The Ubuntu Hardy Heron is upon us. It was released last week. I have already been using it for over a month now, all the way back to the first beta releases, and I can say it’s a well polished release, with some new features and usable by beauty and [...]

Lately I’ve been working on some web projects, nothing major, one of which is the template for this blog. One thing that always bugs me is the workflow for web development. What is the best workflow for such projects, that require server side testing ? How to develop a WordPress [...]

Updated to wordpress 2.5. Nothing to see here, move along.

My top ten looks like this: $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 161 ls 85 cd 46 vim 33 make 28 clear 21 ll 16 rm 15 svn 14 sudo 10 touch What does your top ten look like ?

Shameless plug follows (this is my site, I can do it, if I want to ): You can also do your bit. Take a look at Jono Bacon’s post and see how.

sudo apt-get install bash-completion After this small step my quality of life significantly improves. (This didn’t seem to be installed by default in Ubuntu Hardy)

Yesterday, after reading about the release of Hardy Heron beta release ( announcement), I decided to try out the iso torrent download to see how fast it would be, as compared to a normal http download. I have to say I was extremely happy after seeing it pushing my network [...]

Just an update on a previous post, since the radeonhd driver is already in a usable state. This is a short, to the point tutorial of how to get the new radeonHD on Ubuntu Gutsy. Get the necessary build tools: sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libtool git-core Checkout the [...]

I’ve been playing around with my Gutsy install on the laptop. Since it uses a tickless kernel (2.6.22), I decided to give powertop a chance and see what’s ticking away my computer. To do a somewhat informed analysis, I tried a couple of scenarios, all with wireless transmitting and without [...]

So SUSE/Novell really came through, taking advantage of AMD’s recently released specs to provide us with a new open source driver. It’s still fresh out the gates, so don’t expect a bulletproof or even fully working driver. Thanks and credits go to a few wonderful developers like libv, egbert and [...]