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Spring of Code is on!

Posted on March 6, 2008. Filed under: kde, open source | Tags: , , , |

Wait.. i mean Summer of Code is on!
with this timeline should it be called Spring of Code? my exams end on the 15th July.. yet the SoC starts May 26, have a midterm on July 14 and end in August 18. not much for a summer work is it?
Anyway, wish all those that [...]

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Translated MojoSetup to portuguese using the fine launchpad

Posted on March 1, 2008. Filed under: closed source, games, open source | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Ryan C. Gordon updated is .plan and called for translations of MojoSetup. MojoSetup is to be the rewriting and replacement of Loki_setup.
Here’s the Announcement of MojoSetup and the future homepage with a link to the zlib alike license.
The announcement is a

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KDE makes me trip – KCalc grid illusion

Posted on February 17, 2008. Filed under: kde, open source | Tags: , , |

With a short glimpse i noted something strange and then i realised that KCalc is a great example of a Grid Illusion.

(click to enlarge)

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Create a entry in the Konqueror right click menu

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: emacs, kde, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , |

I just couldn’t believe this was easy as following this recipe: Konqueror Services Menus
I wanted to be able to edit any file without having an editor associated to that all kind of files. So here’s the result:

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KDE4 is out! And in are the release parties! Congratulations to the KDE community

Posted on January 11, 2008. Filed under: kde4, open source |

This is the first version of KDE 4 series’.
I can’t wait to use it! I have been following closely the betas and the releases, and the progress is astonishing! Not only on the development front but as well on the documentation, translation, promotion, usability and accessibility teams, the artists ( like oxygen and kde-look.org), [...]

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How to prevent emacs from showing the splash screen

Posted on December 15, 2007. Filed under: editor, emacs, gnu, linux, open source | Tags: , , |

Emacs‘ splash screen is enable by default, even if it’s started with a argument, like opening a file. So the solution was always in the splash screen but you’ll find out how to remove the splash screen using the essencial dot emacs file

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How to start a new X server with Quake wars to work as a minimizer for GNU/Linux

Posted on November 15, 2007. Filed under: console, games, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , , |

I’ve played Enemy territory since early 2006 in GNU/Linux and one of the things i missed from the beginning was the lack of a good minimiser. There was a ET minimiser ( ET Switch ) but it didn’t worked very well. So an alternate solution was the even more elegant solution of launching a [...]

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How to create and remove a soft link, symlink or symbolic link

Posted on November 15, 2007. Filed under: console, gnu, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , , , , |

A soft link, or more common, a symlink, is link a shortcut to the targeted file or directory. So when is removed the original target stays present. This is the opposite of a hard link which is a reference to the target and so, if the hard link is removed, so is the target.
A [...]

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Convert mp3 to ogg (to fix bitrate)

Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under: console, gnu, open source, sound, vorbis | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

I was having troubles with an album a friend gave to me in mp3 format. Amarok wasn’t figuring out the lenght of the tracks so it wasn’t scrobbling them! It was like i wasn’t listening them at all!
The solution was simple: convert it to ogg. This is how i did it:

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How to fix the locale settings

Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under: gentoo, gnu, open source | Tags: , , , , |

i’ve been strugling with my system to get it utf-8′ed . The solution was easy and in a few minutes i’ve repaired the wrong i made previously.

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