Fabian Mejia

This video, dated about 1986 is an ad from the public channels offering an Atari 800 computer. Thanks to this video my father purchased our first computer. I even went to the training center (offered for free by the seller) Thanks Dad, this is one of the two best gifts ever!!!! "You can gift your child many things or a future"

I can believe it .... Just a couple of minutes ago, I finished Bioshock (without cheating). This is an amazing game. I love the graphics and the characters (I am a real fan of Art-Deco style). I love the Chrysler and the American Radiator Buildings in NY (they are Art-Deco too, right?). Please take a look at the following pictures from my cellphone. (I was unable to take screenshots using the "Print Screen" key). I have to say that the ending was not as good as the whole game, It looked more like a "Love movie". (Well, if you played as Mr Goodie two shoes)

Today Ubuntu 7.10 has been released! You can download it at: www.ubuntu.com Where I live, Internet connection is not fast so I rather prefer downloading the Torrent first. I Installed Ubuntu in my Inspiron 1520 Machine without any trouble (Compared to previous versions). So far, I have tried the following Items: Wireless Network. It worked like a breeze Screen at High Resolution (Although I haven't tried yet the nVidia drivers) Bluetooth seem to be working (It finds devices nearby) First Item I was not able to have running is the audio, so I searched over the Internet, and I found this great thread in a Forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=577469 I followed the steps in a similar way as described in that thread: Installed "libc6-dev" using the Synaptics package Manager Installed "patch" using the synaptics package Manager wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.15rc1.tar.bz2 tar xvpjf alsa-driver-1.0.15rc1.tar.bz2 cd alsa-driver-1....

I just received my new Dell Inspiron 1520 with the nVidia 8600 GT. This purchase also included Bioshock, The Sims 2 Deluxe and Company of Heroes. As soon as I turned on the computer, It was too slow. More than I expected for a new computer with 2GB of RAM. I blame the Bloatware preinstalled on this machine. Also, going to "My computer", I found there were 3 "Three"! partitions: main drive and two more with media direct and some other stuff. I really found it useless. What's the purpose of getting access to media without booting the computer? I rather prefer turning on the iPod or the radio. I decided to clean up that preloaded-mess and reinstalled Windows Vista. Install is pretty straightforward. I removed all partitions and created only two: One for Windows and some empty space for Ubuntu (Which will be installed later). Drivers were installed without any trouble from the DELL drivers Disk. I couldn't wait more to play Bioshock ... Game Installed successful...

Preprocessor directives will allow you to determine at compiling time which pieces of code will be processed from your source code (I suppose there must be other usages, so please reply if you know other). One known example are the debug variables or messages. When you finish your job you can forget to delete all debugging messages. It won't be good if the customer clicks on a button and suddenly gets a "Oh Shit!!" as a message. Well, you can avoid that with preprocessor directives. This is an example (I had to simulate the signal from an ADC). ADC was not available all the time, so I read from a plain text file the same way ADC data was gathered: ------------------------------------------------------------ #ifdef _USEFILESRC_ double SignalSource::read(){ //Read from a text file } #else double SignalSource::read(){ //Read from ADC } #endif ----------------------------------------------------------- That means: if _USERFILESRC_ has been defined when compili...

When I installed Ubuntu, I found that the mp3 coded was not available due to licensing issues. I installed the codec, and some music applications under Linux, but I was really missing the simplicity and power of Winamp. Seaching on the Internet I found a great application which runs under linux and is similar to Winamp. So similar that you can even apply the winamp skins. Its name: AUDACIOUS This is the application link: http://audacious-media-player.org/ Installing was pretty straightforward: Add the Audacious repository by editing the /etc/apt/sources.list and adding the following lines: deb http://static.audacious-media-player.org/ubuntu edgy main deb-src http://static.audacious-media-player.org/ubuntu edgy main Then updating the repository: apt-get update. Finally: apt-get install audacious. That's all. Note: For Ubuntu, I downladed the debian package (For some reason the ubuntu package didn't work)