Yesterday I discussed the Bonnie++ tool, which can be used to benchmark filesystem performance. When you are tweaking a RAID and filesystem combination, you generally want to see whether your changes work in a positive manner across the board, and by how much. I created a utility called bonnie-to-chart to show the results of multiple Bonnie++ runs in either absolute or relative performance terms.

New function for the developers: POL_SetupWindow_checkbox_list allowing to create a window with boxes to tick (see the screenshot) French, Hungarian and Spanish support in the integrated chat, A lot of confusions are fixed, e.g the repository's update button, fixed a bug with Wine's default version (in options) A large number of translation fixes.

Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time.

Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem. So far so good! So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in production (if delayed allocation is enabled, i_blocks doesn’t get updated until the block allocation takes place, so files can appear to have 0k blocksize right after they are created, which is confusing/unfortunate), but nothing super serious yet.

A few days ago I reviewed BasKet, the wonderful KDE application for taking notes, so today I decided upon Tomboy, which is an application for GNOME.

From time to time I need to start some applications from command line, either to watch for debug messages, or to run the application as a different user.

Have you ever felt that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that your code is error-free and complies with the latest standards?

Asustek Computer is planning to launch new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905, which have an 8.9-inch panel but use a similar chassis and keyboard as the company's 10.2-inch models, according to sources at channel vendors.