Geek T-Shirt Collection #16 – Linux Rules

Linux Rules, Windows sucks, I hate it I believe I made this one with spreadshirt.com See the Previous T-Shirt See the Next T-Shirt

Compiling Ghost White Crab on Linux x86_64 Ubuntu Linux

Compiling this software is usually just a matter of running ‘make’, but if you try to do so in Ubuntu 64bit, you’ll encounter the following error on the config_test.log file skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc To solve this issue just do the following: apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 This makes the make script work since […]

HTML 5 is out and about

I believe that the <canvas>, <audio>and <video> tags will make the web a pretty exciting place. A lot of Flash components will be rewritten or converted into Javascript+HTML5 Object components making available more reusable elements for a graphical and interactive web, all being open sourced (javascript) and with no extra plugins needed. Some places where […]

I wish Michael Jackson…

Faked his death, made millions and millions on all the PR he got these past couple of weeks, and the night he got buried, at midnight, he comes back to life dressed as a zombie and dances thriller. The only POP singer to come back from the death. Or… I wish a month from now, […]

Our Brain is First-Class simulation software

I’m fascinated by the concept of “reality”, and lately I’ve seen and read from different authors references about the subject. Most recently I read a passage from Richard Dawkins on his book “The God Delusion” that deals with reality. The human brain runs first-class simulation software. Our eyes don’t present to our brains a faithful […]

Tech Events Calendar for Geeks

Here’s a list of the most important Tech Events I follow every year. Please leave a comment if I left a very important yearly event out. CES (Consumer Electronics Show) – First weeks of January in Vegas Next one: January 7-10 2010 The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a non-public trade show held each […]