Son las ocho y media del veintidós de septiembre. Maciej, un compañero de trabajo de las oficinas de Mountain View, se ha ofrecido amablemente a llevarme al aeropuerto internacional de San José, en California, para, desde allí, tomar mi vuelo rumbo a Nueva York.
Cargo mi maleta, la bolsa de mano y la mochila en su [...]

Install rEFIt on the system partition, instead of using Mac OS X system volume, allows one to manage rEFIt independently from Mac OS X. It is also possible to wipe out Mac OS X entirely while still being able to use rEFIt to boot other operating systems, like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, or even Windows.
To install [...]

The acpid daemon listens to the /proc/acpi/event socket. When the Linux kernel any ACPI-related event, like an AC state change, it sends a message to that socket.
When the Linux kernel detects AC power loss, it sends a message to the socket. acpid then runs the /etc/acpi/power.sh script which, in turn, invokes all the scripts under [...]

I made some modifications to the original bl1.c program from Nicolas Boichat. In summary, this modifications allow:
Specify an absolute brightness value
Let x be the absolute brightness value, such that 0<x<16, that is, the value must between 1 and 15, where 1 is the minimum brightness level before turning off the screen, and 15 is the [...]

Install crypsetup and dmsetup:
# apt-get install crypsetup dmsetup
Install pam_mount:
# apt-get install libpam-mount
Configure PAM to use pam_mount for authentication and session management. PAM authentication captures the user login password, while PAM session set ups the dmcrypt device and mounts it during log on, and unmounts the dmcrypt device during log off.
# echo “@include common-pammount” >> /etc/pam.d/common-auth
# [...]

I think that Ubuntu Edgy Knot 2 is the first Linux distribution that enables the Composite extension by default for X.org. While this is really exciting, unfortunately it seems to negatively affect DRI and 3D acceleration when using ATI’s closed-source drivers, fglrx.
I don’t know exactly the reasons of this, but enabling Composite extensions disables ATI’s [...]

Interesante artículo que describe las diferentes variantes de 802.11 y qué factores son interesantes considerar a la hora de adquirir una tarjeta inalámbrica.
En mi caso, me gustaría comentar que uno de los chipsets con mejor soporte para GNU/Linux es el Atheros. Los nuevos MacBook Pro de Apple incorporan este un chipset Atheros con soporte de [...]