I have been long complaining about the buggy network-manager included in GNOME. Today, I have (re)discovered I am still unable to use Network-Manager to connect to a WPA secured wirless...
Being too lazy to look up why on a clean install of Debian Mint Linux Edition, Network-Manager is still retarded, I opted to the following solution:
apt-get --purge remove network-manager && apt-get install wicd wicd-gtk
So long, Network-Manager!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
oh, Yesterday I was a bad programmer ...
Forgetting my first lesson in programming, I looked for a solution to convert IP addresses to country. I found out tables, and SQL files, and went on and on trying to figure how to use them, and do SQL in python...
Until, I remembered that a good programmer should not re-invent what has been invented.
And then I looked around and found: pygeoip.
I honestly felt sorry for the time I wasted on that problem ...
Until, I remembered that a good programmer should not re-invent what has been invented.
And then I looked around and found: pygeoip.
I honestly felt sorry for the time I wasted on that problem ...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Hey, I actually like the new Blogger
It used to really suck, but my two hours of playing with it made me change my feeling about it.
I have almost as much control as I have with my own WordrPress instance! This is AWESOME ! And I can even link it to my google adsense very easily.
Thanks Google for making a great job !
I have almost as much control as I have with my own WordrPress instance! This is AWESOME ! And I can even link it to my google adsense very easily.
Thanks Google for making a great job !
Wow, Long time ago ... My last post ages ago was a rant about Uhbuntu ...
Needless to say that since then, I have quit using Uhbunutu as my main Desktop, and moved to Debian and ArchLinux. I also play extensively with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and at work my workstation is OpenSUSE from which I maintain mostly CentOS servers. But no Uhbuntu ...
Needless to say that since then, I have quit using Uhbunutu as my main Desktop, and moved to Debian and ArchLinux. I also play extensively with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and at work my workstation is OpenSUSE from which I maintain mostly CentOS servers. But no Uhbuntu ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Ubuntu Gutsy is Bloatware. The latest ubuntu distro is terrible, comparing with the previous one, Feisty Fawn.
Cases like this make me think about the 6 months release cycle, and really appreciate my Debian stable, which is old, but working. So why am I saying Ubuntu Gutsy is terrible ?
First, upgrading breaks USB mounting. During Beta testing phase many people reported that upgrading will break mounting of external disks. Well, the guys in Canonical think this is not important, and released without supplying an adequate solution.
This is wrong, because it hearts product loyalty. Many users, like me are loyal until something just happens. I've used Ubuntu from version 6.04 to 7.10 as main laptop working station. Prior to this, I've use SuSE, until their terrible package management drove me away ! Now with Ubuntu 7.10 being so bad, I looking for alternatives.
Second, Gutsy has many great features, but do we need them all ? Canonical, has done a great job winning the linux desktop, and now is aiming for the server and corporate market. But I suspect that some decisions are just to biased. For example, the inclusion of AppArmor and SELinux. Security is important feature of any OS and linux is already doing a great job. Do desktop users need such enhanced security as AppArmor or SElinux, which is implemented in the NSA ?
Well, the reason I rant about that is that, both services slow down boot times significantly, and remind me the days I've been working with OpenSuSE 10.1, which was slugish. I used ubuntu 7.04 on a small old laptop, which has a 500 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Boot time from GRUB to GDM took 1:47 minutes. With the new kernel and boot process it takes over 5 minutes!
Now, advanced users can of course disable AppArmor on boot time, but try removing the package libselinux - everything is dependent on it ! So it won't be removed.
So, old laptops will just work terribly slow with gutsy ! So does Tracker slows things down, and behaves in awkward ways. Tracker, SElinux, and AppArmor, are all great features, but are terribly heavy, and should not be installed on old computers. Hardware detection should do better and at least ask the user if they should be activated by default.
Eventually, I've ended up, burning another feisty CD, and reinstalling it. I'll wait and see what will be with ubuntu 8.04. If it won't work to my liking I'll completely switch to Debian. My server runs on it and I'm happy with it.
Cases like this make me think about the 6 months release cycle, and really appreciate my Debian stable, which is old, but working. So why am I saying Ubuntu Gutsy is terrible ?
First, upgrading breaks USB mounting. During Beta testing phase many people reported that upgrading will break mounting of external disks. Well, the guys in Canonical think this is not important, and released without supplying an adequate solution.
This is wrong, because it hearts product loyalty. Many users, like me are loyal until something just happens. I've used Ubuntu from version 6.04 to 7.10 as main laptop working station. Prior to this, I've use SuSE, until their terrible package management drove me away ! Now with Ubuntu 7.10 being so bad, I looking for alternatives.
Second, Gutsy has many great features, but do we need them all ? Canonical, has done a great job winning the linux desktop, and now is aiming for the server and corporate market. But I suspect that some decisions are just to biased. For example, the inclusion of AppArmor and SELinux. Security is important feature of any OS and linux is already doing a great job. Do desktop users need such enhanced security as AppArmor or SElinux, which is implemented in the NSA ?
Well, the reason I rant about that is that, both services slow down boot times significantly, and remind me the days I've been working with OpenSuSE 10.1, which was slugish. I used ubuntu 7.04 on a small old laptop, which has a 500 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Boot time from GRUB to GDM took 1:47 minutes. With the new kernel and boot process it takes over 5 minutes!
Now, advanced users can of course disable AppArmor on boot time, but try removing the package libselinux - everything is dependent on it ! So it won't be removed.
So, old laptops will just work terribly slow with gutsy ! So does Tracker slows things down, and behaves in awkward ways. Tracker, SElinux, and AppArmor, are all great features, but are terribly heavy, and should not be installed on old computers. Hardware detection should do better and at least ask the user if they should be activated by default.
Eventually, I've ended up, burning another feisty CD, and reinstalling it. I'll wait and see what will be with ubuntu 8.04. If it won't work to my liking I'll completely switch to Debian. My server runs on it and I'm happy with it.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
הא, גם לי יש בלוג.
הצטרפתי לשיחה הגדולה ברשת... האם מישהו ישמע אותי ?
האם אני אתמיד בכתיבת הבלוג ?
ימים יגידו. בינתיים זה רק פוסט קטן לנסיון.
עד אז... להתראות
הצטרפתי לשיחה הגדולה ברשת... האם מישהו ישמע אותי ?
האם אני אתמיד בכתיבת הבלוג ?
ימים יגידו. בינתיים זה רק פוסט קטן לנסיון.
עד אז... להתראות
So, I also have a blog.
I have joined the huge conversation in the internet... will somebody listen ?
Will I continue for long ?
Time will tell. Till then this is a short post, just for checking the idea.
Untill the next time... good bye...
I have joined the huge conversation in the internet... will somebody listen ?
Will I continue for long ?
Time will tell. Till then this is a short post, just for checking the idea.
Untill the next time... good bye...
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