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20 years with Emacs
IIRC, it was about 20 years ago when I ran Emacs for the first time. I originally used it on a System V system as a civilized alternative to vi editor. But during the time I became an Emacs power user, learned Elisp and started to use Emacs as my primary working environment. Emacs, as […]
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Free Software Foundation supporter
I’ve been a free software advocate for nearly two decades. Supporting and promoting free software hasn’t been easy. Some effort and actions were more successful, some less. But we’ve achieved a lot during the time and we might get satisfied with the results. But after continual raise and success of free software in the last […]
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Linux drivers
I bought a new input device, Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet. I was careful enough to buy an older model and to check the device is supported on Linux. Based on my previous experiences I also tested the tablet on a Windows computer to be sure it actually works and I can handle it, […]
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E-ink reader
In spite my recent rant about such devices I decided to buy an e-ink reader. The primary reason was that it’s uncomfortable for me to read long texts on a monitor. My requirements were: Large screen, stylus and a usable SDK. Considering the requirements there was only one acceptable e-ink reader I could find on […]
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A successful free software project funding
People don’t like paying for music and they don’t like paying for software. It is not easy nor common for an individual or a small project to gather any significant money for free software development, i.e. to get real compensation for some work and to make living of it. But fundraising for this SBCL work […]
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Driver info update
Updates on my driver info pages: Updated information about Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 keyboard, especially a link to a guideline how to make the zoom key working was added. Added information about Genius G-Pen F610 tablet.
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Proprietary, proprietary, proprietary
A famous businessman has died some time ago and the whole world has praised him as a hero who changed the computing. Well, there were some more realistic views (e.g. rms), but those exceptions were hardly noticeable. We like celebrities and we prefer listening to heroic myths rather than to unpleasant truths about less or […]
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Linux Containers
Until recently I was a relatively satisfied Linux VServer user. But when I upgraded to Debian 6 about half a year ago, OpenAFS aklog stopped to work inside the guests. There were always problems with running OpenAFS clients inside VServer guests but this time I couldn’t find any workaround. I had to solve the problem and […]
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They sold me a used hard drive
I bought a few new hard drives recently. Before installing them into the computer I decided to test them a bit (good idea!). I noticed that one of the drives was packed in a non-sealed wrapping and its manufacture date was last July. I looked at its S.M.A.R.T. information and it reported 4390 hours on […]
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Getting organized
I’ve never been successful in keeping really useful and up-to-date diaries and todo lists. Well, one can think: “If it’s really important I won’t forget about it and the other things don’t matter much.” But if nothing else then family life can cause semi-chaos making really difficult to get anything done. Nevertheless an important change […]