So you need to update your wine version on Debian Squeeze. You can go ahead and compile from sources, or you can follow these simple instructions. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list by adding the following: Mepis is a Linux distro based on the stable branch of Debian, but it comes with more updated binaries (wine included). Edit your /etc/apt/preferences file (or create it if it doesn’t exist): This will allow you to choose from which repository to install new packages. By default […]

Attention! This guide is obsolete and download links no longer work. I recommend to follow this guide instead (for installing Ubuntu). The page is still here for historical reference. Note: this guide only works for the Chromebooks that have a x86 processor (the Intel Atom). If your Chromebook has an ARM processor you might want to check this other guide: https://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/2012/10/arm-chrubuntu-1204-alpha-1-now.html After becoming a semi-finalist for the Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012 with my HTML5 Photo Viewer application I received from Google […]

The GLA I (Glassomium one) is still a work in progress, but it’s so exciting seeing it come alive! The mirror mounts and camera still need to be put in place, the back needs to be covered, the IR lights need to be installed, a power supply circuitry needs to be built, fans need to be added and a few other minor details need to be taken care of. During the summer I came up with the design, then through the ACM […]

Everyday I have to deal with something way more challenging than discovering an off-by-one bug in a messy 2k lines source and that’s waking up. I love to sleep, what can I say. But a month ago I finally decided that my every morning agony had to stop and that there must have been a way to wake up in a pleasant way. So I decided to brainstorm on a few ideas. For sure I wanted music to wake me up, not an […]

Do you like my charger for the Playbook? No, it’s not because I lost the original, neither because I have so much free time that I’d rather take apart my tablet instead of buying a replacement cable. It’s because some engineer thought it would be clever to require at least 1 or 2% of battery left to start the charging process. Now that doesn’t make sense at all. Seriously? I haven’t used/charged my playbook in a month, so there’s no […]

If you have a spare old computer and electricity bills don’t worry you so much, what do you do? I decided to use mine as my media streaming server. I put my favorite music and movies onto it and initially I simply streamed them to the Wii in my living room and to my laptop. After a while I realized that when I’m cooking I also like to listen to my music (or web radio). So here came the idea […]

So lately I’ve been taking some introductory classes that are part of my Electrical Engineering minor and I have to say that they turned out to be quite boring and never deviated from the typical “looking at graphs on the oscilloscope and calculating values on circuit diagrams”. Yet the subject is extremely interesting (and fun to play with), so I started reading on my own. I was particularly interested to read about programmable micro controllers, so I couldn’t wait much […]