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Jamendo direct download with Rhythmbox [HowTo]
While Rhythmbox allows you to download songs from Jamendo via BitTorrent, that method is horribly broken as there are pretty much no seeders. Here’s a quick tutorial to have Rhythmbox open your browser at Jamendo’s direct download page. Backup JamendoSource.py to be sure to be …
Gnome 3 out soon !
I just realized that Gnome 3 is gonna come out in 3 days from now. Looking at the screenshots it does seem a game changer release. And an imminent one: Releasing awesome in: 2 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes, 11 seconds I just wonder how long …
Slow WPA Wireless with a Broadcom card on Ubuntu 10.10
When your phone connects to the Wifi better than your PC, it makes you think that something is not that ok with your computer. In my case my Macbook with Maverick suffered extremely slow wireless connections when connecting to WPA hotspot. Looking on google just brought to a bunch of pretty esoteric solutions that I [...]
Software design principles
Surfing around, I found the Gnome Shell Design Principles. Take responsibility for the user’s experience Design with understanding that a user’s needs change frequently while they work and play. Principle of non-preemption “Individual interactive programs operate in a non-intrusive manner with respect to the user’s activities. The system does not usurp the attention and prerogatives [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 naming
Is it possible to make proposals for the Natty+1 Ubuntu codename ? If so, I propose Ozzy Osbourne. Please help my cause.
How to repeat a shell command N times
Last day, I needed to repeat a shell command a arbitrary number of times, and all I found was the suggestion to use the repeat command. Sadly, I haven’t been able to found that command in Ubuntu, but after some research I could luckily find something useful. What follows is a very simple bash implementation of [...]
Rapache on Ubuntu 10.04 ? Not likely.
This post is outdated! Rapache is back ! Along with the last LTS release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx, there have been a few requests to bring back Rapache and make it work on the newer Ubuntu releases. (what’s …
What is Google ChromeOS, I mean really ?
All this fuss about Google ChromeOS. Is it a threat to Microsoft ? Is it a threat to the Ubuntu ? (funny nobody wonders if that’s a threat to Apple, especially considering everything is a threat to Apple, even being able to take DRM free songs *out* of the freaking iPod) I’ll just assume you’ve already [...]
No more Gimp for you little Joe
When I first posted about the matter, most people’s reaction was LOL. The we thought it was just a random proposal, never going to be approved. Well, according to OMGUbuntu’s do0d, the GIMP has just have been said bye bye …
Fedora’s new little friend
Straight from the release notes of the recently released Fedora 12: Gnote is installed by default in GNOME for this release replacing Tomboy. Gnote is a port of Tomboyfrom Mono to C++ and consumes …
