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Monthly Archives May 2007

Battery power and Compiz

I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger. Result : Compiz : 3h30 Metacity : 5h00

Posted 20 May 2007 § Desktop § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

A few strong points of the OpenSuse desktop

I love the interface of OpenSuse. I am not saying it is perfect, but so far I think this is the best desktop experience I got with Linux.

Posted 19 May 2007 § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Dotclear 2 to WordPress migration

Dotclear 2 has been bêta for too long and I thought it was time to go over the limitations of a bêta version.

It seems that many people around have done that way and Wordpress is so popular that I should consider to give a try to it.

Posted 19 May 2007 § News § Web ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Measure the access time of your Hard Disk…

There is a nice script to measure the access time of your disk.

Posted 17 May 2007 § Hardware § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Switching from Ubuntu to OpenSuse

Yes, I just switched my desktop computer from Ubuntu to OpenSuse.

I am sure that some people won’t believe it or think that I am stupid or that I work for Microsoft, but here are the reasons of this choice.

Posted 14 May 2007 § Linux § System ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Compile Hping on OpenSuse (and maybe others…)

I could not find any package for Hping3 in the repositories of OpenSuse (both official and non official). However, the source of Hping3 is available here and (almost) ready to be compiled. Almost ? let’s see why…

Posted 13 May 2007 § Network § Security ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: ,