Oct 31

Oct 30

’s time when I have to move from Del.icio.us and Google Bookmarks. Atom subscription gives quite good opportunity of tracking all the interesting things caught from Twitter on daily basis. A combination of GoogleReader and gives a nice service with:

  • Tags and categories can be made in GReader.
  • Accessing your bookmarks from phone by following updates.
  • Encapsulated Search in GReader won’t give a chance to miss any information once was tracked through RSS/Atom feeds.
  • You can update your twits from phone/IM: fast and easy and clicking less.
Oct 23

After few days of surging, I came out with few solutions:

  • RobotC
  • Basic C-language interface from umc.edu, which works with and RCX model

  • Microsoft Robotics Studio (MRS)
  • Nice and easy way of Robots with GUI interface, with almost no interaction with code.

  • LeJOS
  • For Java programmers: and RCX Java Open Source interface with simple Java Eclipse installation Plug-in.

To be continued…

Oct 22

Heck! I was expecting some power consumption improvements, but still 4 hours XP vs. 2 hours Gusty.

Trying to make this post useful, follow these lines:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

And remember: the more you misspell these three lines the longer upgrade will be! Be aware of grammar mistakes, folks!

Oct 17

I’ll try to make things short by quoting Richard Stallman:

Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Watching these patent wars between Novell, Red Hat versus IP Innovation just makes me wondering: how hard will be to distribute ideas in the world where everything is patented?

Oct 7

Evince:

  • Problems with pdf rendering after .chm to .pdf convertion
  • 80 Mb RAM usage

Adobe Reader 8:

  • Correct font rendering in non-native pdf formats
  • Correct pdf output with original .pdf’s.
  • 40 Mb RAM usage

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