Category Archives: Linux

My first Arduino

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Eduardo Gonzalez

Yesterday my wife decided to buy yet another sewing pattern book and I decided to tag along.  As a Kindle user, there’s usually very little for me to do at a bookstore.  I usually just look around the IT section … Continue reading →

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Announcing Better Mail

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Eduardo Gonzalez

Better Mail for Android on AppBrain About a year ago I bought the first Android phone available in Japan for the sole reason of making apps. Unfortunately I’ve had very few itches that needed scratching. About a month ago that … Continue reading →

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How To Get etags Working in Emacs

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Eduardo Gonzalez

You’ve been using Emacs for how long and you haven’t figured this out yet? Yup.  Up until now I’ve never really needed to actually get etags working in Emacs.  I remember trying to figure it out long ago as a … Continue reading →

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Integrating Qt3 programs in Ubuntu

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

If you’re like me and have discovered a couple of kick-ass Qt applications and are wondering how to make Qt programs look more like the default Ubuntu Human theme, I present you with a quick cheat sheet. There’s luckily one … Continue reading →

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Quote

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

I think Mark really hit the nail on the head with this sentence he used on a recent blog post on Inkscape changing to Launchpad for bug tracking. “We don’t have money on our side, but we do have the … Continue reading →

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Workrave

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Eddie Gonzalez

I learned about this program from Sacha Chua’s blog. Workrave is a cool time-to-take-a-break-reminder program that doesn’t just lock your screen (like the default typing break program in Ubuntu). It has micro-breaks which are great to remind me to get … Continue reading →

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EMobile D01NE on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Eddie Gonzalez

The EM D01NE is a (I think) HSDPA PCMCIA card. The driver for the modem comes with Ubuntu 7.04 (Maybe before). I get about 2Mbps from it (max is 3.8). Getting this setup in Ubuntu is easier than getting it … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 7.04 Installation Notes

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Eddie Gonzalez

I added a new page to my website with some of my notes on installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” on my iBook G4. Even though PowerPC computers are no longer supported by Canonical I’m impressed with how little I had … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 06.10 Edgy Eft

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

I’ve upgraded Chiaki to Ubuntu 06.10.  I did a clean install this time because my 06.6 installation was pretty old, and had a good number of custom packages installed.  Luckily for me I found out that a lot of people … Continue reading →

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Wobbly windows in Dapper

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

There were a lot of upgrades today in Dapper. And it turns out compiz is one of them. So I installed it and xserver-xgl. Here’s how I got it running. First install the xserver-xgl and compiz packages using apt-get or … Continue reading →

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