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

28 June 2011

Life with GIMP 2.7

›
Trying to repair the ugly "Could not find compatible GRE between version 5.0 and 5.0." error after a Firefox 5 upgrade I did the m...
6 comments:
21 June 2011

Summer wallpapers

›
Since I am not currently member in any artwork/design team, but I sense some people are playing with wallpapers and some people may enjoy pr...
1 comment:
08 June 2011

Confusing websites or confused users?

›
There are a few people following me as a photographer on social networks, many of those people which I didn't meet yet in real life, som...
6 comments:
03 June 2011

YouTube and CC: a baby step in the right direction

›
I wanted this feature forever, since I started uploaded stuff on YouTube, the ability to license them under CreativeCommons terms and today ...

Elections

›
Almost unnoticed , the voting for the Board and FESCo started and I voted, but I am a bit of disappointed: very few Board candidates have p...
2 comments:
25 May 2011

Better Wikimedia Commons uploads

›
Having some more pics to upload to Wikimedia Commons, but not many enough to use a dedicated tool, I went today to the web interface and was...
24 May 2011

No party for you. Tradition cancelled.

›
As heart-breaking as it is to cancel a years old tradition (we started the tradition of gathering the community for a face-to face meeting i...
24 comments:
20 May 2011

Fedora at Agora's Open Source / Free Software conference

›
I asked if, as disgruntled as I am, I still go and talk about Fedora at a local FOSS conference and the feedback convinced me to go. As the...
5 comments:
10 May 2011

The kite is flying high and free

›
Is about a year since we launched Fii Liber , a magazine about freedom in arts and technology. For this we gathered as much of the contrib...
06 May 2011

Color choosers

›
I am a long time fan of Agave , but if Agave is the vi of the color pickers... there has to be an Emacs of it. And it is gpick , which as ...
7 comments:
04 May 2011

Stop to the installing woes

›
A couple of weeks ago at a city photo walk with friends, I saw this "Windows install" add on a street trash can, found it funny e...
23 April 2011

Branding is useless?

›
According to Zonker, branding for a Linux distro is of little use since a FOSS user is fully aware of what he's using, so my natural qu...
9 comments:
19 April 2011

Speaking about Fedora

›
When I got the invitation to talk about Fedora at a local FOSS conference, which kind of speech I am supposed to deliver? honest: it used ...
26 comments:
14 April 2011

Best of both worlds?

›
From time to time I help a bit a NGO (won't enter into details now, there may be some common projects to talk about later, some older we...
12 April 2011

No torrents needed

›
him: hi... i bother you again:) him: you think you can send me the app which you are using for vector graphics, the one from your tutoria...
10 comments:
11 April 2011

Needing help with data recovery

›
Me in big trouble: kernel: [ 9406.243037] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 kernel: [ 9406.364420] usb 2-1:...
19 comments:
07 April 2011

My lawn, my preciousss...

›
23 comments:

Sanity

›
When I am flooded with what some people supposedly are, I have to keep my sanity:
15 comments:
05 April 2011

Beef?

›
I don't have strong feelings for beefy things and I am sure the joke will be old half a year from now, still I selected "Beefy Mira...
8 comments:

A bus story: of Windows and user interfaces

›
This morning going to work the traffic was a killer, fortunately waiting in the bus in the middle of the traffic jam, I got the opportunity ...
5 comments:
30 March 2011

The story of a poster or the making of Fii Liber Land

›
The task was forgotten, sitting untouched for months, when I was reminded about it (and perhaps assigned in the tracker): make a poster des...
3 comments:
24 March 2011

First thing to do after a Firefox 4 install

›
go to View -> Toolbars uncheck "Tabs on Top" Profit! Now Firefox is once again consistent with the rest of my desktop.
20 comments:
23 March 2011

Proud to be European or Fx4 5M

›
5 million downloads in less than 24 hours and the adoption rate does not show any sign of slowing down, I guess it was a much awaited relea...
22 March 2011

Firefox 4 taking over the world

›
Recorded a few minutes ago from http://glow.mozilla.org/ , by now the counter is already at 849.233
21 March 2011

Demotivational Posters with GIMP

›
Having a lot of unplanned free time time on my hands and bing in exceptionally good spirits and getting my hands of a few useful pictures...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

nicu
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.