Archive for December, 2009
December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm ·
I’ve read at least two articles about predictions for Linux and free and open source software in 2010. Some of them predictions might be a bunch of things that have been brewing because of some changes in the open source community and how certain businesses and/or foundations have stepped in.
An example is MySQL. Bruce Byfield thinks that communities behind distros will stop shipping MySQL and turn to other MySQL forks like MariaDB because of the distrust towards Oracle. All I know right now is that a lot of us who have websites rely on using MySQL for the longest time. The possibility of shifting to a new database could be necessary and those who make the distros can cause a change in this matter. Shipping with another database will change the businesses of web hosting providers as it will affect the users. If [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm ·
I’ve blogged about writers tools for Linux users. Some of them I really love and use regularly. Because I am a blogger, I am biased towards blogging clients. For the tools I’ve blogged in 2009, here’s a rundown of the ones I really love.
PyRoom
This is one of the more recent things I’ve blogged about. What’s to love about it? It’s the focus I could have when I am writing something. Especially when I am cramming up some documents. This way I could focus on content then formatting later. I really love it that it forces me to focus on that rectangular box just so I could finish something. And it automatically saves my document, albeit in a temporary file first but still! That’s totally nifty. This is especially for those which are one time writing projects, like just one article [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm ·
I’ve been learning about various Linux games this year. Some of them look notable, and some of them I’ve tried and had much fun.
Puzzle games: Quantz, GBrainy, World of Goo
One of my co-workers was easily hooked on to Quantz. When I blogged about Quantz she couldn’t help but download it. She was really amazed at the awesome graphics and how fun the game is. Too bad it was just a trial but she was looking forward to the release of Quantz for Linux.
I may not have blogged about World of Goo yet but this game has become popular at my workplace too especially during the sale. They got copies of World of Goo during the sale because they weren’t sure before if they should immediately shell out money for a game they didn’t know about. But they sure know it was worth it! [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm ·
Some of the things I am thankful for in 2009 are not really big things but still help me be productive or help me grow more.
Ubuntu working pretty well on my netbook and laptop.
I’ve upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 9.04 and my laptop to Ubuntu 9.10. The upgrades went pretty well. And there were a lot of things that worked out of the box. That was really awesome. For some things that didn’t work out of the box, I just had to install a package or two then a little bit of configuring. Skype was a bit problematic when I tried it, heh. But for a lot of things, everything went well. And I am glad that having a Broadcom wifi card wasn’t as terrible as it was 3-4 years ago.
The chance to meet other FOSS advocates face to face during Asia Source [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm ·
So what do you look forward to this coming year?
Are you counting on Linux and cloud computing? Have your Linux distro and files and setup on your laptop and have it sync somewhere in the cloud? There are some projects that point to that possibility like JolliCloudOS. It’s still by invite only so you can’t really try it out until you receive an invite code.
Definitely Linux on the mobile. Android seems to be paving the way for a more mainstream adoption of Linux on mobile devices. I know that Motorola and Sharp used to have mobile devices that have Linux but they didn’t become as popular as how Android phones are pretty popular now. Aside from the iPhone, Android phones seem to be the most coveted gadget among geeks. Can’t blame them, aside from the features of Android phones, the possibility of coding [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 6:57 pm ·
I was using Windows. I didn’t know about Linux and it wasn’t quite known in my university. But things changed 2 years after that. The university started making sure that most of the colleges and departments had free and open source software running. That was an interesting beginning because, of course, the changes meant that it was enforced in practically all the labs at the university. Back then students only had microfloppy disks and not USB flashdrives. Not a lot of us had laptops in the state university. That change was painful as the floppy drives were not easily mounted and unmounted by what we were using then. Some labs had Linux, some had BSD. Some had GNOME, some had KDE. It was, in some ways, chaotic. People didn’t really know how to adjust. The junior sys admins [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm ·
Not knowing where to begin, you might as well look for possible venues of help. One example could be BeginLinux.com. It has a community blog where you could read different kinds of tips for desktop Linux usage as well as Linux administration. If you are mainly wondering about Linux desktop news and information on Linux distro releases, then head on to their blog which is hosted on WordPress.com, called Begin Linux Blog, of course. That blog has a lot of screenshots of various Linux distros as well as articles which are informative enough.
BeginLinux also offers books and training. If you check out their blog on WordPress.com, you could see that the sidebar has “Linux Specials” and if you have been thinking about getting a manual, they have some affordables ones over there. Though I have yet to see the quality of their manuals. [...]
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December 31, 2009 at 2:18 am ·
If you’re so confused about running shell scripts, or worry too much about what command/s to use so that you could change the mode of a script to run, don’t worry now. There’s this tool called “App Runner” which helps us with running different scripts.
App Runner. Image Credit: App Runner.
There are many scripts out there. Sometimes I get some scripts on the internet to convert files so I could play them on my DS or scripts which basically run other applications. Actually there are also some applications which are basically bin scripts. Thankfully App Runner deals with these too. For example, Adobe Air is needed to run an application such as Tweetdeck. I downloaded Adobe Air and in my file manager, Nautilus, I did a right-click on the file and then a menu showed up. One of the items is “Scripts” then the [...]
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December 30, 2009 at 5:41 pm ·
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December 29, 2009 at 8:43 pm ·
I have been using Chromium more often than Firefox lately but I think that these Firefox secrets just might change my mind. After all, some of these secrets are actually about limiting RAM usage. Yes! Limiting RAM usage. We should try these tips so we could know if it’s all true.
firefox
4. Limit RAM usage: If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
5. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized: This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when [...]
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