Tube Amp project part 2

As promised earlier in Tube Amp project, the photos.

How to do it:

  1. Remove the 4 screws at the bottom
  2. Remove the tube by whipping it out using a flathead mini screwdriver
  3. Place the new tube in the socket, try to avoid handling the tube with your hands
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Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

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Next month Apress will publish the book “Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development”.
I am going to review this book on my website in august.
I already had a sneak peak at the book and I can say it looks very promissing!

If you want to pre-order or buy the book, click the image below.
If you want to know more about the book have a look at www.apress.com/book/view/1430227907

What you’ll learn from the book:

  • How the HTML5 specification has evolved
  • How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, Geolocation, Web Storage, Canvas, and Audio and Video.
  • Which features are available in browsers today

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook review

I will be reviewing  the “Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook” by Richard Carter, published by Packt Publishing. This book is about modifying Joomla! 1.5 Templates.

Packt Publishing asked me to review this book since it’s in my line of expertise.

A little about me:
I am Ramon “Ramoonus” van Belzen. A 22 year old web designer (HTML, CSS, microformats, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, PHP/MySQL) and hobby programmer (Visual Basic). I’ve been creating webpages since 1997.
I’ve been playing with Joomla! for more than three years now. I currently own no sites which run on Joomla! but I don’t see a reason why I shouldn’t be using it for one of my sites.
You can find my website on http://www.ramoonus.nl

The Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook is one of Packt Publishing’s cookbook series meaning it contains loads of recipes. Each recipe is a small articles/paragraphs with an idea and how to work it out. Just like a regular cookbook.

As the title reveals this book is about Joomla! 1.5 templates. A template is the design which displays the Joomla! site. Without a template no content is displayed, you will only see blank pages.
This book can also be used for the future Joomla! 1.6, which is currently in beta status.

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Tube Amp project

Im going to make a cheap but wicked tube preamplifier by replacing the tube inside an ART Tube MP.
The replacement tube will be an Electro-Harmonix 12ax7 gold-pin edition ECC83 tube.

The total costs of this project are just below 50 euro.

Linux Kernel 2.6.35 installation guide for Ubuntu Linux

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This short walkthrough describes how to get the latest linux kernel working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This tutorial should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (10.04 and 10.10 ) and most distributions based on these versions of Ubuntu Linux like Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic ubuntu configuration.
Note: nVIDIA ForceWare drivers are automatically installed using DKMS, if you have these installed and up-to-date.

Installation Guide

  1. Download linux-headers-2.6.35-020635_2.6.35-020635_all.deb
  2. Download your kernel headers package;

    I386: linux-headers-2.6.35-020635-generic_2.6.35-020635_i386.deb

    AMD64: linux-headers-2.6.35-020635-generic_2.6.35-020635_amd64.deb
  3. Download your kernel compile;

    I386: linux-image-2.6.35-020635-generic_2.6.35-020635_i386.deb

    AMD64: linux-image-2.6.35-020635-generic_2.6.35-020635_amd64.deb
  4. Install the files in the same order (else it won`t work!)
  5. In the terminal run:

    sudo update-grub
  6. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

    If it`s not there check all steps (and ofcourse errors)

For those who want to do their “own” compiles, the source is also available; linux-source-2.6.35_2.6.35-020635_all.deb