Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Flash trash

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on 30 May 2006
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From Wired:

Rubber duckies with USB flash drives are cute, but dialog05’s idea to embed the tiny storage devices in everyday objects is downright inspired. … There’s the bra with a USB clasp, the trash can dock, and the must-have fixture (called essentials) that delivers the necessities of life – water, power, and data.

Flash trash

Quickie?

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on 26 May 2006
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Not what you think.

It must be one of those days: just finished another exam — part of a winding-down (I hope) battery of fitness tests here in the workplace — and I barely passed (yay!); caught in the middle of a Debian netinst (heh, they only have the Sarge netinst ISO around here); doing a yum update (Fedora Core 3! How ancient.) on one of my boxes; and, oh, just watched X-Men III: The Last Stand (you know, I have a feeling this isn’t the last of the X-Men franchise {prolly because of that snippet of a scene at the ending? [oops! spoiler alert!]}) with my teammates — it was funny: we didn’t get to reserve seats beforehand so we took the queue and we got seats all right, a freaking column of seats (8C, 9C, 10C, you get the drift…)! — and I must say, take that, Puso ng Samar something!

Whew. Before I leave for home, here’s an interesting piece:

'Your pockets, they are so deep...'
Just a sneaky of Fernando Escora’s work over at Hiraya Gallery.

$100 laptop first photos

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Taken at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu. 1st working model (OLPC). Originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.

Sweet.

The first working models of MIT’s $100 laptop (the One Laptop Per Child project) are out and were presented at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting last 23 May 2006.

The colors are nice — how very, uhm, Ubuntu. (The prototype runs on Fedora Core 5, though. ;))

View the rest of the Flickr set. Via Boing Boing.

From del.icio.us, 24 May 2006

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CLI keyboard shortcuts

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on 23 May 2006
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Got this from CJ Pangilinan, through the PLUG mailing lists:

  • Ctrl+S. Scroll lock.
  • Ctrl+Q. Release scroll lock.
  • Home or Ctrl+A. Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line.
  • End or Ctrl+E. Move the cursor to the end of the current line.
  • Alt+B. Move the cursor to the beginning of the current or previous word.
  • Alt+F. Move the cursor to the end of the next word.
  • Ctrl+U. Erase the current line.
  • Ctrl+K. Delete the line from the position of the cursor to the end of the line.
  • Ctrl+W. Delete the word before the cursor.
  • Shift+PageUp. Scroll terminal output up.
  • Shift+PageDown. Scroll terminal output down.
  • Ctrl+L. Does exactly the same as typing the clear command.
  • ArrowUp or Ctrl+P. Scroll up in the history and edit the previously executed commands. To execute them, press Enter like you normally do.
  • ArrowDown or Ctrl+N. Scroll down in the history and edit the next commands.
  • Ctrl+R. Find the last command that contained the letters you’re typing.
  • Ctrl+C. Kill the current process.
  • Ctrl+Z. Send the current process to background. Type the command fg to get the process back.
  • Ctrl+D. Log out from the current terminal.

Thanks, CJ!