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AutoCAD Map 2000i on Ubuntu

After upgrading Wine to 1.1.12, I tried installing AutoCAD Map 2000i again on my Intrepid box. Lo and behold… it worked! This is the first time I got ACAD Map working with Wine. I’m glad Wine has matured enough to run ACAD, even if it’s an older version, without hacks or cracks involved. Oh, and [...]

Smart Plug N Talk

I just saw this advertisement from Inquirer and got curious with its technology. Reminds me of Skype, but without the freebie. They call it Plug N’ Talk, a product of Smart Telecoms. It’s the practical application that intrigued me at first, mostly because I work in the Radio Room, Communication or Command Center for those [...]

Dropping Aptana

For a few months now, I’ve been mostly coding using Aptana Studio, a very useful IDE for Web and AJAX developers. But quite recently, I got fed up with its sluggishness and decided to go back to using Quanta Plus and Geany (when I’m on a Windows workstation). I did, I really did went to [...]