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Andre Noel — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:52:29 +0000

Do you like Tron?

Andre Noel — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:32:39 +0000

This game is not a new one, but do you know Armagetron Advanced?

It’s a 3D game, simple and nice…

To install on Ubuntu, go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center and search for “armagetron”:

Click install.

Now you can find it on Applications > Games > Armagetron Advanced.

It’s based on the old movie, but it’s very nice.

Tip: at the first time, don’t forget to configure the keyboard (Player Setup > Player 1 Settings > Input Configuration).

You also can play it online.

Ubuntu-BR @ FISL 11

Andre Noel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:00:09 +0000

I should have written it before… But, finally I will write about what we did as Ubuntu-BR at FISL 11 (Free Software International Forum) in July, 2010.

FISL 11 was very good, altough some technical issues. The picture below was taken at the first day, when the stands’ area was closed, yet “under construction”:

On the second day everything was stabilized and many laptops came to our “island” to be installed or to have something configured, like webcams, 3g modems…

Unfortunately many ubunteros couldn’t go, but a very good team was there, most of Sao Paulo regional team of Ubuntu-BR. A special thanks to: Kemel Zaidan, Marcos Amorim (Mosca), Alexsandro Carvalho (Muambeiro), Diego Rodrigues, Thiago Bellini, (Aspira), Kretcheu (and someone else I may forgot the name) and André Gondim, who organized many things and made the main contacts.

Kemel Zaidan, Leonardo Amaral, Andre Noel (me) and André Gondim

Also we had a nice help from Fuctura (a brazilian Canonical partner), who gave us the banner and some gifts to share. Look the pictures below when the gifts was being raffled:

5º Ubuntu Brazil National Meeting

At the last day we had the 5º Ubuntu Brazil National Meeting, where we could talk about our community, how to participate and help. It was cool, because there were people from many places and we talked especially about Ubuntu-BR Regional Teams.

Also it was nice to find/meet some persons we only talked virtually and discover that they really exists…

Install Fest

Fortunately today the Linux install is very easy and we don’t need so much install fests, but many machines was installed there (I don’t know the number). Many people liked to see this MacBook Air running Ubuntu:

Lastly, FISL 11 was very good. We met more ubunteros we could imagine. Also many others user groups was there and it was nice to talk with them. Other distros also made a nice job there.

Now, let’s go to the Latinoware, FISL 12, and many others…

How to assemble a Rubik’s Cube

Andre Noel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:03:34 +0000

My friend Muriel Godoi made a stop motion video about how to assemble a Rubik’s Cube. It’s very good.

How to create signatures with images on Gmail

Andre Noel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:55 +0000

A friend of mine asked me about why gmail don’t have signatures with images. I said: “What? Sure it has!” I never thought it was something strange, but he said that had never found a good way to do this. So, look this.

First, you have to enable two options on Labs (don’t know what’s Labs? Go to the end of the post, later came back).

Enable “Canned responses”:

And “Inserting images”:

So, click on “Compose Mail” and write a blank mail, just with your desired signature:

Then insert the image you want (look the button selected above):

It will be something like that:

Then you save you canned response:

And name it (please, a good name, easy to remember):

And this is it! You have created you signature with image!

And how can I use?

Well, write anything… Like that:

Then, insert your canned response:

And your mail will be something like that:

This is it.

Appendix – What’s “Labs”?

Like Google says: “Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time.”

In a short way, Labs are very nice add-ons to your mail. Be careful, it addicts.

Very cool koala (9.10) T-shirt

Andre Noel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Today Ubuntu Karmic Koala will be released, and I didn’t buy a koala T-shirt yet (I’m accepting gifts). Look this:

Wow! I’m amazed! How they can do something so cool with just three circles (or elipses)?? If you want to buy one to send me, the link is: https://shop.canonical.com

Nerd Venn Diagram

Andre Noel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:26:01 +0000

Just saw in Geeks are Sexy a Nerd Venn Diagram to determine which type of “nerd” you are:

Ubiquity for Firefox

Andre Noel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:22:25 +0000

I installed Ubiquity on my Firefox and I’m a little crazy, because it’s very good…

See the video:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Google knows what recursion is

Andre Noel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:03:33 +0000

Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance

Andre Noel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:14:28 +0000

A few days ago I marked an article to read later and I finally read it. It’s about how to Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance.

According the post, “since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases”. So, optimize this databases is very healthy to Firefox.

And it’s very easy to do. On Ubuntu (I did on 9.04) install the sqlite3 package. Open the terminal and type:

sudo aptitude install sqlite3

After, still in terminal, access your Firefox profile folder:

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/something_weird.default

In my computer, this something_weird.default is 73cm0ffy.default.

You can see many .sqlite files inside this folder, these are the database to optimize. To do this, close Firefox (only after read or copy this post ), then type, for each file:

sqlite3 file_name.sqlite vacuum

And there’s a way to vacuum all the files at once? Sure. You’re using a Linux terminal! To do this, type:

for i in *.sqlite; do sqlite3 $i vacuum; done

And done.