Friday, March 14, 2008

Lost - Ji Yeon

4x07. Ji Yeon

Just aired: 3/13/2008

Juliet is forced to reveal some startling news to Jin when Sun threatens to move to Locke's camp. Meanwhile, Sayid and Desmond begin to get an idea of the freighter's crew when they meet the ship's captain.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Celestia Free Space Simulation Software v1.5

Celestia has a new version. One of the best free software ever. Give it a try!

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Links:

> Celestia Home Page
> Download
> Add-Ons
> Forum
> Related Sites

(A few) Celestia videos on YouTube

Celestia 10min. Demo

Celestia built-in Demo

Mision to Mars

Voyager 2 flyby of Saturn

Tour of the universe from Celestia

Thursday, February 21, 2008

A very short break

Since I'm out of town for a longer weekend, now you know why the blog has taken a longer weekend, too. Until I'm back, surf-these:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=337750
Scene Releases
TG Daily - TG Video: Wirelessly hacking Gmail and more - tutorial
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/
MasoliT
All About System Restore in WinXP
USB Drive AutoRun.inf Tweaking
YouTorrent.com (BETA) - Your Torrents. Real Time.

I know you will find interesting topics to keep you busy for the weekend. So have a nice one!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

"Prison Break" 3rd Season finale

3x13. The Art of the Deal

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Just aired: 2/18/2008

Michael and Lincoln are left with no choice but to hand Whistler over in exchange to save LJ and Sofia. A familiar face enters Sona while another inmate leaves.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

"Lost" - new episode

4x03. The Economist

Just aired: 2/14/2008

Locke's hostage may be the key to getting off the island, so Sayid and Kate go in search of their fellow castaway in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful deal.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

How to make space on Windows XP system partition? - preview

image My partition is big enough, you'll say. What about when you do a full back-up (an image of the entire partition for easy restoring)? Doesn't it take longer to back-up or restore (and takes more space, of course)? Or when you defragment the drive, it will eventually be less time consuming if there were more free space. And I think that not many of us are proud with a 10 GB Windows or a 20 GB Program Files folder.

But if you really have a small Windows XP partition (mainly because you've once thought 10 GB will be enough for your operating system and installed applications) and you don't want to repartition you drive, then this small guide is for you.

We'll see in the next few days what can be done on this matter without compromising system stability: things that can be easily done inside XP (with no other help from 3rd party applications) and things that can be done more easily by using 3rd party applications. So stay tuned.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

"Prison Break": Hell or High Water

3x12. Hell or High Water

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Michael, Whistler, and Mahone make their break from Sona. But Mahone seems like the odd man out along the way.

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Blog recovered

From a human (personal) error Embarrassed, I have lost temporarily all the posts from my (infant) blog Worried. I was too panicked, that I took no screenshot.

NO SCREENSHOT

A few minutes later, I found out that almost two years ago, The Official Google Blogger blog also got deleted by mistake! When the blog was restored, it was announced that

"We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad."

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Fortunately, due to a fresh FeedBurner RSS copy that it was still online, I was also able to restore the posts Whew; I've also made some small adjustments for my work not to be without positive results so some of the posts have been slightly modified (in form, not in contents). Also, I had to manually reassign Labels and change back the dates of the posts to the original ones (also from the copy provided by FeedBurner). And, finally, I've made a full back-up of the blog.

That's why I've created a special link list on the left of the page called Why and how to back-up and restore your blog (read it before you weep). So, read it before it is not too late.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

10 years of StarCraft

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10 years ago when I owned a PC with a Pentium CPU "running" at 133 MHz with a 32 MB of RAM and a hard-drive just twice as big as a CD, I was playing this game that I still play today with great pleasure. There where 10 years of glory for Blizzard Entertainment - the producers of Starcraft - and the promises are that it is not going to stop here.

When did you played your last Starcraft battle? Or are you still on the game?

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The news is that Starcraft II is close.

Links:

StarCraft Legacy
StarCraft Featured Article on Wikipedia
The official StarCraft site at Blizzard Entertainment
The StarCraft Compendium on Battle.net

HardLinks, Junctions and Volume Mountpoints

imageWhat happens if your Windows XP or Vista System Partition (C:) is starting to fill up, even after systematic cleaning of unnecessary programs or junk files that sometimes clutter on your hard-drive [and, yes, this is another interesting topic on how to make some space on your C: partition if necessary -- you may free sometimes up to a few gigabytes with less effort]?

If you don't want to adventure yourselves in reorganizing partitions (which can take some time and, why not admitting, some risk), then there are some solutions at hand which the NTFS file system implemented in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP-64 or higher supports: these are called HardLinks, Junctions and Volume Mountpoints.

What are HardLinks, Junctions and Volume Mountpoints?

To be short:

  • HardLinks provide the ability to keep a single copy of a file yet have it appear in multiple folders (directories);
  • A Junction point is a technology for a folder to be grafted into another folder on the same local computer. (e.g. moving your "Program Files" directory contents to another drive, and linking the original "Program Files" directory to this new location. Junction points are transparent to programs. Starting with Windows Vista, junction points are used extensively in the Windows operating system. Several of the special folders in Windows, such as the "Documents and Settings" folder, are shown as shortcuts to other folders, but are actually junction points.
  • Mountpoints are folders that point to an entire disk volume.

Feel free to google these terms and get more info.

How to use HardLinks, Junctions and Volume Mountpoints?

image HardLinks can be created with the fsutil command utility included in Windows XP, which can be tedious, especially when HardLinks to multiple files are required or when one only makes occasional use of HardLinks. Support for Junctions in standard Microsoft software offerings is even more limited than that offered for HardLinks.

The workaround is to use 3rd party freeware like Link Shell Extension (LSE) or/and Junction Link Magic.

I strongly advise you to take a few minutes and read the information found on the websites of these two nice freeware, before using them.

Junction Link Magic

(734 KB in size - Windows 2000/XP/2003) is a utility that lets you create junction points with Windows 2000, XP or 2003. There is also a beta version for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Junction Link Magic automatically lists existing junction points, and it offers an easy interface to add, modify or remove junction points.

Junction Link Magic Screenshot

Homepage / Download (XP) / Download (Vista - beta)

Link Shell Extension (LSE)

Link Shell Extension ScreenshotIt provides for the creation of HardLinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vista's Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes HardLinks or Symbolic Links. LSE is implemented as a Shell extension and is accessed from Windows Explorer, or similar file/folder managers. The extension allows the user to select one or many files or folders, then using the mouse, complete the creation of the required Links - HardLinks, Junctions or Symbolic Links or in the case of folders to create Clones consisting of Hard or Symbolic Links. LSE is supported on all Windows versions that support NTFS version 5.0 or later, including Windows XP-64 and Vista. HardLinks, Junctions and Symbolic Links are NOT supported on FAT file systems, and nor is the Cloning process.

Homepage / Download

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

"Prison Break" getting close to the end of the 3rd season

There are two more episodes to go till the end of the 3rd Season. Here is the episode that has just been aired:

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3x11. Under & Out

Just aired: 2/4/2008

Michael's escape may be in jeopardy because of heavy rain. T-Bag and Lechero join forces, while Bellick hopes to do the same with Mahone.

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Google logos

318 Google official Holiday Logos in just one picture.

See http://blog.aysoon.com/48-tous-les-logos-google-sur-une-seule-page.

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Google has dedicated some pages on this topic, where you can find the latest Google Logos or even logos dating back to 1999. Find more info here.

For non-official or fake Google logos, you can check here, they have the best selection.

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Have fun !!!!

Browse and save clean web pages with Firefox and ScrapBook

Did you happen to look at a web page where the information you needed was surrounded by lots of adds and banners? Have you ever wanted to save or print just small parts of a web page, keeping only the relevant information? With Firefox and ScrapBook Firefox extension is all possible, quick-n-easy.

Here is just a minor example of a web page in its original version (left) and the slim version (right), ready for printing or archiving.

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What is ScrapBook?

Scrapbook screenshotScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Major features are:

  • Save Web page
  • Save snippet of Web page
  • Save Web site (In-depth Capture)
  • Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
  • Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing features
  • Full text search and quick filtering search
  • Text edit feature resembling Opera's Notes

For detailed explanations, more features, screenshots or tips, check out ScrapBook Firefox extension web page.

Friday, February 1, 2008

RSS Popper - news add-in for Outlook & Outlook Express

RSS Popper is a freeware news aggregator add-in for Outlook & Outlook Express. News items are delivered directly to Outlook or Outlook Express as e-mails, so you can work with RSS news just like you work with e-mails: move them, delete them, archive the most important ones.

There is no need to use a separate program for reading RSS anymore. No need to subscribe to mailing lists which deliver news. And besides all these, its free. Just download, install, set your favorite news feeds, and you're ready to go.

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Features (Partial list)

* Supports MS-Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 (RSS Popper)
* Outlook Express 6 (RSS Popper for Outlook Express)
* Supports all RSS, Atom & RDF versions
* Support Podcasts
* Bloglines.com synchronization
* NewsGator Online synchronization
* Enable full page download to Outlook (i.e. Off-line view)
* OPML Import/Export
* And much more...

Requirements:

    • Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007 or Outlook Express 6 and above
    • Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista (should work on Win98/ME but not tested)
    • .NET Framework 1.1 (Can be found here) - If you're not sure, don't install. RSS Popper installation process checks if you've got it.

    There is some time since there was no update (since October 2004), but the software is in a good shape so give it a try. I use it for quite some time and it proved to be very useful (if you use Outlook or Outlook Express for managing your e-mails). My personal thanks to the author.

    Homepage / Download for Outlook /Download for Outlook Express

    "Lost" is back

    The 4th season just begun so stay tuned.

    Special. LOST: Past, Present & Future

    Just aired: 1/31/2008

    When Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on an island in the middle of the Pacific, each survivor was given a choice to live together or die alone. Thrown together in this mysterious place, they have struggled to overcome shadows from their past in order to survive and answer the questions that plague their new lives on the island. Where are they? Is rescue on its way? What else is on this island? In "LOST: Past, Present & Future," relive their story of survival to prepare for the shocking season four premiere that will change everything.

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    Lost

    4x01. The Beginning of the End

    Just aired: 1/31/2008

    They thought they had met the enemy. They thought they had seen evil. They thought wrong. As the new season begins, the feeling that rescue is close at hand, the survivors don't know whether or not to believe Charlie's final message that the people claiming to liberate them are not who they seem to be. As unlikely alliances are formed, those they thought could be trusted may turn against them,as the enemy of their enemy becomes their friend. But who can be trusted? Is rescue really as close as it seems?

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    4x02. Confirmed Dead

    Just aired: 2/7/2008

    The survivors begin to question the intentions of their supposed rescuers when four strangers arrive on the island.

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    Thursday, January 31, 2008

    Search for e-books

    e-book search

    http://www.lookforbook.com/

    A very good search engine, if you look for scientific, educational, technical and fiction literature; the file formats are quite common: pdf, djvu, ps, doc, txt etc.

    search dialog box

    search results

    Unfortunately, for some locations, like lib.homelinux.org you will need a password to access the site. It is not so hard to find, even if they change it from time to time... But this is the subject for another post.

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