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Rethinking Linux Configuration: Part I

2007-11-28 13:32:46
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Windows: My eXPerience

2007-11-13 09:12:08
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Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part II

2007-07-29 12:26:04
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Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part I

2007-07-21 21:28:33
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RA-WebPass

2007-05-18 13:42:37
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Going Higher Level, Leaving the Shell (Part I)

2006-09-17 03:36:48
Exiting the shell. ...

Logging in style

2006-09-15 02:09:20
Some stuff about logging. ...

CherryTV

2006-05-12 12:17:20
Watch TV anywhere (in your home, at least) ...

Booting with runit

2005-03-19 23:59:12
Description and tips on how to boot using runit ...

A Modest Usability Improvement

2004-09-27 14:57:20
You know, some things are usable. Some things aren't. Read on, to see one that isn't and one that (I think) is. A semi-tongue-in-cheek usability article. ...

APT Pupil: your own repository

2004-09-20 16:48:16
A tutorial explaining how to setup your own APT-RPM repository, so you can install your custom (or custom-packaged) programs easily. ...

Package Management: APT for RPM

2004-09-13 12:55:44
Thousands of programs at your fingertips! Without hassle! ...

Linux packages the not so easy way

2004-09-08 11:26:08
A tutorial explaining how to create RPM packages using checkinstall. ...

The Linux Booting Process Unveiled

2004-02-27 14:33:52
A step-by-step description of the Linux booting process. ...

Cooperative Qt apps using GNU pth

2004-02-03 13:02:08
Short tutorial explaining how to write a cooperative-multithreaded app using the GNU pth library. Old stuff, written in march of 2000! ...

Hinges and integration

2003-12-28 18:32:48
Why integration matters for development ...

Squid authentication via POP or IMAP

2003-09-15 19:58:08
Tutorial on how to setup your Squid so it authenticates and allows http access only to users with a valid POP or IMAP account. ...

Setting up VPNs easily with CIPE

2003-09-14 15:10:08
This article explains how to setup and configure a VPN using a great, easy tool called CIPE. ...

Small Linux

2003-03-02 18:13:36
What can you do with Linux and a computer that has less RAM than most graphic cards? Read it to find out!

This article was originally posted in the LUGLI Wiki, in spanish. I must thank Cesar Roldán, who did some very needed formatting of my Original Article !.

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SmartTags, a trigger for hypocrisy

2003-03-02 18:13:36
An article I wrote originally in Advogato, about a (sadly dead) Microsoft idea to enrich the web's linking network. Too bad some of the links are dead now, but it *is* an old article and I fixed everyone I could.
This was the original post, including feedback.

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Posts tagged linux

Marave 0.5 is out!

2010-02-12 22:25:37
Just uploaded Marave 0.5 to the usual place . Marave is a relaxed, fullscreen text editor that tries not to distract you. ...

Packaging and shipping is HARD

2010-02-11 14:00:22
I have worked really hard on Marave , a full screen editor in the style of ommwriter, DarkRoom, WriteRoom, pyRoom, etc. I have worked very hard and I want users to use it. ...

Happy 10th blogiversary to me!

2010-01-19 14:12:42
Since yesterday this blog is ten years old so, time for some history. ...

With iterpipes, python is ready to replace bash for scripting. Really.

2009-12-23 15:32:04
This has been a pet peeve of mine for years: programming shell scripts suck. They are ugly and error prone. The only reason why we still do it? There is no real replacement. ...

DBUS-reactor, or AsusOSD must die!

2009-12-03 15:04:28
How to write a tiny python app (less than 50 lines) that reacts to events on the DBUS buses. For example, displaying a notification when you press one of your keyboards' special keys. ...

I'll be speaking in Mar Del Plata

2009-11-17 21:45:19
I will be doing a brand-new never seen introduction to PyQt programming at the " Jornadas de Software Libre y Open Source " in Mar del Plata tomorrow or the next day. ...

Simple KDE Trick #2: using remote desktops with avahi, krfb and krdc

2009-10-20 21:31:54
Most people nowadays have more than one computer. Often, you are using one, and would like to do something in another. In this video, I will explain how trivial it is to do that without leaving your seat in a modern Linux using KDE. ...

Responding to random blog posts. Today: 2009: software installation in GNU/Linux is still broken -- and a path to fixing it

2009-06-23 09:16:14
While randomly clicking today I saw this article with the fun title of " 2009: software installation in GNU/Linux is still broken -- and a path to fixing it " by Tony Mobily. ...

About 80% of what's wrong with Linux users, all in a post

2009-06-21 05:35:02
My post about Arch Linux from yesterday got posted at tuxmachines and there was a comment there. ...

Why I STILL use Arch Linux

2009-06-20 13:06:02
Yesterday I had one of those moments where I feel very happy about my distro of choice, Arch Linux . Since the last time I posted about Arch seems to have been over two years ago (time flies when you are having fun!), I think it's time to explain it. ...

Grrr... I want one of these. I just need a reason.

2009-03-16 20:40:00
I just saw this post about the SheevaPlug . I need one. First I need a reason to need it. ...

Blog readership statistics.

2009-03-03 23:42:25
I am not sure if this is good or bad: ...

Old fashioned mail: Cone

2008-09-09 16:34:55
I had one too many problems with kmail from KDE4 in my eee with Kubuntu, and sylpheed-claws is just unusable in a small screen (the huge widgets! the non-hidable things all over the interface!) I decided to get old fashioned and try a console mail reader. ...

Linux as a windows crutch: Sending SMS

2008-04-15 16:14:36
Suppose you want to send SMS messages from windows through a bluetooth connection to a phone. ...

This is why Linux is not ready for the desktop

2008-04-04 11:41:37
If you delete the empty directory /var/lib/xkb, then enable the KDE keyboard layout switcher, the up-arrow key works like print-screen. ...

Good News: Linux gives life to old hardware. Bad News: Maybe in some cases it shouldn't.

2008-03-11 14:23:26
I was in one of my customer's datacenters the other day, and while I do most work remotely, I had to take this opportunity to take some snapshots of their proxy server. ...

Asus eee PC 4G Surf: First impressions from an old Linux Guy

2008-01-23 10:59:33
I finally got my eee PC last saturday. It's the 4G Surf in Galaxy Black [1] . ...

Dear Lazyweb: What should my company's site be like?

2008-01-08 08:30:32
The day is arriving when Net Managers SRL will emerge from its cocoon of bureaucracy. ...

No second part of "Rethinking linux configuration" today

2007-11-30 16:40:28
I had to do a vry late night job yesterday, so I am not going to do it right today. Probably wednesday. ...

Rethinking Linux Configuration: Part I

2007-11-28 14:01:26
I have said Linux sucks. Here's my new project: Make it suck less, one bit at a time. ...

What I want for christmas (The cool new trend on preloaded Linux)

2007-11-16 14:54:30
Dear fictional character that oppreses the workers of the North Pole: This christmas, I want an Asus eee PC, an Everex gPC, and some bare white box with a nice Phoenix PC 3.0 BIOS. ...

Lateral Opinion's greatest hits

2007-11-14 10:34:02
Since this blog just broke the 100K visitors barrier yesterday (although it had about 150K more when it was lateral.pycs.net), it's a good time to revisit some of the old stuff that was somewhat good. ...

Gonna get me one of these. Oh yes.

2007-10-17 12:13:35
It's the second coming of the Toshiba Libretto, only this time it's: ...

PyWeek5

2007-09-05 09:46:55
Well, it seems I am in trouble for PyWeek. ...

Thinking about this blog.

2007-08-11 23:15:57
I suppose it happens to everyone once in a while, and it has happened to me often in the past, but I am thinking if I should keep on writing this blog, or if some large change is needed. ...

If you try to use quotactl on Linux...

2007-08-06 17:44:28
Always remember to do this: ...

More about the Asus eee, and random venting.

2007-08-02 08:42:52
As I posted before I am pretty hyped about the Asus eee, the $199 laptop. ...

Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part II

2007-07-29 12:06:04
Second (or third) article on this series. Now we tackle why and how cron/at suck and what we can do about it. ...

Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part I

2007-07-21 18:48:49
One of the ways your linux system sucks, and what you can do about it: system notifications. ...

The Linux software ecosystem is boring and a little lame (a rant).

2007-07-04 10:06:49
Quick, answer this: ...

Why I use Arch Linux

2007-05-20 22:37:03
I have been an Arch Linux for a while now, and I am still liking it. ...

Small software released: RA-WebPass

2007-05-18 14:25:05
I just released a wee piece of software, called RA-WebPass which is simply a webpage that you can use to change linux system passwords. ...

Sometimes I am stupid. Then again, it doesn't matter, because I am lucky!

2007-05-13 21:15:49
I am working on changing BartleBlog so it can be used from scratch. That may sound odd but because I have been using it since day 2 to post this blog, it has grown very organically, meaning there are things that only work because of the way I used it while developing it. ...

History of KDE: A generous offer...

2007-03-22 19:53:52
Back in october of 1996, when everyone was saving for the flying car we would buy in 5 years, and KDE was starting, slowly, to take shape in the minds of a few.... there was a generous offer... ...

To the other three guys (or gals)....

2006-11-17 11:04:48
... who own a HP Jornada 720 and are using Opie on it and they have the spanish/latin-american keyboard... here is your keymap . ...

No, I don't get a dime from them

2006-10-17 21:06:24
For a few months I have been using an unmanaged virtual private server from Tektonic , and I love it. ...

A different UNIX Part II: A better shell language

2006-10-05 13:38:24
One of the things people study when they " learn unix " is shell scripting and usage. Because every system has a shell, and if you learn to use it interactively, you are half way there to automating system tasks! ...

A different UNIX Part I: Mail in not-mail-servers

2006-10-02 09:52:16
I have been procrastinating about creating my own Linux distro for at least three years. Guess what? I will still procrastinate about it for a few more, but that doesn mean I can't write about how it's supposed to work ;-) ...

Long update

2006-10-01 13:53:20
I have not posted in a long time, not because nothing happened, but because too much happened. ...

The bad side of Arch Linux

2006-09-14 10:52:00
I posted yesterday that I liked Arch but I called it " not too good " . So, Mark Kretschmann posted a comment asking what I didn't like. ...

Linux Installation Kung Fu

2006-08-17 15:52:48
I decided to try Arch Linux on my notebook. The reasons don't matter. ...

Linux and a TrendNet TEW-PC16

2006-08-03 15:54:56
So, I am trying to use this ancient card with Linux and all I get when I plug it is a message in the logs: ...

Fixing windows the unixy way

2006-08-02 16:48:16
A while ago, I wrote about my misery trying to use a HP PSC 1410 printer attached to a XP box as a network printer. ...

Booting with runit / runit RPM - updated

2006-05-14 09:39:28
I have updated my Booting with runit story for the commands in runit 1.5.1 and included a mention for my easy runit RPM (which is now also up to 1.5.1). ...

I am **so** not a guru.

2006-05-11 16:22:40
I got this nice multifunction printer+scanner+copier, called HP PSC 1410. ...

FaxWeb is done

2006-05-02 15:44:16
FaxWeb, a web frontend for mgetty+sendfax is finished. It works. It's probably close to bugfree ;-) ...

The state of simple Linux fax server software

2006-04-29 12:51:28
A customer asked me to implement for him a simple fax serving solution. ...

Things that should exist.

2006-04-07 11:38:56
One of my greatest frustrations as an adequate programmer is that I think of things I believe should exist, yet I am not able to implement them myself. ...

2006 resolution

2006-01-11 12:36:32
I will make some of my work public. ...

Teaching and money

2005-12-27 12:30:08
I have been teaching for almost my whole adult life. ...

Rant: The problem with expensive linux

2005-12-19 23:31:28
I always liked SuSE's Linux distros. They even used to mail me a box every now and then when there was code of mine in it. It always seemed nicely done, and well integrated. Of course I only used it as a workstation. ...

Unknown jewels of Unix: NoSQL

2005-12-17 23:20:48
I have known about Carlo Strozzi's NoSQL for about 6 years. I don't think many others do (it's google score is 39500, compared with 81200000 for MySQL) , and I think it's a shame, because it's a much more interesting idea. ...

Xen on CentOS4

2005-12-07 21:00:00
Just in case anyone is wondering if you can install the Xen hypervisor on a CentOS box: ...

Small Linux Revisited

2005-09-02 23:16:32
A Little History ...

Deployments and stuff

2005-08-02 19:17:36
Have been reading the planets lately (I mean planetkde.org and planet.gnome.org, not astrology) and run into posts by Aaron Seigo and Luis Villa which are, let's say, interesting. ...

Impudent abuse of copy&paste

2005-04-04 23:59:12
I often check on the comments for the longer articles I write. ...

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

2005-03-17 23:59:12
Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

Source-based distributions, the good side.

2005-03-15 23:59:12
I am no fan of source-based distributions. I think that for most practical purposes, a distribution where installing KDE takes over a day (I own a lowly Duron as my fast computer) is useless. ...

What linux needs on the desktop is...

2004-11-10 15:16:32
... oh, screw it, why not say what it doesn't need? It's better for my blood pressure. ...

Cool applications

2004-11-04 18:39:12
Fwbuilder was one of three GTK applications I used (inkscape and gimp are the other two). ...

Linux packages the not so easy way

2004-09-08 11:26:08
Are you using a RPM or DEB based system? Are you using a program and can't find it in packaged form? ...

Late congress report

2004-06-04 21:51:12
Last week, I gave a conference [1] about KDE in the first free software congress of Argentina. ...

What is flexibility

2004-05-26 20:36:32
Ok, a rant. ...

The Roberto KDE Show

2004-05-19 17:26:40
I will be speaking at the Primer Congreso Nacional de Software Libre on May 27th, at 15:00. ...

Ok, I always preferred Mindi anyway!

2004-05-19 16:48:16
Found this here . ...

Mingetty autologin patch

2004-05-07 13:46:56
A student asked me how to autologin on a linux terminal. I thought... that can't be hard... I just don't know how it's done. ...

Getting paid for writing

2004-03-14 11:49:36
I have decided I don´t suck at writing technical articles. I am not all that great, but I don´t suck. ...

Cool Linux News Site

2004-02-27 16:12:00
Do you miss the old LinuxToday.com of 4,5 years ago? Do you miss the old LWN.net of a 2 years ago? ...

The Linux Booting Process Unveiled

2004-02-27 14:33:52
After a while without any original content, here's a description of the Linux booting process (SystemV variant). ...

More on free software on Argentina's government

2004-02-23 18:39:12
On this morning's newspaper. So I am ahead of the curve by about 48 hours. That's not much :-) ...

Linux in the government in Argentina

2004-02-15 19:15:28
This is something I have not read about much so: ...

What´s going on

2004-02-12 22:50:56
Been busy. Work is back in full throttle, so time for coding and blogging is low. ...

IBM Linux ad, as seen by MicrosoftSlate Magazine

2004-01-26 16:18:24
Nice read. Haven't seen the ads, though. ...

SCO just tried to hire me!

2004-01-15 13:53:20
Ok, not SCO, but Exo Training. ...

Novell-Ximian-Suse´s future

2004-01-12 19:51:44
Lots of people, when they heard of this merger, started thinking like this: ...

Using linux without the CLI (Newsforge)

2004-01-05 19:01:36
Nice article by Robin Miller at Newsforge. ...

Listen to me!

2003-12-11 19:38:56
Ok, noone will bother, but you can listen to me speaking about KDE in a Linux event last year, in Ogg Format, in spanish. ...

Playing with Flonix

2003-12-01 13:01:04
A Linux distro in my USB keychain. I will do a writeup on it in a day or two, probably, since the plan to work less is working (tuesdays and thursdays off already :-) ...

Trick question!

2003-10-09 22:43:28
Just to see if anyone can figure this out: ...

Nice GIMP tutorial at Linux Journal

2003-09-23 17:51:12
It's only about grain and sepia, but if people try this kind of things, they start getting ideas. ...

Look at these cameras

2003-09-22 14:47:44
They are regular PAL TV cameras, 704x576, and that is a regular CD. ...

Some programming

2003-03-22 11:37:52
I just committed changes that make KFTE work on KDE 3.1 For anyone who likes FTE , a traditional programmer's editor from OS/2 (and DOS, and Mac, and X, and linux console, and pretty much everywhere :-), this version provides a pure Qt and a KDE version. ...

SCO is dead. Long live Intergraph II!

2003-03-09 10:55:12
SCO is becoming Intergraph. ...

Advogato post for 2001-06-14 16:51:52

2001-06-14 16:51:52
Well, posted a little rant^W article here, checked the diaries of some buddies (Taj, Borges is cool, and noone will laugh at you for reading it. It just shows you are a nerd with taste ;-). Got a new job, went to a linux event, and so on and so forth. ...

Advogato post for 2000-08-02 14:06:01

2000-08-02 14:06:01
Wow, I'm tired :-P Gave a "lecture" last night at the UP (Universidad de Palermo), the usual "Introduction to Linux" one. ...

Advogato post for 2000-07-25 21:10:58

2000-07-25 21:10:58
I'm teaching a course on Linux Network Administration to trainers who will later teach it in Conectiva training centers. It's coming out nicely. I had trouble doing it the first time I had to, but that's par for the course for me, I usually suck at doing ANYTHING for the first time. ...

Advogato post for 2000-06-07 16:06:01

2000-06-07 16:06:01
Well, this should be yesterday's entry. I've started work on a frontend for maildrop. The state of mail filtering in linux today is kinda shameful. ...

Advogato post for 2000-04-10 12:21:42

2000-04-10 12:21:42
Long time without an entry. Way too long. Of course, I have a good excuse, I was too busy actually having a life, to have time to write about that life. ...

Advogato post for 2000-03-12 02:34:33

2000-03-12 02:34:33
I'm going to make a rushed trip to Buenos Aires because I have not one but two offers for fulltime linux jobs. Believe it or not, I will spend my last $100 doing the trip, so one of them better be mine ;-) after that, it's red ink until the end of the month. ...

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