Ubuntu Language Support for Filipino Dialects

Filipino is the standard language in the Philippines. It is expected that Ubuntu should support either Filipino or Tagalog. What is not expected is that Ubuntu also supports Filipino dialects such as Hiligaynon (Iloilo) and Cebuano (Cebu).

Hiligaynon

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

– From Ubuntu.com

HOWTO Write Unicode Symbols

For Mr. Isang Kilong Bigas Miktots.

– Screenshot of Unicode Symbols at Wikipedia

You’re wondering how those other bloggers write some of the symbols you see above. You’re banging your head on the wall because you can’t find those symbols anywhere in your keyboard. Give yourself some slack because I’m going to teach you how.

First, you want to know how to write ☺ because you want to let the world know how happy your are. From the figure above you will notice that the smiley is on row 2630 and on column A. For you to write a smiley you should write (make sure you are in Edit Html Mode):

☺

The above text will turn into a ☺ when you publish your post. It follows this format:

&#xnnnm;

Where nnnm is the Unicode of the symbol. The nnn is the first three numbers of column (263 from 2630 for the smiley) and m is the number of the column (A for the smiley). The x should always be the lowercase of the letter X.

Now that you know how to do it, you want to write ♥ because you want to let the world know how much you love efrenefren for teaching you how to write Unicode Symbols. You can do that by writing:

♥

♥♥♥ Don’t forget the x. You will get a different symbol if you forget the x. Go and show the whole world your new ability.

Thanks to XML and HTML character entity references.

BIN, CUE to ISO

sudo apt-get install bchunk
bchunk myimage.bin myimage.cue myimage

from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManageDiscImages#Convert%20BIN/CUE%20Images%20to%20ISO

The Mana World Auto-update

Been a long time since the last time I played The Mana World. It’s good to know that the client will automatically update itself once you start the client. It’s a long process but it gives you the best Mana World there is.

sudo apt-get install tmw

IMDb All Time World Wide Box Office Most Seeded

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ImdbAllTimeWorldwideBoxOfficeMostSeeded

The most seeded IMDb All Time World Wide Box Office Movies. Subscribe in Azureus or your favorite BitTorrent client that can aggregate rss feeds.

Lotto Statistics

In my thirst to win the lotto, I got statistics from the archive of lotto results so that I can make a calculated bet. The research was in vain though, because there was no significant difference between the probability of the number with the lowest chance of winning to the probability of number with highest chance of winning.

Top 10 Winning Numbers

The complete results can be seen here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pPSG_Dyv14VTDZ_L_MgrOXA

WordPress displays the ruby code incorrectly. You can look at the code here. What the code does is count the number of times a number is drawn and divide that number with the total number of draws of the chosen game type.

The archive of lotto results is provided by yehey.com.

I’ll wait for next year. I will bet if the statistics are still the same.

PCSO Lotto Results RSS Feed

I did not expect PCSO to even know how to make an RSS Feed. I thought I had to rewire the web again.

http://www.pcso.gov.ph/lotto_feed.aspx

Last.FM Free Music Downloads

The last time I tried these free downloads the links does not seem to work. But, I tried a few moments ago and I can’t complain. The MP3s are properly tagged and have a 128 bitrate. Enjoy!

Get your personal free downloads here: http://www.last.fm/home/freemp3s

HOWTO Pronounce Fasion

Cartier

Yves Saint Laurent

Pierre Cardin

And the many others here: wwwihmcca Youtube Channel

Thanks to BryanBoy

Googe Search with Google Maps Results

When you do a search for a person or an event in Google it will, most of the time, incude Google Images result with it. Like the search below for aurora borealis

Google Search - aurora borealis

But, did you know that when you search for a place in Google it will, most of the time, display results from Google Maps. Like the search below for bermuda

Google Search - bermuda