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Just a small post, pointing to the one and only solution to a known bug, that (incredibly) shipped with the public release of the PowerPC version of the latest Ubuntu distribution: 7.10 or “Gutsy Gibbon”. When installing that OS on a PowerPC G3 iBook (like mine), during the boot sequence the computer “freezes” (that is, [...]

JUCE is a gorgeous thing: JUCE (Jules’ Utility Class Extensions) is an all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform applications. It’s particularly good for creating highly-specialised user interfaces and for handling graphics and sound. For Mac OS X (with the Developer Tools installed) and Windows (using Visual Studio 6, 2003 or 2005), the library builds [...]

http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/01/dell_linux_lives/ http://www.ubuntu.com/news/dell-to-offer-ubuntu http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx This is arguably the hottest tech news event of the week (but rumor has it that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet)

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Jedi Knights, when they achieve a certain level of maturity in their craft, are told to build their own lightsaber, as one of the final steps of their training. Software developers have similar feats to accomplish at least once in their coding life, like building their own Linux kernel, writing a rant about Microsoft Windows [...]

I have just created a project page for the BirthdayCard Project. This was an experimental project for me, to test the combination of several open-source and proprietary technologies such as wxWidgets SQLite CppUnit Doxygen Eclipse Visual Studio Xcode ISO C++ The final result is a small utility that you can use to store birthdays for [...]

Ubuntu bundles a great application, Synaptic Package Manager, which makes an excellent job to manage the dependencies, installation and desinstallation of applications of any kind in the Ubuntu platform. This usually works for all the platforms supported by Ubuntu, including the PowerPC architecture, which is the one that concerns my good old G3 iBook. As [...]

Just found this article about how to update the Xfce desktop with the latest version, 4.4rc1, released earlier last September. The problems I had with following those instructions in my PowerPC G3 iBook were: I could not have the Trash icon working in the panels The “Thunar” version that kept appearing was version 0.3, not [...]

I have just posted a page in the site, about a recent project I’ve done, implementing a simple stack-based calculator, similar to those HP ones: it is called Calculator, and you can find it under the Project pages.

Since I discovered Ubuntu I’ve been trying to install it in different hardware, in different computers, even in virtual machines, and I just love it. It installs without problems, I can add and remove the coolest productivity and development tools fast and easy, everything is ready to use, and it just feels great. My latest [...]