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		<title>KDE Hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, after a take on Metacity , I just went ahead and implemented the same quick workspace switching feature for KDE (namely, kwin) &#8211; with great help from Nicolas Lécureuil (a.k.a. Neoclust) of course! Basically, it works essentially like the same feature in xfwm4 &#8211; when you switch to a different workspace via a keyboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/09/01/kde-hacking/</link>
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		<title>5 quick rpm quirks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some rpm quirks that can come quite handy sometimes. Specially for the ones who do not know how the rpm and spec files work . The first one goes to a quick command which displays the top packages that use the most of your hard drive: rpm -qa --qf="%{size} %{name}\n" &#124; sort -n This will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/06/17/5-quick-rpm-quirks/</link>
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		<title>Having fun with gource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just packaged the gource package for Mandriva Cooker, so therefore it will be available in Mandriva 2010.1 &#8211; which will be released in just few weeks. While doing so, I was playing a bit with it, and it is an impressive piece of software. I often receive comments asking about &#8220;who is really working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/06/02/having-fun-with-gource/</link>
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		<title>Gnome hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I try to switch to a different desktop environment/window manager, there is just one simple feature which always make me go back to xfce &#8211; the possibility to quickly switch back to previous virtual desktop. A simple but extremely addictive feature, which only xfwm4 was offering&#8230; &#8230;until yesterday! I became tired on metacity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/05/06/gnome-hacking/</link>
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		<title>Development news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As our version freeze for Mandriva 2010.1 approaches quickly, I felt it was the right time to release new versions of msec, netprofile and drakguard.. and, as always, blog a bit about each of them. Starting with msec. The last release introduced a security summary gui, which was very warmly welcomed by the community. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/04/27/development-news/</link>
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		<title>Msec summary screen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most asked features for msec was to provide a &#8220;summary&#8221; screen, which could show the current state of system security to the user without making him go through all the possible security options and system tools. Since today, this features was added to msecgui, showing the summary for three of the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/02/26/msec-summary-screen/</link>
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		<title>More on msec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised in one of the past blog posts, a few more news about msec. Since 2009.1, msec was supporting an arbitrary number of custom security levels, providing two levels by default: standard, focused on casual desktops, and secure, focused on security-concerned machines. Clearly, this was not covering all the possible use cases, and, while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/02/18/more-on-msec/</link>
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		<title>Improving system speed, disk life and everything else in one small command</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed this days that, according to smartctl, the hard disk on my notebook has reached 365 days on Power_On_Hours variable. As the notebook itself has almost 2 years of age (I bought it in March of 2008), it is almost a double birthday-combo . However, at this age, it is obvious that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/02/11/improving-system-speed-disk-life-and-everything-else-in-one-small-command/</link>
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		<title>Msec updates getting (mostly) ready for 2010.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite some time since I last posted here about msec. For the past few weeks, it received some attention and now I guess many of the features I wanted to push for Mandriva 2010.1 are implemented. So I&#8217;ll describe the most interesting ones in this blog post (and save some for later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/02/08/msec-updates-getting-mostly-ready-for-2010-1/</link>
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		<title>2009 movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I first heard about the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies, my life was almost divided into two stages: before I heard about it, and after that. The Lord of the Rings was the first book I read (at age 4 or 5, I don&#8217;t remember exactly), and I read it at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/01/06/2009-movies/</link>
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		<title>Mandriva support and updates // 2009 followup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, several questions appear asking about the support for Mandriva products &#8211; either with bugfix updates, or the security ones. According to the policy, each update is assigned a specific advisory, which can affect one or more distributions. Besides, each advisory could receive an errata, to correct a regression caused by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2010/01/04/mandriva-support-and-updates-2009-followup/</link>
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		<title>Cleaning dust on photos: or &#8220;In Gimp We Trust!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I finally realized my old wish: I bought a real camera for me: a Nikon D40 &#8211; which is, according to many, many people, is the best DSLR out there. At least for non-professionals. With just a few pictures it was already possible to note the difference &#8211; I could not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/12/29/cleaning-dust-on-photos-or-in-gimp-we-trust/</link>
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		<title>New year, new car.. a tribute to Renault Megane, and a Merry Christmas message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year is coming to an end, and, as everything in life, time comes to retire an old car and switch to a new one. And this time has come for me as well &#8211; after 4 years with my precioussss Renault Megane, I switched to a new car. So now I feel that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/12/25/new-year-new-car-a-tribute-to-renault-megane-and-a-merry-christmas-message/</link>
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		<title>One year at @mandriva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the title says it all! Yep, one year has passed since I started working at Mandriva. Since then, it has been about 1100 SVN commits, about 300 closed bugz on bugzilla, around 65 security and bugfix advisories, and hundreds of git commits all around. If you are using Mandriva 2009.1 or 2010.0, you have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/11/10/one-year-at-mandriva/</link>
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		<title>last.fm is scaring me..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d say that about 13000 tracks in this counter were played with mpd and a few custom scripts to control it..]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/10/29/last-fm-is-scaring-me/</link>
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		<title>net(.*) updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Mandriva 2010 final release data approaches, the final retouches are being worked out on some of the tools I am taking care of. Net_monitor has evolved a lot since its first/new release. The interface was compacted, more features added and overall look-and-feel improved considerable. netprofile also received a few updates &#8211; most notable, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/10/15/net-updates/</link>
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		<title>net_monitor lives again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working on Mandriva network tools, I looked on one of the most essential ones the network monitor (net_monitor). It was introduced a couple of releases before, and was mostly doing its job. However, it has a number of flaws and lack of features that motivated us to look closer at it. The net_monitor currently used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/</link>
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		<title>Improving website scalability: image sizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of non-trivial tricks involved in web site scalability is the optimization of all image files. One of the sites I am helping to take care of has a front page with more than 350KB in .jpeg images. And, obviously, it takes lots of time to load and, considering the number of accesses, the bandwidth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/24/improving-website-scalability-image-sizes/</link>
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		<title>One game to rule them all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following picture pretty much explains this post title: If you enjoy state-of-the-art ASCII graphics, infinite gameplay, endless game possibilities and want to spend most of the rest of your life trying to understand how to play this game , you&#8217;ll certainly enjoy it! The game page is here, and if you want a direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/12/one-game-to-rule-them-all/</link>
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		<title>Landing on Linux-Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following yoho&#8217;s post, I thought it would be a good idea to join the Linux Planet project. My blog (well.. at least its technical part) is quite in line of the project&#8217;s goals: it is in English, it is technical, its content is all written by me, and it has the most reliable information out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/12/landing-on-linux-planet/</link>
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		<title>Few msec updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time has come for some msec updates. With base on previous post, I was working (among other things) on few msec ideas. And now it looks like a good time to put them out to cooker. First of all, I added support for exceptions into msec periodic check. I wanted to make it as flexible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/09/few-msec-updates/</link>
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		<title>msec future and plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With recent posts by vdanen and adamw, and a recent cooker mailing list thread, it became clear that msec is a very important project/package, and it should deserve much more attention and feedback. As you probably know, msec underwent a huge redesign for Mandriva 2009.1, and it is getting a lot of attention for 2010.0. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/02/msec-future-and-plans/</link>
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		<title>Tese de doutorado finalmente na net!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usp finalmente colocou a minha tese na net! Uhuu! Para quem quiser mergulhar numa aventura emocionante, conhecer as teorias, mitos e lendas do Grande Caos, comparar a sua inteligência com a artificial, e participar de uma busca dinâmica afim de e averiguar a verdadeira autonomia de computação, sintam-se convidados a se escalar nessa jornada! http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-05082009-205709/]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/01/tese-de-doutorado-finalmente-na-net/</link>
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		<title>chrome rpm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time now I was using binary chrome files, as distributed by chromium web site. I tried building chrome from the source, but its requirements (a few GBs of free disk space + lots of time to compile everything) made me gave up from the idea. Instead, I wrapped up a simple script+spec file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/08/31/chrome-rpm/</link>
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		<title>netprofile screencast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a very helpful feedback on cooker mailing-list, I decided to post a more in depth screencast which illustrates how netprofile works. Let&#8217;s think about a simple use case. You are using your notebook at home, and everything is fine. However, every time you have to go to work, you have to change several settings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/08/17/netprofile-screencast/</link>
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