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 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 [...]

As I (re)evaluate my GTD workflow, I’ve been testing a couple of applications that may help me increase my productivity while becoming a distraction or burden to manage. The next one on my list is Tracks. I decided to put forward a quick howto because it might not be that [...]

After reading this entry on planet gnome, I thought to myself: “Another try at fail”. I like dark themes. Dark themes are soothing on the eyes, and at least for me, tend to make a much better work environment because they annoy less. Hey, my blog theme is dark, 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 ?

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