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I want my kids to be hackers
I have just stumbled upon a nice article on how kids don’t really understand how computers work. As the author writes in his conclusion, “I want the people who will help shape our society in the...
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Two powerful Gimp plugins: Liquid Rescale and Resynthesizer
Whether at home or at work, I rely on Gimp a lot for my image processing needs. Out of the box, Gimp has a lot of powerful features but, as it is an extensible software, people can add plugins to it to...
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Vint Cerf interview on Knowledge7.TV
Engineering is the art of turning science fiction into reality says Dr Vinton (Vint) Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. In September 2013, Christina...
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TV is dead. The Internet is alive.
TV is dead. This whole conversation about whether we should have local content on hypothetical local TV channels is quite irrelevant. The Internet, and YouTube in particular, has replaced TV. Young...
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Fixing Bittorrent clients crashing on Ubuntu
There are many Bittorrent client in Linux and, under Ubuntu (and this is surely true for other Linux distributions too), most of them depend on a library called libtorrent. Under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,...
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Beautiful fonts in Linux
I love Fedora Linux and I love beautiful fonts. And, to be frank, these two do not easily love each other.I’ve tried learning the complexities of subpixel rendering and bytecode hinting using freetype,...
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Pygame with Fedora and Python 3
I’m having some fun with pygame, a library to create games in Python.The exact steps to follow to have pygame in Python 3 on Fedora Linux are detailed in the Python Fun blog. In essence:yum install...
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Using jigdo to rebuild a Linux ISO image
A few years ago, Internet was very slow in Mauritius (and some will argue that this is still the case…) Downloading a Linux DVD (or, more precisely, an ISO image) took ages.Now the Internet is way...
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Creating an RPM file for XMind
I am a big fan of mind-mapping software and, for years, I’ve been using Freemind.I’ve noticed that a lot of people are moving towards XMind which, for some peculiar reason, is only available as a...
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My nomination as Chairperson of the ICT Advisory Council
On Friday 6 March, the Government announced my nomination as Chairperson of the ICT Advisory Council. As specified in Part VII of the ICT Act 2001:The Information and Communication Technologies...
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