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Yesterday, when I came to work, I found that my computer didn't boot up and started to make a beep several times, actually it was a never ending beep. I tough that it was my computer hard drive, but after disconnect it, the beep didn't stop.
I found that it was like a key being pressed, but nothing was pressing any key, so,after hitting every key just to make sure, I boot the computer, and it did start, but something wasn't working fine.
I discovered that the Shift button was not working, and the "home" key was always pressed, I removed the keyboard and clean the connection, but it wasn't working.
I fought yesterday, trying to make it work, but at the end of the day it wasn't. The fix... disconnect the laptop keyboard,work with an external keyboard, ask for a new one, I hope it comes soon, because working with an external keyboard is not good.

They are supposed to be 2Mb

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I just want to say Fuck you TelMex!!!!

Playing with Cheese

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I get a little anger because I can't find a Python build for ARM

Clean city model

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No. Salamanca is not that clean to be a model, and maybe it is not a goverment issue (maybe it is), but the people seem to be happy throwing their trash at the bottom this pole.
Why don't they throw their trash when the garbage car pass?.

Please.. don't go to the movies for Ice Age 3 If you look the 1 and 2 its okay, even the second was "fine" with those opossums that made the movie a bit funny. This time there is nothing new. Please, don't go you will loose your money as I did.

After the movie I went to the midtown, again, I start reading the book La ofensiva del software Libre (Free for all) by Peter Wayner, interesting book that xbitcarry lend me, I just start and I don't want to give a final comment about the book but, for the first 50 pages I read, they seems to focus on Microsoft??. I mean, Its ok he have to mention it, but why start the book with the Microsoft antitrust issue... I don't get it, anyway, I will read the whole book.
I don't know why Free Software means "Against Microsoft" for many people, why? is Microsoft the only one that sells privative software? NO. Its true that microsoft is the major software vendor in the world and its operating system runs on most personal computers but, IMHO is not just because they used some mafious techniques. I think most people use Windows (and love it) just because they works for them, the same happends for those using Apple Mac OS X and those using any BSD and Linux flavour, if it works for you fine!.
With this, I remember many people I know, use the "Its because Windows is bad" statement to start advocating if favor of linux, they add the "Linux is great, it doesn't crash like Windows, it doesn't get viruses, it doesn't......." as if they where selling one of those reductive creams. And guess what, if you sell linux like that, then you will have the results as if you where selling those creams: An angry client because the system doesn't work.
As one of the articles of Joel Spolsky: Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy if the user feels that the computer is not behaving the way they are used to, they will feel that the computer sucks, and if the computers sucks after you installed Linux, they will think that Linux suck. If you are advocating for Linux, please be honest, explain the pros and cons of Linux, the way it behaves and why your client (a customer, your mother, father, cousin, wife, kids, teacher, whatever) should think about using it and I remark the "think" word
In my family I'm the only that uses Linux just because I fell it have everything for me, My brother uses it as server for its business, my wife uses it in his computer because that computer was mine and I didn't change the OS, but its okay she likes Linux and by the time I'm writing this she didn't ask me to install Windows, but every often she ask me to teach her how to do something that she already know how to do in Windows. My mother and father uses windows, and for me it is okay. Everyone in my family know Linux and I have explained the good and cons of using Linux, obviously they made their choice. The same happens with Free Software, do the same,
Hey.. wait, Are you going to allow that your brother, mother and father use privative software?. Why not? again, it's something that they choose, then, the worse thing I can do if I'm a Free Software evangelist is try to impose the use of the Free Software, if I do that everyone will look the Free Software as the Evil Software that you don't want to use but have to use just because your brother is crazy and will get mad if you don't follow him (This happens in many religions too).
In summary:

• Microsoft and its products are not bad
• Linux is not the eighth marvel neither the Free Software is
• Live and let to live!. I mean, if it likes to you, good, if it doesn't it is good too.

Apple you liars

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Apple Safari 4 is out, and in their "All features" page, they say that Apple Safari is the first and only web browser that pass the Acid3 test. They lie, at least midori does it and have been installed in my computer since a while.

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Can't this machines just give me a few bills instead coins ?

Pues bien, he dejado de ladito el Slackware un rato para usar Ubuntu, debido a que vaya, ahora entiendo a quienes antes me habian dicho por montones: Yo quiero trabajar, no lidiar con dependencias.
Dado que siempre tengo que hacer en ICTC, cuando llego a casa pocas veces me intereza estar peleando con la compu, tal como lo hacia en casa, donde siempre tenia chance de hacerlo. Entonces me he instalado Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon para evitarme estas tranzas y usar el poder de apt.
Obviamente, me tuve que desprender de toda esa libertad que me da Slackware al no amarrarme del arbol de dependencias, pero es todo en favor de poder chambear o lograr lo queq uiero con el menor esfuerzo posible. Y pense que si lo conseguia todo seria bonito.
Bien, pues estaba bien perdido. He tenido unos ligeros problemas con Ubuntu. Antier tuve pedos con el controlador que te ofrecen para poder usar las tarjetas Broadcom. el bcm43xx funciona bien, pero no tan bien como deberia. Segun esta cosa si se conectaba con el router al que deberia de conectarse, pero aunque deshabilitaba cualquier otra interfaz de red y agregaba las rutas, el ping al mismo router jamas funcionaba!. Ha. y NetworkManager no me fue de mucha ayuda. Use wlassistant y ndiswrapper para lograr mi objetivo.
Ok, no fue todo. Resulta que a como tenia mi configuracion funciono bien en su momento, pero al dia siguiente al iniciar, Bolas don cuco Gnome no inicia... o mejor dicho, si lo hace, pero tarda Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucho y las aplicaciones tambien tardan Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucho a pesar de que el uso del CPU estaba al 0% o cuando mucho al 5% y el load average tambien estaba normal.
En fin, me hice una cuenta de usuario alterna para probar y nada, no pelaba. Gnome en modo seguro, tampoco, me asegure. Entonces entro en consola a prueba de fallos (simon, si falla la consola quito Ubuntu a la chingada y meto Slackware otra vez.. es mejor pelear un solo dia que pelar todos los dias!)..
En fin, aproveche e instale xfce y justo cuando va arrancando me dice que no encuentra la ip de cucusa (cucusa es el nombre de mi maquina), voy a echarle un ojo al /etc/hosts y veo que me faltaba el nombre corto para la maquina. se lo pongo y arranga perfecto. salgo de Xfce y entro en Gnome y Jala perfecto.
Aqui viene el descontento, recuerdo que en Gnome 1.x te avisaba que no podia resolver el nombre del equipo que esto posiblemente te acarrearia problemas. Entonces hacias las correcciones necesarias (tal como me paso con xfce). Por que jodidos lo quitaron?. Si GNOME es GNU Network Object Model Environment, porque jodidos no te avisa cuando hay un error en algun aspecto de red??
Ok, va una, la segunda sucede cuando llego a Salamanca, Me la volvio a hacer. Llego, conecto la compu a la corriente, arranco, y sopas, GNOME no arranca, Xfce si lo hace y no advierte de nada, muy probablemente porque ahora si resuelve la ip de mi maquina. Problema, la configuracion de red, deshabilite las interfaces de red que tengo, arrango GNOME, abro el NetworkManager y le digo que ahora mi configuracion ha de ser por dhcp en ambas interfaces (eth0 (alambrica) y eth1 (inalambrica)), y entonces si funciona bien.
Hasta ahorita no he tenido mayor problema que este, pero si es algo frustrante que despues de cambiar mi configuracion de red tenga tantos pedos para poder usar Ubuntu.

bufff, por fin de vuelta, mi dominio expir??????? y por razones desconocidas el dominio no se renov??????? a tiempo, asi que estuvo unos dias fuera en la url islascruz.org, (islascruz.com estaba en linea). Mala onda, porque ni mis correos me llegaron, si me mandaron algun correo a markuz__at___islascruz.org mandenlo de nuevo :-).