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Americas Army 3 is coming

November 23rd, 2008 Comments off

Reading some news on a Linux version of Americas Army 2.5 lead me to the AA website.

It looks like they are prepping some completely new engine for 2009 release of AA 3, more at Americas Army 3 News site.

It’s the favorite game for me, can’t wait to test!

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Ruby on Rails on Maemo 2008 N810

November 16th, 2008 Comments off

I’ve been looking to be able to code a bit of RoR while on the go. From a few devices which I have, N810 has the longest battery run time.

So… Google gave me a nice How To from Jon Forrent, it talks about N800 but it’s the same.

I was trying to do all the steps but I just managed to install ruby and sqlite3 packages. After that Gems package installed well but it wasn’t too useful, any attempt at

gem install

or

gem update

nothing worked, left it over the night, nothing happen.

So…

Uninstalled the gem package, downloaded Real Ruby Gems in a zip file ( you will need the unzip package ).

Unzipped the file, went inside the directory. then:

ruby setup.rb --no-ri --no-rdoc

wow it installed something, now doing :

gem update

told me nothing requires update, great, now lets go with rails:

gem install rails

Amazing, installed really quick ( I would recommend not installing the ri and rdoc as well here )

Just created some test rails app and it works!
Now it’s time to find a decent text editor for it and client for Mercurial.

Good Sci-Fi story telling

November 13th, 2008 2 comments

Two weeks ago I have got my Nokia n810 a Garnet OS install. I did it just because it enabled me to used the Mobipocket Reader ( for Palm OS ). It works, just the fonts are bit dull.

Now, to celebrate my toys functionality, I’ve bought some Sci-Fi book, which had a reduced price and good ratings.

That book turned out to be a real page turner, I couldn’t believe that books can still have that influence on me.

I even got a sequel strait away after finishing the first one. Man, that was a great journey.

Now, I’m resisting. There is a third part of the series, but I’m keeping my hands away from the mobipocket website. I will keep it for the flight over the pond. It’s 10 days to go and I can’t wait!

Books which I was talking about are writen by Randolph Lalonde, looks like I will read all his books.

Mobipocket is my ebook format of choice. Donno why but it is.

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Great picture

November 13th, 2008 Comments off

Just been reading some blog on how boeing screwed the 737 and I’ve noticed great logo of the website.

It’s not great as a logo ( as I have not clue about the values there ) but as a comparison of the size of aircraft. Hope it’s all in scale.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/

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Moving Places

November 13th, 2008 2 comments

I have recently moved from Stratford to Poplar.

Maan, how I dislike all that packing up and even more – unpacking.

Now, I have a bit smaller place but better in overall terms.

The only think which I am missing is a place to store my rubbish gadgets. After some consultation with my tribe I will probably go for something like a mechanics tool cabinet Clarke CTC 500 , unfortunately higher models are obscenely expensive!

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