I know that I tend to procrastinate a lot, but this time… I take nearly 1 year ! Last year I decide to draw a mockup of a new possible UI for msec. Why ?
Actual MSEC issues
Present MSEC GUI UI in Mandriva 2010
Presently I do think that msec have several issues. IMHO most of theses issues are due to the fact that the target of these tool [...]
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Ghost from the past : MSEC GUI mockup
I know that I tend to procrastinate a lot, but this time… I take nearly 1 year ! Last year I decide to draw a mockup of a new possible UI for msec. Why ?
Actual MSEC issues
Present MSEC GUI UI in Mandriva 2010
Presently I do think that msec have several issues. IMHO most of theses issues are due to the fact that the target of these tool [...]
I’m a man, I’m Linux, I&#...
Indeed, since April 7th, Linux Foundation start the celebrations of the 20th birthday of Linux ! As a happy Linux user and contributor since more than 13 years, I do wish a truly happy birthday to Linux i.e to all of the Linux developers/testers/ packagers/promoters/users : WE are Linux. Happy birthday to us !
Links
Happy 20th birthday, Linu [...]
Upgrading from Mandriva 2010.1 to Man...
With the migration of Mandriva from rpm 4.6 to rpm 5.x, upgrading from a previous Mandriva release is not straightforward. So here are some tips to have a smooth upgrade :
Install the perl-URPM 3.37 package available in main/testing repository ( 32 bits link, 64 bits link )
remove all your current media : urpmi.removemedia -a
add cooker medi [...]
Music tagging made easy with MusicBra...
I must admit that I have a big collection of music files. Tagging correctly theses files take a long time, and the queue of files waiting to be tagged is becoming quite big. Whereas this was optional before, I do appreciate now to have the album covert art as it can be displayed when listening to my music on my Androïd based phone ( Acer Liqu [...]
Some Mandriva 2010 Spring Reviews
Here are some Mandriva 2010 Spring reviews I found on the web thanks to http://www.tuxmachines.org/ :
Mandriva 2010 Spring with GNOME : http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/11/review-mandriva-2010-spring-gnome-with-screenshots/
Mandriva 2010 Spring with KDE : http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/12/review-mandriva-2010-spring-kde-with-screenshots/
Ars Technica r [...]
Importing a SVN repository from one s...
As now I’m using Netbeans, I had issues with key based authentication for CVS project in Netbeans. That’s why I decide to import my CVS project to SVN. At some point, as the SVN repository was on my own personal computer, I decide to move it to a public server I had, but only allow SSH access to it. So here is the procedure to [...]
Showing files metadata under KDE is l...
While reading KDE Planet, I’ve noticed this blog post from Peter Penz : Internal Cleanups. He was talking about code cleanups and refactoring he was doing in Dolphin code, which is a very good thing IMHO. Then I learnt something very annoying : since KDE 4.x and Nepomuk integration Dolphin is unable to show metadata informations for a f [...]
Fixing computer freeze when using Int...
Today I was willing to configure 2 laptop running Mandriva 2010 to do presentations during a meeting. So I was willing to use clone output. Unfortunately, doing so will result in an instant system freeze. Even worst, if the projector is plugged before powering on the laptop, the kernel will crash at boot ! Both laptop were using Intel chipset [...]
How to configure local mail delivery
I have a separate server which hosts my database. Each night, a cron script is run to dump the databases contents and rsynced the backups to another server. The backup script will log the backup in /var/log, but also send a mail. Most of the time I’m using ssmtp to use my ISP SMTP server as a relay. However my database server most of th [...]
As a linux sysadmin I do care about
This testimonial comes after reading a blog post from Albert Astals Cid : Consistency. Indeed I do find useless the debate about UI and buttons consistency ( which is different from buttons order issue ). So here are the point for which I do care as a Linux sysadmin with nearly 75 workstations running Linux, 5 notebook running Linux + Windows [...]