I’ve bought yesterday a Creative Zen. As a player, it is really good, as you can see in many reviews.
Despites that, I’ve had a hard time, managing to get it to work in my laptop with Ubuntu. Finally, I’ve came up with a solution. The comunication with the device must be done via MTP, so I’ve had to use the latest libmtp to connect it. The package included in the repositories is too old, so you have to download and compile it yourself. Here’s how.
Despites my preference for GNOME, congratulations to the KDE team for their great work, developing KDE 4.0, which appears to be just great!
Getting your mom a new Bra for her birthday will now be enjoyable!
That’s it, you can now pick the model you want and have her showing around her.. underwear?
Just select the piece you want and she will be there showing you how it looks. Turn her around, make her came closer, try out all the options! KnickerPicker is here, and it promises to sell some underwear. Have fun!
After more than three hour googling and trying, I’ve found the right way to get wireless to my brand new Toshiba L40. There was some weird workaround, with a modified driver, but it wasn’t very clean, and I need WPA support. After all, it all got to this:
If this is not enough, it wasn’t for me, force the driver to load your device, here’s how I did it:
tiagoboldt@Kyu:~/RTL8187B$ lsusb
The following was somewhere in the output: Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. That 0bda:8197 is the device ID, so, I’ve forced the application to control it by doing: sudo ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b
I’m now happy and using it without any issues, behind a personal wpa2 secured wireless network!
Today, the Porto Linux team joined in a nice Christmas dinner. The event started in the beginning of the afternoon, with some Apache talks. I’ve only joined them later in the evening. The conversation was, indeed, interesting, passing through lots of different subjects, from open-source, education and many, many other!
It was a nice dinner, and it is always good to get to know better the ones behind the emails or posts out there.
Before leaving, we’ve had an open-gift exchange. Everyone was supposed to bring something, like some code, a picture, an image, anything. Since I’ve forgot to print it, I’ll share here the little ncurses based application I’ve wrote to share. Download, compile it with g++ -lncurses xmas2007.cpp and run it with ./a.out. Merry Xmas.
A few months ago, the Skype team released a beta version for Linux with video capacities! This was the most lacking feature for us, Skype and Linux users.
If, like me, you’ve been waiting for this, go on, download the proper package for your distribution and have some fun 