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 just ...
Read more » Slow WPA Wireless with a Broadcom card on Ubuntu 10.10
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 of the user. ...
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Is it possible to make proposals for the Natty+1 Ubuntu codename ? If so, I propose Ozzy Osbourne. Please help my cause.
Read more » Ubuntu 11.10 naming
Htc Desire HD (Android Phone) is probably the best smartphone around, but unfortunately it suffers from an unfixed bug that from time to time, busts the init process to take approximately 80% of the CPU, making the whole experience extremely slow and frustrating. While ...
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I have been in France several times, and I'm very happy to see a french website being first to adapt a relatively new paradigm like Flattr. Flattr, co-founded by Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, is a service which enables users to vote things up and have their (arbitrary) monthly fee shared among all things voted. You can think ...
Read more » Frogs cast social founding into the future
Google Operating System website, shared their predictions for Google's 2011. Since probably nobody's interested in knowing my thoughts on the matter I'm gonna share them anyways. :)
Predictions for Google's 2011 1. More free storage in Google Docs: at least 20 GB.Maybe. Nothing particularly exciting and ...
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If you're unlucky like me and own a MacBook, you won't have an Insert key on your keyboard. In such case the overwrite mode can be toggled on Apple keyboards by pressing Fn+Return. So at least you'll know how to deactivate it after having triggered it by accident. (also the Delete is fn+Backspace. How frustrating !)
Read more » Where is the Insert key on a Mac keyboard ?
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 the ...
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25 years ago Windows was born. To stop the machines from prevailing.
Read more » Happy birthday Windows !
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