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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.
Upgrade from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy: the one-liner version
Here’s the one-liner version of the Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy (7.10) upgrade (in case the distribution upgrade tool fails — it failed in my computer=. Copy and paste this on an open console window, and you’re very probably set:
How to automate torrent downloads using TorrentFlux-b4rt, cron and rsync
TorrentFlux-b4rt is an awesome masterpiece of engineering. You install it on your Web server, and then you can start downloading BitTorrent torrents right away. The catch is that those torrents are saved in your Web server until you actually download them to your PC. And having to schedule downloads separately is a pain. Well, no more.
The great Dell Linux scam
In theory, a Dell machine with Linux is $50 cheaper… but the free RAM/HDD upgrade (a $275 value) is only for Windows customers. But wait, there’s more!
KDE and automounting USB drives in KUbuntu Linux
Oh, dear and holy Lazyweb, help! My pen drive mounts automatically — I don’t want that. I temporarily disabled the media manager service in the KDE Control Center service manager; but I want to keep it on, with automounting off (in GNOME this is the default). How do I do that?
Dell laptops with Ubuntu are shipping…
…and you can see pictures of them here! Fantastic!
