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Category: Technology


  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Testing Flock

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    As usual, I’m not satisfied with stuff in my computer. For some reason there’s always something I feel could be better in my computer. A program that could be doing stuff it does not but…

  • Where is the web going?

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    Some time ago I began using Google Reader to stay up-to-date with stuff. By stuff I mean blogs from friends, news from several sites, updates from scientific publications, lolcats/loldogs, and so on. Basically, everything. That…