de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum




Author: fmneto


  • A quick update

    A quick update

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    It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It happens every once in a…

  • Headbanging: GNU versus Linux

    Headbanging: GNU versus Linux

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    One of the oldest flamewars in the non-Windows world is the one between people who call the operating system based on the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”. A bit of history All…

  • Wikis and other annoyances

    Wikis and other annoyances

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    Wikis are cool! I had installed MediaWiki on my server some time ago, but it remained 99% of the time idle because to be honest I had no idea what to do with it. Recently…

  • Mnemonic

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    This post is not a post. It is more a reminder to myself of stuff I want to write about, and to which I’ve been giving some thought. All I need to do now is…

  • Why I closed down my Facebook

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    This week I closed down my Facebook account. It was not an easy decision to make. I’d been thinking about it for the last few months, after realizing that the site has become a very…

  • Graphics!

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    I have a confession to make: I bought a new graphics card. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal. Especially when you check prices for these things on international stores. But with the…

  • Relativity

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    …and in a flash it’s already March. So much has happened in the first two months of the year that it would be pointless to try and recall everything. Let’s just say that some things…