July 30, 2009 Archives

Thu Jul 30 19:21:46 EEST 2009

Cool Ascii Games for Linux and BSD

I myself am a big gamer since my youth. Being a Linux evangelist for quite some time as well as a BSD geek I had my period of interest into how developed are the available games for Unix based operating systems. In that manner of thoughts I got interested into the ascii games available for Linux and BSD. It's really fun to play a bunch of games every now and then via SSH or simply to play on your TTY. Currently I have installed the following list of Ascii games on my FreeBSD box:
adventure       battlestar      cfscores        hack            nethack         primes          snake           wtf
alienwave       bb              cribbage        hangman         number          quiz            snscore         wump
arithmetic      bcd             dosbox          larn            phantasia       random          strfile         xrick
arkanoid.sed    bs              factor          mille           piano           robots          teachgammon
ascii_invaders  bsdtris         fish            moon-buggy      pig             rogue           trek
atc             caesar          fortune         morse           pom             rot13           unstr
backgammon      canfield        grdc            nInvaders       ppt             sail            worm

Install them and have a lot of fun :)

Thu Jul 30 16:52:45 EEST 2009

Adding Comments & Google search plugins to nanoblogger

Ever wondered how you can add comments option to nanoblogger just like any normal blogging software like wordpress do support? Cause I did, Today I wandered around in google a bit until I can make it. In order to make all this workable I choose the nbcom nanoblogger plugin. Here's what led me to success. First prepare yourself to loose a couple of hours! It's more complicated or at least it was more complicated than I expected to add a simple plugin as this. Second, You'll need the following nbcom 1.1 archive .
Right after that you'll need to untar it and rename hdrs.tmpl and consts.tmpl to *.php, edit them and remove all the unneeded "/" back slashes. Copy the content of nbcom-1.1 dir to the document root of your nanoblogger. Make sure to edit blog.conf and have all the necessary like BLOG_URL, BLOG_ADMIN="session", DB_PASS="password_of_sql_user_session", yes I forgot to mention that you'll need to read the INSTALL file contained in the nbcom archive and follow the instructions for creation of user and database that nbcom would use in the future. There are described like 7+ files more you need to edit and if you're lucky like I was you'll have nanoblogger+comments support up and running! Hooray! Wish you Good luck.
Secondly probably you have wondered how to make nanoblogger has a normal search field just like any normal php based blogger software out there. It took me like an hour before I came to the enlightenment. First I had downloaded the google.sh script mirrored for you to make your life easier here .
Next copy the file to your nanoblogger plugins directory.
And last you have to edit the templates/main_index.htm file and add the content that is as commented in the google.sh file. If you're lucky again you'll have nanoblogger with this two valuable plugins working. Enjoy

Thu Jul 30 15:35:35 EEST 2009

Internet Reklama i Marketing (Internet advertisement and Marketing)

An interesting place for articles related to Internet Reklama i Marketing (as stated in Bulgarian) is a blog if a friend of mine. Check Internet Reklama i Marketing arketing.atsense.com