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Upcoming

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Arthur

If you weren’t aware of it, K/Ubuntu 8.10 is about to be released in a couple of days, actually, to be exact, on October 30th. I’ve seen the casual screenshots around of sand-brownish looking desktops and windows-dressing. Those reviews all … Continue reading →

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Net. Net.

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Arthur

I read that the Mono developers officially released Mono 2.0, which promises compatibility with Microsoft .Net 2.0. The official announcement can be found at the Mono-project (releasenotes, if you’re impatient). The Slashdot discussion is right here. There was a long … Continue reading →

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Alterlinks

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Arthur

I found out that VirtualBox 1.6 (finally) supports Solaris: Earlier attempts were an exercise in futilism (that’s not a word, but I like the sound of it). I did install it on the Windows PC (that’s the one I haven’t … Continue reading →

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En. Ix.

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Arthur

I haven’t touched my (personal) Windows laptop for a while: mainly because, I’ve been (primarily) using Ubuntu for things I normally did on Windows. This is both a good and bad sign: First of all, I’ve settled on using specific … Continue reading →

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The imminent

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Arthur

The CBC has an article about the prediction that Windows is about to ‘collapse’, because of Microsoft’s inaction towards the marked after the introduction of Windows Vista. Other industry experts say that Microsoft knows it’s Windows days are dwindling, which … Continue reading →

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CVS meet Enscript

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

Last night, I was installing CVS on my Debian box. Actually, it was already installed: the CVSROOT was ready to go and the service itself had been listening since the early days. However, I never finished assigning rights to myself, … Continue reading →

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Oh. Noes!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, my two sets of Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) arrived by snail-mail, which means that I’ll be upgrading my ‘v1r7u41 b0xen’ this weekend. Once again, the package came with free stickers. Hey, Sun, what’s that? Still no free stickers with … Continue reading →

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More power. Unix power.

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, Walmart (evil Walmart) started to sell the Everex TC2502 gPC for only 199.00 US (Thanks to the high Canadian dollar, that is in or about 50 dollars CDN1, or for Europeans, that is 5 EUROs: yes, approximately the … Continue reading →

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Virtualization

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, the BBC had an article about the data ticking timebomb: the problem that old digital files are getting less accessible because these files can’t be read by newer versions of software. This particularly happens with proprietary binary file formats: … Continue reading →

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More computer stuff

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Arthur

It’s a kind of a miserable day over here, which is right in time for some more miserable updates. I read for example that Microsoft is going to retire Windows XP in 2008, which means that OEMs will be forced … Continue reading →

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The Tech-huh?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Arthur

Left over stuff from the weekend: The Neuros OSD, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It’s the buzz around now since it’s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of … Continue reading →

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Frozen Etch

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Arthur

I just noticed that there’s a commit freeze for the Debian Etch branch (Debian admin), meaning that it’s slated to be released really soon now. Or from the Debian mailing list: We just edited the generic freeze file, so that … Continue reading →

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Yo, what happened to that sound?

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Arthur

Via e-mail I received a question about the Toshiba P100-SD3 and sound problems on Debian/Ubuntu: I decided to run Knoppix 5.1 [I’m still not sure about which version that is, but it’s the latest for sure] and see what goes … Continue reading →

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