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After upgrading my good ol’ PC to Dapper, I proceeded to download and burn a copy of it for PowerPC systems, and I have managed to install it in my old faithful G3 iBook in dual boot, with Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” on the other partition. Here’s how I did it.

“Dapper”, the new version of Ubuntu has been released yesterday! So I downloaded the ISO file, burn the CD down and proceeded to install it over my old Breezy Kubuntu installation. Of course, I wanted to use my good’ old Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter with Broadcom chipset, and I was lucky enough to find [...]

OK, so this time I’ve tried to make the same I’ve described before, but for Kubuntu 5.10. I have changed to Kubuntu since I like KDE more than gnome, and also, Kubuntu seems to run faster than Ubuntu. And so I said to myself, OK, these are the same guys who make Ubuntu and Kubuntu, [...]

If you enjoy Microsoft PR material, you may find this “Get the facts” page somewhat interesting. For those of us who really deal with MS and Open Source stuff day by day, please just don’t laugh too loud. My CV says I’m a “.NET blah blah blah”, and I’ve spent most of my professional life [...]

Another little one :) These articles are not only for you, but also for me, in case I need this information in the future… OK, so you know that there is a Linux version of Skype, right? And you would like to have it in your Ubuntu installation, then follow these steps: Download the skype_1.2.0.11_i386.deb [...]

Another quick “how to” for Ubuntu: Sam Ruby posted enough information to make Eclipse work under Ubuntu “Breezy” (the default installation, via System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager has problems when using the “Help / Software Updates” function, used to install RadRails…) Go to this page and get the job done! http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/10/26/RadRails-Eclipse-on-Breezy-take-1

Well, that was a long title. My mother recently changed her 4-year old Dell Inspiron 4100 for a brand new iMac G5, so I took that old laptop (20 GB hard disk, 256 MB RAM) and, after backing up her data, wiped it completely and reinstalled it with the following configuration: Windows 2000 Professional SP4 [...]

I have signed again with the Martin Ennals Foundation to take care of their website again; if you don’t know it yet, the MEF gives a yearly prize to a Human Rights defender, providing press coverage as well as much needed protection. The MEF is composed of 10 Human Rights organizations, among them Amnesty and [...]

Well the only problem found so far with Ubuntu is that the computer hang when I sent it to sleep (closing the lid of the iBook). When re-opening the lid, the computer would become unresponsive. This post gives the exact procedure to do to solve it, until a fix comes in the next Ubuntu kernel… [...]

This is my first post from a brand new world. I have just installed Ubuntu 5.10 (“Breezy”) in my G3 iBook, and so far I just love it. Fast, stable, incredibly easy to set up. The whole install took 45 minutes (10 minutes copying stuff from the CD to the hard disk, and then 35 [...]