I’ve written about the necessity of a Miller Columns based file browser previously (and suggested a terminal based app called Ranger). At the time of writing, I did know of Marlin, and Dolphin, but as of the last year or so Marlin crashes frequently and is hardly useable in my case (running ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily), and in the…
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I’ve been using Ubuntu for the last few years. It was not my first choice, Debian was –because I like a balance between configuring things by hand (call it choice) and automation. The problem, Debian on my Yonah based MacBook Pro (that’s the last 32 bit Apple computer before the 64 bit platform was introduced), was more…
I just wanted to jot this down so as to leave a record. When you configure Bitlbee to work with Facebook chat, your contacts are not shown in humanly discernible handles. The following fixes the issue. account set facebook/nick_source full_name Why this isn’t a default setting, I don’t know. Maurice Cepeda All rights reserved on…
I don’t know of anyone that makes due without Flash these days. It’s become so pervasive, it’s difficult to imagine one without it on today’s Internet. HTML5 is supposed to change this, what with Jobs formally announcing this in his famous letter regarding Adobe’s technology. While I see the end of any proprietary technology, such as…
Really, I don’t understand the commotion about instant messaging (IMing) at work –since employees (as well as employers) are still going to waste time if they want. For instance and perhaps not the case where you work and maybe extreme, but in Chillán, Chile bosses are never in their offices, anyway. They’re always “en terreno”, most…
This is a cleaned up Ubuntu 11.04 specific HowTo version of a Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) article I previously wrote. Getting this working on Ubuntu was so simple that I messed it up and almost pulled my hair out before realizing how simple it really was. The key is to not mess about with the proxy…
This is a cleaned up Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) only version of my previous article on economical surfing, as with updates and Ubuntu 11.04 pertinent information, it started to look confusing. There is now a separate Ubuntu 11.04 article, too, since the setup is different (even simpler) from that of Debian. Install pertinent software # aptitude install pdnsd…
UPDATE: Sept. 11th, 2011 There’s a cleaned up version of this article here, and a Ubuntu 11.04 one here. UPDATE: Sept. 6th, 2011. I’ve realized that the localhost setting (127.0.0.1) doesn’t stick in /etc/resolv.conf. The only way I could make it permanent (using a stripped down Debian install I use on this machine) is to edit…
I first came across the idea of running a local DNS server while running Debian and reading what Ubuntu heads were doing to speed up their navigation. I never gave it much thought, until I had to configure a custom Debian install to surf via a 3G mobile modem. I spent the a day investigating…
I’ve noticed a few promoted methods on how to install SIP-Communicator (now known as jitsi). The problem is, none of them work. That is, if you try to install using the instructions labelled with the predicated name (manually editing sources.list), you can’t add the keys –causing GPT error warnings. Here’s how I got it installed…
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