Work for Google: Label Images

So you want to work for the big GOOG eh? Well, here's your chance. They have lots of openings for "Image Labellers". So if you are of any age, any nationality, able to spell "boy" "hot woman" or "blonde", is not blind, has all fingers intact has plenty of time to spare, then you're the person for the job.

There's one catch: you do it for free. Well, at least you have fun!

And you can also brag to your friends that you work for google as an image labeller.

No need to submit a resume just head on over here.

Operation Firefox

I don't know when this started but this should be cool. I'm really a big fan of firefox and would love to post a sticker of the logo anywhere.

The logo in itself is really cool.

What I really liked about mozilla and firefox is the sense of something original, innovative and useful that I am using for absobloodulutely free. I look at the logo and I can say that I have never seen anything like it before. It's way way way cooler than the logo of Internet Explorer.

If mozilla would send me some stickers I'd be glad if they did and I'd give some to my friends to stick on something.

Next: Firefox Tattoos.

Kubuntu Newbie Experience XII - Free CD from the Netherlands

I never won anything in any game of chance. I never get any real mail from snail mail save perhaps my free monthly subscription to makro mail. So, imagine my surprise when I got this:

OMG. Somebody from the Netherlands actually sent me a CD. Wow! Whoopee! When my mom asked me to pick up something in her house, I was surprised. I was not expecting anything. When I saw the package, I said "Now, I never really made that much enemies why would someone send me a letter bomb or virus. Let's see here." Okay so I opened the mail and out comes something that totally surprised me. It's the CD that I ordered two weeks ago from Ubuntu. Two weeks! That was quick.

For something that's totally free I never expected something this prompt.

So, wanna get a free (absolutely cool) CD?

Here: https://shipit.kubuntu.org/login

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When we were kids we all wanted to be something cool. An astronaut, NBA superstar (First Pinoy daw), gangsters (for the rebellious), cops, intelligence agent or soldier, supermodel, porn star, lucky lotto winner, rock star, diva for girls, and so on and so forth.

So who would realize that you'd end up being an Internal Revenue agent?

Water and Fire : My Elements

contradictions abound.

of and for.

unseen existence.

death and life.

beginning and an end.

soundless yet meaningful.

A play for the fool who likes to badger with meaningless chatter.

Yet the blooms grow.

The winds bade farewell to the wanderer.

Reconstruction

Finally a job.

I'm still alive

Dannybuntu is still alive. Losing my internet connection can be quite a drag specially if you have to scrounge for an internet cafe here in Carmona. It's summer time and kids are wasting their parents money on internet cafes.

Darn, a lot of kids are shoving me right now waiting to play Warcraft III. Eh. Gee what I'd give for that prepaid wireless internet card for my Presario. INTERNET ACCESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Kubuntu Newbie Experience XI - Installation Notes

Whenever you want to install a program from the Ubuntu repository you do it by typing in your CLI:

sudo apt-get install [program name]

After typing that, you are shown a series of messages and sometimes errors detailing what your PC is doing after you typed that specific command.

I'm a Linux newbie, so for me a good indication of a successful install is you get to see the place where you type commands again and that I don't get to see a negative word before it like: error, could not, don't want to, etc.

A good example of a failed installation is when it shows these:

sudo aptitude install filelight
Password:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
danny@home:/$_

In this instance you might notice that Kubuntu asks me if another process is using it. What is IT? Whatever IT is, I know that IT is certainly being used by another installation script that I am using - Automatix2.

This also means that it is hard to run two separate installations at the same time if not impossible. In short, the installation failed because I was running another installation.

~o~

So, what happens after a successful installation? I really don't know. But I do know one thing - and this is something I learned from kkosmo at #kubuntu

kkosmo: when you install in apt the install file is saved. It is saved in /var/cache/apt/archives/

So, if I understood him correctly, executing apt-get install would make a copy of the installation file in that directory. Hmmm...Now that would be interesting since that would enable me to burn any file in that directory on a DVD and then install it without connecting to the internet. This I got to verify first.

Kubuntu Newbie Experience X - Installing deb files

You saw that nice looking game and now you downloaded it. You see that it has a deb suffix, like game.deb. What do you do with it? Well, you use your konsole and type:

sudo dpkg -i game.deb

In my case, I wanted to install the game I saw in Native Ubuntu Games, Epiar. So I downloaded a deb format file named epiar_0.5.0-1_i386.deb and it went on my Desktop. Browsing my desktop using Konsole, I typed

sudo dpkg -i epiar_0.5.0-1_i386.deb

and it installed okay. I was able to play the game but it is still in its infancy stage. There are a lot of things still missing like audio, an introduction, you know? game stuff! So I decided to uninstall it.

I uninstalled it by using Adept. I typed epiar on the search bar and clicked on Remove and Apply Changes.

Done.

Personal Notes III - Death of my Father

Announce I - Tragedy

ANNOUNCEMENT

Open source and Linux for the Ordinary Computer Enthusiast will be taking an extended leave from blogging due to a family tragedy.

My father Atty. Reynaldo C. Garcia, Rey to friends, Pa to me, has passed away on Oct. 22, 2006 - two days before my birthday - at the age of 49.

Thanks to all those who patronized this blog in its short 1 month existence. I don't know when I will be back as a lot of work needs to be done.