The first day of the rest of my life...

Yep, tomorrow I'll leave Vatra Dornei, my home for 19 years. It's a great place to live, even though it get's sometimes a little boring and a little stuffy, and I'll miss it, but I'll still come back here every few weeks. I can't stop thinking that except a few vacations in the next few years I'll never live here again. But the good part is that from tomorrow I'll start my college life in Cluj-Napoca, and I've got very high hopes for that. A good friend told me that I'll feel reborn in the first days... I hope he is right.

So for the last time as a "dornean",

Over and out....

Alex

Terminator 4

In the 4th installment in the Terminator series we have Sean Connor (Christian Bale) living his mother's prophecies. Here's the official trailer, and movie poster. The complete title is Terminator Salvation, and it's due to release on the 22nd of May 2009.
Plot quoted from IMDb:

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Ubuntu - Installing wireless Broadcom drivers

The basic ideea is that a lot of us have problems with our Broadcom drivers, which appear in a lot of laptop models. I have an Acer TravelMate 5320 (with Ubuntu 8.04.1 aka Hardy Heron), and by testing a lot of tutorials, which ate about a week of my life, I managed to find a somewhat easier way to install the drives. Ok, now, let's take it step by step:

Step 1:
Go to your System->Administration->Synaptic package manager
Insert your sistem password, then go to the Settings->Repositories

Step2:
Check all the blanks there, so you can get full software support
Then go to the Updates tab and also check all the boxes
Now just click Close
Your computer will update now.
Just restart.

Step 3:
Now we have to install a little software called Ndiswrapper
First open System->Administration->Hardware drivers
There should appear your wireless board. Be sure it's unchecked
Go Applications->Add/Remove and search Ndiswrapper and install it
Go System->Administration->Ndiswrapper
Install new hardware and just select the location of your Windows Driver (cd or location on your PC)

And that's it. Just reboot your computer one more time and search for the wireless network you want to use. Go luck, and don't hesitate to message me if you have trouble.

Everyones favorite un-wild animals are back

In the highly-anticipated sequel to “Madagascar,” Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane—sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all—the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place…but is it better than their Central Park home? Coming November 8th :P

New Model.... Same parts

The tag line for the future 2009 summer blockbuster The Fast and The Furious 4... The rest I'll let you discover from the trailer ;)

Dragon Ball Z

Yes, the famous anime character Goku, with whom we grew up, is ready to join the blockbuster movie list in 2009 with DragonBall. The movie is due to release on the 10th of April and it's presenting a full cast of growing movie stars like Justin Chatwin as teenager Goku or James Marsters, the Buffy star, as Piccolo. The movie synopsis follows the cartoon's Piccolo Saga, with Goku trying to collect all the Dragon Balls so Piccolo can't get them and rule the world.

Yam-yam news:
Here's a little teaser-poster where you can see Lord Piccolo in all his greenish seduction :P

Computer-Mouse Star

On the list of totally useless crap that you can buy for your computer you have the new Computer-Mouse Star. Yes, the guy who named it should get a raise for being so clever.... The name describes the product so perfectly, it being a computer mouse shaped like a star. Which is no doubt extremely ergonomic and overly comfortable all around to use. This mouse can be bought at about 30euros from www.design-3000.de, and being his high practicality I can bet it's a sure win.

Ubuntu - resizing icons/ Ubuntu - micsorare icons

Ok, the simplest way to resize an icon on Ubuntu with Gnome desktop, is right clicking it and using Strech Icon and then simply moving your mouse like you do on a normal desktop window. This is the quickest way (the second way isn't hard at all :P), but it only applies to one icon, the one you resize it.
The second way: open terminal and write nautilus, the go Edit->Preferences and there you can see Icon View Defaults, simply choose a smaller size. The best way visually in my opinion is 75%, but it's up to you now. Now all your icons are smaller :)
Good luck