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Since it’s been around my corners of the Internets, I guess it’s time for me to post this meme as well:
Popular El problema del trole, matar y la moralidad
Quisiéramos creer que nuestra moral viene de nuestra sana capacidad para emitir juicios racionales… pero eso es solo un deseo. Un fascinante experimento revela lo contrario:
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The latest PulseAudio on Ubuntu
If you want to install the latest and greatest PulseAudio (now on version 0.9.8) on Ubuntu — a worthwhile thing to do, because of the fixes in the latest version — here are some packages you can use.
Hola a Planeta Ubuntu.ec
Muy aparte de que estoy muy contento por el crecimiento de Ubuntu en nuestra comunidad, también estoy orgulloso de aparecer en planeta.Ubuntu.ec. Hola con todos aquí! Mi nombre es Manuel Amador, y escribo sobre tecnología — particularmente, sobre Linux. Espero mis artículos los entretengan — visítenme y subscríbanse!
A short rant on Ubuntu and dpkg: fuck you, dpkg
A long long time ago, in a gal… in an older computer, I had Fedora. RPM — the packaging system in Fedora — was amazing in several aspects. And the aspect that continually amazed me was the transactionality of software installs: a set of packages either gets installed, or it doesn’t. No halfway installs, no broken shit. Ever.
A primer into software package management using RPM
Since apparently my last article ignited a small flamewar, let’s talk a bit about package management in RPM-based distros. Yeah, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, those. And when I say package management, all I mean is software installation, really.
I dunno what people mean when they talk about RPM hell
When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight:
How PulseAudio works
In an effort to better understand how each of the PulseAudio components interact with each other, I’ve done a small diagram that roughly shows how each component connects and interacts:
How to divide and conquer a problem the UNIX way
If you’re one of our regular readers, you’ll remember reading the article and script I wrote on automating BitTorrent downloads with TorrentFlux and rsync. The script has come to be quite handy to me, but the process of writing it is much more fun and appealing. Here’s how I did it.
