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This article has not been updated and may contain outdated information. mailwise Introduction mailwise is yet another mail app for Android, one I have just discovered, so far, I’m loving it.

You should usually know the version of Ubuntu you are running, but in case you can not determine the version you are running, just run this command. cat /etc/issue That command will tell you the version of Ubuntu you are using.

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In case you need to see the full headers of an email while using Outlook 2011 on your Mac, here is the simplest way.

Debian Anniversary Today August 16th is the 21st anniversary of the GNU/Linux distribution Debian.

Your own password manager There are a lot of options when your want and application to store and manage your passwords.

On Writing For some reason I can't really explain I love writing, I know I am not good at it, specially when I do it in English, anyway I keep doing and doing it.

Boxer for Android Three days ago I have received an invitation to join another users to beta test the Boxer app for Android.

Thunderbird Best Practices Thunderbird is the email client from Mozilla, it has been around since a long time ago, and it evolved to have all you need from an email client.

Since last October I've been away from the Internet, well not completely, but not following my favorite blogs in a daily basis, wait… Not even in a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

Three years ago I moved my blog to Jekyll and since then I have been very happy with it, with the time I have changed the way it looks and have gone from comments to no comments.

If you have a capped connection to the Internet, something like LTE o 3G connection, then you may want to monitor how much bandwidth your Mac is using.

I love Debian, it is together with Arch Linux my favorite distribution of GNU Linux.

Maybe because I am a little old (40 years old) I am not an "addict" of Facebook or Instagram, but I have to admit I'm an addict of email.

I have stopped using Windows on 2011 and since then I have been using exclusively Mac OS X and Linux but on October 2013 I have started a new job, and I have been given a Dell Inspiron with Windows 8.

Sometimes it seems like everything has been done in a specific field, and talking about blogging one may think that everything has already been implemented.

One of the things I enjoyed the most from my last trip to Israel have been eating lots of salads.

In July 7, 1947 an object crashed in a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico.

Siddhārtha Gautama, better known as Buddha said: Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

When I was a kid I loved playing soccer, I was not good at it but liked it anyway.

I have started blogging in 2007, it has been a wonderful experience, I have met some great people because of blogging, I have received so may good comments about my site, and have enjoyed every minute about writing here.

##Introduction ioFlare is a new VPS provider that will be launching in a week, as you will see below Vance (CEO of ioFlare) and his team are planning to offer a new VPS option for all the hacker community.

I have been a Linux and free software advocate for years, and I still am, but I also like to think that I am objective and not just like any other fan-boy.

Almost everybody may know what BBM is, but if you don't it stands for (Blackberry Messenger), and it is just that, a messaging platform designed for Blackberry smartphones, and until 2010 (give or take) it was the most used messaging platform in the world.

Introduction I have installed a week ago with Elementary Luna, if you like GNU/Linux operating Linux, then you should have heard about Elementary Luna but if not, I will tell you that Elementary Luna is a new GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu…

For the last year I have been using an Android phone (Galaxy S3 from Samsung), I use it mostly for email, and I hosted my main email account on Google Apps.

I use curl and wget a lot, because I like downloading ISO images to test new GNU/Linux distributions, but I do not have a lot of bandwidth, so that usually means that I have to left my PC on downloading the file at night.

Well, some of you know I love to test new things, and Jekyll was one of those things.

Five years ago I started my journey to fitness, I started with spinning and weight lifting.

Introduction A LAMP server is one of the most used configurations of the GNU/Linux operating system.

When you are downloading a very big file over the Internet, and you are sharing the Internet conection with others, for example with your family at home.

When you are downloading big files from the Internet, there is always the risk to get your download interrupted and then you end up with a broken file.

##Introduction It's been a while that I am writing a blog, but mostly in English, being my native tongue Spanish I wanted to also write in that language, but I needed to find the way to keep one site being it multi-lingual.

Today, while installing a Wordpress Multisite application, I have started to see lots of this messages "Warning: Creating default object from empty value in wordpress".

##Introduction Providing or not providing share buttons in your posts is something that some consider useful, while others consider is not necesary.

##Introduction Git is great to version control your work, and it is also good that is does not have a central repository, but a distributed authority.

##Introduction Cron jobs are added tasks to the cron daemon, for it to run them periodically, at specific times.

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Spanish version How to know how many files are there recursively in a folder?

I have been blogging with the help of Jekyll for more than two years I think, and during this time I have enabled and disabled comments.

##Introduction Over the last two weeks I have been working on creating some sites with both Wordpress and Drupal.

I have finally decided to start learning Ruby, and actually learn to code.

Spanish version How can a "normal" user get root rights, or actually switch to root account using the su command when working under FreeBSD?

Spanish version In FreeBSD when you want to install new software you use pkg_add you may have downloaded the package prior to the invoke of the pkg_add command.

I want to note that I am not going to show you how to sync Firefox between two different computers as it is already well documented by Mozilla.