I've recently discovered the Awesome window manager and so far it's really living up to its name. It's one of those things that when you start using it you can't imagine ever doing without it. It's like the vim of window management - super fast, highly customisable, and just so... smart …

The first generation of modern computing history is said to have begun around the late 1930s. Zuse in Germany and Atanasoff in the USA developed basic computers. The work of neither was recognised widely.

Similarly, the world's first digital computer, Colossus, was developed out of the public eye at Bletchley …

However, now that software like KDE development is outpacing proprietary choices like Windows, these basic advantages are more compelling than they have ever been. Increasingly, we are now in an era in which free-licensed software like KDE is not only an ethical choice, but a pragmatic one as well.

- Bruce …

I've recently been messing around with Mutt a lot on my server (I hope to post about that soon).

I got so used to using the Vim-style keybindings to browse my mail that when I finished hacking Mutt and switched to Google Plus, I automatically started using the j and …

I'd noticed that when ssh'ed into my Media Temple server, if I left the terminal alone for a while (a minute or two), when I came back the connection would be frozen and I'd have to close the terminal.

I searched for a resolution and found it here.

I created …

I decided I want to try Linux Mint 12 LXDE on my netbook, but keep Android for convenience.

I installed Mint and Android on separate partitions but of course Mint doesn't show Grub at boot by default, and grub-update doesn't detect Android.

First off, to show Grub at boot I …

I’ve been using Ice Cream Sandwich RC1 on my Samsung N110 netbook for a few days now, and would like to give a rundown of how it works.

The first thing to note, as I mentioned my first reaction, is that Android is snappy. While the boot time is …

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Paul Graham, Hackers and Painters

I'm writing this on what feels like my brand-spanking new Android netbook. Talk about breathing new life into old hardware - this is really awesome.

I found out about the Android-x86 project today via Free Software Magazine. At first I was a bit sceptical about it's level of stability, but I'm …