http://hocuspokus.net the life and times of a code monkey Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's got friggin' Unity for Linux!!! This looks good... The VMWare team has just released the second beta for VMWare Fusion 2.0, the company's popular virtualization program for the Mac. The new beta adds a TON of new features, as the video above demonstrates. I ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F07%2F31%2Fvmware-fusion-2-beta-2%2F&seed_title=VMWare+Fusion+2+Beta%26%23160%3B2 Looks like people better get playing the original Gears leading up to November!!! (I know I will be... ;) ) Gears of War 2 will feature 'linked Achievements,' meaning that Achievements earned in the original Gears will help unlock bonuses in the sequel. Epic's Cliff Bleszinski ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F07%2F29%2Fgears-of-war-2-introduces-linked-achievements%2F&seed_title=Gears+of+War+2+Introduces+%26%238220%3BLinked%26%23160%3BAchievements%26%238221%3B The BBC has announced that it is working on a successor to Tomorrow's World. This was always one of my favourite shows as a child, (yeah, I know I'm a nerd ;) ), and I'm glad to see something like this making a return. We need some form ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F06%2F04%2Fbbc-working-on-new-tomorrows-world%2F&seed_title=BBC+Working+on+New+Tomorrow%26%238217%3Bs%26%23160%3BWorld A great little command-line tool for Leopard: osx-trash manipulates the Mac OS X trash from the command line, just like the Finder does. It uses AppleScript via Scripting Bridge on top of to communicate with the Finder. You can move files to the trash, empty the trash, and list ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F26%2Ftrash-stuff-from-the-command-line%2F&seed_title=Trash+Stuff+From+the+Command%26%23160%3BLine You will have noticed this effect out on your travels on the internet - a text input field has some default text in it (often in a slightly dimmed colour), and when you click on the text box, default text disappears and then reappears when you click away from the ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F16%2Fdefault-text-field-values-that-disappear-on-focus%2F&seed_title=Default+Text+Field+Values+That+Disappear+on%26%23160%3BFocus Following up from my old guide to installing PostgreSQL (for Ubuntu 7.10), I thought i'd better do an update for the latest releases... :) This quick walk-through are my notes for installing the PostgreSQL database server and the PgAdmin administration application on Ubuntu Linux, and also set up the server so ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F13%2Finstall-postgresql-on-ubuntu-804%2F&seed_title=Install+PostgreSQL+on+Ubuntu%26%23160%3B8.04 Time to get that pre-order on, this looks like it's going to be awesome... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F12%2Ffirst-gears-of-war-2-footage%2F&seed_title=First+Gears+of+War+2%26%23160%3BFootage That's it, I REALLY want an iPhone now... You don't need Steve Jobs' permission to watch TV on your iPhone any more. And you don't need to pay the cable company twice. A native Orb client for the iPhone and iPod Touch popped up on the installer networks overnight, ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F08%2Forb-live-tv-on-iphone%2F&seed_title=Orb+-+Live+TV+on%26%23160%3BiPhone The new version of Ubuntu is out, (as if you haven't heard that by now), so that means a fresh install to play about with and working just the way I want! :D One of the tools that I currently need (for the thesis work) is R and the BioConductor libraries. ... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F07%2Finstalling-r-bioconductor-on-ubuntu-804%2F&seed_title=Installing+R%2FBioConductor+on+Ubuntu%26%23160%3B8.04 "if browser were women..." Originally uploaded by jlxiong Very good... http://hocuspokus.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fhocuspokus.net%2F2008%2F05%2F07%2Fif-browser-were-women%2F&seed_title=If+Browsers+Were%26%23160%3BWomen%26%238230%3B