20111103 “gnome-shell is a requirement”

[root@courgette ~]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases…  core is up to date  extra                   975.5K  744.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  community               582.4K  608.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade… resolving dependencies… looking for [...]

20111023 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 2: XFCE

So since my Ubuntu installation was behaving idiotically I decided to stop delaying the unavoidable, and made a fresh install of Arch Linux on an spare disk. I completed the installation of the basic system in a couple of hours, but I could have finished way earlier if the neighbours didn’t create so much interference [...]

20111020 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 1: KDE

One year after, and I’m still running Ubuntu 10.10. I have tested Unity and GNOME 3 both on Virtual Boxes and on real computers and I disliked them both–they convert perfectly capable machines into piles of obsolete hardware. It’s a shame, but it’s their decision. Thankfully, since it’s Linux, we have many choices, and so [...]

20110718 aafm – the Android ADB file manager

Complaining is cheap–acting is for the brave ones! So I took the brave, proactive path and wrote aafm: an ADB based file manager, for those of us which can’t get MTP to work, no matter how many voodoo rituals we perform in front of the Sacred Droid Puppet beforehand. I’ve made sure that the project’s [...]

20110708 Unicode emoticons with GNOME’s Character Map

GNOME’s Character Map, also known as Gucharmap, comes by default with Ubuntu and any other distribution that uses GNOME. And dull and functional as it is, it can also be the source of much enjoyment! The trick is easy: just go browsing around the Unicode blocks until you find something you fancy, and double click [...]