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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

How to limit a field with javascript-prototype and display the counter

For job purposes I had to learn a lot of JavaScript, including AJAX related stuffs. Like every lazy (but intelligent) developer, I looked around for frameworks that could help me doing my work. I knew that prototype existed, but I never looked at it because of lack of interest. Well it’s great, it’s really great!

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

Announcing BD-incollo Project

As I promised, I would like to announce the start of a new BD-thing! I’m currently learning Django because of job needing and because of fun. The best way to learn a new language (even if a framework) is to apply it for solving a problem. That’s why I decided to start BD-incollo! BD-incollo will

BD-shell 1.0.0 RC2 is out! Processes in background are dangerous

Release Candidate 2 for my C shell is out. This is a real release candidate, code is frozen and hopefully this one does not have serious bugs like RC1. As you may know, RC1 has been retired because of a bug causing a segmentation fault when launching short commands in background. Let’s see why this