Migrating to a new hosting

Hello,

I’m glad to announce that I’m moving to a new hosting. WordPress.com is really good, but I want to have more features, configure my blog as I want, and be able to have a website or host some content or files.

Therefore, now I beg you to update your links. I’m not gonna post here anymore, everything will be posted on the new URL.

Take note: http://blog.zlowram.co.cc

By the way, you’ll see that I also changed the theme. Is the same I have here, but the version 2. Looks fresh, right?

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Steam games for free?

Yes, that is possible!

The other day I was surfing the web for some games, and I remembered that once I had a Steam version that allowed me to play a big bunch of Steam games for free, but it didn’t last a lot. With every update made for the Steam client, that modified Steam didn’t work anymore. Well, the thing is that I found a new one, one that seems to work much better and, in fact, it works much better. You can download and play more than 60 games (maybe 100 too), and you can play them online if you wish! Of course, not in official servers but cracked servers (almost all the servers from Argentina are cracked). So I gave it a try, and it works like a charm. The fact is that with every Steam update, the modified client keeps working, and moreover the authors are releasing updates every now and then. The project is alive!

Well, as me, if you wish to play steam games without giving away any money, just go here and register yourself to see the post. Then, follow the instructions and you will find yourself playing within a few hours! (the hours you spend downloading the game itself!).

Enjoy it, as I will do!

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Ubuntu Easter Eggs

Howdy!

Have you ever heard what an Easter Egg is? Well, if you answered no I’m gonna tell you what is it. An Easter Egg is a little surprise that the programmer of the application has left there for fun. Well, it is better if you see it for yourself.

Gnome:

• Press alt+F2 and type in: gegls from outer space
• Press alt+F2 and type in: free the fish (to stop it, do the alt+F2 thing again and type killall gome-panel
• Right click on any panel on your desktop. For example, the top panel. Go to preferences, then to Background tab, and select solid color. Now right click 3 times on any part of the sliding bar labeled style.

Firefox:

• Open your firefox, open a new tab and type in the URL field: about:mozilla

OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet

• Go to the first cell, and type in: =GAME(A2:C4;”TicTacToe”)
• Go to the first cell, and type in: =GAME(”StarWars”)

Console:

• Type in: apt-get moo
• Type in: aptitude moo, then add the -v option, like this: aptitude -v moo. Now keep adding v’s to the option and have a good laugh.

Not from ubuntu, but also great:

• Open a console and type in: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Hope you enjoy them!

Oh, if you know more, please post them as a comment and I’ll add them to the list!

Source: http://linuxparatodos.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/¡huevos-de-pascua/

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Play online emulators for free

Got a dead hour? Would you like to spend it playing some games, and you are sick of flash games websites?
Deffs, I found what you need!

http://www.thesmartass.info

On this website, you can play some old console emulators such as Atari, Sega Genessis, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo, and DOS. Cool, isn’t it? But wait! There you have hundreds of ROMs for playing!
With no doubt, this is the best online games site I’ve ever found (perhaps there could be better sites, if you know any, please tell me!).

I have to add, that the site does not only have online emulators for playing, it also has some off-line emulators for download and many more goodies.

Now I’ll let you, Mr. or Ms. Reader, go to http://www.thesmartass.info and have some fun!

P.S: Btw, I’ll put the link on my blogroll, so it will be more accesible.

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[Tutorial] Installing your USB printer in Debian with CUPS

As I’ve recently moved from Ubtuntu to Debian, i needed to install and configure my printer.

Here I describe the general method install a printer, because depending on your Desktop Environment it may intall it by itself. But, anyways, I strongly recommend to install the printer with the following method as, in my case, my KDE 4.2 didn’t configure it well at all.

Lets start:

In the latest distros of Debian, the CUPS system is installed by default with your desktop environment, if you don’t have it, start from step 1 else go to step 2.

1. $ aptitude install cupsys cupsys-client

2. Now that you have the CUPS system installed, you’ll need to get a good driver for your printer. Go to http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi and look the manufactured and model and click show. Look for yours, and click on it. You’ll get a blue box with a place inside that says “Recommended driver”. Go and download  the latest .deb package.
3. Once, you get the package, we proceed to install it. Open it with your preferred package manager and install it. Satisfy the dependencies if necessary.
4. Now, open the CUPS interface by entering this URL on your web browser: http://localhost:631/ and you’ll see something like the image “Page1″:

   

   Page 1

   

   Page 2

   

   Page 3

   
   

   

   Page 4

   

   Page 5

   
   
5. Now go to “Add printer”, and you’ll get “Page 2″. Just fill the form and click on continue. Now you are at “Page 3″, select your printer on the dropdown menu, you’ll see that the caption is something meaningful.Then click on “contiune”. At “Page 4″ you have a list of the drivers available with one highlighted. This one is the recommended by the system and it’s fine for you. Now click on “Add printer”. Now you’ll be redirectioned to “Page 5″. Here enter the configuration settings you want for your printer and click on “Set printer options”.
6. Now there’s one step more. You have to add you to the group “lpadmin”. You can do that simply by running as root the following command on a terminal:

   $ usermod -Ga lpadmin YourUserNameHere

7. Now you’re done! You have your printer completely installed and configured. Feel free to print something

As always, If you have any doubts or suggestions, don’t think twice and post a comment with your issue/suggestion.

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New contents comming soon

Yes, I’m planning to get the tutorials I made in Catalan and translate them to English so they’ll be accessible for everyone (english speakers at least). They are good tutorials so I bet that someone will use them. I have a Ubuntu Installation one for completely newbies, how to link ed2k links with amule in firefox/iceweasel, the ultimate guide to install qemu with kqemu, and some more…

I promise you’ll have them

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Mandarina is here!

Hello to everyone!

I’m now introducing a project I’ve started with a friend in order to participate  at a free software contest here in Spain (for further information, click on the white add on the right).

Mandarina pretends to be a system for installing Free Software applications on Microsoft Windows platforms. It’s something like the apt-get or aptitude from Debian, or Ubuntu, or emerge from Gentoo.

Some of you could be asking: “Why on Windows? We already have apt-get/aptitude/emerge/etc. on our GNU/Linux OS’s!”. The answer is really easy. Some of us have to work on Microsoft Windows platforms sometimes, when there’s no other way. So, we all would like Windows to be as comfortable as possible when we use it. So we want to finish with the annoying task of installing windows applications: Search for it, download, execute installer, next, next, next, next, are you sure?, next, next and finish.

And moreover, we intend to spread the Free Software world to those people that don’t know the existence of this movement. They will have accesible and useful applications as well as good documentations and all the benefits that provides Free Software, and they’ll be able to use and install them freely. That means no cracks, no viruses, no antispyware that installs you spyware, etc.

Mandarina project also can be used on ReactOS to improve it and give it more flexibility.

We think that this project can be useful for everyone, will you try it?

If you want further information about Mandarina project, go to the official development blog at:

http://mandarinaproject.wordpress.com/

Let me warn you, the blog is completely edited in spanish because it’s for a spanish contest. Don’t get mad, you can also use a translating tool or something similar if you are interested.

Well, see you all soon around here!

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[BUG] Sun Java 5 JDK

As I told in my last post, there’s some kind of trouble with Maple and Compiz. I’ve noticed that it’s not only with Maple, also with SqlDeveloper. They have a thing in common, both are Java apps. So isn’t Maple’s fault, neither SqlDeveloper’s. The problem is with the version 5 of the Sun Java JDK. It has a bug that makes java apps working bad when compiz is enabled. I have solved this problem and it’s very easy.

The solution is to remove the sun-java5-jdk packet from your system, and install the latest version of the Sun Java JDK, which now is number 6.

With an easy:

$ sudo apt-get remove sun-java5-jdk

And then a:

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

The problem should be fixed!

Thank you for reading! Don’t forget to leave a comment!

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[Tutorial] Problems with Maple and Compiz?

Hi there!

Like everyone, I installed Maple and when I tried to run it.. Yay, I got a ugly grey window!

I asked Google how to fixed it and i got the way:

1. Go to your Maple path: $MAPLE/bin
2. Find the xmaple file.
3. Open it with a text editor
4. Find the line: export MAPLE
5. Under that line, type: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
6. Save
7. Run Maple
8. Enjoy!

Hope you all like it!

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Changing my desktop look

So yeah, I got tired of my black theme… it’s so.. boring! Seeing always dark tones.. it was kind of depressing working at my PC!!!

Now I got a better look for it! As I looove the blue color, the new theme is… BLUE! Yes you got it!

Well, I really don’t have much to say because I’ve lots of college stuff and I’ve spent a whole afternoon giving my desktop a better look. So here it is, my new desktop!

New desktop looking

Well, hope you like it! At least I DO LOVE IT!

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