Using Intrepid and the newest Nvidia drivers (version no. 180), Compiz Fusion finally works, so does TwinView. What a massive relief, finally!... Read More

I’ve been at my new job for a week now, some necessary administrative jobs are among the first things I’ve done and it’s time to recap. I am no longer in Thailand, I spent a few days in Sweden before going to Malta, a strange and cold experience. Actually the worst was not the cold but the fact that my body isn’t used to low humidity any more, it’s horrible, you wake up in the middle of the night because your respiratory system hurts like hell. ... Read More

I’m writing in the middle of the jungle, using a GPRS modem on Linux, read on and you’ll understand why that’s such a massive milestone. Up until now there has been only one single reason why I’ve still used Windows, my Salomon modem wouldn’t work on Linux.... Read More

I just installed Intrepid on my dual head machine at work and the experience was without flaw, easier than ever.... Read More

I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More

The process of setting up Merb and Datamapper can easily derail, these are my experiences of setting them up on Ubuntu with XAMPP.... Read More

I just shut down my dual boot by reformatting the Linux partition and running Ubuntu in a virtual machine instead. This is the walkthrough:... Read More