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In the olden days you could easily restart the network stuffs by using the init scripts, like: /etc/init.d/networking restart That was very useful if you needed to change your IP, add an interface or something.

Unfortunately, in recent versions of Debian, this no long...

Roundcube is a webmail interface that has gone through a lot lately. It's interface is very clean and they just added a new interface skin which is actually really really nice. There are many 3rd party plugins that can enhance (or break) Roundcube. Just to be clear, MyRoundcube is not Roundcube, ...

Lately I've been re-working on Mailboy which now has it's own web space. I've included a tutorial that is practically "copy pastable" when using Debian Wheezy.

I consider it beta, even though people are currently already using i...

GNU is turning 30 and it's been pointed out to me that I have not mentioned that here. So voila, that's done.

Happy GNU year, may more software and its users be Free.

If you haven't heard of it, EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, could be a part of the W3C specification that would allow a website to control a visitors web browser. The goal would be to restrict access to content, this ranges from restricting ...

If you haven't heard by now, then here's the news, Ubuntu is developing their own display server (Mir) to replace X. The fun part is that their already is a replacement been under development called Wayla...

You know how when you search for something within a search engine and the first results are adverts (sponsored links) ?

Now, you can get that feature right in your desktop environment ! Indeed Ubuntu has now added this thing, when you search for a program through the "len...

Today I read this rant about how the Linux desktop is not free enough. I almost stopped at the first sentence but still read on. I have to comment on a few things, but of course I don't have a google+ account, it's not ...

Yes, I know.. . . .WTF is Firefox doing here, it's a browser not a resolver. If anyone from Firefox reads this, WHY ?? Let people who want this useless function enable it themselves and not the other way around.

Now to disable it, very simple is the procedure, and very very intuitive.. ...

Today I noticed on a Xen DomU running Debian Squeeze that time seemed to be running a bit too fast, I noticed the same on a Debian Wheezy DomU. They both have in common the kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64.

After breaking a few keyboards I found the following on domU:

Stella GNU/Linux is finally born. It is a desktop focused, Gnome2 based Centos 6 remix (exact words of the maintainer). The features look really neat if you are looking for a CentOS/RPM based OS that is rock stable rather then bleeding (buggy)...

This year FOSDEM is supported by CodePlex (among other sponsors). CodePlex is Microsoft's vision/version of an "Open Source" project hub.

I don't know what strikes me more, that FOSDEM would accept dirty money or the realisation that Microsoft has completely (or so it seems) changed the...

Today I discovered PhpTop and I must say it looks really cool. This will show Php processes like top.

To install, you can either get the .deb packages or just download the binary (which I did to try out first), and add this to yo...

Everybody loves Firefox, they are your friends, they are the "resistance", the alternative.. . the Free browser and all that crap. Yet, they somehow have started to annoy me to a point where I almost considered using Google Chrome... heck, I might just. :] (kidding!)

Here are just a cou...

The other day I upgraded my computer, I went from my 6 and a half year old laptop to a 4 year old desktop, and wow that's an impressive upgrade. Anyway, my username changed, hence the path to my photos has changed too, and Digikam stores that info in its inte...

Over the past couple of days Jag and I have set up a little special page that gathers aircraft data in a most beautiful way. Check out air traffic contrlol. For some explanations, read on.

This is data captured by a radar then decoded using a GPL ...

The past week has left 65% of the Interweb (the part of the Internet that cat lovers use most) was trembling with great ph34r as CVE-2011-3192 has been out there causing people to pull their hair out while comi...

Recently Microsoft bought Skype and then Skype started to break down and have many little issues here and there. Of course the expected result has been confirmed in the FSF's latest mail.

I don't use FTP anymore to transfer files.. However today I *had* to. This is the day I realise that I still haven't found the perfect FTP client.

The LFTP problem:

Don't get me wrong, I like this program, however it's when I need to "get" recursively that I start to have to...

Microsoft has purchased Skype. Now I'm wondering what is going to happen to this software. I know its never been Free Software, however in it's early days it was directly available for GNU/Linux at a time where most other software vendors would not consider platforms other than windows and macos...

Humble Bundle is back and it's cooler than ever (because it's frozen). The idea is:

• Pay what you want
• Support charity
• DRM free

The really cool part is that it will run on the operating system that reasonable people prefer, GNU/Linux. The gam...

The other evening I attended a conference by RMS on Free Software and digital exclusion. The talk was interesting and motivating as usual, even though I already agree with 99.99% of what he had to say. There was one point however where in response to a question he said:

And not just that, it's also won the "Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/ Linux/Free Software" award at this years Linux New Media Awards. We are all happy to finally have a Free Debian distribution, remember, if the hardware doesn't work with the Free kernel then you should ...