Gianvito’s

May 22, 2008

Ati (fglrx) drivers 8.5 released (+) a workaround to delete “Ati - Testing use only” watermark

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news — gianvito @ 6:47 pm

Links:

WorkAround to (A little watermark on the right lower corner —> “Ati - Testing use only”)

Open a terminal and:

  • sudo nano /eti/ati/signature
  • delete UNSIGNED
  • copy and paste this string into /etc/ati/signature
  • Reboot

April 28, 2008

Tupac - A great utility that completes Pacman (not only a famous rapper)

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, repository — gianvito @ 2:17 pm

“A cached pacman implementatioin”

Pacman Description

Tupac (rapper) R.I.P.

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April 15, 2008

New Compiz-Fusion Plugins

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, repository, themes — gianvito @ 2:17 pm

New Compiz-Fusion Plugins

I’ve just updated compiz fusion (git) in the repo… You can install it from there adding this and then:

sudo pacman -S compiz-fusion-git

April 8, 2008

GreaseMonkey And Userscripts.org - A way to give useful tools to your Firefox

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, themes — gianvito @ 6:07 pm

“Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.”

by “https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/748″

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March 13, 2008

Gnome 2.22 Released

Filed under: apple, archlinux, gnome, linux, news, repository, space, themes — gianvito @ 11:38 am

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Let’s see how to install it on ArchLinux…

Update 10/04/2008

  • Gnome 2.22 in [extra]
  • Gnome 2.22.1 released

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March 7, 2008

Celestia - The Planetarium

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, space — gianvito @ 6:39 pm

The Space… An infinite universe where I think we aren’t lonely… but we have to do great steps to know if there is intelligent life in the other galaxies.

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Today we’ll talking about a great software written by Chris Laurel.

CELESTIA

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March 5, 2008

Amarok - A Superb media player

Filed under: archlinux, audio, gnome, kde, linux — gianvito @ 6:42 pm

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” There are many things that are broken, non existent or flat out ugly, and we are well aware of that. Some things also work rather well. The purpose of this release is to inspire folks to stand up and help us finish Amarok 2.0.”

From Amarok Main Site (21/01/2008)

Waiting for the next great release of this wonderful music player. We’re going to see how to install version 1.4.8 and configure postgresql to manage collections.

(See how to install it and configure it clicking on the right “pages”)

March 1, 2008

Thunderbird - A complete email client (2 & Nightly builds)

Filed under: archlinux, email, gnome, linux — gianvito @ 1:34 pm

After we talked about Sylpheed which is a very light email client… It’s time to pass to another one… which has surely more features… but it consumes almost 40 mb in ram…

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That’s Thunderbird! (From Mozilla Labs… So we can use add-ons with it to extend its functionalities)

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February 27, 2008

PulseAudio - A great sound server

Filed under: archlinux, audio, gnome, linux — gianvito @ 8:00 pm

PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.”

http://www.pulseaudio.org/

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Updated 20/03/2008

  • libtool update to 2.2-2 problem [Fixed]

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February 23, 2008

Firefox 3… Latest Beta & Nightly builds

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, themes — gianvito @ 11:27 pm

Firefox 3 will be a great release… especially for one thing all linux users want… OS INTEGRATION

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This doesn’t want to be a minimization of what firefox changed inside (and surely will change)… But at a first look… it seems that we (linux users) won’t have to use workarounds to get our favourite browser more pleasant to see.

Update 02/04/2008

  • Added Firefox 3 with system cairo

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