Chroots is a collection of bash scripts to create, maintain, manage and use several chroot environments on debian based systems. It sports such features as privilege drop, multiple chroot maintenance and caching. This is the first public release, under GPLv3. The software is now in a state where I can [...]

I was a part of GLUA, my university’s Linux User Group, for many years. But, I must confess that I’ve never been this excited about an event organised by the group like I am for this one. Not even when I was organising them. GLUA Tech Sessions promises to be [...]

I haven’t blogged for a while now, guess I need a new redesigned template, which seems to boost my blogging ability. But here is a simple and short guide to build ffmpeg with the appropriate codecs to encode stuff for the PSP or iPod. These codecs aren’t enabled by default [...]

I have never understood what l10n stands for, nor i18n, nor m4 for that matter. But reading a good online book about autotools, there are a couple of words explaining that in fact m4 stands for Macro, which is m+4 chars. l10n is localization written as  “l+strlen(ocalizatio)+n”. Fun. Since I [...]

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu hardy, I’ve been trying to give Firefox 3 a fighting chance, mostly because of all the hype around it, along with a couple of bumps with Epiphany. With Epiphany using the gecko backend, it was hard adding exceptions for every website using self-signed certificates, or [...]

Those familiar with the GTD philosophy,  know that your GTD system should be a simple as possible, enabling you to actually get things done while not procrastinating with GTD tools. A system too complex or too fun is just counter productive. After trying a couple of methods and improving on [...]

Here is a quick recipe to getting the latest and greatest radeonhd open source driver for the R5XX/R600 driver series, but this time with dri support. Ubuntu Hardy already has a radeonhd package, but as expected is not updated from the git repo, and does not include the dri extensions. [...]

Following up on a previous post about where to find good podcasts, I saw this earlier today. It sports a nice collection of linux related podcasts, go check it out. On a related topic, I’m still to figure out the best software to handle podcasts. Right now i’m using rhythmbox, [...]

Big Buck Bunny was released on May 30th. It’s great to see that not only operating systems can be open source. I really love the open source model. This movie is the result of a Blender Foundation initiative know as Project Peach. The movie is licensed under the Creative Common [...]

Following my previous post on Web Development Workflow, I decided to be done with my procrastination and setup a local workflow, which keeps me location independent and autonomous. The work flow is simple: Develop and test locally, deploy remotely. I’m currently applying this towards the development of an improved theme [...]