Archive for the ‘Planet Ubuntu’ Category
“Nearest book” memo
Instructions 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open it to page 56. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Chapter: “Marcos flotantes ocultos” (Hidden floating frames) [...]
Bash: show the currently running command in the window title
I was just learning for an exam (and taking glimpses at irssi) when a thought hit me: “wouldn’t it be nice if Terminator showed the currently running command in the window’s title”. So, I asked Google and found a pretty nice post on how to do it. At first the proposed solution resulted in some [...]
REVU Days
What is REVU? REVU is a website where contributors can upload new packages they’ve created for Ubuntu Developers to review and comment on them. If two Ubuntu Developers are happy with a package, it enters repositories of the current Ubuntu development version. What are REVU Days? REVU Days are weekly events which span over an [...]
Catching up with that other system
GNU/Linux is improving fast and can already replace Windows in almost all cases, but there are still some areas where we really have to catch up with what is currently the most used operating system. I mean, come one, we don’t even have a Blue Screen of Death! Well, now this is no longer true. [...]
Ubiquity – Connecting the web with language
Today I’ve discovered about the existence of the Ubiquity project, but no, not Ubuntu’s installer – this Ubiquity, from Mozilla Labs, is a really curious plugin for Firefox. Ubiquity allows you to execute web related actions by writing commands with a natural syntax, in a way somewhat similar to Gnome Do. I’m not going to [...]
