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Posted in Linux OS on Aug 11th, 2011
This is a self response to a post I wrote a few years ago. The old post it’s a funny read for these times. 1.The user interface After a few years of use I went 100% Gnome. The cool sharp look interface made me forget all about the old WINDOWS desktop. I love it [...]
Posted in Linux OS on May 22nd, 2011
Tv-maxe is an interesting application that you can use to see TV on your computer using just the internet. Most of the TV channels are broadcasting for free but they all use the the sop protocol. In Fedora/Ubuntu this is not working out of the box. To install and watch TV you have to follow [...]
Posted in Development on Feb 19th, 2011
1.cd ~/ #move to home directory 2.mkdir package #create a directory to hold mercurial 3.cd package #enter the diectory 4.wget http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.7.5.tar.gz #download mercurial,always get the latest version 5.tar zxf mercurial-1.7.5.tar.gz #extract the files 6.cd mercurial-1.7.5 #enter mercurial dir 7.make local #make 8.~/.hgrc #create this main hgrc config file and add an user [ui] … 9.hg [...]
Posted in Php World on Jan 27th, 2011
There is a war going on. The rules are not clear, the participants might be slippery, and there is a lot of code involved, but in the end there is a single winner. This is the CMS competition game and Wordpress 3.x, Drupal 6.x and Joomla 1.x are the players.
You need to know from the start that the comparison is not from a strict technical perspective. It’s more like a general overview, and based on experience of building plug-ins with the same functionality for all three of them.
Posted in Linux OS on Dec 3rd, 2010
There is one interesting tool you could use to save a youtube video on your storage device. It’s called youtube-dl. If you don’t have it try install it with
Posted in Database on Dec 3rd, 2010
There are a few scripts out there that run out of the box to convert a mysql database to a postgresql database. Until now I only found two real solutions but both of them have some ups and downs.
Posted in Linux OS on Nov 11th, 2009
I found Gimp to be one of the most versatile tools on the market. It works like Photoshop, it’s very light and it’s available on across different operating system. The fact that is free is just the cherry on top. People are in general very hard to convinced to work with this tool. I believe it’s a similar experience like going to Linux from Windows or Using Open Office instead of Ms Office.
The future is bright for this tool because in the next version ( 2.8 ) the developers will finish : Single Window Mode. Until then ( the end of the year ) the following tips might help some of you work with this tool and maybe start understand that this is a true replacement for the proprietary software named Photoshop.
Posted in Tips and Tricks on Nov 1st, 2009
This release was a pleasant surprise. I hesitated for a few days before making the switch but learning from my previous experience I played it safe : I made a new partition for Ubuntu 9.10 and I let the old Ubuntu 8.10 working full an untouched. To install the new OS I put the ISO [...]
Posted in UBUNTU Operating System on Sep 1st, 2009
Allmyapps is a great idea for a website and I can say I was thinking of such a great system for a long time. My vision was lacking a big thing : the fact that you can put everything in the cloud. Let me start over if I may : Allmyapps is a tool where [...]
Posted in Productivity on Aug 29th, 2009
There are a lot of things you can do to improve your productivity but you need a little patience to learn when and how to use it. The best things is the tools I presenting now are free to use and work both on Linux and in an Windows environment. 1.Email management If your company [...]