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Filenames and UNIX

Posted in linux, technology, unix on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

David Wheeler posted a nice analysis of the problems with filenames in UNIX / Linux / … Well worth a read for those who need technical expertise in this area.

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Open Graphics Project moving forward

Posted in linux, technology on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been following this for a while now. With platforms like Linux around, why not aim for open hardware? OSNews has the latest (here and here). Update 23 April: added link to second OSNews article.

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Monitoring Linux processes

Posted in linux on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve always found the man page for top to be painful to get through1, so I was quite happy when I found some old tips on how to get the most out of this nice utility. Not everything is in there, but it should be enough. Another thing I’ve been looking for since ages ago [...]

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Linux distributions explained (sort of)

Posted in humour, linux on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just discovered an interesting take on common Linux distributions. (Having some familiarity with them helps, but I take no responsibility either way… 8) )

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Ubuntu wallpaper

Posted in linux, ubuntu, wallpaper on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the classical Ubuntu logo in 3D (interestingly provided by the alias ilovewindows 8) – click on the link for more of his artwork).

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Conspiracy meetings

Posted in brm, fosdem, linux, ooxml, sco, stallman on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(About the move of my blog: it was in part due to buggy Blogspot code, but now I also have a more flexible solution. Overkill at this point, maybe, but that’s me. ) I’ll go to FOSDEM this weekend (where the former President of the FFII will be speaking), and hopefully see Richard Stallman come [...]

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NX – Linux from a distance

Posted in linux, nx, remote desktop, ssh, x on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I finally got around to testing NX (remote desktop, see “background” below) for Linux. After doing a “stress-test” from an “impressive” distance of 5 kilometres, I’d say it’s quite responsive, and otherwise appears to work as advertised. I especially like the resume functionality (suspend one or more login sessions), and resize-on-demand (i.e. toggling full-screen mode, [...]

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ISO for breakfast, OSI for lunch, EU for dinner, FLOSS for dessert?

Posted in eu, iso, linux, microsoft, ooxml, osi on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

(Sorry about the headline, couldn’t resist.1) Glyn Moody Gets It. In Linux Journal, he writes about OOXML and Microsoft’s successes with OSI and EU antitrust: Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source? 1 (Also familiar from snail-mailing the “sorry that I forgot to use a stamp” excuse.)

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Deceiving checksums

Posted in checksums, linux on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ever tried to copy a file or burn a CD, only to find out that the copy seems just fine, but not according to the checksum? Sometimes it’s worth digging a bit deeper: (or so it seems to me as a geek) ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/hda2/ISO$ cat md5sum.txt d2334dbba7313e9abc8c7c072d2af09c ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/hda2/ISO$ dd if=/dev/hdd | md5sum 1425008+0 records in [...]

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Microsoft Linux? (Soon in more versions than Vista!)

Posted in linux, microsoft, patents on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Microsoft apparently does not think all the versions of Windows Vista provide enough choice for the market. So, to ensure a better selection, they now seem to be looking at Linux systems as well: SuSE from Novell; Xandros; Linspire; and finally Turbolinux. Given these announcements of patent agreements (“protections”), I’m sure said distributors won’t “notice” [...]

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