Category: open-source

Jan 07 2010

Firefox και Ελλάδα

Στατιστικά χρήσης λογισμικού περιήγησης ιστοσελίδων για την Ελλάδα (2008-2009)

Τα πιο πρόσφατα στατιστικά χρήσης λογισμικού περιήγησης ιστοσελίδων (web browser) για την Ελλάδα δείχνουν το Firefox να προσεγγίζει το μερίδιο αγοράς του Internet Explorer. Η πηγή των στατιστικών είναι η υπηρεσία StatCounter. Σε Γερμανία, Ουγγαρία και Σλοβακία, οι χρήστες Firefox έχουν ξεπεράσει αυτούς από IE. Στην Ελλάδα πότε θα φθάσουμε στο σημείο αυτό; Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/

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Aug 09 2009

Laptop without Windows, an update for Dell, Asus, Acer, Compaq

So you want to buy a laptop without pre-installed Windows in Europe? We have a look at the available options.

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Jul 01 2009

guadec, gsoc l10n-el, ellak-conf

guadec I am attending GUADEC this year, thanks to the sponsorship by the GNOME Foundation! I am organising the GNOME Localisation BoF, which takes place on Friday, 10th July, 2009, at 17:00. I am also having a session on the GNOME translator command line tool gnome-i18n-manage-vcs on the same day at 15:00. gsoc A few …

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Jun 29 2009

Microsoft Windows tax refund, from Dell

I just got a credit note from Dell for £31, by rejecting Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and Microsoft Works 9.0.

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Jun 22 2009

From new user to kernel compilation to upstream fix

It is quite exciting when helping new users solve issues while migrating to the Linux operating system, and Ubuntu Linux in this case. A couple of weeks ago, a new member at the Ubuntu-gr forum posted a question about a sound problem in an Ubuntu Linux installation. Here is the timeline An initial post was …

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Jun 22 2009

The bashrc bash configuration files

The default shell in most Linux distributions is the bash shell. Contrary to all the usability work that has been done to the GUI, the shell is most neglected area. Depicting a shell is not an easy task; in the screenshot above we only show the default prompt. It has the following disadvantages, It does …

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