Very cool koala (9.10) T-shirt
Oct 29th
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
MLCP: Network equipments at low cost
Sep 13th
What to do when your business are in need of network equipments but are also in need of money? As I saw on a site, Multilink Communications Products may be an answer to your needs. Multilink provides good Cisco refurbished network equipments.
Well, you may know the Cisco quality, so it is a very good deal to buy good equipments at low cost. Although Cisco is the main manufacturer, they sell equipments from other companies, as seen at they networking gear.
But what’s the main worry when you’re about to buy some refurbished equipment? You may think: ‘And if I buy something that’s not working very well?’ Knowing this, they provide a 1-year standard warranty.
Still, they provide a service page where you can find an iten or call in an emergency situation. It’s nice to know that if you are in the middle of a crisis you can have a quick resolution. Multilink says that can solve quickly you problem due they have a large inventory which ‘ensures greater product access to fulfill your most diverse requirements’. Yet they ship equipment at the same day in many cases. And they even ship to world wide.
I’m not so good in networking issues, but I know that if we need good equipments, we need someone to call, expecially in emergency cases.
Nerd Venn Diagram
Sep 11th
Just saw in Geeks are Sexy a Nerd Venn Diagram to determine which type of “nerd” you are:
About cell phone gadgets
Aug 6th
Talking about cell phone gadgets, I always remember to protect my phones. It’s easy to drop down your phone or to sit on it and break.
I just received by mail suggestions about LG Cell Phone Covers and LG shine case. If you have a LG phone, please look at this, it may be useful. Since I bought a cover to my phone I can carry it on my belt or in my pocket with no troubles.
Or if you need to buy faceplates, chargers, data cables, or other stuff, you could search for LG or Motorola cell phone accessories. You can boost your phone or simply replace something that has a problem.
Don’t give up from your phone, you can do something cool with some accessories.
Ubiquity for Firefox
Jul 31st
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.
InTrust Domains Second Survey
Jul 30th
Where do you go when you need to buy a domain? Well, I’m sure you look for a trust, fast and secure way to buy it.
InTrust Domains is a great place to buy and to find second survey domains, because when you need to buy something (especially on internet) you need to trust, like the most of the InTrust Domains customers.
InTrust Domains is very worried about the customer satisfaction, and it has very good feedbacks from them. On the last customer satisfaction survey, they get 100% of satisfaction out of 92 responses. Almost all of this 92 would like to buy again in InTrust Domains, only one skipped the question.
You can see in the website that InTrust Domains delivers the domain instantly. Also, the website says:
- Transactions Bonded by BuySafe
- All Purchased Domains Delivered Immediately
- Open To Negotiations On Price
- All Domain Purchased Are For One-Time Payment. Renewals only $7/year!
InTrust Domains cares about consumers satisfaction, receiving several testimonials from pleased costumers that says that it’s quick, simple, efficient and secure. It has cool prices and is open to negociations. You can find a cool domain name and buy it for a cool price very fast.
So, go to there, browse through the available domains and enjoy.
Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance
Jul 27th
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.
Cell phone accessories
Jul 26th
I like to have different cell phone gadgets and accessories, but I like to choose what I’ll buy thinking about if it would be really useful for me.
For example, imagine this: you go out with your friends. You have an iPhone, as all your friends. Few minutes later you see three iPhones on the table. Which iPhone is yours?
Well, it’s easy to avoid this problem in a fashion way: you can customize it with iPhone skins, so you can be sure on what’s yours. And you can get a very nice look to your iPhone.
But one of my last bought accessories was the leather case for my cell phone. My two previous phones displays got break inside my pocket. So, don’t let your iPhone without an iPhone leather case, it’s really dangerous.
And if you’re like me, you may loose you charger everywhere. The easiest way to be prevent this is to buy another iPhone or iPod touch charger and let it at home, while you have one always with you…
Starting Linux through Windows XP boot list (boot.ini)
Jul 22nd
Last week I had to recover the grub in a notebook after a Windows reinstall. The easiest way would be running an Ubuntu live cd and run the grub program. But I hadn’t a cd and tried with a bootable usb stick and… nothing. That notebook doesn’t boot by usb. I tried also with a sd card, but had the same problem…
The solution: Burn a CD? No. Let’s do something more criative…
Well, we know that Windows XP also has his boot list (boot.ini), so why not to put Linux on the list?
Unfortunately, it’s not so easy as edit the grub menu, but it’s still easy.
First, you have to create an image from the master sector of a HD which has the grub installed (I used my notebook). Open terminal and type:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
Maybe you have to change /dev/sda1 for other device, depending on your HD.
This command creates the bootsect.lnx file. Put it on c:\ on Windows. After that we will edit the boot.ini on Windows.
There’s two ways to do this: you can edit the c:\boot.ini directly (it may be hidden and read-only) or you can right click on “My Computer”, go to “Preferences”, “Advanced” tab, and click the button to edit boot preferences. So the boot.ini is opened on notepad.
On boot.ini, paste the following line at the end of the file:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
Save, close and reboot.
Now your Windows asks you if you want to start Windows or Linux.
And voi là.
(I think it’s the biggest post I wrote in English, so forgive me for the mistakes)
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