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MX Linux over lvm2
I really like to keep my laptops and workstations productive until they’re able to run the applications I need for my job so I was looking for a GNU/Linux distribution light enough for my old HP Mini netbook (powered by Atom CPU x86 and 1GB RAM): this is how I landed on MX Linux running…
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Contributions to Mageia – April 2018
As I’m back to work on some package for Mageia… let’s resume from where we stopped also on this blog. MAINTENANCE – MAGEIA 6 and CAULDRON areca-backup 7.5 areca-backup wasn’t properly working starting from Mageia 5 because of its dependency to Java (proprietary). Consider also that areca-backup seems no longer maintained upstream (last version released…
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Excel VBA – How it can speed up your work and ruin your reputation
The Hell of multiple instances and why you should really avoid to use it in production (about) Five months have passed since my last post and now I’m back again to tell you a story I’ve gone through: this one particularly tells of Excel VBA invoking Outlook passing through multiple instances of EXCEL32*. During the…
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Contributions to Mageia – March 2015
Mageia.Org Mageia 5 has been delayed cause we want to provide the best experience to our users. NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON mono-3.12.1 mono project released a new minor release shipping fixes for CVE-2015-231[89], CVE-2015-2320. It’s all about the TLS’s mono implementation that was causing some issue with TLS impersonation. You can find details here (some refining…
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Contributions to Mageia – January/February 2015
No spare time and No Wing Chun make me something, something… go crazy… but do not mind if I do [paraphrasing] Mageia.Org Welcome to a new report of my contributions to Mageia. As you can perceive by intuition it was difficult to properly maintain my packages and to develop the Mana Tools during the…
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Contributions to Mageia – December 2014
Mageia.Org 2014 is going to reach its end and another month of contributions to the Mageia project has passed. NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON noip A new package has been added to the cauldron (thus Mageia 5): noip contains the well known open source duc for linux. I decided to package it for two reason…
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Contributions to Mageia – November 2014
Mageia.Org One year has passed since my last relevant contribution, Mageia 5 is on its way and Mageia 3 is going to reach its EOL. UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON gambas3-3.6.2 gmic-1.6.0.1 screenfetch-3.6.5 libtorrent_rasterbar-0.16.18 qbittorrent-3.1.11 tortoisehg-3.2.1 Gambas3 latest version comes, like the others item of this brief list, with a lot of bugfixes since 3.5.4…
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Paleontology 4 Geologist
For those people not really aware of what the paleontology really is, I can briefly define the paleontology as the science in charge of study the history of life. For a Geologist the paleontology is more than important as it represents the basis to, such as: place in time a geologic record understand the geological…
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Contributions to Mageia – November 2013
Mageia.Org Mageia 4 beta 1 is out and my perl-fu © is stronger than ever! 🙂 Give it a try! Provala! Unfortunately my daily job doesn’t leave me enough time to properly contribute to the Mageia Project (that’s definitely true for the last 4 months). UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON gambas3-3.5.1 mageia-doc-4.2 polkit-kde-agent-1 I’m not…
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Contributions to Mageia – September & October 2013
Mageia.Org Running for Mageia 4… Give it a try! Provala! NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON libqxt UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON qlipper syntastic mageia-doc razorqt desktop environment screenfetch gambas3 scite areca-backup A lot of work was required to update qlipper because it’s now relying on libqxt and this library wasn’t already packaged for Mageia. Gambas3 3.5.0…