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Minor update available for folding.sh. For those interested the download is available in the traditional location as well as on Launchpad. Still working on a package folks.
updated config file control, allowing commenting in the ~/.foldingrc
added ‘migrate’ function, easing transitioning to new hardware
added ‘version’ function as standalone (vs output via ‘help’)
misc cleanup
As usual, if […]
Yesterday I permanently shut down the old family desktop. I say family, but in reality it was the desktop used by Becky and Emma before they got their laptops. Anyhow, before shutting the desktop down for the last time, Becky asked if I would transfer her music and photo collection to her laptop.
Becky’s laptop is […]
Have you ever come across software that doesn’t have a deb file or isn’t in any repositories? Well don’t be put off, because compiling and installing from source is pretty straightforward. The software packages will either be in tar.gz or tar.bz2 form. There are essentially four steps you need to take to install your software. […]
The Ubuntu Media Centre Team have decided to use Elisa as their core infrastructure to push the free software media centre effort forward. Elisa is a open source cross-platform media centre, designed to be as simple to use as possible. The software is in its early days and so is still quite basic in terms […]
Because the terminal can be aesthetic and easy on the eye I’ve been investigating a little about vim color schemes, and made my own based on the Vim Tango color scheme by Michele Campeotto.
Gotan Vim color scheme
How to use:
1) move gotan.vim file to ~/.vim/colors/
2) add line “colorscheme gotan” in ~/.vimrc
3) enjoy
4) tweak
5) share
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Just a small and old snippet that might be helpful or an example: Some years ago I’s in need of getting to know early about new released Linux kernel versions. Therefore I wrote a (not sophisticated but working) crontabbed script checking the kernel page for a new stable Linux kernel and alerting me via mail […]
Disclaimer: I don’t know enough about Upstart to hold a low-level conversation about it. What I do know of Upstart is what I have read on the Ubuntu wiki, the Upstart FAQ and a few docs scattered here and there around the web. If I have misrepresented Upstart, its goals or intentions, or […]
The past 30, 31 Jan, and 1st Feb. in the Eurobuilding Hotel, was the event STC Forum, in this event I (RolandoBlanco) was invited to talk about the Free Software and the business model, this was a chance to make present UBUNTU and Ubuntu-ve to others companies.
I did feel so glad to be there and […]
There have been complaints that Ubuntu lacks a disk configuration utility, which forces newbies to manually edit fstab if they want to use a drive that was not present when they installed the system. Manually editing the file is difficult and frustrating to them, and not an ideal way to handle the issue on the […]
I have recently replaced µTorrent with Transmission as my BitTorrent client. However, although Transmission is very light and easy to use, it is a bit too basic and I miss some of the features found in µTorrent. I personally don’t like running windows apps in Wine, I’d rather run a native application. While browsing the […]
