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Moving away from Ubuntu
I decided to abandon Ubuntu on my home desktop after the upgrade to 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I knew there were some things that I couldn’t like, but I didn’t know it would cripple the very base of the operating system. These are the things that went bad: The upgrade finished with obscure errors. can’t log […]
PyPy as a faster alternative for Python
June 7, 2011
It came to my attention today that there’s an alternative interpreter for the Python language which is faster and often viable: it’s called PyPy and uses Just-In-Time compilation to execute Python code. Just-In-Time compilation is a technique that is used successfully in many projects: the .NET Framework, Java, QEMU, … and it has also been […]
QEMU raw images real size
May 8, 2011
Today I noticed a nice thing about using “raw” hard disk images with QEMU: the images are sparse files. What does it mean? Sparse files are an useful feature of many file system formats that saves space in case of files that contain chunks of zero data. My host’s file system is formatted with ext4, […]
I’m seeding Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
April 30, 2011
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal has been just released. I’m curently seeding the torrents of the installation images, I feel it’s a small yet effective thing to do to reciprocate the benefits I get for using Ubuntu since 2007, when the release was called Feisty Fawn. I went to the Ubuntu alternative download page, downloaded the […]
Getting started with Arduino Uno on Ubuntu
January 31, 2011
I really wanted to try Arduino; Arduino narrates a story where the good guys are winning. Saturday I arranged to buy one, the Arduino Uno, and the first thing that came into my mind was “Wow, it’s really smaller than I thought possible!”. I went home and started unboxing it: the packages comes with a […]
Coding styles comparison in the Open Source Software world
December 28, 2010
While looking for existing C coding standards I discovered that the GNU and Linux projects officially suggest very different styles. Inside the Linux kernel documentation, Linus Torvalds goes so far as to mock GNU coding standards: First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, […]
BloGTK installation on Ubuntu 10.04
November 7, 2010
I wanted to try BloGTK to write my WordPress blog posts, as suggested by the Apps for WordPress.com page. I installed it on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine from the Software Center, then launched it from the Applications -> Internet menu, but it didn’t start. I could only see on the task bar that a window […]
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