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Gnome-utils maintainership
I’m glad to report that Emmanuele Bassi has accepted to co-maintain Gnome-utils. For now he’s mainly hacking on the gnome-dictionary (as can be seen from his post series) but I’m sure he’ll spread his...
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Ubuntu + hpmount = a fucked up iPod
I’m in the middle of leaving my present job to a new one in another country, and yesterday I was mulling the different options I had to back up all the stuff in my $HOME that I want to take out with me...
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Disk
In a followup to my previous post about disk space viewers, I thought I might add that after trying out Disk Inventory X I think that it is, hands down, the best app available for this kind of job. The...
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SSH mounting on MacOS X
For quite some time now I’ve been looking at a way to mount a remote location to my desktop through SSH. It would be extremely useful to me, as I generally make my “science” stuff run on a cluster...
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Stupid posts on Digg
I kinda like digg.com for the way it brings out interesting newbites and stories out of the darkness into the light. However I’ve noticed an increase in stupid posts lately – uninformed nitwits...
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Comparison of Mac backup software
A very exhaustive comparison of backup software for Mac, with an emphasis on the preservation of OS X metadata. The clear winner is apparently SuperDuper. via the shirt pocket blog, who is evidently...
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Gnome-Utils 2.15
I’m very happy to report that Emmanuele Bassi has just released Gnome-Utils 2.15, i.e. the first release in the development cycle of the upcoming Gnome 2.16. It can be downloaded here, and more...
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Mugshot
I’m sorry, but I can’t figure out what this mugshot thing is. Is it a website? Is it software? Why isn’t there any screenshot anywhere? The project wiki is not useful either – it’s filled with stuff...
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Hopeless situation
This post (via the Tao of Mac) by an end-user trying the GIMP is very sad on multiple levels. I’m not even sure where to begin. I guess a little bit of background information is needed here, and if you...
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Unsubscribe
Today is a sad day, as I’ve unsubscribed my gmail address from the Gnome desktop-devel-list, gnome-announce, gtk-devel-list (not technically Gnome, but related), performance-list and evince mailing...
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Disk
In a followup to my previous post about disk space viewers, I thought I might add that after trying out Disk Inventory X I think that it is, hands down, the best app available for this kind of job. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SSH mounting on MacOS X
For quite some time now I’ve been looking at a way to mount a remote location to my desktop through SSH. It would be extremely useful to me, as I generally make my “science” stuff run on a cluster...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stupid posts on Digg
I kinda like digg.com for the way it brings out interesting newbites and stories out of the darkness into the light. However I’ve noticed an increase in stupid posts lately – uninformed nitwits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comparison of Mac backup software
A very exhaustive comparison of backup software for Mac, with an emphasis on the preservation of OS X metadata. The clear winner is apparently SuperDuper. via the shirt pocket blog, who is evidently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gnome-Utils 2.15
I’m very happy to report that Emmanuele Bassi has just released Gnome-Utils 2.15, i.e. the first release in the development cycle of the upcoming Gnome 2.16. It can be downloaded here, and more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mugshot
I’m sorry, but I can’t figure out what this mugshot thing is. Is it a website? Is it software? Why isn’t there any screenshot anywhere? The project wiki is not useful either – it’s filled with stuff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hopeless situation
This post (via the Tao of Mac) by an end-user trying the GIMP is very sad on multiple levels. I’m not even sure where to begin. I guess a little bit of background information is needed here, and if you...
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