Archive for the 'desktop' Category

Ubuntu proprietary drivers decision

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Although it may still raise some usability issues (for those who want to enable them), i believe this was the best decision they could’ve made.

What the …?

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Wtf ? Pixar sponsored Devil’s Pie creator to change the configuration method from XML files to Lisp ? What is this world coming to ?!
Hah…just joking. Actually it’s configuration method is rather nice, but a GUI would not be a bad idea.

Why Ubuntu

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Well i am now one more aggregated blogger on the Planet Ubuntu Users, so hi there everyone :) And as so, i thought i’d write something on why i use Ubuntu.
I first started using GNU/Linux around 3 and a half years ago (whoa is it been that long ?). At first i tried out some […]

Why i hate the Linux 3D desktop

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

A long time ago, when the first articles about XGL appeared on OSnews or Slashdot, i was one of the few who were really excited about it (at least in my circle of “geekiest friends”). The videos at the time showed basically what we have nowadays, but nobody seemed to care much about it. “Oh, […]

Text editors

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Like i did some time ago with music players, i’m going to write an article about the search for the perfect text editor.
Lately i’ve been using Scribes. I first noticed when i saw this post about this other post by the author of Scribes. The ideia appealed to me, and altough i am completely addicted […]

Laptops. I hate them.

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

It’s been nearly 3 years since i bought my first and current laptop. An Airis Diamond 630, Pentium IV 2.80 Ghz, 512 MB Ram (about to have an upgrade to 1GB), 40GB HDD, ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 64MB, Combo drive, 15″, and some nice 3,5 Kg of weight.
Now, why have i bought such a lousy […]

Amarok 1.4.2

Friday, August 25th, 2006

So here i am, trying out amaroK 1.4.2. At first, when i saw the new features list i got all excited with the dynamic collection feature, but it’s not exactly what i wanted. I still have to try it better tough.
The thing is, i usually have just some songs on my laptop hard drive and […]