Category: computers

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Today we have not one, but two big stories: 1. First of all, Slackware 10.1 was released today. You can read the announcement and the ChangeLog (complete with a...

During my investigation of ways to back off resource hogs for getting work done, it’s already been noted repeatedly there is no console word processor, an...

Sometimes I like to think I know how John the Baptist must have felt. He was described as the lone voice crying in the Wilderness (John 1:23). From time to time...

My trusty laptop sombragris is dying a slow death. That was pretty evident since a long, long time ago, but it wasn’t painful, at least until yesterday. Y...

The K Desktop Environment released yesterday KDE 3.4 beta 1, code named “Krokodile”. Slackware packages were ready right from the start, and I left ...

I am in the process of typesetting a fairly large book using LaTeX. It usually is a straightforward task, and often it even poses interesting challenges. The be...

On November 9, the Mozilla Foundation released version 1.0 final of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. This is a browser noted for being lightweight, fast, stable...

Today I received an email from some guy in Brazil who took himself the pain of translating Part I of my Stealth Desktop series at Open for Business. This confir...

There is a very peculiar kind of cyber-animal: The Web Designer, Frontpagetherion dreamwaveflashatus Nielsen 1998. This furry creature usually dwells the labora...

Slashdot is reporting that Patrick Volkerding, the lead (and most times the only) developer of the Slackware Linux distribution, is considering whether to drop ...

Sorry for the relatively few posts of this month. Don Victorio is wreaking havoc with his illness. I have good news of him, though. (More on that later.) I just...

Yesterday I had to prepare a translation. It was a five-page sermon (in fact, more like a prep-talk) that was obviously a transcription of a speech, and obvious...

Last Tuesday, the KDE folks released KDE 3.3 Release Candidate 2 as a source-only release. Thankfully, the ever-helpful Jean-Christophe Fargette produced Slackw...

I’m glad to report that I was able to finish my part of the Spanish KDE translations yesterday. I’m translating just a small part of KDE (kdetoys) b...

Ed wrote a very interesting post about the situation within the Gnome project. The comments are also very interesting. Read the article here.

Yesterday I’ve upgraded to KDE 3.3 Beta 1. Well, it turned out that yesterday KDE 3.3 Beta 2 (“Kollege”) was released. Jean-Christophe Fargett...

This morning I’ve upgraded to KDE 3.3 beta 1 (“Klassroom”). It looks surprisingly stable and even faster than 3.2 (which in itself was a huge ...

I’ve noticed yesterday that Part II of the Stealth Desktop series was slashdotted!. I hope the article might be useful to some people.