http://handyfloss.net Because FLOSS is handy, isn't it? Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:17:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I use [[Inkscape]] to do many of the drawings for my articles and talks, and have come across an irritating problem: I could not include [[LaTeX]] formulas on it. I have googled a bit about it, and the first match already led me to a bug report, where a comment ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.07/latex-input-in-inkscape-046/ After another boring month, I have little to write about, besides my LWD project data update. You can read this May 2008 post for an intro. As usual D2D means "days to domination" (the expected time for Windows/Linux shares to cross, counting from Feb 3, 2008), and DD2D means difference (increase/decrease) ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.07/lwd-july/ I will simply copy&paste an e-mail interchange between [[DreamHost]] and me, with a few extra comments (some data substituted by "xxxxx"): DreamHost: Dear Iñaki, Our system has noticed what seems to be a large amount of "backup/non-web" content on your account (#xxxxx), mostly on user "xxxxx" on the web server "xxxxx". Some of that ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.07/first-dreamhost-disappointment/ As I said in a previous post, I bought a [[MacBook]], and I am making all bits work correctly. Out-of-the-box support from Ubuntu (the only GNU/Linux I tried on the MacBook so far) is excellent, but some things (camera, WiFi...) need proprietary drivers, so some more tweaks are needed. I have ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.07/making-isight-camera-work-in-ubuntu/ Yes, dear reader, I committed the heresy of purchasing an Apple [[MacBook]]. I obviously didn't do it for MacOS X, for which I couldn't care less, but for the hardware, which is quite good. I was looking for a laptop as small as possible, keeping price low (it cost 799 ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.06/installing-ubuntu-hardy-heron-on-a-macbook/ This is a howto provided to me really kindly by my workmate Gisela. She wanted to transform an [[Encapsulated PostScript|EPS]] file obtained with [[Grace (plotting tool)|Xmgrace]] to PDF, but the landscape/portrait properties were messing around. The setup is the following: we produce a landscape plot with Xmgrace, and save it as ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.06/xmgrace-landscape-plots-to-landscape-pdfs/ This is a (in principle, monthly) update to my "Linux World Domination" project. You can read the intro in this May 2008 post. The data presented is different from the one in the aforementioned post: Mac is dropped from it Predictor@home is also dropped Two projects have been ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.06/lwd-update/ Due to [[Mozilla software rebranding|Iceweasel]] (Firefox) being so slow on my machine, I switched to [[Konqueror]], which is reasonably fast and full of features, but nowhere as good as Iceweasel, I must say. However, IW is unbearable, so I'm waiting for FF 3.0 to use IW again. I use an [[e-mail ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.06/gmail-and-browser-discrimination/ I am really disappointed at the [[e-mail client|MUA]] offer I am finding for by Debian box. I have tried [[KMail]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]], [[Evolution (software)|Evolution]] and [[Claws Mail]], and all of them fail at some point. All four errors are different, and all of them almost total showstoppers. Note: I access my ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.06/linux-e-mail-clients-rant/ Pedazo de noticia que he leído vía EmpresaDigitala.net. Según esta, Microsoft apuesta por la seguridad para diferenciarse del software libre. ¡Oh, sorpresa! MS, la empresa que produce el ubícuo sistema operativo Windows, tan conocido por su invulnerabilidad ante ataques de software malicioso y su práctica ausencia de bugs y errores, ha ... http://handyfloss.net/2008.05/microsoft-se-pasa-al-humor/