I just got a BlackBerry Curve 8310, How to your PIN

My friend asked me for my PIN since he just got a BlackBerry as well.
Well this is how I found my PIN to pass it on to my friend so we can have BlackBerry text conversations for free.
My BlackBerry is the Curve 8310 model. (In short to find your PIN it's simply Applications -> Options -> Status and you'll see it on the Status Screen). I however got a little confused and I thought I had to do it inside BlackBerry Messenger Application so here are the detailed steps)

Start from the main screen, hit the "Applications" button shown (on the left image, it's highlighted)





Then scroll down and select "Options" (it's the icon that looks like a wrench).






Once inside "Options", scroll down to "Status" line item (near the very bottom of the list, here it is shown as the last item on the page)






Select "Status" and you should see a line item on your list that is the "PIN"







Now I can give my friend this PIN so he can add me as a BlackBerry Messenger contact.

application/x-mplayer2

PROBLEM: I went to a site to listen to streaming music and it showed a broken-looking-icon saying I need to install some plug-in so I clicked on it and it said missing application/x-mplayer2.

SOLUTION:
open a terminal, run as root:

yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayerplug-in
answer yes to install when asked.

then to find .so files are I used
find / -name *mplay *.so

I then got outputs that looked like below
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so

I then when to the plugins folder under where I installed firefox (to find out where you install firefox)
I noticed that there are other .so files under this folder too so
from above list of .so files, I just manually made links to those .so files by running
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in.so

I am guessing from the above qt is for QuickTime, rm is for Real Media/Movie, dvx for DivX, wmp for Windows Media Player and the last one is for general plug-in but then it's a guess, moving on.

I just closed my browser and re-opened firefox and went to my streaming music site and it worked.

How to Draw circles without a Compass or Protractor

I wanted to draw some circles of specific radius and didn't have a compass.
So this is how I did it. Made my own version of a compass.
draw circles without a compass

Plan 1, side view of the solar cooker

here's a rough plan from the side-view for my future solar cooker.
units are just imaginary, right now I am thinking they represent centimeters. but we'll see.
And here's the plan 2 (cutting plan).
I tried making a model out of paper and tin foil because the model was too small it wasn't able to generate heat that would burn but it was bright where I expected it to be.
I have calculated and estimated that it would be like cooking with about 70 times regular sunlight (so don't put your face in the cooking area and look, DANGER, will probably instantly blind you).

a SOH CAH TOA calculator

I want to build a solar cooker using my own measurements to my own liking.
So I figure I needed some old trigonometry to start with a drawing plan.
so here's a tool I made to help me figure out how to aim the sun's rays at my target(where the future pot of food would be).
SOH CAH TOA calculator
kind of of topic this isn't really linux related(in fact not at all). But I figure I'd share it since linux is open source mentality and all (this calculator can be easily copied or saved as a local file and used whenever you have the urge to build a solar cooker or anything else that uses trigonometry).

Replace the sampleDescriptionText with actual values that applies to you

You are seeing this post because you clicked on some sort of a sampleDescriptionWord
which means that you'll have to replace the sample text (in italics with some real values that applies to you).

DETAILS:

for example:
if you see something in a post like:
sampleYourEmailAddress
and your email is actually joeblow@saveThePlanetUseLinux.com
replace sampleEmailAddress with joeblow@saveThePlanetUseLinux.com

Graphical FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for Fedora 8

PROBLEM: I started using the default ftp that came with Fedora Core 8. It is easy to use.
I just open a terminal
then I type: ftp
then I type: open sampleFtpHostName
then I type: sampleFtpUserName
then I type: sampleFtpPassword
and then I am in and I can use commands such as put and get so I am generally fine with that, but I'd like to visually browse through my files.

SOLUTION:
a Graphical FTP for Fedora that made it simple for me.
open a terminal
run the below command as root:
yum install gftp
after answering 'y' to installing
you can exit root user
and run
gftp
or
gftp &
to start using a graphical version of ftp.