The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers (c) for which repeatedly applying the function fc (z) = z2 + c produces values for which the modulus does not exceed a given value. It this has left you confused, I highly recommend this video which explains all of this is simple terms – there’s no point in me trying[…]
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From Mac to Linux. Again
Another interesting Linux Journal Podcast with Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux. Blast from the past: Apple stops to cover the developer’s needs and sells overpriced hardware, so people are looking to alternatives. Both, in hardware and software. Here, Why devs are switching from Mac OS X[…]
Read moreHappy again, with Linux
On how people become happy again using Linux on their PCs and Macs. If you want to rediscover the beauty of Information Technology, using a secure and reliable system, but also having fun, then give Linux a chance. And have more fun choosing from its many distributions. Through the years, as my MacBook’s hardware failures became increasingly inconvenient, and as[…]
Read moreVim for normal people
Vim, the steroids powered *nix text editor, is a must for geek, power users, and programmers, but what about the normal people. Vim isn’t easy and it’s really basic, no frills, no deep functionalities, but Vim has a world of plugins behind. Let’s see which plugins fit the needs of the normal people and how is Vim for dummies. Vim[…]
Read moreHow to create a menu entry for Calibre
I have installed Calibre, the perfect ebook management program, on a fresh install of Xfce using the Linux binary installer from the official website and I found no entry for Calibre on the applications menu. A menu entry for Calibre that works also under Xfce No menu entry, so, to solve this issue I have created a .desktop file for[…]
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