Are you a GNU Bash user but you are not using Emacs? Perhaps you should consider trying it. You will be amazed by the similarities...

I know, your IDE (Eclipse, QT, etc.) is superior and you are extremely productive with it. Why bother using an ancient editor like Emacs? I will not begin another …

Quick hack to fix it

The latest update of Debian testing (aka Wheezy) breaks GCC, both version 4.x and 5.x:

#include <stdio.h>

int
main (void)
{  
   return 0;
}

faif@isengard:~$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.5.3-3) 4.5.3
faif@isengard:~$ gcc -o a a.c
/usr/bin/ld: …

After more than a year of using Debian GNU/Linux stable (Lenny) on my eee, I decided to upgrade it to testing (Squeeze). The reasons are many. Some of them, are the access to updated versions of many applications, and the usage of a recent optimized kernel. Anyway, my system is fine except from a …

If you are coding in python, you are probably already familiar with the profiler concept. The problem is that the python profiler license fails to comply with the free software guidelines of Debian and therefore the package belongs to the non-free archive. "So what?", you might say. Well, …