Some pics from Parteen Villa Weir, O’Briensbridge, Montpelier, Castleconnell, Annacotty and Plassey here.

Check this bug report for the problem I had with default mode.

wget has four levels of verbosity which are described as below in its man page –

-d --debug
Turn on debug output, meaning various information important to the developers of Wget if it does not work properly. Your system administrator may have chosen to compile Wget without debug support, in which case -d will not work. Please note that compiling with debug support is always safe---Wget compiled with the debug support will not print any debug info unless requested with -d.

-q --quiet
Turn off Wget's output.

-v --verbose
Turn on verbose output, with all the available data. The default output is verbose.

-nv –no-verbose

Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use -q for that), which means that error messages and basic information still get
printed.

The problem with these is that the verbose mode prints too much info, quiet prints nothing and non-verbose prints info which is not useful in any way.

By default the non-verbose mode prints the output as follows –

$ wget -nv ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2
2009-11-26 22:16:40 URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2 [1609032] -> "wget-1.12.tar.bz2" [1]

I wanted the non-verbose mode to print a progress bar for reasons which are similar to those mentioned in this bug report. The only difference being that instead of Gentoo, I use Arch and pacman. So, I took the diff provided in the bug report modified it a bit to work with v1.12 and also made a PKGBUILD for my Arch use. I am attaching both of them below. After using this patch the output with the -nv option is as follows –

$ wget -nv ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2
38% [=============> ] 614,880 79.5K/s eta 13s

Problem solved

Patch — Save this as wget_nv_pbar.diff in the same folder as the PKGBUILD if you are building in Arch using the PKGBUILD given below. If you use normal patch, you can do it however you want

#Created by Chinmay Kamat <chinmaykamat@gmail.com>
--- wget-1.12.orig/src/main.c	2009-09-22 08:33:11.000000000 +0530
+++ wget-1.12/src/main.c	2009-11-26 12:21:15.156859000 +0530
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@

   /* Initialize progress.  Have to do this after the options are
      processed so we know where the log file is.  */
-  if (opt.verbose)
+  if (!opt.quiet)
     set_progress_implementation (opt.progress_type);

   /* Fill in the arguments.  */

--- wget-1.12.orig/src/progress.c	2009-09-22 08:19:32.000000000 +0530
+++ wget-1.12/src/progress.c	2009-11-26 12:53:11.309295000 +0530
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
          been retrieved.  12.8% will round to 12% because the 13% mark
          has not yet been reached.  100% is only shown when done.  */
       int percentage = 100.0 * bytes_displayed / dp->total_length;
-      logprintf (LOG_VERBOSE, "%3d%%", percentage);
+      logprintf (LOG_NOTQUIET, "%3d%%", percentage);
     }

   {
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
           wgint bytes_sofar = bytes_displayed - dp->initial_length;
           double eta = dltime * bytes_remaining / bytes_sofar;
           if (eta < INT_MAX - 1)
-            logprintf (LOG_VERBOSE, " %s",
+            logprintf (LOG_NOTQUIET, " %s",
                        eta_to_human_short ((int) (eta + 0.5), true));
         }
     }
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@
     {
       /* When done, print the total download time */
       if (dltime >= 10)
-        logprintf (LOG_VERBOSE, "=%s",
+        logprintf (LOG_NOTQUIET, "=%s",
                    eta_to_human_short ((int) (dltime + 0.5), true));
       else
-        logprintf (LOG_VERBOSE, "=%ss", print_decimal (dltime));
+        logprintf (LOG_NOTQUIET, "=%ss", print_decimal (dltime));
     }
 }

@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@
   create_image (bp, dltime, true);
   display_image (bp->buffer);

-  logputs (LOG_VERBOSE, "\n\n");
+  logputs (LOG_NOTQUIET, "\n\n");

   xfree (bp->buffer);
   xfree (bp);
@@ -1071,8 +1071,8 @@
 display_image (char *buf)
 {
   bool old = log_set_save_context (false);
-  logputs (LOG_VERBOSE, "\r");
-  logputs (LOG_VERBOSE, buf);
+  logputs (LOG_NOTQUIET, "\r");
+  logputs (LOG_NOTQUIET, buf);
   log_set_save_context (old);
 }

--- wget-1.12.orig/src/retr.c	2009-09-04 22:01:54.000000000 +0530
+++ wget-1.12/src/retr.c	2009-11-26 12:21:15.167860000 +0530
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
   if (flags & rb_skip_startpos)
     skip = startpos;

-  if (opt.verbose)
+  if (!opt.quiet)
     {
       /* If we're skipping STARTPOS bytes, pass 0 as the INITIAL
          argument to progress_create because the indicator doesn't

PKGBUILD

# $Id: PKGBUILD 52882 2009-09-23 03:39:20Z allan $
# Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
# Modified By:  Chinmay Kamat <chinmaykamat@gmail.com>
pkgname=wget
pkgver=1.12
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A network utility to retrieve files from the Web"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html"
license=('GPL3')
groups=('base')
depends=('glibc' 'openssl')
optdepends=('ca-certificates: HTTPS downloads')
backup=('etc/wgetrc')
install=wget.install
source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('141461b9c04e454dc8933c9d1f2abf83')

build() {
  patch -Np0 -i $startdir/wget_nv_pbar.diff || return 1
  cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
}

Arch-Stuff es un sitio web que sigue la línea de páginas como GimpStuff, KDE-Look, GNOME-Look y XFCE-Look entre otras. Encontrarás muchas cosas para Archlinux como fondos de escritorio, capturas de pantallas, temas, decoraciones de ventana, KDM y GDM splash, fuentes, íconos, logos, etc, etc. Es una página muy completa y lo mejor de todo es que está pensada para darle más belleza a nuestra distribución favorita .

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¡Saludos!

El Proyecto Chakra es un proyecto de software libre creado por un grupo de gente que le gusta Archlinux y KDE.

Chakra es un rápido, amigable y extremadamente poderoso live CD y/o distrolet (versión personalizada de una distro^[1]) basado en el galardonado KDE (K Desktop Environment, Entorno de Escritorio K en español) y en una de las distribuciones GNU/Linux para experimentados: Archlinux.

Actualmente está en fase alfa, cuenta con un instalador gráfico, configuración automática de hardware y por supuesto algunas herramientas más y extras.

Sólo pruébalo si te gusta y dinos (¿eso se escribe junto o separado? ) lo que piensas.

Tomado y traducido desde The Chakra project

Como much@s sabrán El proyecto Chakra desarrolló KDEmod, un conjunto de paquetes de KDE modular, ajustado y optimizado para Archlinux. KDEmod viene con un montón de adiciones y cosas extra y además provee paquetes de KDE3 y KDE4 en sus repositorios. Chequéalo aquí.^[2]

Ten en cuenta que no es necesario instalar Chakra para probar KDEmod, se puede hacer eso directamente en tu Archlinux. Mira aquí para más información.

He leído por ahí (en otros blogs) a personas diciendo que desde que en los repositorios oficiales de Archlinux existen los paquetes cortados de KDE ya no es necesario instalar KDEmod, puesto que, de acuerdo a lo que ellos piensan (lo que se evidencia por lo que dicen) KDEmod sólo servía y era útil por la posibilidad de instalar aplicaciones de KDE en paquetes unitarios y no en meta paquetes. Pues bien, yo les digo a esas personas que  están muy equivocadas. KDEmod, recordemos, está optimizado para Archlinux, no así los paquetes que están en los repositorios de Arch. Además hay otro punto demasiado importante, y que tal vez es el más trascendental de todos, desde mi manera de ver las cosas: KDEmod, en sus repositorios, provee unos paquetes llamados debug, los cuales no están contenidos en los repositorios de Arch y que contienen información de depuración de errores de las diferentes aplicaciones o paquetes de KDE. Cualquier persona que haya reportado caídas (crashes) de programas en bugs.kde.org sabe de lo que hablo. En este mismo sentido, recuerda que una de las formas de ayudar al software libre es reportando errores, por lo que, si usas Archlinux, te invito a probar KDEmod, instalar cada paquete con su respectivo paquete debug (si existe) y también a instalar KBugBuster un programa que te ayudará a reportar errores de KDE en forma fácil y sencilla.

Aquí puedes leer más acerca de cómo crear reportes de caídas útiles en KDE.

Finalmente decir que Chakra al igual que KahelOS es una excelente alternativa para usuarios noveles que por “miedo” o falta de conocimientos no se atreven a instalar Archlinux en sus máquinas.

Como dice más arriba, Chakra provee un instalador totalmente gráfico y herramientas de configuración del sistema propias, muy intuitivas y muy fáciles de usar. Además no piensen que por estar en su fase alfa es inestable, nada de eso, al parecer se encuentra en esa etapa porque los desarrolladores son muy comprometidos con el proyecto y quieren crear más aplicaciones que le hagan la vida aún más fácil al usuario final, además, por supuesto, de mejorar las herramientas propias ya existentes.

Aquí les dejo algunas capturas de Chakra:

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¡Saludos!

^[1]Archlinux Fácil !!!: Proyecto Chakra

^[2](2)The Chakra Project

One of the things I got done last week was to create a series of product using my photo, Forest Sun Rays in the Snow #32. A snow covered branch creates an arch, with ferns hanging from its moss covered bark, across a tree lined path toward the summit of this hill in the woods of Rainier Oregon. Beyond the forest the sky shines crystal blue in the early morning light.

Forest Sun Rays in the Snow #32 by dlmtleArt
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Dawna’s Zazzle Gallery of items featuring her Art and Photography

KahelOS está basado en una distribución GNU/Linux simple. Está concebido para ser una distribución GNU/Linux que va evolucionando.

Está principalmente pensado para proveer lo mejor de ambos mundos para el usuario final de GNU/Linux.

Imagina el beneficio de la optimización, la robustez, la velocidad y ligereza, y el modelo de liberación continuo que sólo los expertos y gurus de GNU/Linux pueden desarrollar y la utilidad de combinar amistad con el usuario (GUI), que nuevos y moderados profesionales de GNU/Linux buscan para ser fácilmente productivos y tomar ventaja de lo que la tecnología del Código Abierto y la colaboración pueden brindar y hacer.

KahelOS en ambas ediciones, Servidor y Escritorio, puede legalmente proveerte de aplicaciones personales y empresariales que necesites.

La filosofía de KahelOS es Abierto para el Cambio.

Tomado y traducido de KahelOS

Como dice el título de la entrada esta distribución está basada en Archlinux y además usa el entorno de escritorio GNOME. Viene en un live CD gráfico, desde donde se puede instalar el sistema operativo a tu máquina.

KahelOS Posee la velocidad y simplicidad que ofrece Arch, pero a la vez la facilidad que no posee dicha distribución. Es una buena opción a probar si no te atreves a instalar Archlinux porque piensas que se te hará muy complicado o porque eres nuev@ en GNU/Linux.

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¡Saludos!

(1)Seamos Realistas: KahelOs: Archlinux para escritorios y servidores

(2)Viva linux!: Kahel OS y Chakra Alpha 3

„„Adduktoren“ … Wenn ich sowas schon höre! „Adduktoren!“ Sowas gab es bei uns noch gar nicht. Die wurden erst nach meiner Zeit erfunden.“
Max Lorenz (ehemaliger Fussballspieler bei Werder Bremen)

Am 17. November erschien die neue Version von Fedora. Die Version hört auf den Codenamen „Constantine“ und trägt die Nummer 12. Die Community hat viel und schwer gearbeitet, um zumindest eine Tradition zu wahren: Fedora 12 kam, wie die meisten Releases, wieder einmal zu spät. Dafür gibt es einen Haufen neuer Technik, die in Constantine eingebaut wurde.

Fedora pflegt seine Traditionen

360 Seiten umfassen die Release Notes, oder anders ausgedrückt: Die CDs bzw. die DVD sind picke packe voll. So erhielt SELinux eine Erweiterung, um eine sog. Sandbox für Anwendungen bilden zu können. Frisch aus der Taufe gehoben wurde das OpenSharedRoot Project. Das macht das, was der Name vermuten lässt. Verschiedene Linux-Installationen können damit dieselbe root-Partition benutzen. Und das sind nur 2 Beispiele, die zeigen, dass Fedora (mal wieder) Techniken einbaut, die bei anderen Distributionen erst in den kommenden Releases dabei sein werden.

„bleeding“ oder „leading edge“?

Fedora legt also zum wiederholten Mal die Messlatte für Innovationen sehr hoch. Für Eingeweihte keine besondere Überraschung, schließlich entwickelt (und testet) hier der Linux-Riese Red Hat. Die Community nennt Distributionen, die an vorderster Softwarefront sind, gerne „cutting edge“. Und als Steigerung „bleeding edge“, wenn ausgedrückt werden soll, dass hier wenig (manchmal auch keine) Rücksicht auf Stabilität genommen wird.
Unter Linux-Nutzer, vor allem unter Neueinsteigern, ein beliebtes Spiel ist, darüber zu diskutieren, welche Distribution am ehesten das Prädikat „bleeding edge“ verdient. Gerne genannt werden dabei Sidux und Arch. Und mit was? Mit Recht! Schließlich haben Beide stets neueste Software an Bord. Sind diese Distributionen nun aktueller als Fedora? Ein klares jein! Beide haben zwar zügig das neueste KDE, GNOME oder andere Software, aber die neue Technologie hat dann doch Fedora. Oder wie es jemand im deutschen Fedora-Forum schrieb: „Fedora ist nicht bleeding edge sondern leading edge.“

Jammern auf hohen Niveau

Leider hat das Benutzen von Fedora einen leicht faden Beigeschmack. Durch den konsequenten Einsatz neuer Techniken muss man fast immer ein halbes Jahr warten, bis man fremddistributieren kann, ohne auf den gewohnten Luxus verzichten zu müssen.Hört sich nach jammern auf hohen Niveau an, kann aber entscheidend und/oder nervend sein. Wer, als Beispiel, mit Fedora 11 auf ext4 umgestellt hat, durfte beim erneuten Wechsel die home-Partition meist neu formatieren. Klar, das ist kein Weltuntergang, aber trotzdem nervig.
So wird Fedora zur indirekten Falle für alle Entwicklungsjunkies.

2009 is drawing to a close, and 2010 is waiting in the wings… Our dynamic team at Badec Bros Deco will be taking a well-deserved break from 18 December 2009, until 6 January 2010. You have until Thursday, 26 November 2009 to place your orders for delivery in 2009! From next week on, we will be taking the orders for 2010.

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2009 is drawing to a close, and 2010 with all of its opportunities and challenges is peeping around the corner …

Our dynamic team at Badec Bros Deco will be taking a well-deserved break from 18 December 2009, until 6 January 2010. We thank you for your valued support and wish you a blessed Christmas and joyous festive season. We look forward to collaborating with you in the new year.

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Here is a page about the upper end of the old Limerick Navigation, with photos of the Ardnacrusha headrace, Castleconnell and its weir and quay, O’Briensbridge, Errina bridge and Doonass. There are photos taken over the last few days and older photos, showing normal (post-Ardnacrusha) levels at the same locations. The recent photos do at least give a hint of the levels that the pre-Ardnacrusha waterway coped with.

At time of writing, the ESB says it is going to release more water down the river to O’Briensbridge, Castleconnell and Limerick.

Photos of the lower stretches (Plassey, Corbally, the canal harbour and the Abbey River) will be posted later (floods permitting).

Today’s run (actually scheduled for yesterday) was 13 Miles LSD (Long Slow Distance.) I try to run on trails for my weekend runs since my December run will be on the trails.

As I drove toward the trailhead, the weather began to get pretty foggy. I wasn’t expecting a sunny day but I wasn’t  expecting quite so much white stuff, either.

I packed my hydration pack with some Gu and Accel energy gels as well as my camera, phone and kleenex. I grabbed a trail map and was off.

The trail was a little bit damp but very runnable. Unfortunately I didn’t really feel like running. Another “blah” day. I found myself looking forward to the uphills so that I could walk. I was determined to stick to the schedule 13 miles, though.

I liked the fog and stopped several times to take pictures. At one point, the fog was so heavy that it looked like a very light rain coming down. I had to pause or slow down several times during my run to wipe the beads of water off of my glasses.

I have run on this trail before and I passed some signs that I hadn’t seen before: “Chestnuts gathered off the trail are not free for the taking.” The notice further advised the offender to continue up the trail to pay for any gathered chestnuts. I don’t even know what a chestnut looks like, but my usual habit when in nature is to take a picture rather than to take a memento. So, I took a picture of the sign.

Warning Notice to Chestnut Gatherers on the Trail!

Soon afterwards, I passed the trailer from where the chestnuts were being sold. Honey was also available. I saw that business was — while not actually booming — occurring. I later found out that people could be supplied with gloves and a bucket if they wanted to pick their own chestnuts.

Today I took a slightly different route when I arrived at the junction of Peters Creek and Long Ridge Trails. Normally, I avoid Long Ridge because it is an immediate climb from the junction. Today, because I felt like walking, I chose that route. Plus, it was fun to see a different trail. It was a pretty intense climb for about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile, though. Coming back would be more fun though I had to take care because the trail was slippery from the wet weather.

No View at Vista Point

I came across a stone bench overlooking what was probably a beautiful view under clearer circumstances.

I continued for 6.53 miles and then turned around. I felt like I should make better time on the return because I would have more downhills on the return. Plus, I was highly motivated. I wanted a vanilla latte.

The run back was pretty uneventful. I ran into bicyclists who were struggling a little bit on the muddy, uphill trails.

I returned to the start and saw that my watch said 12.94 miles. I was .06 miles short. I turned around and ran back down the trail for about .03 miles and then turned back again. Yes, I’m one of those runners. If I’m supposed to run 13 miles, it will be 13 miles. Or more. But not less.

I did have a little bit of discomfort during this run. My Achilles were  tight from about the halfway point until the end of the run. I stretched them a little when I finished the run but I should be stretching them regularly. The arch on my left foot was also hurting a little bit. This would be a problem that Ibuprofen would be solving later.

After the run, I drove to the chestnut stand to buy some chestnuts. I don’t even know how — or if you even have to — cook chestnuts. I thought that at the least I could roast them, right? Isn’t that what the song says? I picked up 1-1/2 pounds thinking that I could figure out the rest later. It turned out that I was lucky to stop by today; it was the last day for the chestnut stand.

An hour later, I was warm at home, Googling chestnut recipes.

If you plan to walk down the aisle anytime soon, you should be aware that the flowers you carry might say more than you intended. That’s right; most flowers carry a meaning, or a special significance that has been passed down from generation to generation.

We can trace this back to the Victorian Era. It was improper in those days for a man to come out and tell a lady how he felt, so he would choose a flower with special meaning and send it her instead. Because the meaning of flowers was so well known, the woman receiving them understood the message as clearly as if it was written on a piece of paper.

As every flower lover knows, flowers have a language all of their own. Every sentiment can be expressed with flowers. Wedding flowers are no different. For instance, you wouldn’t want to have yellow carnations at your wedding if you knew that yellow carnations mean disappointment and rejection. Make sure you know what the flowers mean before you use them as your wedding flowers.

There is a reason that roses are the most popular choice of flowers for brides. A white rose stands for innocence, beauty and charm-just the traits every bride wants to portray. A bride that chooses red roses for her wedding flowers is sending a message of passion and of fiery love. If dark pink roses are used for a wedding, the couple is expressing a thankfulness that they found each other.

An ivy coloured Rose stands for fidelity in the marriage-something every new couple strives for. Pink roses mean perfect happiness but yellow roses mean jealousy. Sometimes, it’s not the colour that holds the meaning but the type. A tea rose means I’ll always remember you but a dried white rose means I would rather die than lose my virtue. Rosebuds means beauty and youth but roses signify secrecy and silence.

Roses aren’t the only flowers that hold meaning. Lilies are a very popular wedding flower. The most popular type of lily is the Calla Lily, which means beauty. Most lilies have beautiful meanings. The white lily means it’s heavenly to be with you while the yellow lily means I’m walking on air. Did you know that the day lily is the Chinese symbol for Mother? The tiger lily means wealth and pride.

Not all flowers have negative meanings; there are very few negative meanings for tulips. Tulips in general mean the perfect lover; this might be a good one to tuck into the buttonhole on his tux. Red tulips are a declaration of love while a yellow tulip means there is sunshine in your smile. If you are having a spring wedding, there is simply no better way to express your love for your future spouse than by carrying a bouquet of tulips. They are not only beautiful, but speak of an undying love.

There are some flowers you can just look at and assume you know what they mean. Never be too hasty in assuming anything. For instance, when you look at a cactus you would think that there had to be a negative meaning for it – wrong. A cactus means endurance and forever. This fits if you think about the cactus; they can survive anything.

There are so many different types of wedding flowers that no one could name them all but here are a few more. Peonies mean shame. Orchids are the Chinese symbol for many children.

No matter what wedding flowers you pick, no one is really going to know the meaning unless you tell them. Your wedding flowers, like your wedding, should be memorable and not based on superstition. Finding the meanings of flowers is like being superstitious about the groom seeing the bride in her wedding dress before the wedding. We make our own luck.

As you can see, the flowers that you choose for your wedding will definitely set the mood. Knowing that, before you select your flowers, determine what type of wedding and reception event you want to have. Once you do that, choosing the flowers will be a breeze.

Lamber de Bie

Dutch Master Florist

www.lamberdebie.com

Today I am taking the pieces out of the molds for an additional section to my ‘coliseum’. Naturally, I can’t spend the entire day on the project … trip to the transfer station, eating, walking the dogs … little things like that can sometimes not be avoided and can tend to slow the progress. However, I am taking pictures as I go … and, so will be posting them … more than likely tomorrow … Sunday.

De seguro cuando vas a reinstalar tu sistema, por el motivo que sea, te da una “lata” enorme tener que volver a ingresar en la terminal cada uno de los paquetes que necesitas y que seguramente tenías instalados en tu Archlinux antes de reinstalar. Pues bien, el siguiente comando, crea un registro o una lista con todos los paquetes instalados, mediante pacman, en tu sistema:

$ sudo pacman -Qe > paquetes_instalados.txt

Luego, para instalar todos los paquetes contenidos en la lista generada, corre el siguiente comando:

$ sudo for x in $(cat paquetes_instalados.txt); do pacman -S $x; done

Con eso de seguro te ahorrarás mucho trabajo al momento de hacer la instalación nueva de Archlinux.

Lo que es yo, prefiero ir haciéndolo todo paso a paso, para que todo quede lo mejor posible, pues si bien es cierto que puede resultar ser un buen método, el mostrado en esta entrada, no me confío mucho de las automatizaciones.

Saludos y ojalá a alguien le sirva.

Fuente | Tux Training: Create a List of all installed packages on Arch Linux

Si eres de los jugones y que más encima te gustan las consolas de Nintendo, de seguro conoces VisualBoyAdvance un emulador para GBA que se encuentra disponible para GNU/Linux entre otros. Como sabrás VBA está abandonado hace un buen tiempo, es por ello, que nace VBA-M, con el objetivo de mejorar VisualBoyAdvance^[1] y retomar la emulación de la GBA en nuestros computadores.

El proyecto aún está en pañales (y la verdad, desde septiembre de 2009, no lo han actualizado mucho), sin embargo, se supone, ofrece una mejor emulación de roms de GBA en comparación a VBA puesto que está basado en ese último y ya se le han agregado varias modificaciones.

Si quieres probar VBA-M puedes descargar un SVN build desde la página oficial de descargas empaquetado para debian (.deb) o distros derivadas. Aún no se ha lanzado alguna versión del emulador, es por ello, que sólo están disponibles a fecha de hoy (20 de Noviembre de 2009) dichos SVN build.

Sin embargo, te recomiendo instalar la versión SVN y actualizarla cuando se informe en la página de VBA-M en SourceForge, que una nueva revisión ha sido lanzada. Puedes encontrar más información al respecto aquí.

Si usas Archlinux, estás de suerte, porque existe en el AUR un PKGBUILD para instalar la versión SVN del programa. Si usas yaourt no es más trabajo que:

$ yaourt -S vba-m-gtk-svn

Recuerda que para actualizar la aplicación a una nueva revisión, sólo debes generar y luego instalar el paquete .pkg.tar.gz correspondiente, con el mismo comando antes usado.

Página de VBA-M en SourceForge

Sitio web oficial de VBA-M

Otro sitio web, al parecer oficial pero en desuso

Saludos.

^[1]SourceForge: VBA-M

Sicuramente Sal Paradiso si riferiva a questo cielo quando guardava in direzione del New Jersey dal finestrino dell’auto di Dean Moriarty. Lo stesso cielo che riusciremmo a vedere se fossimo sull’High Line Park a New York. L’8 giugno 2009, l’apertura al pubblico del progetto di James Corner Field Operations, con la collaborazione Diller Scofidio + Renfro, è stata seguita da un enorme entusiasmo mediatico. Foto, video, pubblicazioni però non riescono a trasmettere l’atmosfera che si respira su questo “nastro di verde pensile” che attraversa il Meatpacking District di Manhattan. Sul sito ufficiale ci sono le foto delle varie fasi di realizzazione.

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Badec Bros Deco has manufactured a wide range of impressive Cubedec pots over the past 2 years. We recently combined our stylish Cubedec A pots with mild steel Cubedec pedestals, to decorate the garden of a client.

Our Cubedec A pots and Cubedec pedestals are manufactured from 1,6mm mild steel sheets, which we fold and weld. All our pots are manufactured with a round inner steel bar to support plastic planters, which come standard with all our pots, unless otherwise specified.

You can choose between three finishes for your Cubedec pot: rusted, mild steel finish, or powder coating in any colour you can dream of. Our powder coating is SABS approved. Once the chosen finish has been applied, we seal the pot to protect it from rusting. We can customize these stylish planters to any size and shape and finish them off in a wide range of materials. We can also manufacture these pots and pedestals from grade 304 stainless steel. Other decorative options include mosaic cladding, wooden cladding and even laser-cut signage or designs in the steel.

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Để yên-vui-chờ-đợi. (IMG_6235-W1), originally uploaded by Nguyen K. Do.

Eltham, November 2009.
Nguyen K. Do © 2009

This Camera Club of Ottawa outing was on a foggy Sunday morning. The assignment was to shoot urban images in Black and White at 400 ISO within the boundaries of Wellington Street to Laurier Street and Bay Street to Elgin Street. We could submit 6 images in total. These were my shots. Click on the image to find it on my website and you find another link at the bottom of each image to view the colour equivalent. I had to convert from colour in photoshop since the Nikon D70s doesn’t have the capability to shoot B&W. I find it preferable to convert in photoshop anyway.

A look along the Memorial Arch which crosses Lyon Street in Ottawa, between the East and West Veterans Memorial Buildings.

Railing and leaves along a sidewalk between two major streets in downtown Ottawa.

Ottawa back alley and a loading bay entrance for a downtown merchant.

Back side of a high rise building in downtown Ottawa.

The stairs at L’Esplanade Laurier on Bank Street in Ottawa.

Tree against a tiled wall. A few remaining leaves and some yellow Christmas lights add a bit of colour to this late November image. Alterna Savings (formerly CS-Coop) building on Albert Street in Ottawa, Ontario

Web site: www.robhuntley.ca