fragility

I know I haven’t been active around here, but hopefully things will change and I’ll get back to some more or less regular blogging, even knowing that my life will get a lot more busy in the next few weeks. Classes will start again next week and I’ll probably have something more to occupy my […]

As if installing software on Ubuntu wasn’t easy enough, there’s now an easier way: installing applications from the web with a single click. Read all about it here, including how it works and security issues. Oh, and this is an upcoming Gutsy feature.
And this is not only easy for users, it’s easy for developers as […]

If you are a Jaiku user and you don’t like any of the other external alternatives (windows/mac clients) for your OS, or if you are a GNU/Linux user, pjaiku might be what you’re looking for. But beware: it’s still a very young project, and it’s on heavy development. There are no distro packages yet, […]

With yesterday’s launch of Google Desktop for GNU/Linux, I decided to take a look at the desktop search options again. I tried Beagle on the past, but I always found it too slow and ram consuming, and it never seemed to index stuff right. So here’s my new comparison of three desktop search options for […]

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Now this is something great. I have been looking for something like this for ages, and usually when you ask any GNU/Linux user about a bandwidth shaper all they can tell you is “get a router with QoS” or “check lartc.org“.
I never really felt like buying a new router and never had the time or […]

If you are a GNU/Linux and Firefox user you might enjoy this:

It’s a little package called Firefox Widgets. It’s easy to install, and you don’t have to apply a theme to the whole thing (because let’s be honest, almost all Firefox themes suck). Yeah, it’s useless. But it’s pretty :)