VMware for Windoze

VMware for Windoze is terrible. It seems really nice on OS X. I would just prefer to boot up Linux and do away with VMware + Windoze. It's just not very good.

Texmaker - A complete LaTeX editor

Texmaker

I've been exclusively using Kile, but this can only be used on Linux and is very unstable on OS X (through Fink). Therefore as a multi-platform solution, I look to using Texmaker. What I like about it so far is that there is a fairly large development team and the features lists seems to be growing quickly. It is still not as polished as Kile though and I'd prefer Kile if I were sitting at a Linux box...

Tortoise SVN (+ SSH)

Tortoise SVN is pretty cool. It's a nice GUI interface to the popular subversion revision control system. You don't even have to know too much about SVN. Read this if you want a nice tutorial of setting up Tortoise SVN to read a repository from a Linux box using SSH keys and PuTTY.

http://tortoisesvn.net/ssh_howto

This is possibly the best SVN GUI interface and its completely free. Compared to SVNX this seems to be much nicer because you can see which files are under revision control from the explorer windows. SVNX is much better than KDESVN...

SSHFS - Mount a remote unix computer as a "drive" via SSH

This is a pretty cool tool. You must have sshfs installed (and fusermount?). Run the command (after creating the local directory you wish to mount the file system to):

sshfs atchieu@192.168.0.2:/remote/dir/ /local/dir/

For more information view the manual file of sshfs. If all goes well, your mount should pop up on the desktop if you are using Ubuntu 8.04 or newer.

Blogger gadget for Windoze Vista!

Just testing it out, this should make it easier to make posts whenever I do something miraculous on my computer!

Easiest way to unlock protected music

The easiest way to do this is to burn the file or album on to a disc and then re-rip the disc. This will remove the protection that is put on it so that you can play it on any computer or media player. Note that you will probably have some quality loss in this process...

You can also record the music again using Audacity and then re-encode the music using Audacity's LAME MP3 encoder plugin. I'm not sure if this loses any quality or not, but is for sure a pain in the ass.

Honest Attempt...

Here is my honest attempt to start a computer blog so that I can keep track of all the computer things that I do since I never remember anything...