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X Aniversario de AsturLiNUX

Monday, April 13th, 2009

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.

Más información en la página principal y en el programa.

Posted in AsturLiNUX, Linux, Spanish | 2 Comments »

Example: How to statically and dynamically link your executables

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

People usually uses Google, among other things, to look for hints about how to do small tasks. Hopefully, you will find the hint you were looking for in somebody’s blog, because he or she had the same problem time ago and decided to talk about it.

Last night, I was a bit bored and started writing a dumb set of files to introduce people how static and dynamic linking work, so trying to put my two cents and add a new hint to the wild wild web, I’m sharing it. The C source files are practically useless, therefore pay attention to the Makefile, the magic is in there.

If you’re downloading it only to compile, execute and see what happens forget about it, the program is completely silly. Otherwise, probably the Makefile is buggy somewhere so bug reports are welcome. For teaching purposes, try, for example, breaking the ABI and see what happens.

Google, index this post please!

Update: This example does not cover autotools/libtool

Posted in Debian, Linux, Programming | 1 Comment »

DudesConf

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Dear Lazyweb,

I’m sorry, I know I’m late but here it is my promised report about DudesConf.

It was simply cool, even though it was my first Debian-related real [0] event everything was in a good, familiar and friendly shape. I’m really happy to had met all the Debian developers who attended, GPUL people and others, pleased to meet you guys!

Talks, BOFs, meals, accommodation, everything was impressive, so my gratitude goes to everyone who helped made DudesConf possible :). If you feel curious, you should be able to watch some pictures in the gallery or read the live (I know, it’s not really live at the moment, my fault) event coverage.

Of course, Ricardo, thank you for take me to A coruña, it was a pleasure for me to share some kilometers (some? all of them!) with you ;)

[0] Real comes from real life, Daniel pointed me out days ago to the actual difference between real an virtual life.

Posted in Debian, Life, Linux | No Comments »

Thanks

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

13:55 -!- aba changed the topic of #debian-release to: Done.

Superb guys! Thanks again to everybody who made it possible, release team, translators, bug reporters, Debian CD, ftp team, QA team,… and to everyone who is part of this wonderful project called Debian!

See you next weekend at Dudesconf!

By the way, the #debian-release’s topic change notice was stolen from Steve’s blog.

Posted in Debian, Linux | 2 Comments »

New DPL

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Congratulations Sam! It’s time to make Debian fun again, best of luck!.

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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 »

Debian developer

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Yes, that’s it, I’m finally Debian developer. I would like to use this post to say thanks to everyone who helped me to achieve this goal since I applied in 2005-10-05, here we go!

Thanks to…

Ricardo Cárdenes, the man who linked me to Debian development world and, of course, my advocate.
Moray Allan, my responsible AM.
The NM Staff (Myon, HE, Ganneff, Elmo…)
My usual sponsors: Ricardo, Ana, Amaya, Mones, Gunnar….

I hope to write an small report about the NM process with my impressions and opinions soon, so stay tuned. By the way, if you are planning to join Debian and you’re able to meet me, I’m offering GPG key signing since today :)

Finally, thanks to all my #dudes!

Posted in Debian, Linux, Personal | 5 Comments »

Discover, rename and launch!

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

This is exactly what OSX developers did with Leopard and Spaces. Isn’t this feature available for ages in lots of GNU/Linux desktops? Are OSX users definitely (re-)discovering how to work natively with virtual-desktops?, let’s see what Apple says in Leopard’s main website:

You do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when all those projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to organize all your windows into groups and banish clutter completely. A Space for everything and everything in its Space. Only with Mac OS X Leopard.

What the fuck? Only with Mac OS X Leopard? AAAAAAAAA!

Posted in Debian, Fun, Linux | 24 Comments »

Etch is very cold (like local weather)

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Yay! Release team reported that Etch (current testing branch) is now frozen, Andreas Barth announced it.

Posted in Debian, Linux | 1 Comment »

Debian NM process movements

Monday, November 13th, 2006

I was approved by Debian NM FrontDesk team today, then, only one step remaining to dispatch my application.

Step 1: Application
Step 2: Identification
Step 3: Philosophy and Procedures
Step 4: Tasks and Skills
Step 5: Recommendation
Step 6: Front Desk Check
Step 7: Debian Account Manager check and account creation

I hope to be DAM approved soon, go go! :)

By the way, tomorrow I will have a skills test to get a driving license, wish me luck!

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Airs of change

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Hello Konqui, pleased to meet you!

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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.