Duplo Train Track

This past saturday, we spend some time building our first Duplo Train Track. Sure I’m taking over a bit, but my daughter enjoyed participating during the early phase, and seing the end result. She’s also great at playing Godzilla…

It was also a first in this weekend. Capturing a video from the Duplo locomotive (The Sony DSC-T30 just fits on the locomotive) and uploading the result on YouTube.

Picked up my new car

Here is a official picture of the new Dacia Logan MCV 1.6 16v (104ch) that I picked up earlier today.

The car is smooth, and has a lot of space.

Dacia Logan MCV 1.6 16v 104ch (Phase 2)

Installing Adobe Flash on Fedora 10 (x86-64)

There are two ways to install support for Adobe Flash in you’re Fedora 10 (x86-64) system.You can install the i386 version of the release Adobe Flash Player (latest is flash-plugin.i386 0:10.0.15.3-release) or the alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player in x86-64 (latest is libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz)

Here I will provide the solution for both versions.

One using a yum repos channel to the Adobe website, or by downloading directly the .rpm file.

1) Preparing the Mozilla Plugins & needed libraries

  1. mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
  2. yum install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-lib.i386

2a) Using the yum adobe-linux-i386.repo channel

  1. sudo –
  2. rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  3. rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
  4. yum install flash-plugin

2b) Using the flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm without the adobe yum channel

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm

3) Mozilla Plugin Config & Restart

  1. mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v

restart firefox and enjoy ;)

tip: if you experience any problems with the sound, install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, restart firefox and try again:

  1. yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386

let me know how it goes…

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Ordered a new car… a Dacia Logan MCV 1.6

It was time. I needed it.

My old car was not fit to pass the Polution and Safety tests in Octobre 2008, so I had to sell it. I used to have a Nissan Terrano (1990), which was not the most environment friendly of cars, but it was cheap for me, as that car didn’t cost me much in price and repairs.

For the past 9 weeks, I’ve been driving the company spare car, a Peugeot 306 HDI. But I was waiting and bidding my time.

Today I official signed the paper work for a new car, a Dacia Logan MCV 1.6 16v (104ch) (7 seats). Which should be delivered next week.