o que aqui se escreve esta directamente ligado com Linux ou afins. Este post é um exemplo. Apenas uma pequena nota para eu nao me esquecer que para aceder ao meu voice mail ligando de outro telefone (ou mesmo rede fixa) basta colocar um 5 após o indicativo (no meu caso 087 5 xxx xxxx). Quando aparece a mensagem de boas vindas, carregar 1 vez no "#", teclar a password seguida de "#" e aparece o menu habitual.
2007-04-20
2007-01-11
14:35:06, Categorias: General Ao consultar as estatisticas deste blog, para além de ficar surpreendido com o número de visitantes, verifiquei que algumas pessoas procuram aqui, através da pesquisa no google por "como colocar assentuacao no teclado" ou "teclado ingles acentos ubuntu", a solucao para a activacao dos acentos no teclado.
Nao seja por isso meus amigos! Aqui fica a minha dica:
Na definicao do teclado, em vez de Ingles, escolham Irish. De imediato podem teclar coisas como áéíóú e ÁÉÍÓÚ (usando as teclas AltGR+[letra] ou AltGr+Shift+[Letra] respectivamente) que sempre é melhor que nada.
Para coisas mais sofisticadas como cedilhas e afins é um pouco mais complicado, mas também se arranja. Mais tarde "blogo" sobre o assunto.
Espero que ajude, e obrigado pela visita!
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