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Back to Windows… again!

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026ambsLeave a Comment on Back to Windows… again!
Back to Windows… again!

I am mostly a Linux user. That’s what I have in my personal laptop, and what I used for years, when in the Academia. Unfortunately, my change to the industrial world forced me to work with Windows, namely developing with C#. A few months ago, developing AI tools, That shift to Python allowed me to […]

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High-Order Makefile

June 16, 2024June 17, 2024ambsLeave a Comment on High-Order Makefile

Yesterday I was trying to automate a process using a Makefile. At first, I was mostly using Bash inside the Makefile to iterate over a lot of files and perform operations. Unfortunately, that approach does not allow us to use multiple parallel jobs, taking advantage of the multi-processor available in the machine. I decided to […]

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Docker Swarm + Pritunl + Traefik

March 9, 2021March 14, 2021ambsLeave a Comment on Docker Swarm + Pritunl + Traefik

While some of this information is accurate, I have one main issue with this configuration: with Traefik running in non swarm mode, it is unable to detect containers running on other swarm nodes. 2021 March 14 In the last weeks I’ve been deploying a set of new services in three servers. As I want to […]

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Linux, 2017!

July 23, 2017ambsLeave a Comment on Linux, 2017!

First of all, please do not read this post as a complain. Just as an analysis. I am a Linux user for decades. I remember using Linux in my first year of University, somewhere about 1996. I never stopped using Linux, in the server, but during some years, somewhere between 2002 and 2017 I was […]

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MonoGame: From Windows to Linux

March 26, 2017March 27, 2017ambsLeave a Comment on MonoGame: From Windows to Linux

The traditional way to have a C# MonoGame Project compile both under Linux and Windows is to use a tool named Protobuild. With the last version (3.6), the MonoGame OpenGL template for a cross platform game includes references to the libraries in the three main formats: DLL for windows, DyLib for mac, and so for […]

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Getting back to Linux: Part #1

October 30, 2016ambsLeave a Comment on Getting back to Linux: Part #1

After the last Apple keynote, the news on Mac Book Pro, and the exorbitant price, I took part of this Sunday to look back to Linux as a Desktop. Although I work usually on a 2011 Mac, that runs perfectly (just some bumps), I have a Lenovo laptop. So, I decided to install the Linux […]

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Dotcloud and Perl Versions

November 24, 2012ambsLeave a Comment on Dotcloud and Perl Versions

Today I waste all my afternoon trying to solve a problem with Perl versions and DotCloud. I say I wasted the afternoon because I could not solve the issue during the afternoon, only in the beginning of the night. Enough complain, and let me explain what was going on. Yes, this post is a little […]

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Mac OS X ‘ls’ vs GNU ‘ls’

December 20, 2011December 20, 2011ambsLeave a Comment on Mac OS X ‘ls’ vs GNU ‘ls’

There are a few details that can change completely you decision when to use one version of a command or another. Mac OS X ‘ls’ command is one of those you do not want, and you are desperate to install GNU version of ‘ls’. Check the differences (below ‘gls’ is the GNU version of ‘ls’). […]

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Testing Linux II: Mandriva

January 9, 2010ambs1 Comment on Testing Linux II: Mandriva

The next linux to test was Mandriva. I recall to use Mandrake some years ago. First point regarding Mandriva, is that I downloaded the DVD version. That means I was installing with more than 4GB of software on my DVD drive. Why that is relevant? Keep reading. The installation was easy. The interface is quite […]

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Testing Linux I: OpenSuse and Fedora

January 7, 2010ambsLeave a Comment on Testing Linux I: OpenSuse and Fedora

I got a PC laptop for work with… Windows. Decided to install a Linux on it, and decided to give a look at current distributions. At the moment I was looking for a non-newbie system but with some basic configuration issues automated. For example, I desesperate when I need to configure a wireless manually. I […]

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