David's Blog

I'm a disaster to write a blog, sorry for the delay. There have been lot of news in the past few months. Let's enumerate one by one...

Five years ago I went to a dissertation on LaTeX given by Guido Macci, I left that dissertation telling myself "Yes, that's the way...

I want to share something with you guys... Last week (sorry for the delay) I got an email from Jørgen Thomsen telling me that gnu-pop3d was ...

Wooooo, kinda a lot without saying something here! Well, I took some sabbatical months of blogging ;-) Recently I've been working on a m...

Hello everybody. A new month, a new article (I wish I could do this so periodically). Today I'm going to show you something that I'v...

Hello all, Today I'm going to explain how to do something really simple. As some of you might already know, I got this year a EEE PC n...

Well, the C version of kpkg is now hosted at: http://code.google.com/p/kpkg . It would be cool if people start checking it out. Upgrade supp...

Hello everybody... Today I'm going to speak about kpkg. Well, I wrote 4 package managers before I started kpkg, there was kwt-get, kum,...

Well, lot of people know that I'm a vim fan and that I use it everyday, to me is like the killer app that everyone should know how to us...

Hello everybody. This is just a flashlight of what Kwort 3 will be. Kwort 3 brings a whole new era of Kwort Linux, Kwort public might change...

Hello everybody, It's been so long since my last post here. There's so much to talk about, but today I'm going to talk about Thu...

I’m happy to announce that Kwort 2.4.1 final is here! This version took a year to develop and provides a lot of changes from 2.4 release, in...

Well, it's been 3 months since my last post, and I've been doing a lot... Let's start with Kwort. Well we're just there from...

Well, it's been a long time in the road since my last post here. This weblog isn't over, but I been doing a lot of things and didn...

I'm just releasing NQqueue 0.3 beta. This is just a bug fix release and it is beta because of the new spamassassin plugin; I wrote this ...

Well, I just tagged NQqueue as 0.2. Several changes has been done from 0.1. For those who doesn't know, NQqueue is a threaded queue for ...

Well, the people of wicd asked me for some modifications in ktsuss so they could support it as they do with gksu. These modifications were m...

As some people asked me the last few weeks what I've been doing I've decided to take some time to write this and explain what NQque...

So, on friday after some times I set up myself to finish the nqqueue. But then I started to see where to version the project. In the last co...

This issue came up today with some people and I did affirmed that you can hang up your switch with some funny code... How this come? Well, v...

I'm proud to announce that Kwort 2.4 final version has been released after a very long time (more than a year). The system is very stabl...

Well, not much to say these days... Sometimes we have to find a reason to laugh, even a little bit... I found this picture very funny. :) no...

Well, this was the question made by one of the debian packagers. I see a good thing the fact that they ask this, since including a program s...

Well, today I'm releasing the new ktsuss. It toke quite some time, not because it was too much work, but because I didn't the enough...

I been using mpd+gmpc now for a while, I really like the combination, but what I missed on it was the ability to modify tags, which normally...

I had to deal with this problem related to process sincronization some months ago, and since Kwort 2.4 core edition is waiting for Linux 2.6...

I just released ktsuss 1.2. There's not much to say about this new version. The most important changes were made to the GUI which now us...

Well, me and the rest of the team are working in Kwort 2.4 (2.2.2? I dunno, but I think 2.4 will be alright). Andreas Schipplock (aka Avarus...

Well, a friend of mine asked me for this, and it was very interesting to understand what was in /proc/net/dev. #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ -z ...

The last week I started to see a tv serie called "The IT Crowd" on Sony, it's a funny geek serie about an IT team in a british...

I wrote a patch for openbox 3.3.1 at the very beginning of the year which was rejected by the openbox leader (to me the reasons wasn't ...

A long time since my last post, looks like that was from the caves times. :-P Anyways, I was boring in this almost winter afternoon, so I st...

I know I had to write something about the wake on lan software I was writing. I think it is done, but couldn't test it yet, so I don...

After some times, a new version of knm was released. This release is just a bug fix release (thanks for all the feedback I got from everyon...

It's been quite a while since my last post here... Some things happened like the release of Kwort 2.2 (not as great as I would like, but...

Kpkg 2.4 was released some minutes ago, you can download it from here: http://prdownload.berlios.de/kpkg/kpkg-2.4.tar.gz This version is a b...

Has been like a lifetime since I wrote something here, sorry folks, I been studying and working a lot. I just released knm 2.0, I tried to d...

Not really programming, unix and/or math, this is like *off-topic* for this weblog, but Kwort's related, so for transition, Unix related...

Well, nothing much to do these days since I spent all my vacation doing other things. I actually started to code a C API for kpkg, which wil...

Last month I started using openbox to create an easy to use desktop for programmers. Everything was nice, but I wanted to use yabb with ades...

I planed to add xfce4-mount-plugin to Kwort's panel, but there was some things to fix and to change. The first patch fixes some issues w...

I started using ttysnoop (it's like a vnc for consoles) at work but there was so troubles while compiling, so this patch fixes errors, w...

I had another thing to post tonight, but I just wanted someone to note this:

I know I haven't make a post since 2 weeks ago and I'm sorry for those who enjoy reading this things (Who's the crazy one who do...

I started this plugin as a standalone network manager for Kwort Linux. But after looking a plugin template I finally ended writing a plugin ...

The same day I wrote the patch for Xdialog's extra button feature (when I was in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) I found a little bug in the GN...

Ok, ok, ok... I know I was in vacations, but the day wasn't very pretty, and I felt like taking a coding time. :D Some weeks ago I wrote...