Very often I get people asking me what Linux distribution I use. I used to be a big fan of Linux Mint, but in the past year I have moved to Ubuntu. This is why I no longer use Linux Mint.
I realized that I never made a post about this so I figured that I should. This year at the Los Angeles robotics regional I won the Los Angeles “Dean’s List Finalist” award. It is the only award that FIRST robotics awards to individual students. Find out more about the award here. Also, I got [...]
I just made the source for the WebPage Downloader public, you can get it from http://naterocks.com/php-coding/webpage-downloader/.
Have you ever been online and wanted to download a webpage but didn’t want to use internet explorer’s or safari’s propritary formats? Well after about an hour of work I have created a solution… the WebPage Downloader. The WebPage Downloader will let you save files to your computer as DOC files and HTML files with or without [...]
I finally set up my sister Barbara’s blog. It is located at http://thebarbara.com/ .
About 3 weeks ago I got around to bulding a new computer for myself. I have yet to post its specs… that is until now: More details about my computer Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 5.6 5.6 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB [...]
I really hate it when developers change something when the old system worked just as well if not better than the new one. Mozilla did it when they got rid of the lock icon if FireFox and it looks like google just did when they moved the tabs in iGoogle. The old iGoogle had tabs [...]
I just finished installing google chrome. It is very good looking and seems to render pages correctly. However there are a few minor annoyances that I have encountered so far. The first is that google was not kidding when it said that this is a minimalist browser, there are not many menus and there is [...]
I know what you must be thinking… “Is it really that time of year all ready!!?!?!?”. Well I have some news for you, IT IS! Yes that is right today is Bill Gates Day! And with today being Bill’s last day in office I thought of no better way to celebrate it than to put [...]
The function below will look for numerically numbered images (or any other type of file) on any giving website. The function will echo weather or not it found anything, if it found something it will return the html image code(s) for it. /*When calling the function $istop should equal 1. $name should equal the name you [...]
In Sweden digital piracy is legal. Coincidently one of the biggest torrent trackers is a Swedish website, a torrent tracker is a website that links you to torrents that then tell your computer where to get a file from. So basically a torrent tracker does not actually have any pirated content on it, it just tells [...]
This is a funny comic from xkcd. It is called “Exploits of a Mom” it’s comic number 327.
Here are 2 easy steps to making vista boot faster. The first thing that you can do is to make your background a solid color. To do this: 1) right click on your desktop 2) select personalise and then desktop background 3) go to solid colors and pick a color The other was to make vista [...]
Yes, it’s ture. The NateRocks.com store have moved. It is now at http://www.printfection.com/naterocks . Happy shopping….
Gmail pwns btw…..
Hi, i am back from CTY! However I am really busy catching up on my life. So…. If you sent me an email, fear not, you will get a reply however it may take me a few days to find time to formulate one. Additionally I should be posting again in a few days.
I just finished a new PHP script, it is called Site Moved Script. It will be useful to you if you have changed the url of your site. What it does is it redirects users to your new url and gives them a message about your move. You find out more about this script on [...]
As many people may all ready know my first and longest running website BackStageNeopets recently closed. With it’s closure we (the staff and me) reopened another long running Neopets site. It took a few weeks of hard work to get all of the content working on our systems however we finally got NeoAddict working and [...]
SongBird is a multi media player for Windows, Mac, and Linux. So far it has worked perfectly for me and it looks like the best option for all systems. It also has Ipod support and a built in Mozilla based web browser, so it is a good replacement for ITunes. SongBird on Linux Mint:
Yes it is true, i finally got a blog!