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Tons of work to do this weekend. The good news is that the term is starting to wrap up, which means I’ll have a couple weeks of free time. I’ll deffinately use that to spruce up the site and get some more information up.

Anyway, plenty of work to do.

Fairly straightforward but hopefully this will be of some help to people just starting out on Mac and have some familiarity with linux and the bash shell.

If you want to alias certain variables or commands, you want edit your bashrc file, usually found in the home directory on linux. In Mac OS, however, the location is slightly different. If you want to save yourself some time in the future create a symlink to the bashrc file in your home directory like this. Open up the terminal and make sure you are in your users home folder (you should be by default). Next type this:


ln -s /etc/bashrc ./.bashrc


Now you have a link to the bashrc right in your home directory. By default, you have to sudo to change the contents of the file. Best not to change that to make more convenient (especially if you are sharing a Mac with someone). Edit the file like so (use any text editor you prefer):


sudo vim .bashrc


You can now just add your alias lines to the bottom of your file. Then type “:wq!” to force a save and quit. If you don’t know how to use vim, best if you find a tutorial elsewhere. There are tons and its a vital skill. Here is an example of a simple alias line to change my ls to display colors:


alias ls="ls -G"


Always remember to restart the shell session when you change the .bashrc so it reloads your custom aliases.

Alright pretty simple huh?

So I basically found out that Bluehost and Hostmonster were based in Utah and likely controlled by the Mormon church. While I have no overt dislike of Mormons, I did take issue with the fact that they censor your web content hosted on their servers. I wasn’t about to stand for that. Anywho, I luckily found what seems to be the most incredible web host ever…dream host.

If you are thinking about webhosting a highly recommend them. You can also get the first subscription for insanely cheap with a $97 discount! Just search google for Dreamhost discounts.

I remember when I first heard about hacking your PSP to put custom firmware, I was totally excited about it. Mostly because I knew that my PSP would turn into not only a portable playstation, but a portable NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, GBA… you get the idea. So I decided to finally get a PSP, but by the time that I got one, they already had the newer models out, and I got a “Slim” PSP which was lighter and thinner than the original. “Alright I thought…It’s fine it’s just the newer model”. Unfortunately, a number of problems arise when it came to loading the CFW (Custom Firmware). Eventually I was able to load it but I was extremely disappointed to find out that many emulators didn’t work for Slim. I thought all hope was lost. I settled for some shitty NES version with bad resolution and moved on. That was until I found a thread post with a link to a pack of emulators that were completely compatible with the PSP Slim.

Yes you heard me right. All of these emulators work nearly 100% (as far as I’ve tested). The pack contains and emulator for nearly every kind console as well. I’ve included below the link to the File Planet mirror. I’ve also decided to host it here since I am not making use of all of my available bandwidth. Also, since emulators are not illegal, I’ll host as many as I want and no one can say anything about it :-p.

Known Compatibility Issues:

NES

* I’ve noticed that the NES emulator does not close smoothly, results in the PSP shutting off after you exit. Otherwise it seems to work fine.

Downloads:

• Click here to download from FileFront
• Click here to download from danielsousa.info (likely very slow, but it’s here in case FileFront goes down)

So my buddy was setting up eclipse on his Mac and got the following screen. Pretty funny, but nice to see that open source can make mistakes (contrary to what some may believe) .

Full Resolution:

So, in the process of updating my site to wordpress 2.6, I wrecked it…wordpress wouldn’t load. Not sure what the problem was and I wasn’t in the mood to track down the problem. Anyway, when I checked my hosting account, I saw that my hosting was due for renewal in a month, so I decided to shop around.
In the end, I decided on BlueHosting. They give me essentially unlimited bandwidth and storage, which was better than what I would have gotten if I renewed my 2-year old account at HostMonster. Anyway, we’ll see how this host turns out. Hopefully I won’t regret switching .

Anyway, when I upgraded wordpress and switched hosting I tried to find a permanent theme for my new site, one that would let me convey as much information as possible, as well as write the occasional blog post. So this is it right here. I found some cool plugins as well, so I can put up posts, featured articles, etc. It’s pretty awesome.

So with a new and better blog, hopefully I’ll be posting more often. Keep yourself posted by subscribing to the RSS feed.