OpenSolaris Shortcomings

I want to like OpenSolaris. I love compiling away on my Sun Machines at the house. The simple fact is though the “Open” is a misnomer of great proportions. What makes me excited about OpenSolaris is the lineage it stems from. For UNIX admins everywhere, it is truly one of the last of the old guard. HP-UX, Tru64, and the host of other dead UNIX OS showcase how much impact the BSD and Linux world has had on mainstream POSIX. ...

March 29, 2008 · 2 min · Nick

GBA PSP Emulator SDTV

Load up the emulator Plug in the Composite Cable Without getting a wretched headache, get into the Graphics and Sounds menu option Set Video to: Scaled 3:2 Filter Yes Ratio: ratio 4:3 interlaced Tadda! MarioKart on your hotel TV

February 9, 2008 · 1 min · Nick

Fix for Skype

For all those running the Skype 2.0 Beta on Ubuntu Gutsy. Seems that having Nessus installed will screw up your Qt libraries: 505 cd /opt/nessus/lib/ 506 sudo mv libQtCore.so.4 libQtCore.so.old 507 sudo mv libQtGui.so.4 libQtGui.so.old 508 sudo mv libQtXml.so.4 libQtXml.so.old

February 6, 2008 · 1 min · Nick

Speechless

Other than the language and video games, it is so so true…

January 2, 2008 · 1 min · Nick

What Geek am I?

 This is a picture someone published online that shows all the different types of geeks. I figured I would quickly look at the image and find, THE NICK. My issue, there is NO NICK. Narrowing down the multitude of options was difficult but I decided on 3. Those are listed below. Gadget Geek — I have every gadget you can imagine. I use them as learning devices in order to become all the more a geek. My tool belt looks exactly like his as well as the backpack. When I looked at this picture I didn’t think what a dork, I started to figure out what gadgets the artist was showing. For the record the geek is wearing: Blackberry, iPod, Candy-bar Cellphone, UMPC, and a GPS Apple Geek — This is a short one, looking around my office lets count the number of Apple products: iPod Shuffle, iPhone, 2×24″ iMac, Apple Extreme Router, Performa 6300, and an AppleTV in the living room. That is 7 devices. Yikes. Linux Geek — I have been using Linux 12 years (way before running Ubuntu was cool) and still use it to this day. I have a poster with Linux kernel code in my office. All devices that are capable of running Linux in my household, do. I get excited when a new kernel comes out and rush out to compile. I read over 150 RSS feeds about Linux and Open Source. I am such a dork as I re-read this. Wow…

January 1, 2008 · 2 min · Nick