Pou 3

Third week playing with my pou.

Pou 2

I promised to upload some pictures of my pou as an adult. So here you are. By the way, I named it chuan.

Pou

Pou is a little alien pet that you have to take care of, feed, clean and play with. It is available as an android app and it turns out to be one of the most highly addictive games ever. I leave here some screenshots playing, eating, sleeping ... If I can keep it alive and it grows older I will publish some more pics.

Welcome xana

At the moment of writing this post, I'm installing debian sid in my new laptop. Its hostname is xana, this name makes perfect sense because sid is considered the bad boy and so is xana in the Code Lyoko series. I also added it to my profile.

It is a lenovo. I saw it at the computer store and I just couldn't resist. An impressive machine with an excellent price. Besides, I had been meaning to get one of these for a long time.

In order to install it I tried the Beta 3 netinstall 64 bits but it complained that it was unable to read the files from the installation media. I tried the same Beta 3 but for 32 bits and it worked like a breeze. The debian-installer defaults to wheezy so I have only installed the base system and when done, I have edited /etc/apt/sources.list to add:

 deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

And as usual apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Everything goes very fast if you have a good internet connection.

Now it has finished upgrading to sid, see? that was fast 

The final step for me is:

root@xana:/home/chals# apt-get install xfce4 && apt-get clean

And of course, I'll also have to install and configure other software like for example xfce4-goodies but I will have plenty of time tomorrow. It'll be Sunday and it is raining cats and dogs, so ...

Note: Do not think that I'm cheating because I have already published a picture when the graphical system is still not up and running. I booted the machine first using a debian-live usb stick to see if everything worked out of the box (in case I should need to load any firmware), but I didn't have to worry about that. Everything works just fine.

Hacker's keyboard for android

Yeah, an absolute must have if you need a real keyboard on your android device. I had been looking for such a keyboard for a long time since I bought my phone. And I tried several of them but none comes closer to Hacker's Keyboard.

Some other keyboards have additional keys like Alt, Tab or Esc but they do not work very well. They are useless, so to speak. This one has them all, function keys and even Pgup and Pgdn. Now I simply can't imagine using my android devices without it. Thank you guys.

Their website is here

A fantastic shell account at sdf-eu

I have not really written very much about sdf-eu yet. As far as I can remember there is just one post named sdf-eu and a couple of posts named sdf.

Well, probably the reason why I have not written much about it is that I spend a lot of time at it.

It is true. I log into my shell account at sdf-eu every single day. The reasons for doing that are countless and if you want to know more about it you will definitely have to visit sdfeu.org, make an account and see for yourself.

All I can say is that having a shell account at sdf-eu is a fantastic thing to have.

What I do there everyday:

• Learn from practice and experience about *nix operating systems.
• Use tmux to have several processes running at the same time.
• Use irssi proxy to get in touch with computer savvy people.
• Electronic mail.
• Use gopher and keep a phlog.
• ssh into other servers.
• Bridge connections from my house to my flat.
• Read and write on the bboard.
• Create and edit files.
• Have a mirror of my website.
• Browse the web, use ftp...
• And so on and so forth...

The list of things that you can do is not limited to the few examples I have just included here. There are many more things that you can do but it is very difficult to explain it to someone who can not even imagine what this is all about.

I sometimes like to think of sdf-eu as an interactive shared server, but again if you can read my enthusiasm from between the lines you will realize that, even again, it is much more than that. It is like a family :-)

<3 u all guys :-p

Rubik's mirror cube solved

Today I managed to solve this awesome cube my sister and nephew gave me as a present. It was a real challenge but I succeeded :-p