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One all year 🕯️

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:00:00 +0100

Welcome baby boy 👶

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:08:00 +0100

Alternatives for WhatsApp (#dump-whatsapp)

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:31:28 +0000

Looking for alternatives for WhatsApp following recent news and #dump-whatsapp? News that should not be strange, but…

My recommendation: use Signal or (my personal favorite) XMPP and specifically Conversations or Quicksy.

Moving back to Blogger

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:58:00 +0100

I’m moving back to Blogger after a long time without new posts.

Next time you point to lofspot.net, this is the blog you’ll see. My old blog is located at http://paapereira.squarespace.com/, but will be discontinued rapidly.

The goal for this blog is to document my incursions to Linux (Ubuntu), Android and my new B3 Server.

I have to manually import my blog from Squarespace :( and this will take some time.

I’ve decided to import only some posts, the ones I think are more interesting and that make sense.

What's new in Firefox 3.5?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:08:00 +0100

https://youtu.be/k5Zbc-Rg6e8

Bandwidth

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:15:00 +0100

Here’s my cable connection bandwith. It’s a 8Mb/512Kb connection, so the results aren’t bad.

You can check your connection here.

New Blog Template

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:52:00 +0100

I’m renewing the template on the blog. I’m still working on it, still… what do you think so far?

Before:

After:

New Asus Eee 1000HE

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:59:00 +0100

Last week I bought a new Asus Eee 1000HE. Who can resist a 10% off the price? :-)

The main feature in this new netbook is, of course, the 9.5 hours of battery life. Amazing!

It came with Windows XP. The next thing was installing Linux. I chose Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix.

Here’s some pics I’ve manage to take with my phone.

Sign the Open Source Letter to President Obama

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Sign the Open Source Letter to President Obama

Migration to Squarespace

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:15:00 +0000

I just changed my blog to Squarespace.

I had already posted about this service, and now, finally I’ve changed. If you don’t know it yet check out the video in the front page and sign for a trial account. You’ll only need an email account to do so.

Sign the new guestbook and let me now what you think about the new looks.

New laptop

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:50:00 +0100

Just bought a new HP Pavilion dv5-1020ep.

Downloading 64 bits Ubuntu and almost ready to install it. I’ll write a post about it.

Twitter

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Just created a Twitter account. You can follow me here.

Here’s a bunch of Twitter Clients for Ubuntu.

My favourite way to twitter is using the Twitter Plugin in Gnome Do. Very cool!

I’m also trying Twitux. To install just go to Synaptic Package Manager and look for twitux.

Squarespace

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:26:00 +0100

Squarespace is an amazing publishing service for building websites and creating blogs.

Check out the video and prepare to be amazed.

As Kevin Rose said:

“… it’s like Typepad and Wordpress on crack.”

It’s a paid service, but it seems to me it’s worth every penny.

I didn’t try it yet, but there’s a free, no credit card needed, 14 days trial period.

If you’ve tried please leave your thoughts :)

Free Software in Portugal with SAPO

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:04:00 +0100

SAPO, a portuguese ISP, and for whom might interess, hosts Free Software (Software Livre, in portuguese).

The Software Livre project is still in an early stage, but I think that it’s a great initiative.

A list of hosted projects and an english Service Catalog for Developers are available.

Currently there is a list of possible projects within the scope of SAPO Summerbits 2008.

The Software Livre platform is 100% free software and it’s running Debian GNU/Linux with trac, mailman, svn, etc.

lof Ubuntu eXPerience country stats (July 2008)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:00 +0100

I always like to check the blog statistics.

Here’s an interesting one (80% is using Linux):

10 tricks for Linux systems administrators

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:18:00 +0100

Here’s a 10 tricks article for Linux systems administrators.

You can also download the PDF version.

Do you use a cell phone and eat popcorn?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:16:00 +0100

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Firefox Download Day Certification

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:54:00 +0100

Have you downloaded Firefox 3.0 at Download Day and helped Firefox to set a new world record?

Yes? Get your certificate then :)

Migration to WordPress

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:10:00 +0100

I’m migration the blog to WordPress.

In the process I’m changing/fixing:

the overall look of the blog
the post categories
some html related problems/improvements in some posts

I’m also redirecting http://lof-ubuntu-xp.lofspot.net/ from Blogspot to WordPress.

All the posts from the old blog are already migrated.

Please, let me know what you think.

Firefox Guinness World Record

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:29:00 +0100

Help Firefox get the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.

All you have to do is download Firefox 3 within the 24 hour after is release.

The launch day will be announced soon, so bookmark this link.

You can also get involved, and spread this record attempt.

[ Starting ]

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:54:00 +0000

This blog is intended to log my latest experience in Linux.

Through the years I have tried out several distributions such as Red Hat (and later Fedora), Suse, Mandrake (now Mandriva) and the Portuguese Caixa Mágica.

There were always something that drove me back to Windows and as the years passed the free time started to be insufficient to allow me dive right into it.

I recently decided to format my laptop and install Ubuntu. I started by dual booting it with Windows to try it out first, but soon (in the same day actually) the eXPerience begun.