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 [...]

20100219 Breakpoint demolog, day 17: building for windows (from linux)

Today I decided to do something different. And I thought: Okay, I’ll try and sort out this compiling for windows issue, so that I can focus on the rest of more important things without having to worry about it any more. And guess what…? I think I managed to do it :-) Roughly, these are [...]

20091110 Too many open files

I am doing something that requires manipulating a lot of files, and I fell in the classical too many open files error trap. A way of finding out which files are being used by a process is to type ps -ax in a terminal, then identify the guilty process and its PID. Let’s imagine its [...]

20091022 dig

I normally go to webs like dnsstuff to find the IP address of a domain. But since I found this command, I think I’ll stop visiting them so often! An example is worth one thousand words: sole@courgette:~$ dig google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2 <<>> google.com ;; global options:  printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: [...]