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Asus Eee PC 1201N – Ram Upgrade

Wrote on March 21st, 2010 under Hardware, Papers

Since I bought this netbook that I’ve been looking forward to upgrade it’s ram. As you may know, this netbook has two slots, which by default are fulfilled with 2GB (1024+1024) or 3GB (1024+2048), unfortunately in Portugal only the first combination is being sold.

After reading a couple of reviews of other people that wanted to perform the same upgrade as me, from 2GB into 4GB, I’ve finally decided to bet on Kingston, and I bought the KVR800D2S6K2/2G modules.

Now you may be wondering why I didn’t bought 8GB instead of 4GB since the netbook supports them, the reason is plain simple: in my humble opinion they are way too expensive!

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How to setup Asus Eee PC 1201N Wireless Card on Ubuntu 9.10?

Wrote on February 5th, 2010 under Hardware, Papers, Ubuntu

The first thing you need to know it’s that although the PCI output shows a Realtek 8171 wireless adapter, in reality it is a Realtek RTL8191SE!

With this in mind you only need to download this file which was referenced in this thread on post #134 and execute the commands below. Make sure to remove the NDISWrapper driver before doing this if you have already installed and set it up.

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How to use NTLM authentication with NuSOAP?

Wrote on December 21st, 2009 under PHP, Papers, SugarCRM

For a couple of weeks I’ve been implementing Webservices to feed resources on a SugarCRM project that I’m working on. As you may know SugarCRM provides NuSOAP, which is a SOAP Toolkit for PHP that brings some extra functionalities to SOAP implementation provided by PHP.

Today I had to use NTLM authentication method, unfortunately it isn’t supported by NuSOAP yet, but I’ve found that if you combine cURL with NuSOAP you can get through without a problem.

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Google Chrome Web Browser Installation on Linux

Wrote on August 5th, 2009 under Papers, Software, Xubuntu

Google ChromiumTired of the slowness of Mozilla Firefox and curious with the acclaimed performance of Google Chrome (or Chromium, if you prefer), today I’ve decided to give it a try.

Although it is still an alpha version it already allows you to perform the regular navigation activities that you are used to with an incredible speed.

It’s layout is also a bit different of what we are used to, in my opinion it is great, KISS principle all the way.  I also like the new functionalities like the task manager which allows you to take control over the used memory with each tab/window and the browser itself.

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How to translate administrator menu items in Joomla! 1.5.6?

Wrote on August 14th, 2008 under Content Management Systems, Papers

That’s a question that I’ve been doing to myself in the past two days.

Unfortunately there aren’t much informations about this subject, and from what I’ve read there is a lot of people with the same doubts I had.

Because I haven’t found any documentation on this subject I’ve decided to write the my own tutorial, hope it helps you.

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MySQL bug related with natural number order fix

Wrote on July 18th, 2008 under MySQL, Papers

It seems that this is a known bug but I only noticed it yesterday.

Imagine you have a field named price and it’s type is VARCHAR (it doesn’t matter why it’s not INT or FLOAT) and you want to use ORDER BY clause so you can list table rows ordered by price value.

It won’t work, since the prices will be listed alphabetically, you may read here how to fix this issue.

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How to add new levels to Pingus?

Wrote on July 18th, 2008 under Linux, Papers

Last week I was looking for games developed with ClanLib and I found this one. For those of you who don’t know what Pingus is all about check it’s entry at Wikipedia, it reminds me of Lemmings.

Actually I’m not a games guy, but from time to time I like to play some classic games (they’re my favorites), and this one fits in this category, it is a very simple game with good story and good graphics.

At this time I finished the “Tutorial Island” (you’ll know what that is after you play the game) and unfortunately that is the end of the game.

Suddenly I got the feeling “Only this? No more levels? I want more…”, and I did a couple of searches and found some how to add new levels to the game.

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