Tag Archives: configuration

Announcing Dycapo 0.0.1

It’s a pleasure for me to announce Dycapo-0.0.1, the very first release of the project. Dycapo-0.0.1 is part of the pre-alpha-dontuse releases, to only illustrate some functionalities. Here are the release notes: 2009-12-26 Daniel Graziotin <daniel DOT graziotin AT gmail DOT com> Dycapo 0.0.1 is just for showing out some functionalities of the system and …

December 29, 2009 – 00:24 | By bodom_lx | Posted in Carpooling Research | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

BD-review

BD-review is a dynamic website to allow people to review releases (albums, demos, EPs, singles) of (young, unsigned) music bands. The project is the outcome of the Internet Technologies course at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bolzano.  The requirements of the project were to build a website using a small …

July 29, 2009 – 13:42 | By bodom_lx | Posted in | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Intel Graphic cards, Linux, Xorg and UXA performance boost

For people having Intel graphic chipset under Gnu/Linux, performance using 3D applications or Compiz-* window manager effects has always been a problem. Intel drivers for Xorg never gave problems but have also never been brilliant. I always looked around searching for xorg.conf tuning configuration entries. Today I was simply browsing Ubuntu Wiki and discovered the …

June 21, 2009 – 12:04 | By bodom_lx | Posted in Activism?, Free* | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

How to have both Mac Os X and Linux installed and share the same home directory files

So much time since my last post! I’m sure that the best way to come back to blog posting is a nice tutorial. I’m going to write how to have the same home directory shared between Mac Os X and Gnu/Linux. Let me call Gnu/Linux just Linux from now on. A unique place for your …

February 27, 2009 – 10:20 | By bodom_lx | Posted in Activism?, Free* | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Fedora 10, thank you very much! (macbook review and fixes)

I’ve never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I’ve always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system. The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old …

November 29, 2008 – 20:57 | By bodom_lx | Posted in Activism?, Free* | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Testing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) beta on a Macbook (updated!)

It’s a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros. I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha …

October 3, 2008 – 00:38 | By bodom_lx | Posted in Activism?, Free* | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)