Esta semana comienzan las actividades conmemorativas del décimo aniversario de la AsturLiNUX.
Durante toda la semana hay programadas diversas actividades (charlas, talleres y conferencias) y como colofón, un gran acto central, el próximo sábado 18 de abril donde intervendrán Iván Frade (”Maemo; Software Libre Movil”) de Nokia y Rodrigo Salvador (”El Software Libre para la Gestión de la Red Educativa de la Junta de Andalucía”) de la Junta de Andalucía.
Además de estas ponencias, tendrá lugar una mesa redonda (“El Software Libre dentro y fuera de Asturias”) con una lista de participantes muy interesante.
1Password is a very powerful application for OSX to keep safe your passwords and identities. It works as a standalone application and as a series of plugins for several Internet browsers. It is capable of, among other things, autofill registration forms and save you a lot of time filling in the same personal information again and again. To autofill a login form, just click the 1P browser menu bar icon, choose a previously recorded identity and voila, 1Password logins in automagically with no further interaction.
All the harvested information is stored in a different keychain unlocked by a master key placed in the login keychain (See “Keychain access.app” for more information).
Macheist, in collaboration with Agile Web Solutions, is offering free licenses as a Christmas present here. You only have to create and account and click in the links below the tree to get your free license.
It seems my brother is not very good with numbers and managed to block his SIM card by mistyping the PIN code three times in a row. The card is quite old, he inherited it from me time ago and God knows where the proper documentation which came along with it was. In short, we were screwed without the PUK code.
When the card was bought, there wasn’t any active law demanding mobile operators to establish any link between the card and its owner. Given that, I told him it will be hard to get the PUK to unlock the card because most likely the customer service would suspect the card was stolen and its new evil owner was trying to use it. Anyway, why don’t give it a try?
Dialing 1485…
Me: Hello. My cellphone is locked, it is asking for a code in order to get itself unlocked.
Op: What code? PIN code?
Me: Well, no. It requests the PUK code.
Op: I see. Is it a prepaid card?
Me: It is.
Op: Ok, turn off the device, remove the battery, extract the SIM card and tell me the numbers printed on it.
Me: Well… the numbers are: 11111111111111.
Op: Ok, and your phone number is…?
Me: 622222222.
Op: Ok. Your PUK is: 333333333333333.
Me: Thanks.
Op: Thanks for calling. Have a nice day.
Thus anyone who knows your telephone number and wants to read you messages, copy your contact list or call for free only has to steal your phone. You may now start worrying even if the phone was off, the security codes don’t protect your privacy at all.
I’ve been looking for a new monitor for a lot of time. Given I’ve decided to use my new Macbook as my unique desktop system it turned necessary to buy a new display to exploit in a better way the capacity of this marvelous operating system, MacOSX.
Starting with the idea of buying a simple LCD 20″ monitor and after asking a bunch of anonymous multimedia and imaging amateurs for advice I ended up opening my scope and buying a gorgeous 23″ FullHD Dell display.
The monitor arrived today. Connecting it to my macbook through VGA was easy as pie, it looks incredibly stunning at 1920×1080. One of the main advantages of this display is its aspect ratio. Having an AR of 16:9 allows you to get rid of the annoying black parts on screen while watching 16:9 TV shows downloaded from the Internet. This way, you get an actual full screen :)
Take my advice and if you have in mind buying a new display evade old fashioned resolutions such as 1680×1050 and enjoy the FullHD experience.
I’ve also bought a wired Apple keyboard&mouse which have improved my desktop experience even more, having now a comfortable desktop setup to enjoy even more one of the things I do more often, spending uncountable hours in front of my beloved computer.
