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Bluetooth XScreenSaver

Once upon a time, in 2004, I had a Sony Ericsson bluetooth-enabled phone. I also had a Linux box with a USB bluetooth dongle. I simply had to do some fun with that.
What I’d come up with then was to write a little nifty tool that’d fire up XScreenSaver the moment you got a little […]

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MvpdMake

A GUI wrapper around mplayer, mencoder, sox and mv_encoder to convert video files to the MoviePod (.mvpd) video format to be played by mv_player under iPodLinux on your iPod Nano, Mini or Photo.

Convert your videos to .mvpd easily!
The Story
Being presented an iPod Nano in May 2006 I was slightly disappointed by the fact it doesn't […]

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To all the fans of Linux owning an iPod Nano…

There’s now a fresh new video converter for producing .mvpd files.
Check it out here.

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Sometimes it seems…

…you should think twice before switching to Mac OS X.
Some guy has said on digg.com:
As a recent OSX to Ubuntu switcher I can safely say that OSX has nothing on the speed and ease of use of Gnome + XGL on Linux. In case you´re wondering.. yes I´m talking about a Finder-less, multiple-desktop aware OS […]

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The Linux Desktop Revolution

Пришла тут в голову утром пораньше идея собрать вместе мои скриншоты рабочего стола под Linux’ом, начиная с 2000-го года. Забавный прогресс. Своего рода маленькая революция. Если кому интересно, что за зверь есть Linux и как он выглядит для конечного пользователя, то кликаем на картинке, дабы посмотреть поближе…
Начиналось все примерно с этого. RedHat не помню уже […]

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Back to Linux

I’ve switched my desktop back to Linux and now have some piles of the work to sort out. It seems like I get used to running a couple of virtual machines all the time to do so — a FreeBSD for some platform-dependant C programming, and a couple of Windows hosts. Nevertheless, it all seems to operate […]

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