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Have you ever come across software that doesn’t have a deb file or isn’t in any repositories? Well don’t be put off, because compiling and installing from source is pretty straightforward. The software packages will either be in tar.gz or tar.bz2 form. There are essentially four steps you need to take to install your software. […]
The Ubuntu Media Centre Team have decided to use Elisa as their core infrastructure to push the free software media centre effort forward. Elisa is a open source cross-platform media centre, designed to be as simple to use as possible. The software is in its early days and so is still quite basic in terms […]
Because the terminal can be aesthetic and easy on the eye I’ve been investigating a little about vim color schemes, and made my own based on the Vim Tango color scheme by Michele Campeotto.
Gotan Vim color scheme
How to use:
1) move gotan.vim file to ~/.vim/colors/
2) add line “colorscheme gotan” in ~/.vimrc
3) enjoy
4) tweak
5) share
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Just a small and old snippet that might be helpful or an example: Some years ago I’s in need of getting to know early about new released Linux kernel versions. Therefore I wrote a (not sophisticated but working) crontabbed script checking the kernel page for a new stable Linux kernel and alerting me via mail […]
Disclaimer: I don’t know enough about Upstart to hold a low-level conversation about it. What I do know of Upstart is what I have read on the Ubuntu wiki, the Upstart FAQ and a few docs scattered here and there around the web. If I have misrepresented Upstart, its goals or intentions, or […]
The past 30, 31 Jan, and 1st Feb. in the Eurobuilding Hotel, was the event STC Forum, in this event I (RolandoBlanco) was invited to talk about the Free Software and the business model, this was a chance to make present UBUNTU and Ubuntu-ve to others companies.
I did feel so glad to be there and […]
There have been complaints that Ubuntu lacks a disk configuration utility, which forces newbies to manually edit fstab if they want to use a drive that was not present when they installed the system. Manually editing the file is difficult and frustrating to them, and not an ideal way to handle the issue on the […]
I have recently replaced µTorrent with Transmission as my BitTorrent client. However, although Transmission is very light and easy to use, it is a bit too basic and I miss some of the features found in µTorrent. I personally don’t like running windows apps in Wine, I’d rather run a native application. While browsing the […]
Currently over at SCALE in Los Angeles and the Women In Open Source track has just kicked off today - looks like it is going to be an excellent day, with some facinating tracks. It is being kicked off by my friend Allison Randell, who is also speaking at LugRadio Live USE 2008. Speaking of […]
I recently bought a new laptop so this isn’t as exciting as it would have been a feew weeks ago for me…
ATTENTION ALL REALTEK 8139 - based LAPTOP USERS (including Averatec)!
It seems this critical bug that provoked a solid kernel freeze (and prevented installing from LiveCDs) on Realtek 8139 -based laptops has a fix now […]
