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2 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours wasted!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Although Dato has recently talked about it, it is worth to drop again a few more bits about MyEpisodes.com as a try to increase its popcon among TV shows addicts.

MyEpisodes.com is an easy way to track your activity watching TV shows. Using a fancy interface it is possible, for instance, to tag episodes as acquired/watched, be aware of upcoming premieres and, taking advantage of the provided RSS channels, stay up to date of new episodes without even visiting the website.

Have you ever asked yourself how many hours have you spent in front of your screen watching TV shows? MyEpisodes.com has got the answer.

Cool, isn’t it? ;)

Posted in Debian, Internet, TV | 4 Comments »

Filesharing milestones

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

In order to wake my blog up, let’s talk about p2p-based filesharing and stuff like that.

RevolutionTT is a well-known invite-only bittorrent tracker with high speed transfers in mind where it’s quite easy getting the maximum transfer speed (here, 10240 kbps) in a few seconds since the download engages. OTOH, if something is brand new and shareable, it’s in there.

Member for almost forty weeks, I’ve just reached a few hours ago the amount of six hundred uploaded gigabytes with an aprox. 4.0 ratio (numerical relationship among uploaded and downloaded bytes). I’ve been user of a bunch of trackers (both public and private) along my life as p2p user and I’m pretty sure this one is the best.

If you’re an intensive p2p user and you’re still stuck in some crappy public tracker or even using ed2k please consider getting an invite somewhere.

RevolutionTT, the revolution has begun

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~nacho v6.0 is out!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Another redesign of my website featuring a completely rewritten content is out!

Please, leave whatever suggestion as an attached comment to this post.

Posted in Internet, Life | 3 Comments »

Hello Slicehost!

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

As you might know, I’ve been sharing a dedicated server with three more guys. Since several months ago, we have been thinking about change the provider because the plans offered by JVDS were very price-outdated compared with other providers. Dreamhost didn’t fit our requirements (no root access and shared databases., WTF?!), so we had to choose between either Linode or Slicehost.

After waiting for about a month in the prospective customer queue, we finally moved to Slicehost. Slicehost is a fast, made-from-geeks-to-geeks and XEN powered virtual dedicated servers provider.

We’re quite happy with the change, we got a new machine with four times more memory for the same price and we also moved from Apache to Lighttpd. All the references from Slicehost we read were good and, at least by now, I second those thoughts.

Skyhusker made an awesome work migrating the stuff and all the services are already moved. Of course, we’re running Etch.

Posted in Debian, Internet, Personal | 5 Comments »

The #10000

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I’ve just submitted my song number 10,000 to last.fm!.

Posted in Internet, Music | No Comments »

OpenSPF ha llegado a España

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Tarde, como es habitual con estas cosas en España, pero parece que los ISPs españoles se empiezan a poner las pilas…

Bandaancha nos cuenta…

Según explica Mercè Molist en El País, Telefónica, ONO, Orange o Jazztel son algunos de los 26 proveedores de internet que se suman a un pacto para adoptar el SPF (sender policy framework) de manera conjunta.

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Hello again my old dude!

Monday, March 19th, 2007

My mail agent is Mutt again! (again mainly because it was my first MUA). Let’s fetchmail and procmail do the hard work while I happily browse my mailboxes!

Good bye Pine, Evolution, Sylpheed Claws… and now, Kmail!. (note Evolution link…)

BTW, xfmail2mbox.sh works fine, my mails moved smoothly to Mutt as well, so thanks to Jörg Reinhardt.

Posted in Internet, Linux | 2 Comments »

Relicensing

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I’ve just relicensed my website, after some time thinking about it I moved my website contents from a Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 to a GPLv2 license once and for all.

The main reason is that my concept of free and free software is really closer to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and, unfortunately, CC licenses terms don’t match with them very well (issue discussed since months ago in debian-legal and summed up in this document).

Posted in Internet, Personal | 3 Comments »

Asturian websites: Top 25

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

If El Comercio says it, it must be true. It could be interesting to know what is the general criterion to judge how much better than other a web is.

Painful.

Posted in Fun, Internet, World | 1 Comment »

Extending my Firefox’s capabilities!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

This is just another list of Firefox extensions I’m using at the moment:

  • Google Toolbar for Firefox – Useful Google utils pack (includes search, of course).
  • del.icio.us – All I need to manage my social bookmarks.
  • ColorZilla – Interesting extension to extract colour codes directly from websites.
  • VideoDownloader – Well known add-on.
  • Forecastfox – And if it rains tomorrow?.
  • PDF Download – Just a dialog to choose between open, download, or show as HTML the downloaded PDF files.
  • Download Statusbar – Enhanced and interesting download manager.
  • Colorful Tabs – Put colours in your life!
  • Flashblock – Flash really sucks, prevent it for me!
  • Extended Statusbar – Adds more information about the loaded website, for example spent time or download speed.
  • Tab X – Adds an independent kill button to each tab.
  • Link Alert – Prevents me to download rubbish, like Microsoft Word documents.

Excuse me, I forgot all the links to these extensions, feel free to search them yourself ;)

This ultraextended Firefox makes my life easier!

Posted in Internet, Linux | No Comments »

X-Facing!

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Finally, after two or three attempts, i built a new X-Face (the old one was a bit “noisy”):

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View it in action or verbatimize it skipping line jumps :)

Posted in Fun, Internet | 3 Comments »