My old iPod nano died recently, so I bought a new mp3 player to bring with me when I practice sport. Following Moro’s suggestion, I looked for a SanDisk sansa. The player comes in a very essential packaging, with a USB cable, headphones, and the documentation, which is practically not necessary because using the player is very simple. No additional software is necessary to transfer your music, because it works directly with all the players supporting MPT (Media Transfer Protocol). Clear and useful information can be found on SanDisk’s support site, where it is possible to download the firmware updater, the updated documentation and a media file converter for Microsoft…
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Geeko likes iced tea!
It seems that Geeko, the openSUSE chameleon, likes iced tea! Look yourself!
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Do you need to use your clothes dryer?
Today, while doing the laundry, I was wondering why people uses clothes dryers so much when I do not think it is really necessary. A clothes dryer is, in general, quite an inefficient machine, if we consider the energy used for a single drying cycle, which can reach 3-4 kWh per cycle. If the washing machine is efficient enough, clothes are just wet at the end of the spin cycle, and all what they need to dry is to be left on a line for some hours. Using a dryer is a double waste of energy: you consume a lot of energy to dry your clothes, and reduce their life!…
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SUSE Studio
Novell launched SUSE Studio, an on-line linux appliances construction kit, where you can build your personalized server appliances, create Linux CD’s and DVD’s with just the packages you need, prepare VMware or XEN server appliances, and USB/hard-disk Linux images.
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OpenSUSE seen by a long time user
I have recently asked on suseitalia what the users know about the openSUSE board and its election process because I had the feeling many of the community users didn’t know anything about it. My suspect is confirmed, at least by the few answers received in the thread, which surely have no statistical value. However, in the same thread, a long time SuSE and openSUSE user, ferdybassi, made a more general comment about openSUSE and its community, pointing out some of the problems I believe are damaging the distribution myself. I will translated his comment (italic), and add my view. Surely they are chaotic in organizing resources, communication and work, and…
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Princeton Dante Project
I have recently found a very interesting project managed by Priceton University about Dante’s works. On the pages of the Priceton Dante Project, you can read all Dante’s work, including the full text (English and original) of the Divina Commedia, and find various comments and information about them.
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Qoppa PDF Studio: Edit PDF on Linux
I have just found a very useful application to edit PDF’s on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux): Qoppa PDF Studio. You can edit, add comments, underline and make various other changes to your PDF files with a very easy to use interface.
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OpenCFD releases patched OpenFOAM 1.5
OpenCFD released a patched version of OpenFOAM 1.5 today, via a git repository. You can find the official announcement here. The procedure to install it on openSUSE 11.0 is straightforward: Be sure to have git installed. You can check it with rpm -qa git If it is not installed, you can easily install it with the command (as root): zypper in git provided you have the OSS repository in your repository list (check with zypper lr, and eventually add it using Yast -> Software -> Installation sources). As a user, download the OpenFOAM patched source code using the command: git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.5.x.git This will create a directory called OpenFOAM-1.5.x, containing…
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OpenFOAM 1.5 molecular dynamics solver user guide
OpenFOAM 1.5 introduced a molecular dynamics solver, which has been documented by the multi-scale flows group of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Strathclyde. You can find the documentation on the wiki page of the group.
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New blog look!
As you can see, I radically changed the look of my blog. After many attempts, I finally decided what theme to use to replace the old one which served me for a long time!