In Windows they are used for a long time already, but most Linux-users probably don’t even know that their system supports them too. Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups. With a little example I want to show how to use ACLs […]
Archives for June 2009
Suspend to disk – does it still make sense?
I just ran into this question and thought I’ll post it here to see what others think. My personal opinion is that it doesn’t, and here’s why: I have 8GB of RAM, and although most of it usually is free (or just used by the cache and thus free-able in case of suspension) I have […]
Supporting Free Software by means of Civil Disobedience?
Free “as in freedom” Software supporters, including the Free Software Foundation love to talk about freedom. “It’s all about freedom”, we say, freedom of computer users to know and control what runs on their computers, to copy and share it with others and to modify it as they wish. The idea that software by nature […]
I’m not anti-mono anymore.
I’ve advocated many things not so long ago which I no longer do or in fact advocate the opposite. It’s just a matter of learning from new arguments and evidence as it’s presented to me over the course of time. One of the things I used to oppose was Mono, a Free Software implementation of […]
Why I chose Ubuntu after trying Windows 7
A couple of years ago I would probably easily dismiss the idea of trying out a new version of Windows on the basis of a Free Software ideology or the chorus of voices of Free Software or Open Source fans saying how it just sucks and I better not bother. But things have changed and […]