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Category Archives: Free Software
Serpents in my life (getting old ;-) part II)
In the previous post I wrote about one of my projects working at the GME and the new tools for me I used. This post relates to the other project I work on it. The GME is partner of the … Continue reading
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The Qt x-perience (getting old ;-), part I)
Some time ago I think about writting my (short) experience programming GUI with C++/Qt/Qwt. This interesting post by Linus Torvalds blaming C++ motivated me again to do it. As I wrote in a previous post, last year I began to … Continue reading
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Blu-ray DRM master key leaked
Blu-ray discs DRM is broken. Take it!! Always let the hardware be free…
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Lone wave
Tomorrow I’ld must be attending to the IV Civil Engineering, Territory and Environment Congress at Málaga (South Spain). Finally I couldn’t travel because domestic problems, so I’m a bit sad. I’m a bit sad because tomorrow morning my first boss … Continue reading
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Yes (I hope) we can
Last Thursday I’ve been elected as president of GPUL. Since October 2008 I held that position but it happened because Emilio J. Padrón must be replaced. He went to the INRIA at Grenoble, and he needed to take a rest … Continue reading
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Reality bytes in 140 chars
As you can see, I update this blog slowly. It happens because I have no much time to write long posts about really interesting things in this period. But I usually need to share little thoughts and moments, and fast … Continue reading
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Synthesis
Today I published in GPUL’s weblog [ES] a (bit long) reflection on the past and the present, looking to the future of my loved free software group. These moments to stop & think happen each 3-4 years, because it usually … Continue reading
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Highly connected nodes
It’s the leit motiv of my life these days… I’m a member of GPUL, so I’m a free software activist -> I collaborated with ESF-Galicia (Engineers Without Borders) in their migration to free software and open standards. I’m a social … Continue reading
More than W*S
The last days at the Conference were intense, so I’ll write about them at home again. The second day began with RMS’s speech about patents. We arrived a bit late, but I can certify it was a very good speech … Continue reading
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Via Augusta
It’s 4 a.m. I’m trying to write slowly in the darkness because Gonzalo it’s trying to sleep. He will read his paper tomorrow. Today started the Conference. It seems the usual professional Conference in a four-star hotel, but there is … Continue reading
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Night and Girona
Two hours ago my buddies at work Gonzalo, Nacho and me arrived in Girona, Cataluña, North Spain. We will attend to the III Jornadas de SIG Libre (3rd Free GIS Conference). CartoLab will read two papers, release one application, and … Continue reading
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Perfect purity
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood“ Yukio Mishima. Runaway horses, 1969
Frankenstein GUI
The week before Akademy I attended to a course about a Civil Engineering tool called Istram Ispol. It tries to be a killer-app for road and railway projects. It really has a very interesting lot of features, but I really … Continue reading
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My personal Guademy
GPUL was candidate to organize next summer the international Akademy and Guadec. We lost in the competition in favor of Canarias Islands candidate. But we won at least the competition to organize the Akademy-ES last November. It was a chance … Continue reading
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Only an accident…
Since October, 30th I’m the new president of GPUL. It has been necessary because Emilio went some months to investigate at INRIA in Grenoble. He needed holidays too because the great,, amazing work he made leading GPUL the last three … Continue reading
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GIStheresis
Some weeks ago I wrote about my work at the Territorial Studies Lab. After two months of a interesting, funny stage I left the Lab. Two doors from there, the CartoLab needed a geek person with some knowledge about GNU/Linux … Continue reading
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Survive in a mess
I’m tired of spent a week each six months straightening up my documents spreaded in several disks and machines. So I recently began to use a tool to help me to manage every document that flows in my systems: tracker. … Continue reading
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Thanks to you all folks!
Atheros Communications, Luis Rodríguez, Madwifi and especially Reyk Floeter of OpenBSD who made the first steps, thank you for working on a free driver of Atheros devices
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THE gadget
I’m getting old. I’m very happy with a gadget that joins cell phone (GSM and UTMS), GPS, digital camera, mp3 player, wireless conectivity. Its name is N95 by Nokia. It goes against Unix philosophy, but I was tired because my … Continue reading
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Geeks as we are
Visperas and Benji got married in June. They celebrated the marriage in Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid. Alcalá was the first planned university in the world by Cardinal Cisneros in the XV Century. Everywhere in the city you can find … Continue reading
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