TronProg: Programming and Computers

Pubblicato da betto a 12:21 PM 0 commenti

Etichette: fun, linux

I've just started using Sabayon Linux (besides Kubuntu) and I'll blog some impressions about that, but first of all, I had to blog this. The command line package manager, equo, seems to be watching you: I was trying to run the upgrade without reading the help, and... well, equo seems to have gotten angry:

localhost ~ # equo --upgrade --pretend
>> You didn't run equo --help, did you?
localhost ~ # equo -upgrade --pretend
>> Did you even read equo --help??
localhost ~ # equo upgrade --pretend
>> I give up. Run that equo --help !!!!!!!
localhost ~ # equo upgrade
>> OH MY GOD. RUN equo --heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp
localhost ~ # equo --upgrade
>> Illiteracy is a huge problem in this world
localhost ~ # equo --upgrade
>> Ok i give up, you are hopeless
localhost ~ # equo --upgrade
>> Go to hell.
localhost ~ # equo --upgrade
>> Go to hell.

Pubblicato da betto a 3:51 PM 1 commenti

Etichette: fun, linux, sabayon

I recently bought a new laptop, a Dell Latitude D630, which is equipped with an internal modem, with a Conexant chipset. You can find the Linux drivers for this modem at linuxant.com, but you need to pay a registration fee for getting the full speed for these drivers (I did this in the past for my previous laptops). However, Dell provides its users with free Conexant drivers for its laptops! Unfortunately, for the moment, these drivers do not seem to be updated for the Kubuntu 7.10 I installed on my laptop.

Well, I have ADSL at my place, but sometimes, I work in places where ADSL is not available, and I can rely only on the old telephone line, that's why I'd need to use the modem.

This time, I decided not to pay for the drivers, and wait for Dell to update its drivers... but I still needed to access the Internet through the telephone. I then remembered I still had an old external serial 56k modem... well... I connected, and configured it with kppp and in a moment I was surfing the Internet under Linux :-)


Ah! the good ol' serial modems! Ready to be used! Not like those fake soft(win)modems... and all those flashing lights :-)

Pubblicato da betto a 10:42 AM 0 commenti

Etichette: fun, modem

It's time to say goodbye to my good ol' Epson Stylus Color II, after 10 years!

This was my first ink jet color printer; I bought it for the exam of "Calcolo Numerico", and it wasn't quite cheap at that time.

The color printing is quite ugly, especially when comparing it to the quality of today color printers, but at that time, that was the only thing I could afford.

The printer was quite slow, and the paper was continuously jamming.

I had kept this printer in my office for "quick" prints, instead of using the network printer that was not very near.

However, now the sheets are not loaded very well any more, the ink cartridges are harder to find (and very expensive), so I can't see any more reason to keep it.

But it's kind of sad getting rid of my first ink jet printer... ;-)

Pubblicato da betto a 9:51 AM 0 commenti

Etichette: fun, printer

I've just come across this comic... it's so funny :-D

Pubblicato da betto a 6:18 PM 0 commenti

Etichette: fun

Before you start reading, this is NOT a serious post. I've been using an Acer MP-320 as an mp3 player (kind of Ipod) for a few years now, and I've never experienced problems, not even with Linux, which sees this reader as an hard disk, so that I don't have to resort to strange (or even worse, proprietary) tools to access it and store files in it. I hadn't been using it for a while, and today I connected it to my linux laptop and KDE successfully recognized it, mounted it and opened a file manager window to access it. After I was done copying files to it, I right clicked on the desktop icon for my device and chose "safely remove". The device was unmounted, but the system notified me that it couldn't eject it... I would say "thank God you cannot eject it"... I was thinking of my laptop throwing the player out of the window... LOL ;-)

Pubblicato da betto a 6:26 PM 0 commenti

Etichette: fun, kde