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2 11 2009
  • Ya he hablado varias veces sobre este tema.Los thumbnails en Nautilus se ven todavia horribles (IMO) con su borde negro sombrìo (png) y no hablemos de tamaños!.Hoy nuevamente he buscado articulos,mails,etc que hagan referencia a esto pero la prioridad para reparar el asunto es low (very low)= y las quejas sobre como Nautilus maneja sus thumbnails son varias,pero para que quejarme,mejor trato de hacer lo que pueda para hacerlos lo mas presentables posible (me dije).Bien,lo primero que he hecho es utilizar gconf para cambiarles el tamaño,de 96 x defecto a 48 (mas aceptables)= gconf -> apps -> nautilus -> icon_view -> thumbnail_size.Despues he querido tambien eliminar el horrible borde,cosa que he hecho a fuerza bruta (sin pasar x libnautilus-private/nautilus-icon-factory.c) eliminando o mejor renombrando la imàgen /usr/share/pixmaps/nautilus/thumbnail_frame.png y reiniciando Nautilus.
  • One minor cosmetic change in Gnome 2.28 – which is the basis of Ubuntu Karmic Koala – has resulted in many users being left confused and wondering if there is a rather blatant bug in Ubuntu.

    I'm referring to the "missing icons" in the Places and System menu's in Ubuntu.





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links for 2009-09-26

27 09 2009
  • Over the last month and a half I’ve been working on an application using C#, .NET, and Windows.Forms in Visual Studio 2008. I started by learning C# (unfortunately from some outdated materials). At first it seemed like they took the worst instead of the best things from Java and C++, but overall I’ve gotten to like the language. Here are some of my thoughts on it, some more elaborated than others.
  • When you’re used to the world of Windows or OS X, Linux can seem a little unforgiving. Not only does command-line access hand over the complete keys to the manor to any unwitting user with access to the administrator’s account, there’s rarely a safety net should things go wrong. Despite advances in most Linux desktops (where the ubiquitous Trashcan safely buffers deleted files), you get no such protection from most system-specific configuration, installation and maintenance tools. And while it’s rare for anything to go wrong without your direct input, some accidents do happen, especially if you enjoy tinkering with the latest distro release each month. But this being Linux, there’s plenty you can do to dig yourself out of a hole, which is why it’s always a good idea to have a repair-worthy distribution close to hand when performing configuration and installation tasks.
  • It's no secret that those of us who have learned to appreciate Linux and in effect all things that are related to FOSS have gained some wisdom that can be applied to our daily lives. I'm not an inspirational writer but I would like to share to non-believers some of the wonderful life lessons that I've discovered from using Linux.




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7 08 2009
  • Meanwhile back in the real world, it is silly to go on strike and refuse to invest any effort in learning to use a computer competently because it has not yet attained some weird ideal state of effortless perfection. Windows is not easier than Linux. Mac OS X is not easier than Linux. Both Mac and Windows are considerably more limited in what they allow you to do than Linux, not only technically but legally as well. Point and click as a standard of usability? What is this, pre-school? It seems what these folks really want are Fisher-Price computers. Maybe Linux is for grownups, and we should be satisfied with that.




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17 07 2009
  • Encoding is the process of converting information from one format to another. When you ripped your audio CDs, you encoded them to MP3 and were amazed at how small the files were. They were small because the ripper axed away a lot of information to, well, make them small. This was good back in the days of expensive disk space and limited bandwidth for internet streaming.




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1 07 2009
  • In this tutorial, you use the PHP support in the NetBeans IDE to create and run a simple web application. The example shows how to create a wish list. After you create and deploy the application, it enables you to share information on wish lists with your friends, such as lists for wedding, birthday, or holiday gifts. The information is stored in the database that you create in Lesson 1. Any registered user is able to view the wish lists of other users, and you develop this functionality in Lesson 2. The application supports registration of new users, a functionality that you develop in Lesson 3. In Lessons 6 and 7 you develop functionality that enables each registered user to edit their own wish list. You add styles to improve the appearance of your application by applying a CSS style sheet in Lesson 8. Finally, you will deploy the application on a remote web server using the hints given in lesson 9.




links for 2009-06-26

27 06 2009