Monthly Archive for August, 2007

Installing compiz on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10

Lately I’ve been busy playing around with my Ubuntu Edgy, yesterday i installed and configured compiz.
Anyway long story short, I didn’t find a tutorial that completely worked for me so what the heck I will write one here… maybe it will save you the time that I wasted :)

I use ubuntu Edgy 6.10 although it should work for Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS or newer.

Here is a screenshot of what’s waiting for you

My Desktop

I will divide my work into 2 steps:
1- Enabling AIGLX:
2- Installing Compiz

Lets start :D
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No more protected pictures… DeFlickr them now !

Are you a Flickr.com user ? Ever wanted an image but it was protected by the spaceball.gif trick ?
Well not anymore… A friend of mine came up with a simple tool to download these protected photos.

Check it out

DeFlickr

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Validate a username using Javascript and PHP ( AJAX )

Ajax Logo
Who doesn’t hate these long forms ? You fill each field in them and when you submit, it will return something like :
‘ SORRY BUT YOUR USERNAME IS ALREADY TAKEN ‘.

In this tutorial I m gonna show you how to check if a username is valid without leaving the page using ajax (Asynchronous Javascript And XML).
Before I start, check the final result to see if this what you are looking for.

Demo: click here
Download files: click here

Ready ?
Lets roll
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Mars is going to be visible to the naked eye

Mars On the 27th of august 2007, the planet mars will be visible to the Whole World.

Never again in your lifetime will the Red Planet be so spectacular! This month and next month the Earth is catching up with Mars, an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter’s gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years but it may be as long as 60,000 years.

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