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I got it! I’ve been working with two screens on Windows during many years, and when I completely moved to Linux I wasn’t able to get it working again, even if Fedora Linux has dual head support.

A couple of years ago, I had written about using two monitors with one PC, and the article is still receiving many hits. Many people are looking the way to do this. I decided to give it another try yesterday and got it right this time.

Working with just one screen, when you’ve been using two during a long time, is almost unbearable. My ATI x700 graphics card didn’t worked with Fedora Core 4 dual head. I later discovered the problem was me, I haven’t looked in the right places.

This is a problem with most recent ATI cards, which use their own drivers, not included in Fedora.

I started making changes in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, backing up the current copy first, and using the control panel provided by ATI’s driver, but I couldn’t see if it was working because X died, my screens were getting blank, and I couldn’t see what was happening when restarting X.

My solution?

In the computer with the two screens I opened a terminal window, as root, made my change for dual head in ATI control panel, clicked apply, and run init 3 to restart in text based mode.

Then I used my other computer, also running Fedora (but it could have been using any operating system, I just needed SSH access) and SSHed, as root again, to the one with two screens, and run init 5 to restart X. Halleluyah! It worked, but the images were in the wrong side.

I played a little more with ATI’s control panel, repeated the init 3 and init 5 steps above and got it right. Although, I could have just changed cables.

Now my desktop is looking great!

I can continue writing the spanish version of my book about telecommuting, with my word processor in one screen while I have reference material in the other.

If you are going to work with two screens, you better get some of these spectacular screen savers. Enjoy.

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Good news today: FeedBurner Email is already available. A free service that allows your readers to subscribe using just email.

Quite useful for those users not familiar with a feed reader.

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An hilarious post from the guys at the Basketbawful: The Gatorade Conspiracy. Subliminal marketing?

Imagine a radio station playing just the songs you like, and giving you the ability to tell when a song doesn’t fit your tastes and not playing it anymore. That is what Pandora does.

Pandora is a web based service that allows you to create your own music stations. Stations that “learn” what kind of music you prefer based on the choices you make. Pandora only needs a web browser with the Flash player plugin installed, that is almost any computer in the world.

Pandora rewards our curiosity, hence the name. It’s a great way of finding new music. No matter if it’s the latest hit by a mainstream artist or an unknown local band from Biloxi, Mississippi.

I signed up to Pandora a couple of months ago and I instantly loved it; thus, when I got a newsletter written by Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora and who started the Music Genome Project in 1999, I decided to ask him for an interview.

Tim replied quickly and we had a talk over the phone yesterday.

Here you have it, Tim Westergren from Pandora, at Ventanazul.

Continua leyendo …

A regular day at the studio:

“Gee, I’m thirsty man!”

“So I am dude, so I am”

“What you have in the fridge?”

“Dunno, let’s see … great!, I’ve got a couple of bottles of Google Gulp“

“Cool, give me the Beta Carroty”

Google. These guys are nuts or they are just too smart for the rest of us. What do you think?