Category Archives: General

Posterous

Posted on 26/03/2010 by Ricardo

Testing my new e-mail posting service from posterous.com.

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Arch Linux: Flash plugin focus in firefox

Posted on 11/12/2009 by Ricardo

For those having problems with flash plugin in firefox on arch linux, more properly, not being able to click the controls in a video in youtube, one of this actons solved it (I don’t know which one because I applied … Continue reading →

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Firefox & "Open containing folder"

Posted on 21/07/2009 by Ricardo

In Ubuntu 9.04 some how Firefox 3.5 was using acroread to open the containing folder of the downloads. To solve this I just went to Edit > Preferences >Aplications and for the content type file I chose the action “Use … Continue reading →

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Eclipse, Java and Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on 09/06/2009 by Ricardo

If eclipse is always throwing a nullpointerexception when trying to edit a Visual Class in Visual Editor, remember to set the default JRE to java-6-sun.

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wicd on eduroam

Posted on 25/05/2009 by Ricardo

With two ESSIDs on one AP wicd didn’t connect automatically to the hidden network using WPA-EAP with TTLS. I managed to get it working by hardcoding the ESSID in the template I built for this in /etc/wicd/encryption/templates. Here are the … Continue reading →

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Powerbox da TVCabo

Posted on 06/11/2008 by Ricardo

Os palhaços que programaram o novo interface da powerbox não a devem usar em casa. Duvido até que tenham testado o novo firmware na própria powerbox, ou então a powerbox deles está toda kitada, porque a minha parece um 486 … Continue reading →

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Linux works again

Posted on 03/11/2008 by Ricardo

I can again use linux to access the eduroam wireless network on my university. Not with the shitty network-manager but with good old wpa_supplicant. It took from kernel 2.6.22 till now (2.6.27) for wireless to work reliably on this laptop … Continue reading →

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Pequeno dodecaedro estrelado

Posted on 12/08/2008 by Ricardo

Estive, com a ajuda do meu irmão, a construir em Magnetix um Pequeno Dodecaedro Estrelado, um dos Poliedros de Kepler-Poinsot. Foram precisos 90 ímans e 32 esferas.

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Ho Ho Ho

Posted on 24/12/2007 by Ricardo

Imaginem-me num fato vermelho com um gorro felpudo e um saco as costas, metam também uma barba branca e pronto, FELIZ NATAL.

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Downgrade de Vista para Xp

Posted on 06/12/2007 by Ricardo

Vou fazer o downgrade do Vista para o XP porque estou farto de não me conseguir ligar a rede wireless da faculdade, sem perceber porquê, para após um reboot já conseguir. Aproveito e deixo aqui o que consegui apurar: Em … Continue reading →

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