20100707 ArchLinux: looking good

It’s been approximately two years since I changed to using Ubuntu for my desktop needs. Before, I was using Mac OS, but I was getting increasingly annoyed with it and the direction it was heading for, specially since Leopard and was released. I have learnt a lot with Ubuntu, and I think they’re doing a [...]

20100705 Fixing the Netgear WPN311 system freezes in Ubuntu

We had this long-time problem with the Netgear WPN311 wireless cards which seemed to go and come back intermittently with each kernel revision: if we used intensively the wireless, the computer would freeze. As in totally frozen (you couldn’t even go back to a console and restart the X or something from there). With Ubuntu [...]

20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]

20100603 Firefox 64 bit (Ubuntu)

I wanted to test the latest Firefox but for the love of whoever you want, I wasn’t able to find a 64bit build in Mozilla’s site. I could choose between lots of languages, but I couldn’t choose between 32 and 64 bits– their detection system insisted in providing the 32 bits builds. Bad, bad UI [...]

20100426 Unknown input or output format: x11grab (Ubuntu)

I recompiled today ffmpeg because I wanted to have support for a couple more of formats but when I finished the installation (using the latest SVN version), I was unable to capture the screen any more. Got this error: Unknown input or output format: x11grab I have been searching and reading almost hundreds of pages [...]