nicu's FOSS'n'stuff

a bit about Free software, a bit about graphics, a bit about design, a bit about photography, a bit about gadgets, a bit about life and many more

30 October 2009

UNetbootWHAT?

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A friend of mine is using his free time to teach about Linux and FLOSS at a school - he managed to convince the school to do this on Saturda...
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28 October 2009

Airing

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I learned the series about Linux and FLOSS will start airing on the Romanian national (public) television, with the first part, where Lucia...

Padding

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That would normally be a mere comment, but since some people do not like the dialog and close the comment forms on their blog, I had to make...
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27 October 2009

It's raining FLOSS conferences

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If a while ago I thought there is very little of it, now it seems FLOSS conferences show in Romania like the mushrooms after a rain: first t...
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23 October 2009

Better webcam support

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One of the features listed at every Fedora release is Better Webcam Support and as it does not sound very sexy, it tends to get overlooked...
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22 October 2009

Give back my icons

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To have the party complete, after you installed Fedora 12 [beta] you most likely will want some eye candy back (it was removed during this ...
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My own Windows 7 party

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As those Windows 7 parties hosted all around the world I decided to celebrate by hosting my own party by updating the netbook from Fedora 1...
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21 October 2009

Take 6: OSM

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After some pause today went to the television for the sixth part, where following reader suggestions I invited Eddy to talk about Open Str...

The way of the dodo

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Like many others, I couldn't endure the wait and moved my main desktop from Fedora 11 to 12 a few days ago, in my case using the Beta RC...
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20 October 2009

Education,FLOSS, underage contributors

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We received a contribution in the form of a few (anime style) character drawing sketches for a Free project promoting software freedom, but ...
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19 October 2009

One year of Ceata

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Sunday a number of contributors meet for the one year anniversary of Ceata , an organization founded by a few students to promote Free techn...
16 October 2009

Visual identity - ProLinux

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The visual identity for Asociatia ProLinux was established after the public announcement , to give the community a chance to get involved. ...
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14 October 2009

Box of eyes

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After people complained about the big table with eyes as being nauseating, I realized there is a problem and a different presentation shoul...
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13 October 2009

Asses and sharks

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In case you missed my [bad] sense of humour, here is a quick drawing (mouse, inkscape and less than 5 minutes). If you didn't miss it, s...
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12 October 2009

Eye photography

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Saddened to learn how negative feedback and unpleasant members of the community drove tatica out of planet with her photography project, ...
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09 October 2009

ProLinux

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It was frustrating in the last months when the launch was prepared (the bureaucracy is a killer) to know but not talk about it, but now all ...
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05 October 2009

Brasero FAIL

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I am usually happy with Brasero, use it all the time and is good enough for the majority of the tasks. Until I get to something like the cas...
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30 September 2009

pwn3d again

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Yesterday was a full media day for me: after filming for television, in the evening I joined the boys from Ceata for an interview with a j...

My own Windows 7 Party

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I was amused too by the Windows 7 Party video , which made me think I must have my own event. How? I think I can delay a couple of weeks i...
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29 September 2009

pwn3d

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For the fifth FLOSS part filmed for the Romanian television the plan was to talk together with Bogdan Manolea about Creative Commons licens...
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24 September 2009

Get well tatica

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Those used with a daily dose from tatica 's photo marathon are surely missing the 14th instalment. She is missing in actionL no IRC, no...
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Early drafts

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Lately I do my sketching directly in Inkscape using a mouse (I have a tablet but like the mouse more) so it wak pretty much like a return to...
23 September 2009

Take 4: programming

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For the fourth part in the FLOSS series for the Romanian television, I was joined by Laurentiu , he talked about Eclipse and I covered a dif...
22 September 2009

Choose!

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More or less in a reply to the Romanian Fii Destept (Be Smart) campaign where Microsoft and some of their blogging friends are trying to ma...
18 September 2009

729/65535

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Is Friday afternoon, and I don't feel like working, not even writing the Design beat for FWN , where I think I will wait a couple more d...
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