I have just discovered that ext3 defaults to reserving 5% of its partition exclusively for root, as a precaution measure that your system does not get FUBAR when you use it for your root partition. I have a 230GB external USB disk that I use for all my big storage requirements, downloaded stuff, backups etc. [...]

I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but one thing I really dislike is that all the themes are huge space wasters compared to Windows XP. This finally got me angry enough to create a customized version of the Clearlooks theme that tries to be very compact but still maintain its beautiful [...]

XDCC-Fetch is a nice little application written in Ruby that is able to download from XDCC bots on IRC. I have updated it to work with fox 1.6, so this should work with the recent Ruby version.
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Unfortunately I don’t really have the time nor the interest to continue development for XDCC-Fetch. Please contact me if [...]

I was bored today so I have updated my little program Dice-RPG to work with fox 1.6.
What?
Dice-RPG is a free dice throwing program that can be used for role playing games. Although I have never played a RPG in my entire life, my brother forced me to write this tool for the good of mankind [...]

Linux has an abundance of excellent terminal applications. Interestingly, I could not find any decent comparison of their text display performance. Since I use the command line a lot, I want text output that is as fast as possible. When you compile a large project, you don’t want the console output to be the limiting [...]