UnixWars

Last week was a bit slow, and this one doesn’t seem as if it is going to get any better. This week we’ll have some hollidays (from Thursday and through the weekend), so maybe something interesting will come up. In the meantime I’ll share this little flash game I stumbled upon the other day. Nothing special, but entertaining. As always, I’m hooked. I’m starting to think that I’m some kind of junkie when things have to do with puzzles. Enjoy! ;-) (more…)

Couldn’t let the day pass by without mentioning that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) has finally been released today. You’ll have lots of information elsewhere, so I won’t lose our times telling you about it.

It has been working flawlessly with my new Thinkpad since February, so I’m pretty sure it is a polished product by now.

I just wanted to note that every time a release is made, some servers seem to go down due to the overwhelming demand. It’s sort of a Download Frenzy I suppose. If you can’t find a working direct link maybe you should try downloading via BitTorrent. It’s the only way I use, anyway.

Here you have some cached links for the torrents in case you need them.

• Kubuntu Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64)
• Kubuntu Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86)
• Ubuntu Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64)
• Ubuntu Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86)
• Ubuntu Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64)
• Ubuntu Server install CD for PC (Intel x86)

The other day as soon as I started Pidgin I received an IM from a friend of mine. It was something he wrote while I wasn’t online, so it popped up immediately. The sentence was “Hardware description languages turn me on“. Shocking, I know. But he is a geek. By now you shouldn’t be surprised if you found out that I’m one too. It’s one of the many silly conversations an average geek has every day. But back to the story, I mention this because it was him that brought to my attention the little device that gives title to this post some months ago. It looked cool, but I wasn’t really in the market for new gadgets so I mostly forgot about it.

That was until last week. And yes, it finally arrived on Monday.

I know it wasn’t long ago when I said that I wouldn’t probably have an eReader for a long time. But what can I say. I read a lot. And as noted, I’m a geek. So it was pretty much something bound to happen. (more…)

Following up a post about the Wiimote, here is something interesting I stumbled upon. It’s also about cheap 3 axis accelerometers, only this time it isn’t about the Wiimote. It is about the Wii Nunchuk. Check this out!

You can see the whole story at Hackaday. Although I’m not really used to hacking with circuits, I do check some of these sites on a regular basis. And I must say every now and then they come up with things that make me wish I were Ajo ;-)