Archive for January, 2005
Reminiscences
Something was funny yesterday.
GLIB (Grupo de Usuarios de Linux del Bajío). Yesterday they had a meeting in Celaya, which is my born town. They invited me, and because of the place of the meeting I immediately accepted it: It would be fantastic to go to a Linux talk in the town where I were born and grew up.
After the talk, I realized how things can change. When I left Celaya to come to Mexico City I was 11 years old. I had no idea what was Linux and Debian about, I didn’t even own a computer, I was just concerned of riding my bike and playing around my neighborhood. Now, almost 10 years later, it is hard to believe how people can change, how life can turn around on every unbelivable direction.
I don’t know if there was any free software activity in Celaya back in 1996, when I was more interested on playing soccer on the streets. But it’s incredibly refreshing to see how this movement is reaching every time and every part of everybody’s life: Even in Celaya.
De nuevo meti�ndole mano al Planeta
Planeta Linux, sobre encoding. Finalmente y luego de dejarme un tiempo libre (la verdad estaba aburrido sin hacer nada), lo he solucionado. Si vuelven a ver fallas, por favor avísenme:
¿Cómo lo arreglé? Con un charrísimo script en Perl que jamás mostraré >:)
My death time
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Liferea
Liferea 0.9.0 is finally out.
For all of those asking for it, you can grab it from here. An i386 build would be truly appreciated, before an official upload.
iDamog
Pues finalmente soy due
!i386
Pues esta es la primera semana que he estado en clases. Todo parece ser tan normal como de costumbre, con la levedad de que me he quedado sin computadora
Ya bloggearé al rato un poco más, desde la mac, si todo sale bien
Viaje a Egipto
Pues bueno, para quien le pueda llegar a interesar, la universidad estᠯrganizando un viaje a Egipto, acá la información:
No pienso, pues tengo otros planes de viajes, pero quizás le pueda ser interesante a más de uno, por aquí
Si a alguien realmente le interesa, no dude en avisarme
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De vuelta a la escuela
Este semestre sólo llevaré cuatro (en realidad 6, pero 2 son laboratorios) materias, debido a que no pude meter las demás por dinero. La universidad está cada vez más cara, lo cual me dificulta llevar bien mis estudios. En fin, tendré que ir poquito a poquito.
¿La materia más interesante? Desde luego, Programación Aplicada
Veremos qué tal.
mambo time!
I’ve started to play a little bit with mambo, which is an
incredibly nice tool for a web cms: It’s easy to use, to enhance and
work on it. I’ve also started to work on a Debian package, which was in
the past RFP’ed, and I’ve added some interesting stuff in to the
package:
For example, I’m using mambo right now at my website/weblog. All
content items in Mambo can be classified into categories and these,
into sections. One of the main problems I found while installing it was
the RSS feed. Only items published on the front page are allowed to be
syndicated. But what happens if I want to syndicate an specific
category, which is not published into the front page? Specially since I
need feeds for my spanish and english blog. So, with a nice and small
Perl script (thanks Jay Bonci for maintaing libxml-rss-perl
I’ve
produced the RSS feeds of whatever you want containing items.
I’ve also implemented the AkoComment stuff, which is a fancy
component/mambot for the items, it allows, as its name suggests, place
comments on your items.
I guess I can offer the package in a couple of days. I’d love to have
also authors’; permissions for distributing some of the incredible cool
themes out there for mambo.
Besides, I love everything around it, the website is incredibly clean and elegant, so does the cms and the ease of use.
BTW, do you all know about the new debianvenezuela.org?
This tendency is growing up…

