Fnac selling (almost) only Windows netbooks?
It seems that the Fnac (at least the Spanish section) has been remodelling its web recently, which caused some downtime last week, and a really slow experience right now (their webmaster must lack the...
View ArticleLWD - March 2009
Did I say "bimonthly" in my last report? Mmm, that was 3 months ago... You can read an intro for my Linux World Domination project in this May 2008 post. As usual D2D means "days to domination" (the...
View ArticleLWD - June 2009
This is a continuation post for my Linux World Domination project, started in this May 2008 post. You can read the previous post in the series here. In the following data T2D means "time to domination"...
View ArticleMicrosoft produces crap, AMD eats it
It's old news, but I just read about in in the Wikipedia article for the Phenom II processor. Apparently Phenom processors had the ability to scale the CPU frequency independently for each core in...
View ArticleAccessing Linux ext2/ext3 partitions from MS Windows
Accessing both Windows FAT and NTFS file systems from Linux is quite easy, with tools like NTFS-3G. However (following with the MS tradition of making itself incompatible with everything else, to...
View ArticleLDW - September 2009
This is a continuation post for my Linux World Domination project, started in this May 2008 post. You can read the previous post in the series here. In the following data T2D means "time to domination"...
View ArticleLWD - December 2009
This is a continuation post for my Linux World Domination project, started in this May 2008 post. You can read the previous post in the series here. In the following data T2D means "time to domination"...
View ArticleHardware compatibility is better with Windows... not
One of the (few, but legitimate) reasons given by some Windows users to not switch to Linux is that many pieces of hardware are not recognized by the latter. Sure enough, 99.9%, if not all, of the...
View ArticleLWD - March 2010
This is a continuation post for my Linux World Domination project, started in this May 2008 post. You can read the previous post in the series here. In the following data T2D means "time to domination"...
View ArticlePlease, choose the right format to send me that text. Thanks.
I just received an e-mail with a very interesting text (recipies for pintxos), and it prompted some experiment. The issue is that the text was inside of a DOC file (of course!), which rises some...
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