More desktops!!

Here's how some of my desktops look now: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope desktop A bit of a KDE taste with this Mandriva 2010 desktop And...Read more »

Bye, Gnome Network Manager Applet!!

I love Gnome, but I must admit its network manager applet is not the best I have seen. It lacks many basic, yet important features. For ex...Read more »

DeVeDe Completely ROCKS!!!

DeVeDe is an awesome application which allows you to convert downloaded video formats (DIVX, MP4, etc) into an ISO image that you can burn t...Read more »

Nokia N900 - Pros and Cons

In one of my earlier posts I had mentioned some of the things I was enjoying doing with my Nokia N900 . Now that I have had the device to p...Read more »

Things to do after installing Ubuntu

These "things to do after installing distro of your choice " lists were one of the most useful things I found when I was starting ...Read more »

The State of Smart Phones Today

I mentioned in one of my earlier postings this month that I had recently obtained a new smart phone. Now picking out a smart phone is no ea...Read more »

originalip option in dansguardian

I upgraded my firewall on Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010 and got into problem with dansguardian. Client computers got DansGuardian 400 - Bad Reque...Read more »

Geany Text Editor PDF Manual

I recently read an article about GEANY , a great light yet powerful text editor that goes beyond what text editors do. It is perfect for pr...Read more »

Is Cedega Hanging in There?

In one of my past articles I made a bold assessment that it appeared Transgaming might be dropping support for their Cedega Wine software...Read more »

Linux in Real Life - Uses Around the World

My little niche here on the internet is largely devoted to talking about various forms of the Linux Operating System. Truth be told, however...Read more »

Try Google Chrome OS!!

...Or Chromium OS, for that matter. This is essentially the same code with just a few changes added. Here´s how you can quickly set up Chro...Read more »

Stripping comments from a file

You can run this command to strip comments (line starting with a #) and empty lines from a file in Linux: cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | grep -...Read more »

Create your own battery monitor in Ubuntu with IBAM

If you use Ubuntu on a laptop, you may have noticed that its battery monitor applet is not the most believeable nor reliable application in ...Read more »

Moblin 2.1 IVI FC Release tested on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA 500/Poulsbo)

Phoronix hasn't gotten to it yet , but now I've done a quick test with the Moblin distribution IVI version with supposed GMA 500 sup...Read more »

Backup your Ubuntu!

So you have spent some time setting up your Ubuntu Karmic, or even spent months or years working on your machine and don't know what to ...Read more »

OpenGL vs DirectX - Benchmark Comparison

I've done a few benchmarks to date and today I am going to add another interesting set of numbers to the list. Unigine is a cross-pla...Read more »

Memory Cards for the Skypephone S2

After having a lot of insecurity with acquiring and inserting a memory card for the 3 Skypephone S2, let me give you some hints: a Sandisk  ...Read more »

More on Google, Censorship and China

The NYTimes has posted a great feature on the debate with many experts providing their intriguing views on the subject.Read more »

Help with Stopping Software Patents in Europe

I know this is quite political, but it's open source politics: A new initiative has been taken to propose a EU directive that prevents s...Read more »

The Linux Command Line eBook

Finding Linux was a great experience for me. Aside from getting to know a great tool, I found the technical side of me having lots of fun a...Read more »

Large Scale Chinese Attack on Google to Hit Human Rights Activists

As a response to the incident of a sophisticated Chinese attack on Google's infrastructure , the Chinese Google search has now been de-c...Read more »

Sending Mixed Messages

Today was my first day back at University and one of my professors is using a piece of web technology called " Wimba Classroom " t...Read more »

Little USB trick!

I just thought I would drop here a quick trick I learn today, which is specially handy in case you have issues with the speed of your USB pe...Read more »

Nat Friedman leaves Novell

Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza were the founders of Ximian project . They both were known for their famous GNOME project where Ximian born...Read more »

Nokia N900 - A Handheld... Device

Its a new year and thusly it was time for a new phone. Towards the end of December I ordered my Nokia N900 , it arrived just last week and I...Read more »

Lessons not Learned - Continuing Latency Issues in Linux

We still have wonderful fsync offenders. Look at Kopete for example, or at Chrome. You don't want to be running that on battery or in a ...Read more »

Chrome for Linux without the Spyware

When you get Chrome for Linux beta from Google or Chromium from the Ubuntu repository, there is some tracking code in there. Some say that...Read more »

Linux sucks!!!... or maybe not?

I have found some interesting sources lately (references listed at the bottom) related to Linux shortcomings and flaws. The sources I refer...Read more »

Running Untrusted Programs in a Sandbox in Linux

Isolate is the program to do it. It has quite a nice introduction on it's website but unfortunately has to be downloaded in source and...Read more »

Transcoding 50 fps Interlaced AVCHD to 50 fps Progressive x264 with MEncoder - Getting Every Last Drop of Quality out of your Interlaced AVCHD Recordings

Have you ever wondered how much quality your HD camera can deliver? This script helps you to find it out if you have a camera that encodes i...Read more »

Wine, CXGames, and Windows 7 Performance Comparison

I blog more than a little about Wine software. In the past I have run benchmarks between the most current pieces of Wine technology o...Read more »

Alternative USB installation

(QUICK EDIT: I have been noticing a significant improvement in overall battery life with this approach!!! Also, make sure you buy a USB dri...Read more »

Happy 2010!!!

2009 was a tough year, let's hope 2010 gives us something to smile for. Happy new year!Read more »