Wednesday, December 30, 2009
New Netbook Asus eeepc 1005 HA
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Openbox 3.4.8 released
http://icculus.org/openbox/
and download it from here: http://icculus.org/openbox/
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Reducing SSD wear in Acer Aspire One - Linux (Part2)
* disable the sreadahead service (accelerate the boot process)
sudo vim /etc/init/sreadahead.conf
The sreadahead tool helps to speed up the boot process with conventional hard disks, but it actually slows the boot with SSDs.and comment the following line:
exec /sbin/sreadahead -t 0
* edit the fstab file
sudo vim /etc/fstab
and add the following option to the SSD card noatime
/dev/sda1 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Easy Breezy Beautiful GNOME Shell
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Chrome OS
Monday, November 16, 2009
LINUX 2009 @ Portugal
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Review of Xubuntu 9.10
http://1800ubuntu.com/ubuntu-flavors/24-xubuntu-910-review.html
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Mobile Broadband ZTE MF620 - TMN (Portugal)
Create the following file in udev rules
root@kenobi:~# vim /etc/udev/rules.d/15-zte-mf620.rules
Copy the following text:
ACTION!="add", GOTO="ZTE_End"
# Is this the ZeroCD device?
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000",
SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", GOTO="ZTE_ZeroCD"
# Is this the actual modem?
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0001",
SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", GOTO="ZTE_Modem"
LABEL="ZTE_ZeroCD"
# This is the ZeroCD part of the card, remove
# the usb_storage kernel module so
# it does not get treated like a storage device
#RUN+="/sbin/rmmod usb_storage"
RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch -d 1 -v 0x19d2 -p 0x2000 -V 0x19d2 -P 0x0001"
LABEL="ZTE_Modem"
# This is the Modem part of the card, let's
# load usbserial with the correct vendor
# and product ID's so we get our usb serial devices
RUN+="/sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001",
# Make users belonging to the dialout group
# able to use the usb serial devices.
#MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
MODE="660", GROUP="tty"
LABEL="ZTE_End"
With Network Manager configure to TMN and add the following DNS Servers:
194.65.3.20
194.65.3.21
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Reducing SSD wear in Acer Aspire One - Linux
Edit the fstab file and add the follwing lines
root@kenobi:~# vim /etc/fstab
#Reducing SSD wear
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults 0 0
This options works fine in my Acer Aspire One.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Xubuntu 9.04 vs Debian 5.0.1 Xfce
Yes, it's Ubuntu release week and yes, we'll be looking at Ubuntu for our feature article. Instead of a review of what everyone already knows, this week I thought we'd take a look at how the newly released Xubuntu 9.04 compares to Debian Lenny with an Xfce desktop. Xfce is a desktop environment built using the GTK+ graphical libraries, similar to GNOME. Unlike GNOME however, its focus is on being lightweight. Creator Olivier Fourdan writes: "Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources." Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, but instead of providing a GNOME desktop, they provide Xfce. They also include much of the functionality that its larger parent offers. Debian, on the other hand, is based on, well, itself and offers a multitude of desktop offerings, one of which is Xfce. How do the two compare?
here
Monday, April 20, 2009
Recicle os "monos" lá de casa
Puxe pela memória e contabilize: quantos computadores, telemóveis e impressoras já substituiu nos últimos cinco anos? E os velhinhos? Estão guardados numa gaveta ou na arrecadação à espera de voltarem "à vida"?Centros de Recolha e ERP Portugal
fonte: http://tek.sapo.pt/extras/sugestoes/sugestao_tek_recicle_os_monos_la_de_casa_990549.html
Saturday, April 11, 2009
And the winner of the Linux Foundation video competition is...
Friday, April 10, 2009
A tradição ainda se mantém...
De tal modo decidiu-se "interligar" o Monte de Santa Luzia, na cidade de Viana do Castelo, à capela da Senhora da Cabeça pela Serra de Santa Luzia. Sendo o trajecto entre 25 a 30km de "puro" monte, apesar de tudo a viagem fez-se à um bom ritmo, sempre debaixo de uns "bons" aguaceiros e de uns raios de sol que não tendiam em ficar.
Apesar de a viagem ter sido curta em relação aos anos anteriores. Ficando assim contabilizada: 96 km em 5 horas e 20 minutos, o espírito da aventura mantinha-se inalterável, pois o grau de dureza tinha aumentado e as condições climatéricas eram bastantes diferentes das edições anteriores.
Não posso aqui também de frisar que o "espírito do Caminho de Santiago de Compostela" ainda se mantém vivo, nem que seja aos 55 anos. Falo aqui de uma pessoa que conhecemos na viagem de regresso entre Viana do Castelo e Esposende. Ora aqui está o verdadeiro espírito de coragem, ter saído de Sintra no dia 30 de Março, ter chegado a Santiago de Compostela no dia 7 de Abril, e ter optado por fazer a viagem de regresso até a Sintra, passando por Fátima. No total este senhor "levava" 800 km nas pernas e um "ego do tamanho do mundo". Depois de uma boa conversa com o senhor, uma frase ficou retida no pensamento, "não interessa o número de dias que se leva a chegar a Santiago, o mais importante é chegar lá..." Para quem já fez o Caminho de Santigo, como eu já tive a opturnidade de o fazer no ano passado, esta frase faz todo o sentido, só o facto de entrar na praça com a bike, dá sempre a vontade de voltar a repetir.
Resumindo: " Pró ano há mais !!! "
Ps: Jota aquele abraço
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Wellcome Tuz
"With a commit introduced on Tuesday evening into the main development tree, Linus Torvalds granted the Linux mascot a three-month sabbatical," The H Open Source reports. "Tuz, an image of a Tasmanian devil wearing a false yellow nose as a reminder of the Linux penguin, will replace Tux in Linux version 2.6.29."
Monday, March 16, 2009
AEJ - Associação Espaço Jacobeus
Sunday, March 15, 2009
fwbuilder: Manage Firewalls Professionally
Firewall Builder is available from the libfwbuilder and fwbuilder packages in both Debian and Ubuntu in Universe. Packages for the current development builds are available from the project download area on SourceForge.Article submitted by Vadim Kurland to http://times.debian.net
Thursday, March 5, 2009
How to install xfce4.6 on Ubuntu
Here are the lines you should add to your sources.list. For Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jerome-guelfucci/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jerome-guelfucci/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
Please report any bug you may find on the Xfce bugzilla.
Notes: OpenPGP key of the PPA by following those instructions
Friday, February 27, 2009
XFCE 4.6 Released
[27 February 2009 by The Xfce Development Team]
After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released.
Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new settings manager, a brand new session manager and sound mixer as well as several huge improvements of its core components. A list of all the changes since the last release candidate can be found on this page.
A visual overview of Xfce 4.6 is available here:
http://www.xfce.org/about/tour
Download Xfce 4.6 from the Downloads section of the Xfce website:
http://www.xfce.org/download
Regards,
The Xfce development team.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Welcome "Lenny"
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saving Your Configuration of Damn Small Linux
I continue to be impressed with Damn Small Linux. Consider, how I've turned an ancient laptop (without a hard drive) into a jukebox just by turning it on with this CD in it.Read more here
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun's Cloud Strategist
here
Friday, January 23, 2009
Apt-Dater 0.7 for Mass Remote Updates
The apt-dater program provides upgrade selection on remote hosts based on category or group, which allows for parallel updates on multiple hosts. Admins can monitor each individual update session. The IBH project page provides a short video of its functionality.
The program is licensed under GPLv2 and is ready for download as a Debian package or source tarball.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Parabéns Tintim :)
É a primeira aventura de Tintim, iniciada em 10 de Janeiro de 1929 no «Le Petit Vingtiéme» e é a única totalmente a preto e branco. :D e posso dizer que já faz parte da colecção cá em casa graças ao familiar meu :) há já uns aninhos... :P
PS: o que são 80 anos !!! :)
Ser mais produtivo
Um mindmap é na realidade uma forma bastante simples de organizar ideias. Na prática, é para mim mais simples usar estes diagramas do que os rabiscos que antes escrevia em papel, que consistiam de pontos, subpontos e mais subpontos. A diferença é que com o mindmap há um agrupamento visual de ideias no lugar da organização sequencial numa lista de pontos.