I tend to use the command line more often these days. When I have to do some task, I find it easier and faster to open a terminal and enter the necessary commands than using the GUI. The same thing goes for applications. When you know how to use a specific console program, it can [...]
Yesterday Codeweavers gave away free licenses for their product Crossover Linux. Of course I’ve picked up the news and got myself a free license yay. In a nutshell, Crossover Linux provides a compatibility layer for Windows applications, allowing you to run programs like office 2007, Photoshop or Dreamweaver. For a full description, I’ve taken this [...]
Yesterday I upgraded my favourite desktop environment (GNOME) to version 2.24. The upgrade went surprisingly smooth. This is exactly why I chose to use a rolling release model distribution! Where I probably had end up reinstalling Ubuntu when a new version of it comes out (the release cyle of Ubuntu is linked to that of [...]
MoBlock is a linux console application that blocks connections from/to hosts listed in a file in peerguardian format (guarding.p2p). It uses iptables ipqueue userspace library and it is very light in resource usage (cpu, ram). So far for the uncomprehensive official explanation. Basically it’s just an application that enables you to block internet traffic based [...]