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Today I read on the GetAutomatix Forum that Getautomatix for Ubuntu has been discontinued. That’s sad news since we were all pretty used to it. Everything outside-the-box was installed with a single click and was a great improvement for the end-user experience. Now I can only hope that someone will resume the development with a […]

If you want to test the Firefox 3 new features on your Ubuntu Gutsy installation, but don’t want to loose all the Firebug niceties for developing web apps, here are some quick and dirty steps:
- $ sudo apt-get install Firefox-3.0 (upgrades/downgrades to kernel 2.6.20… weird!)
- Go to the Fireclipse site and download Firebug-1.1.0b10.xpi. This is […]

IE: We hate it, but our customers don’t know anything else…
So, we must test how Internet Explorer renders our websites. It’s a bit unpractical to boot from another partition, or change your machine for testing. There are a couple of useful practices:

Install a Virtual Machine for Linux, such as Virtualbox with a windows XP in […]

I have been using subversion (svn) for years from the command line… But some months ago I changed my job and I started using windows environments. And I must admit TortoiseSVN is the best GUI SVN client i’ve seen ever before. While my needs are satisfied in Windows with TortoiseSVN and in Mac OS X […]

I upgraded my dell computer at work from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy, but I have to say that this time the upgrade went far less smoother than previous ones. The process halted the computer at some point in time, I had to start it up again, and in the end I lost all my […]

Hoy he descubierto XRAY, un bookmarklet que funciona para Firefox, Safari, Camino o Mozilla y que permite ver las propiedades de un elemento de la pantalla haciendo click sobre él. No es para nada comparable a FireBug o el Safari WebKit pero puede resultar igualmente interesante. Por su naturaleza de bookmarklet, no es necesaria ninguna […]

Si quieres grabar una película para enseñar al mundo lo que estás haciendo en tu escritorio Linux, necesitas recordMyDesktop, una aplicación que te permite capturar la sesión en formato video utilizando los formatos abiertos OGG Vorbis y theora. Aunque se puede utilizar desde la línea de comandos también están disponibles dos versiónes gráficas (GTK y […]

As a mac user at home, I’ve depended for a long time upon Spotlight to find stuff in my computer. Not the perfect solution, but at least does the trick. As an Ubuntu Linux user at work, I tried Beagle a long time ago but it was too unstable for my tastes… and never came […]

OpenBSD has been always my prefered distribution when I have to install a firewall based on a *NIX machine. The PF rules are what I am used to see. But last year I had to write several configurations for a debian machine using iptables which I am not really used to. Since I tend to […]