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Massimo's Blog

http://musante.i.ph

Just my Programming and Linux experiments blog

Added on: Apr 20th, 2009
Country: Philippines
Language: English

Recent Posts

Some post-upgrade activities on the EEEPC

Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 18:39

After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 I spent some time installing some of the applications I had in the previous installation and doing some little system tuning. Enabled the bash “smart” completion function that helps completing not only file...
Installed Ubuntu 9.10 (NBR) on EEEPC 900

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 00:10

The upgrades season continues … after upgrading my desktop I decided to give a try to the lastly released Ubuntu version also on the EEEPC. I so downloaded, using bittorrent, Ubuntu 9.10 NBR ISO image from here and prepared a bootabl...
Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 01:29

I recently upgraded my desktop computer (Sempron 2400) to the last released Ubuntu version. I decided to upgrade using the Ubuntu update manager, I so started the upgrade process and ... went to bed since it promised something like eight hour...
Alice 3 (beta) on the EEEPC

Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 14:40

To be a programmer might result a satisfying activity but hardly it can be defined “fun”. One can work for months to a project with no better reward than an error free log file. I'm not complaining of my job but I understand what makes it ...
Happy blogbirth-day!

Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 23:09

Blog-birthday, blog-versary how do you prefer to call it? Anyway one year is already passed from my very first post. I could bore you with a long post full of anecdotes from the past, considerations about the present and good proposals for the f...
Converting videos to AMV format using Linux

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 00:07

Many cheap, “made in China”, MP3 players also have video playing capabilities. In spite of the low display quality these devices can be used to view in a satisfying way many low quality videos like for example Youtube videos. Unfortunately the v...