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Exiting the shell. ...
Some stuff about logging. ...
Watch TV anywhere (in your home, at least) ...
Description and tips on how to boot using runit ...
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. ...
A tutorial explaining how to setup your own APT-RPM repository, so you can install your custom (or custom-packaged) programs easily. ...
Thousands of programs at your fingertips! Without hassle! ...
A tutorial explaining how to create RPM packages using checkinstall. ...
A step-by-step description of the Linux booting process. ...
Short tutorial explaining how to write a cooperative-multithreaded app using the GNU pth library.
Old stuff, written in march of 2000! ...
Why integration matters for development ...
Tutorial on how to setup your Squid so it authenticates and allows http access only to users with a valid POP or IMAP account. ...
This article explains how to setup and configure a VPN using a great, easy tool called CIPE. ...
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 !.
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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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
Since I expect Android on tablets to be a big thing in 2010, I am experimenting with the closest
thing I can get: Android in my eee 701 Surf 4G: ...
Today, March 24th is Ada Lovelace day, a day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women
in technology and science. . I am taking the liberty to tag this as python so it appears in the
right planets, but that's just to promote Ada Lovelace day. Sorry 'bout that. ...
Just uploaded Marave 0.5 to the usual place . Marave is a relaxed, fullscreen text editor that
tries not to distract you. ...
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. ...
Since yesterday this blog is ten years old so, time for some history. ...
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. ...
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 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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
My post about Arch Linux from yesterday got posted at tuxmachines and there was a comment
there. ...
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. ...
I just saw this post about the SheevaPlug . I need one. First I need a reason to need it. ...
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. ...
Suppose you want to send SMS messages from windows through a bluetooth connection to a phone. ...
If you delete the empty directory /var/lib/xkb, then enable the KDE keyboard layout
switcher, the up-arrow key works like print-screen. ...
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. ...
I finally got my eee PC last saturday. It's the 4G Surf in Galaxy Black [1] . ...
The day is arriving when Net Managers SRL will emerge from its cocoon of bureaucracy. ...
I had to do a vry late night job yesterday, so I am not going to do it right today. Probably
wednesday. ...
I have said Linux sucks. Here's my new project: Make it suck less, one bit at a time. ...
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. ...
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. ...
It's the second coming of the Toshiba Libretto, only this time it's: ...
Well, it seems I am in trouble for PyWeek. ...
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. ...
Always remember to do this: ...
As I posted before I am pretty hyped about the Asus eee, the $199 laptop. ...
Second (or third) article on this series. Now we tackle why and how cron/at suck and what we can
do about it. ...
One of the ways your linux system sucks, and what you can do about it: system notifications. ...
Quick, answer this: ...
I have been an Arch Linux for a while now, and I am still liking it. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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... ...
... who own a HP Jornada 720 and are using Opie on it and they have the spanish/latin-american
keyboard... here is your keymap . ...
For a few months I have been using an unmanaged virtual private server from Tektonic , and I love
it. ...
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! ...
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 ;-) ...
I have not posted in a long time, not because nothing happened, but because too much happened. ...
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. ...
I decided to try Arch Linux on my notebook. The reasons don't matter. ...
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: ...
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. ...
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 got this nice multifunction printer+scanner+copier, called HP PSC 1410. ...
FaxWeb, a web frontend for mgetty+sendfax is finished. It works. It's probably close to
bugfree ;-) ...
A customer asked me to implement for him a simple fax serving solution. ...
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. ...
I will make some of my work public. ...
I have been teaching for almost my whole adult life. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Just in case anyone is wondering if you can install the Xen hypervisor on a CentOS box: ...
A Little History ...
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. ...
I often check on the comments for the longer articles I write. ...
Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...
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. ...
... oh, screw it, why not say what it doesn't need? It's better for my blood pressure. ...
Fwbuilder was one of three GTK applications I used (inkscape and gimp are the other two). ...
Are you using a RPM or DEB based system? Are you using a program and can't find it in packaged
form? ...
Last week, I gave a conference [1] about KDE in the first free software congress of Argentina. ...
Ok, a rant. ...
I will be speaking at the Primer Congreso Nacional de Software Libre on May 27th, at 15:00. ...
Found this here . ...
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. ...
I have decided I don´t suck at writing technical articles. I am not all that great, but I don´t
suck. ...
Do you miss the old LinuxToday.com of 4,5 years ago? Do you miss the old LWN.net of a 2 years ago? ...
After a while without any original content, here's a description of the Linux booting process
(SystemV variant). ...
On this morning's newspaper. So I am ahead of the curve by about 48 hours. That's not much :-) ...
This is something I have not read about much so: ...
Been busy. Work is back in full throttle, so time for coding and blogging is low. ...
Nice read. Haven't seen the ads, though. ...
Ok, not SCO, but Exo Training. ...
Lots of people, when they heard of this merger, started thinking like this: ...
Nice article by Robin Miller at Newsforge. ...
Ok, noone will bother, but you can listen to me speaking about KDE in a Linux event last year, in
Ogg Format, in spanish. ...
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 :-) ...
Just to see if anyone can figure this out: ...
It's only about grain and sepia, but if people try this kind of things, they start getting
ideas. ...
They are regular PAL TV cameras, 704x576, and that is a regular CD. ...
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 becoming Intergraph. ...
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. ...
Wow, I'm tired :-P
Gave a "lecture" last night at the UP (Universidad de Palermo), the usual "Introduction to
Linux" one. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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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