Archive for August, 2008

My First ‘Hello World’ In NASM

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

First off, I’m doing all this in my HP DV9000 laptop which has Fedora 9 x86_64. So that means I’m using a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux. This is my first program under NASM and man I’m happy about it! someone has to start somewhere you know.

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Install NVIDIA Drivers In Fedora x86_64 Using Livna

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Here’s one of the many solutions on how to get your NVIDIA drivers installed in your Fedora 9 x86_64 system using the Livna Repository.

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-lib

After that, simply restart your system and you should now be able to see the NVIDIA logo. If you see it, that means everything works!

Install Adobe Flash In Fedora 9 x86_64

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I currently have Fedora 9 x86_64 on my laptop and it doesn’t have Adobe Flash properly installed. Here’s what I did to make it work.

su -

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

yum install flash-plugin.i386 nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i386

yum install libflashsupport.{i386,x86_64}

After that, just restart your browser and everything should be working fine now.

Joomla 1.0, Community Builder 1.1, Profile Book

Friday, August 8th, 2008

I was having some problems with the user’s registration page in JoinPGN.com whereas when a new user wants to register an account, three of the many options look like this.

_pb_EnableProfileBook:
_pb_AutoPublish:
_pb_NotifyMe:

Now that looks ugly and your website will look like it’s been done by someone in 5th grade. If you’re having the same problem, this is how you fix it…

Go to…

/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/language/default_language

And then open default_language.php.

Then at the very bottom, just add the following lines.

DEFINE('_pb_EnableProfileBook','Enable Profile Book');
DEFINE('_pb_AutoPublish','Auto Publish Profile Book Entries');
DEFINE('_pb_NotifyMe','Notify Me');

Respect Is Earned

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Not given, and that will always hold true no matter what. My father has just lost what’s left of my respect for him as he has shown infront of his 25 year old son how much of a pervert he really is. A father should ‘always’ serve as a role model to his children, regardless of age. And quite frankly I’m pretty sure I could be a better role model than what my father could ever be…a thousand times better. You’re probably asking yourselves like what the hell did my father do this time around to piss me off. Oh, well all he did was turn on the telly…browse the channels and then tuned in to some pornographic channel and just stared at it, take note it was also in full volume. I asked him why is he watching that channel and his answer was ‘Because this is what men watch…’. And that pissed me off, that totally made my father a sore loser and pretty much a dirty old man.

Now look, sure pornography is pretty much something a man has watched already and has sought after when they were young. And just to make things clear, I’m a straight guy – if you don’t know what that means, it means I like girls. In fact I’ve had my fair share of pornography as well in my early life as an adolescent young man. I pretty much know almost all the lingo already, from softcore to hardcore or whatever’s in between…yeah I’ve pretty much seen them all. But will I let my kids see me turn on the telly, then tune in a pornography channel and then if someone asks me I’ll tell them ‘This is what men watch…’ like I’m trying to emphasize that this is what ‘real’, ‘cool’ men do? Hell no. I want my kids to see me as a ‘their’ role model. Someone they look up too, someone where in they’ll be thinking ‘If I do what my father does, then I’ll be a good person because he is a good person’. In short someone they respect.

Now hopefully some future fathers see this blog and learn something from it. Don’t be a bestfriend/buddy to your children…be a father.