My Keychron K4 review
Last year I was on the market for a new mechanical keyboard. What I purchased was the Keychron K4, a nice model indeed. I wrote a review which was published by ...
Category: computers
Lifesaver tools: Rule converter
Hi again! It’s been a long time. I know… and there’s lot of things to share and get to speed. But that can wait for now. Today I would like to...
A Mystery and Then, a Frantic Search
I finished writing my previous post and dutifully clicked the big, yellow “Publish” button. I then clicked on the “View Post” link, wish...
One case where Twitter is awful
This article in The Atlantic definitely struck a chord here. This morning I was checking Twitter and I found in my timeline a gross, gruesome image. I won’...
Updated to 4.9
A new WordPress update went smoothly.
Bye Bye N900
My trusty Nokia N900 finally gave up the ghost. Someone called early while I was still sleeping and the phone was being charged; I fumbled with the phone and ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Kindle Issue Seemingly Fixed
After I installed Windows 10 Anniversary Update (see my report) I recommended holding the update until showstopping bugs could be fixed. I specifically noted a ...
Experimenting with the MATE desktop
Some bug bite me and, as a result, I did the unthinkable. 😉 In fact, you might know that I have been a GNU/Linux user since 2000 (fully migrated since 2002). ...
Report: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
One of my boxes has Windows 10 installed in a drive where it coexists with Slackware 64-current, which is installed in a different partition. Over the last we...
Updated Windows 10 – November Update
I just finished updating Windows 10 to the major November update: The process was long. Very long. Some takeaways: Be ready to have the computer downloading ove...
30 Little-Known Features of Facebook, Twitter, and More
Here are some social media knowledge gems I am sure will be useful to anyone: 30 Little-Known Features of Facebook, Twitter, and More.
LaTeX, KDE 4-5 Transition and TeXstudio
When I’m at the computer, a great deal of my writing activity happens not precisely in a word processor (such as MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer), but on a...
Blogroll and sidebar. Time to change.
I seriously need to rethink the content of my sidebar, and especially, of the blogroll. I was enrolled in some old blogrolls that, while useful, are no longer a...
Leslie Lamport wins the Turing Award
Leslie Lamport, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, was awarded the 2013 Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery, for his contributions ...
Venturing into the Dark Side ;)
(Click on the image for a much larger version) It’s been a while. I’ve been busy as usual, with really hectic days. My Christmas was nice, but Janua...
Wikileaks and the “Dissent Tax”
First things first: Merry Christmas! A Christmas post is imminent. Stay tuned 😉 And second: It’s been a looong time! I know, I know… but work and la...
The Least Common of the Senses in Computing
If you forgive me the obviousness, you may have already heard that somewhere else that “common sense is the least common of all senses”. As far as p...
Software: KDE and assorted stuff
Time goes on, and with it, new software releases come and go. So, I think it is appropriate to comment on some software I use. Let’s see: My GNU/Linux dis...
The Web Ads Question
Tim, in a recent blog post, has tackled a subject that touches a sensitive area of Web surfing: ads, and the ethical validity of blocking them. The issue is tha...
Bilbo Blogger!
I just discovered a great blogging app: Bilbo Blogger, a blogging app for KDE4. I set it up in its simple config dialog, and presto! it retrieved all my last po...
Wireless? Yeah!
There’s a story with sombragris, the trusty laptop that my brother, friend and namesake Ed Hurst graciously gave me. Sombragris is a Dell Latitude D505, a...
KDE 4.2: Oh. My. Goodness…
Yep. That darned thing left me breathless. After roughly 14-15 h of compiling (that is excluding dependencies, such as Qt which alone took > 4h, and KOffice ...
Linux Canuck’s: How to Help a Newbie
Wandering through the Web, I found this piece by Linux Canuck: How to Help a Newbie. The writing is full of excellent advice; therefore I am glad to recommend i...
Akismet enabled
I finally caved in and enabled the Akismet web service to stop comment spam. I was getting between 250-300+ comments per day, all of them spam. So far, it seems...
Slackware 12.1 on phoenix
I upgraded “phoenix”, my PIII-450 desktop workstation, to Slackware 12.1 over the last weekend. My workstation had Slackware 12.0 running smoothly, ...
KDE 4.1 released
Reading several Internet news media, it is apparent that KDE has gotten a lot of heat recently from several quarters. The main issue seems to be the KDE 4 relea...
Internet Censorship in Paraguay
This is a sad story of how a state-owned monopoly can hinder the flow of information to the public even in a supposedly free country. The state-owned Paraguayan...
WordPress 2.3… yay!
I managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3. This is a pretty serious upgrade, and for the first time it comes with native tag support! Because of this I also decided...
A Challenging Week, Upgrades…
This has been a challenging week. Things are not going as well as I would have wished in the financial front; but we are holding on. But the most difficult prob...
Writing projects
Right now I am immersed in two small writing projects for OfB.biz: A review of the Unicomp Model M keyboard: This is basically an expansion of this post, with m...