Tag Archives: installation

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

Network Manager on Slackware 13.0, the dirty and easy way

I love to be back to Slackware, my very first distribution. However, there are a couple of things that I’m missing from the other more comfortable distributions. From among them, I totally miss Network Manager. I saw many people asking in forums on how to install Network Manager in Slackware 13.0. There is Wicd, already

Pomotux

Summary Pomotux is  a C++ activity manager for the Pomodoro Technique created by Francesco Cirillo, a member of the XPlabs crew. The program focuses on the basic features of the technique. It does not focus on advanced techniques, such as the prediction of the number of pomodoros needed for an activity. About the Pomodoro Technique

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

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

A test site for BD-theme

I set up a site for testing my theme on a fresh installation of WordPress. This immediately brought very interesting results, as I always tested my theme on my blog which had customization/plugins I could not remember. Nevertheless, I’m going to use this test site for validating the theme against W3C’s HTML and CSS validators.