Posts Tagged ‘set’
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I've never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I've always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system.
The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old and I don't have the time (*sic*) to play with it to make it work well. Lenny should be next to be released but I don't feel the very famous stability AND lightness of Debian distributions on this release, like I was accustomed in the past years. Is this because I own a Macbook? Maybe, but a Macbook Santa Rosa is nothing more than an Intel-powered notebook with some strange input devices and a strange non-bios system
Regarding Ubuntu, I believe that this distribution has become naff and really slow. See this Slashdot discussion on this topic.
Yesterday I stumbled to Scientechie review of Fedora 10, which convinced me to try it out.
The software shipped with Fedora 10 is aligned with the one provided with the other distributions: Gnome 2.24.0, kernel 2.6.27.5, NetworkManager 0.7.0 (svn) and so on. Read the release notes for more information.
Fedora 10 really surprises me, as it is the first Gnu/Linux distribution in many, many years that makes me feel again the great stability and performance of the Penguin. Therefore I'm writing this review that is also a how-to, as it contains some fixes for Fedora 10 and Macbooks.
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Tags: appletouch, bd, BD-thing, BD-things, browser, configuration, debian, distribution, distro, Download, driver, Fedora, how-to, howto, installation, job, kernel, kernel 2.6.27, linux, linux distribution, love, macbook, Nautilus, ndiswrapper, NetworkManager, OpenGEU, packagekit, project, release, review, screenshot, set, sito, stability, ubuntu, version, Xorg, year, yum
Posted in Activism?, Free* | 3 Comments »
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I really like (and miss) Linux Mint Menu (mintmenu), so I installed it on my Debian Sid box and here is how I managed it:
- Install mintsystem and mintmenu deb packages, either by adding mint repository to yout sources.list file or by downloading them from mint packages or simplier, by grabbing them from my blog
- Help it to recognize your applications by symlinking some files in /etc/xdg/menus (as root):
ln -s gnome-applications.menu applications.menu
ln -s gnome-preferences.menu preferences.menu
ln -s gnome-settings.menu settings.menu
- Add mintMenu to your Gnome panel..
et voilà! Here are the two deb files I'm using:
mintsystem_61_all
mintmenu_4.2_all
Here is an updated screenshot:

MintMenu complete under Debian Sid
If you also want to enable beagle or tracker, be sure to add the correct search command in the preferences of mintMenu (see the screenshot)
Tags: bd, BD-thing, BD-things, Blog, deb files, debian, debian sid, Download, java, javascript, link, linux, list, menu settings, mint, mintmenu, page, repository, screenshot, set, sito
Posted in Activism?, Programming | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I set up a site for testing my theme on a fresh installation of Wordpress. This immediately brought very interesting results, as I always tested my theme on my blog which had customization/plugins I could not remember.
Nevertheless, I'm going to use this test site for validating the theme against W3C's HTML and CSS validators.
The site is up on http://test.bd-things.net/
Tags: bd, BD-theme, BD-thing, BD-things, Blog, installation, set, site, test site, theme, wordpress
Posted in Activism?, Programming | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Introduction
This guide will help you to install OpenGEU and every other Ubuntu based linux distribution on your Macbook (either "normal" or pro). Even Ubuntu will work with this how-to.
The tutorial is aimed on how to succesfully partition the hard disk and to correctly boot the distribution. For a better post-install configuration I suggest you to follow the Ubuntu Wiki.
This tutorial is also posted on the OpenGEU Wiki
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Tags: configuration, distribution, grub, how-to, installation, language, layout, linux, linux distribution, list, Mac Os, mac os x, macbook, OpenGEU, php, set, ubuntu
Posted in Activism?, Free* | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
As I promised more than 2 months ago, I've just released the sourcecode of the wordpress theme on my blog. BD-theme 0.8 is a set of experiments that will bring me to the final release, I cannot promise that it will work perfectly on every browser, but it will almost do the job. Meanwhile, I'm working since 7 days to the next release, 0.9, that should bring to the blog a final layout.
UPDATE 2008-08-22: The theme you're actually seeing in the blog is what will become BD-theme 0.9. I'm testing it.
Tags: bd, BD-theme, BD-thing, BD-things, Blog, browser, cannot, code, Experiment, job, layout, project, promise, release, set, sourcecode, theme, wordpress, wordpress theme
Posted in Free*, Programming | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The first lecture of DSA was already interesting for me, I learned something about "Mutual Recursion" (when two procedures call each other). The pseudo-code example was about checking if a number is either even or odd.
Given that
- 0 is even
- N is even if n-1 is odd
- N is odd if n-1 is even
And the algorithm:
even
INPUT: n – a natural number.
OUTPUT: true if n is even; false otherwise
odd(n)
if n = 0 then return FALSE
return even(n-1)
even(n)
if n = 0 then return TRUE
else return odd(n-1)
I implemented a tiny C program which uses it:
#include <stdio.h>
int main
(int argc,
char const *argv
[])
{
// set an integer number here
int number =
23945;
// if the number is odd (1 = TRUE)
if(odd
(number
)==
1)
printf("%d is odd\n",number
);
else
printf("%d is even\n",number
);
return 0;
}
// returns 0 if the given number becomes 0, so the given number is odd
// returns even(number - 1) elsewhere
int odd(int number){
if (number==0)
return 0;
else
return even(number-1);
}
// returns 0 if the given number becomes 0, so the given number is even
// returns odd(number - 1) elsewhere
int even(int number){
if(number==0)
return 1;
else
return odd(number-1);
}
Let's see if I can keep understanding things at DSA
Tags: code, set, tiny c
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