Huge system crash, and how i luckily recovered everything…
Yesterday night all the nightmares came true, i was watching catwoman on the ubuntu box, when the system became unresponsive.
The disk started to heavily trash, and i was barely able to move the mouse. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn’t do anything, nor Ctrl-Alt-Del,
not even the poweroff button on my keyboard worked anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
mc aka Midnight Commander
Today i wanna talk about the most useful text interface ever: Midnight Commander.
Maybe you remember there was something like this on windows,norton commander, volkov commander and later dos navigator. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, i got a TOTAL refund from Paypal!
I must admit that i’ve been wrong, despite all the bad impressions and crap communications, i was able to get a refund from Paypal: a full refund! Read the rest of this entry »
Ode to W.I.N.E.
From time to time, i hear ppl complaining that there are no good Linux programs that can compete with certain apps that run on M$.
For who doesn’t know, there is a free implementation of the Windows API, called wine, that can run most useful programs on Linux. Read the rest of this entry »
Ebay and the scam of the buyer protection program.
I’ve been always a big ebay fan, i buy alot of things there, since the prices are interesting and its very convenient. However recently i incurred in far too many problems, that made me rethink of my ebay businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
How to speed up (even more) your Ubuntu/Elive installation.
Well, i want to share also some experiments i made on my Ubuntu and Elive boxes..
Since both are based on Debian, both can benefit of those tweaks.. Read the rest of this entry »
Elive Gem installation on my old Toshiba satellite lap…PART 1
Hello everyone,
i feel right to start from the installation of Elive on my old, VERY old toshiba lap (a Satellite 4030CDS).
This lap was kindly gifted me from my gf’s mom, she didn’t have much use for it since it was really too old, but luckily i found the way to make it work again, and pretty good 
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Elive Gem installation on my old Toshiba satellite lap…PART 2
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Elive suited perfectly the kind of OS i was looking for, fast but not too wispy, solid with its etch base, not many updates, not many troubles. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello world!
Hi everyone,
this is my first blog about linux.
On this blog i will talk about Ubuntu and Elive, being my two main linux distro.
I will try to share what i have learnt and what i know about those two!
