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Moving to git
Well, I switch the revision control system I use for the third time during last years. When I decided to try something else than CVS, I started with GNU arch. This was a good choice as GNU arch made a good basis of modern free software revision control systems. Unfortunately problems in GNU arch development […]
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Memory hogs on my computer
My first X Window workstation ran pretty will with just 8 MB RAM. Nowadays even 2 GB RAM (i.e. 256 times as much) is not enough for personal use. My workstation runs 24/7, so I sometimes check what consumes all the memory capacity. I can usually identify the following processes being the cause: Firefox 2. […]
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Civil engineering and free software
I’ve recently looked for free software related to civil engineering. To my surprise there is probably not any. There are several projects that could potentially be used in civil engineering but none of them is directly usable for that purpose. For example 2D drawing tools may be good enough for electrical or mechanical engineering but […]
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Scanning software
Scanning software should deliver maximum information in the best possible form. It’s not necessary to avoid further processing, but it’s important to keep it possible and to perform processing steps that can be made automatically without losing important information. Choosing right scanning tools is important as mistakes in this process may result in the necessity […]
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Ratpoison, Conkeror
With the increasing complexity of modern user interfaces the number of annoying bugs grows. What is worse, number of long standing unfixed annoying bugs grows. The overall number of bugs grows and I’m able to do something only with a small part of them. Complex user interfaces have been being released without coming through a […]
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digiKam
My long term observation about GNOME and KDE is that GNOME is stronger in desktop, while KDE is stronger in applications. One of the excellent KDE applications is digiKam. The most popular free image processing tool, GIMP, hasn’t succeeded to become a tool for serious work. Its lack of important features (such as 16-bit color […]
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The Community Patent Consultation
I’ve noticed that European Commission starts a new round of the Community Patent project that can lead to legalization of software patents in the European Union. E.U. citizens and companies have opportunity to fill-in a Commission questionnaire on the issue till the end of March. If you are concerned about the European patent system and/or […]
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From Ekiga to Twinkle
I’ve been using Ekiga (formerly Gnomemeeting) for several years. Among free software phones it was exceptionally stable and well usable since about its 1.0 version. But it supported only the H.323 protocol which became a big problem during the time. H.323 is usually not supported by VoIP providers, it is poorly supported by the Asterisk […]
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Software Patent Game
Not having millions of dollars/euros on your account? Not backed up by dozens of lawyers? Not having guts to kill inovation and to blackmail your competitors? Never mind, you can still play the Software Patent Game!
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From Konqueror to Firefox
Several latest versions of Konqueror use to crash, usually about once or twice a week. This is not something I’m able to fix easily and as I got sufficiently annoyed (including some missing features such as inability to block popups or to show page source in a sane way) I decided to move to another […]