Starting with August 21st I have installed Windows 7 on my home desktop, right after installing Ubuntu 9.04 with custom packages so that I could obtain the maximum hard disk performance gain for Linux. Being a student at an Automatic Control and Computers Faculty has its advantages, one of them being the MSDN AA membership
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If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better
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I am sure that you all wondered sometime how can a Windows password be broken with physical access to the machine. I know this isn’t quite hacking, but it is a useful thing in many situations: you have forgotten your administrator password; a zealous/envious system administrator didn’t want to give you the passwords after he
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I just want to start this article by emphasizing that I am not a fan of Adobe’s new products like Adobe AIR or Flex. They eat two buckets of RAM for some shiny effects that really don’t deserve this kind of resources. The explanation is rather simple: being new products, they are still full of
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Following the post about my laziness and Tudor’s comment from here, I went on to study how fortune works and I have found a way to use it to change your status in Pidgin using posts from your WordPress blog. It’s quite neat if you think and also this trick could bring you more traffic
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Starting to learn about Servlets and JSP from “Head First Servlets and JSP 2nd edition“, I have reached a level where just editing my files from gedit wouldn’t suffice, as typos began to generate frustrations on my side. Although this is the recommended way by the book authors to build your projects while learning, which
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Looking to see if Google Desktop is now available for Linux I have discovered some Google goodies. Not only that they have ported this nice desktop companion software to Linux, they have also included in their repositories Google Gadgets (using both GTK and Qt, but it is a little buggy as some of the widgets
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Recently I became a fan of VirtualBox, the virtualization platform from Sun Microsystems. It’s robust, it has an extremely small memory foot-print comparing it to other similar virtual managers and it has some great features. You can find more about it on its homepage. Yesterday I have updated VirtualBox from 2.2.4 to 3.1. Unfortunately, the
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UPDATE 2: I strongly recommend against using this patch any more and relaying on the solution provided by UPDATE 1. UPDATE 1: Please check the solution from here as it represents the correct approach for fixing this problem in Ubuntu (all releases). Also, the patch from this post doesn’t work for the kernel included in
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