October 14th, 2008
Sorry, guys! Been offline too often. The internet connection at home and at the office haven’t been stable. :( Don’t worry though! I am trying to work on it whenever I can go online and find some stuff that might help. At home, we have a funky router and a not-so-good connection. In [...]
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October 8th, 2008
LinuxJournal has started a series on “Examining the Compilation Process” for its readers. I am actually one who needs to learn about these things so that I will not be afraid of compiling anymore.
The steps do not sound very difficult. At least from this article. This is what it says: “the compilation [...]
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October 8th, 2008
Time to party! *blows party whistle* Rejoice fellow Broadcom users! This is the best news I’ve heard all day:
Now Dell, with some help from Broadcom and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has just released a Linux friendly Broadcom Wi-Fi driver for both 32 and 64-bit Linuxes. According to John Hull, Dell’s Manager of Linux [...]
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October 5th, 2008
(screenshot by Clair Ching, 2008)
Want to know what you’ve got on your CDs and external hard drives and other removable devices? There’s one tool you could use: Gwhere.
Quick Start for newbies:
1. Look for a package of the application in your distro’s repositories or on the internet. Install that package.
2. Once installed you [...]
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October 4th, 2008
Clair Ching, 2008
If you’ve been wondering where all your disk space has gone to, you might as well check it out by looking at a pie chart. It will not only be visual it will also be informative.
Baobab can view your home directory and show you the composition of your files in terms of [...]
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October 1st, 2008
Image of Tux from Nissie Chupeco, 2008.
Ta-dah! It’s no other than Tux the Linux mascot. :D I have asked a friend, Nissie (who runs a shop at Etsy called Deadcraft) to make a Tux keychain which I’d be giving away to one lucky winner of this month’s contest.
The mechanics:
1. Post a comment on this post [...]
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October 1st, 2008
This month’s poll result gives us Pidgin as the favorite messaging client for us Linux users. Hrmm. Maybe we’d wait in several months time and see if this will change, right? :) Will any of the others come close to the status of Pidgin? What do you think?
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