Today I have been facing new challenges in the PATRIA engine development. I am migrating all the PATRIA core functions from the OpenGL obsolete immediate mode to the most advanced Vertex Array and Vertex Buffer Object. Useless to say that the theory took me a while before I started the implementation, I was excited and […]

By default on Ubuntu systems the root account is disabled. To run commands on console as root you have to use the sudo command in order to have root privileges on the required operation. For instance, you can edit the X11 configuration file using root credentials with the following command: sudo gedit X11/xorg.conf Sometimes, you […]

This guide is quite generic and can be used for any laptop/wireless card. It is anyway oriented mostly on my personal experience on my Lenovo T60. I am running currently Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (with a custom kernel I have compiled which do not impact anyway the current topic). First step, determine which wireless card […]

mmmm ok guys, I started to use the GTK+ libraries to develop a C application on my GNOME platform running on UBUNTU 8.0.4. I have started the installation process. As you know, it is composed of 3 different steps. The first one, the creation of the Makefile: ./configure and….up until here everything was ok. The […]

A nice video from IBM about servers consolidation over Linux. I simply love that guy.

Thinking about the trend of IBM products compared to MS and Opensource solutions, I have had always this feeling. IBM is dragging behind the market. It’s now 10 years I am working professionally with IBM products and very ofter I had the feeling to excuse IBM for the lacks of his products. Sometimes they offered […]