Gandalf, my Pentium 4 that has seen more OSes than any other computer I’ve ever had, had apparently commited suicide this last weekend. Everything led me to believe it was an OD of electricity, as my building has experienced some un-explained power surges these last few weeks. Even though both Gandlaf and Houdini were plugged to a power surge protector, Gandalf stopped emmiting any signals and by Monday evening was pronounced dead… or so I thought.

if someone were to take a peek at the books I’ve been reading lately, he/she/it could assume the following: I like to read about history; I’m trying to learn to program in Python (was influenced by lucasds); I keep some reference material for those moments when Google is not enough;

Continuing with my new year’s resolution of working harder at the translation and bug triage of Ubuntu Linux, I have finally removed Windows XP from one of my PCs (the only one then running something other than Linux) and installed Dapper Drake. …and as the saying goes, “a picture is worth 1,000 words,” you can see below how I have prioritized Ubuntu in my professional life: Ubuntu Dapper (x86) running on a Pentium 4 (lower left side); Ubuntu Breezy (x86_64) running on an AMD 64 (lower right side); Ubuntu Breezy (x86) running on my Laptop (IBM X40) (table top to the left); Coffee mug (the biggie size me version) with Ubuntu logo (Thanks Toadman!

In less than 36 hours the following events took place: 2006-01-15 20:01 UTC - I submitted a report about bug 327124 to the Gnome Bugzilla; 2006-01-17 16:01 UTC - Received confirmation; 2006-01-17 16:41 UTC - Problem solved; 2006-01-17 16:43 UTC - Patch applied to CVS HEAD; 2006-01-18 12:20 UTC - Updated version available through update-notifier. My screenshot was picked up by Jeff Waugh! Rock on Ubunteiros!

Every time I need to add an image to one of my posts, I use a very simple tool to upload it to my Flickr account first. Once the image is uploaded, all there is left to do is write the post and paste the corresponding URL from the Flickr site for every image you want to publish together with your article. Even though most tools out there used to perform this task were written for the Windows plataform, I know of a few that were written for the Linux community, such as F-Spot and FlickrUploadr.

Short and quick 10-minutes tutorial about basic Python programming syntax that should get you going with this popular programming language!

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