The ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card on my main desktop computer died recently after months and months of noisy overheated operation (not a gamer myself, the dust is the one to blame here). So I’ve recently upgraded the GPU and unfortunately, I also had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04. After...
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Source code browsing using GNU ID and Emacs
Source code comprehension programs are amongst the most important tools that every software developer needs to master. Using these tools in an integrated way from the comfort of you favourite editor is important to minimise the context switches that kill the developer’s productivity (you know, “the zone…”).
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Thanks to Ubuntu’s Unity
With the advent of the Unity shell in Ubuntu 11.04 and the Gnome 3 in 11.10, I and, I believe, many other Ubuntu users started to look around for a window manager replacement that we could use to continue doing development work properly and without feeling that our productivity was...
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Announcing Tizonia OpenMAX IL
Over the last year and a half, I’ve been working on the spare time between projects on my own OpenMAX IL implementation for Linux. I started it because I really enjoyed implementing OpenMAX IL on Symbian OS during my days as a developer in the Multimedia Team of Symbian and...
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