O Blog do Gustavo Felisberto

This is a very nice kde applet that I used to see some friends using. I would sometimes ask them if one could attach commands to the icon so that one could stop/start the service associated with the device. They would tell me that it was not possible….. They were wrong.
One can do it visually but I had some problems inputing the data, so I added it manually to the config.
if you are using gentoo:

Then start it in Control Center/KDE Components/Service Manager. After doing that you have to open the file ~/.kde/share/config/knemorc and add the following text to the eth0 entry.

Remember to remove the lines that are already there. You can add all the commands that you want just remember to change NumCommands.

In the last few days I have managed to spend some time (not as much as I would like) sitting and thinking about the last 10 years of linux. It was in the beggining of the 1995 summer that i first saw a Unix system (before that I was a TOS user) . The beggining of my relation was a bit hard. I had to use a VT220 terminal to connect to a AIX machine so I always tought that it was a step back from my GEM box. Shure i knew that some 40 persons where using it, but it was 80×24 characters…..
After some months I got the oprtunity to work with a DEC3000 workstation with a HUGE 21″ monitor…. I had netscape, a word processor and a spreadsheet. I was hooked!!! Shure I had the same in the Atari but could only run one App at a time. There was windows 95…. but you could just stare at the box and it would crash on it’s own.
I got mysqlf a second hand 486 and installed Slackware. Time went on and there came RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, FreeBSD, Debian again….. And then one happy day I heard that there was a Linux distro with a Ports like system…. I just HAD to install it.

I used it, abused it and gave my first help to the Gentoo world after that some more helps here and there untill becoming a full member of the Gentoo comunity.

In the last months I have not helped alot. Life is like that, tends to get all your time. But summer is coming… and with summer… bug closing season is open

But why am I writting this? What is the big message? The message is a word about the future. Linux is here. Linux isn’t just kicking…. It is a huge explosion. It is so big that we that are making the revolution dont even get a grasp of it.

This is a word to all that make free applications for linux, that help users, those that spread the word:
“We will help shape the world of tomorow.”