21Dec Toshiba L40 + Ndiswrapper + Realtek 8187
After more than three hour googling and trying, I’ve found the right way to get wireless to my brand new Toshiba L40. There was some weird workaround, with a modified driver, but it wasn’t very clean, and I need WPA support. After all, it all got to this:
Download the driver from Realtek site;
Install Ndiswrapper: sudo [...]
16Dec Porto Linux && Xmas C++
Today, the Porto Linux team joined in a nice Christmas dinner. The event started in the beginning of the afternoon, with some Apache talks. I’ve only joined them later in the evening. The conversation was, indeed, interesting, passing through lots of different subjects, from open-source, education and many, many other!
It was a nice dinner, [...]
11Dec Skype with Video for Linux
A few months ago, the Skype team released a beta version for Linux with video capacities! This was the most lacking feature for us, Skype and Linux users.
If, like me, you’ve been waiting for this, go on, download the proper package for your distribution and have some fun
21Oct Tribal Wars
Accepting Gouki’s challenge, the Ubuntu community is now gathering at Tribal Wars, a browser based game, where every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory. In order to really kick ass with our UBU tribe, we need you!
So, what are you waiting for? Read the wiki, register and join us in this [...]
16Oct OS X v10.5 and Ubuntu 7.10
The hype is here. Two of the most used OSs from our days are going to have a new release this week month. Prepare your Digg feed for a lot of Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X experience, schedule for release October 18th and 19th 26th respectively!
Both are incredibly improved and I guess that there [...]
16Oct Avoiding Slow Ubuntu Updates
With Ubuntu’s 7.10 release by this Thursday, as usual, everyone will what to update to this new version, as soon as it appears as available. To avoid a very slow update, I recommend you to update your systems right now to the development version which is now fully stable, since little is left to do [...]