ricardocabellov5.5

This is what russian kids do when they get bored.

Moving to Linux was quite a decision back in the day. If you really want to move you should be ready to miss many things, in my case: 3D Studio MAX, Photoshop, gaming, ... Although for most of the things you have alternatives: Blender, Gimp, no gaming... When I moved it was even worst because the suspend didn't work so I had to close/start my computer every time. It's been fixed now.

That's ok, but there are those little issues that would make the whole experience just perfect, this is the current list (I'll be updating it whenever I find more issues or solutions):

.psd support on the default image viewer
right now it will get open by Gimp, but this is annoying if you just wanted to preview it. I miss irfanview.

XnViewMP can display .psd's, .ai's and anything you can imagine. Thanks Jull


vpn working out of the box
I had to connect to a Microsoft VPN and at first it didn't work. Months later I googled for the issue and found this which made it work. Tried to connect to the about-to-be-released 9.04 and it didn't work again, neither with that sites tips. On Windows it just works...

vpn to a Microsoft vpn now works flawlessly with Ubuntu 9.04 RC.


nice and consistent design
Mark recently said that in 2 years they were going to outpretty MacOS. Well, I can't see this happening that easily. 9.04 design additions aren't exactly on the right path. But hey, he also said that on Ubuntu 9.04 was going to load damn fast, and it does. We'll see.


webcam on flash player
Anytime I use the webcam in a browser, the second page I visit that tries to use the webcam breaks the webcam image input. I need to restart the browser if I want to use the webcam again.


Skype 64-bit
This is Skype's fault obviously, and a clear example of why open source is going to dominate the world soon ^^


I believe it's all a matter of patience :)

It's a shame that doing a right click > properties in a folder doesn't tell you this (as Windows does) but well... Open the terminal, go to the folder you want to check a type this:

for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null

Will output this:

655 files
6 links
213 directories

Found it here.

Download it from here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Uncompress it and ignore the installer script, otherwise whenever you restart Firefox the previous plugin will be used instead.

The only way I managed to find was this:

9.10

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/

8.10

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/

8.04

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/

http://www.whomp-fm.com/library/audio004/minilogue/Minilogue_Old_New.mp3

Specially the last tune, I wonder what/who it is, it sounds like Brothomstates + James Holden.

Yesterday I had a extra morning to walk around NYC, although I was already a bit tired, I decided I could check out a theater in the city. Did a quick google and somehow ended up on Cinema Village page. After checking the address (postcode) found out that it was in a walkable distance for the morning. So that's what I did and that was the first thing I did learn; don't trust postcodes in new york. In London a postcode will point quite close to where you want to go, in NY doesn't the arrow was pointing 200 numbers away of what I where I was going. Luckily on there, 200 numbers is a 6 blocks walk only.

Once I found the place I faced another problem, it's $10 and they don't accept Maestro. I've had the problem that I couldn't get any money from any ATM, not even from my bank's ATM. But, somehow I can pay with the card on a 7eleven (or similar) and ask for cash back, so that's what I went to look for. There were no decent places around but ended up on a super market, where they said I had to do a minimum $10 purchase to get cash back, after looking around for tiny but expensive things that I was likely to throw I managed to get $10 in products, but then the card didn't worked, good!

At that point it was 1pm and the film was starting at 1.10pm, so I went back to the theater, and asked to try with the card just in case, didn't work and lost any kind of hope. Fortunately, they saw that, and said they could sell me a student ticket, so I throw all the coins and notes on the place and asked if it was enough, and luckily, it was.

So, once again, people at Cinema Village, thanks thanks thanks!! :_)

And this is the film I was after:



Which it makes me say, thanks Charlie, thanks thanks! I'll watch the film more times so I get it better.

If you enjoy fucked up films, very recommended. And if you live in NYC, go watch a film on that theater, support the theaters that support great films.

EDIT: Uoh! Look what I found!

You will start thinking that Rob is actually paying me for promoting his site. You know, someone said that it doesn't matter whether people talk good or bad about you, but that they talk about you.

Anyway, this applies to FWA or any other site that does this. I was on the hotel trying to get back on finishing the presentation I have to do and went to FWA because the site was mention in a conversation with some friends in a random NY Starbucks few hours ago.

So I saw that the nice guys at Pixelinglife managed to get another FWA Award. Good I think, but then I go to check the site, and I saw the usual banner on the corner. This one:



Then I stopped and I though about it for a sec. The purpose of that banner is for FWA to get hits and to grow on audience. And somehow it kind of sounds fair as FWA is giving you hits. Ok, if you look at it in that way sounds fair.

BUT. When you see a Bafta/Oscar award winning movie, do you see a Bafta/Oscar on the corner of the frame during the whole movie? Aren't the guys thinking that having that kind of information is affecting the whole experience they have created and they have just been awarded for that? Somehow an award made them lose the respect for their own work and they didn't mind having a element on the site that wasn't in the client's approved flatscreens.

I sound like the old man in the sector, or something...

PS: If you know who said that quote I wrote on the first paragraph, share it on the comments please.

http://what.cd/

My ears need something new. Anyone happen to have any invite? :$

What I always wanted! \o/ Via Patécrème.

More and more people at Hi-ReS! are getting these headphones. We should get sponsored or something...

For their price (£15), the audio quality is pretty good, and the best feature, they are very lightweight and comfortable which is something hard to find even with the expensive ones.