My journey updating to natty
Updating to a new version of ubuntu always has its glitches.... I hate doing clean installs (this is not Windows after all, right? So we should be able to do updates while working on the box) so I...
View ArticleUpdated minibd driver for linux (sbull.c)
Hi!I'm embarking myself in a journey to write a block driver for linux (raid5 recovery stuff, anyone? Doesn't ring a bell? Look around this blog).My firsts steps have involved trying to figure out how...
View ArticleWill kubuntu natty stabilize? Ever?
Hi!First off, let me tell you something before I start my rant on kubuntu: I've been a kubuntu user for 6 years now... and I don't intend to switch to gnome (ubuntu) or xfce (xubuntu) or any other of...
View ArticleHow to install django (or run it without installing it at all) without...
Hi!I'm giving my first baby steps at learning Django. Right up front I saw the installation procedure and it talked about requiring an administrator to do the installation or copy the django directory...
View ArticleHow to perform automatic actions after a connection is established with...
Hi!I'm on kubuntu Natty and I'm pretty glad with the distro overall. However, there are a couple of bugs that bug me more often than I'd like them to. One of them is that, for whatever reason, when I...
View ArticleKubuntu 11.04: After updating to kde 4.7, things are back to normal
Hi!You might remember I wrote quite a rant a few months back about the sorry state of kubuntu 11.04 when it was released. There were so many complains I had.Well, after I updated to kde 4.7 yesterday...
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My wife has died
I'm sorry to announce that Lina Marcela "La Nena" Salgado, my wife, died on July 8th. She fought cancer corageously but ultimately the disease defeated her.Nena: siempre tendrás un lugar muy especial...
View ArticleHelp us defend colombian's digital rights from entertainment lobbies
Hi!Colombia has become one of the places where the entertainment industry is trying to overtake things as basic as the right to access internet from people in order to protect their money (as if the...
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How to add a custom session type to kdm
Hi!I was trying to start my "failsafe" session from kdm. Back in the old days, what I would get with that would be a plain session with a terminal on top and nothing else. Unfortunately, when I tried...
View ArticleSales of GNU/Linux servers explode on Q2 2011 with an increase of 47%
Hi!According to numbers released by IDC, income from server sales for Q2 2011 saw an increase of 47.5% compared to the same quarter 2010 to reach US$ 2.7 billon. This represented 20.5% of all income...
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Will ARM get to sweep X86 (and take WIndows to hell along with it)?
Hi!I've been very interested in ARM developments since a couple of years ago when it looked like ARM netbooks were just about to be released and kick x86 out of the market (at least on netbooks). A lot...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Neelie Kroes
Hi, Ms. Kroes.First, I'd like to say that I'm not an european citizen. I'mvenezuelan and I'm living in Colombia at the time. If that's all ittakes to get this email dropped from your inbox, so be it....
View ArticleRemember the times when I used python for RAID5 Recovery? Not anymore
Hi!Remember the times when I translated the raid5 recovery utility from java to python? Well, let me tell you something. It was horrendously SLOW. For example, I used to help a guy who had a problem...
View ArticleEdmundo 750 GBs - HP 0 Gbs
Hi!Just today I finished one almost perfect data recovery from another RAID5 that its controller spitted onto (another HP controller, yet again).This time around, it was a 6-disk RAID5 (some 130 GBs...
View Articleraidpycovery supports raid4 and repetitions
Hi!Just wanted to announce that I just tagged/pushed version 2.01 of raidpycovery which now supports raid4 and also repetitions (like the one an HP SmartArray P410i displayed).Repetitions works this...
View ArticleHow to connect your smartphone through your GNU/Linux box. Part I: With a...
Hi! So, you forgot to pay your phone bill? Or you are just in the middle of a financial crisis? Whatever the reason, you lost connection of the most important item of communication in your daily life:...
View ArticleDude, i'm not the usual PC technician!
So, you are in the middle of a crisis, you have tons of data stuck in a broken RAID5, shall I say it's critical data, and you need it back.So you look around the internet and find me, none other, with...
View ArticleI need something close to debian with up-to-date KDE
Hi!I just read the news that Canonical will pull the plug (kind of) from Kubuntu. Kubuntu will go on as a community project and the only person who was getting paid to work on it will have to do other...
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Java GPS library release
Hi!It's been a while since I wrote my last post... not that I've had something great to talk about.Among other things, recently I laid my hands on a GPS USB dongle that I wanted to play around with...
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[OT] Music - Cracking multiple voices with mixed measures
Hi!Music and mathematics go hand in hand... and being an engineer just makes this relation clearer.Having a strong background in mathematics makes some of the problems you find in music a little...
View ArticleJust published a GPS Parsing library
Hi!Just wanted to let you know (as if you cared that much) that I just released a GPS Parsing library (based on NMEA 0183) for Java.The way to use it is fairly simple. It can be used to read from...
View ArticleRMS, why did you skip the i?
Hello, everybody.Today I had an epiphany. Why did RMS skip the i from "is" in GNU? I mean, he named it GNU after he fiddled with all the letters to make it a recursive acronym. Like GNU stands for...
View ArticleWhy is plasma desktop hitting cups every once in a while?
Hi!I had noticed on gkrellm that there was a process nagging with traffic on the loopback interface hitting cups. I'm running kubuntu 13.04.I wanted to know what process it was.... I tried with netstat...
View ArticleIntroducing geol
Hi!Don't you hate it when developers are working in disparate platforms and people commit changes that rewrite the whole file (even though they only changed a couple of lines) because they changed the...
View ArticleAngularJS: Registering child scope with parent to be able to make synchronous...
Hi!I had been looking for a way to be able to "send messages" from parent scope to a child. Doing the opposite is very simple:Just call a parent scope's method from child scope and you'll be done.But...
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