I tried to resist the twitter thing, but I just kept hearing about it and my curiosity won. I’m now on twitter: http://twitter.com/gabrielsaldana. I don’t know much about how it works or why it’s cool, so any tips are appreciated. Related posts: No related posts.
Contrary to what Miguel de Icaza believes about the ISO approval of OOXML as an office document format standard, this is nothing but a big loss for the free software and open source communities. Yes, the whole OOXML approval process broguth Microsoft to a somewhat “open” direction. But the truth is that there’s nothing open […]
Git is a distributed version control system. I won’t go into much details of what Git is or why use Git instead of other VC systems. There’s plenty other sites where to check that information. I love Git, but there’s a slight problem with Ubuntu’s repositories (feisty, gutsy): its an old version. Git’s version on […]
Finally I’m on my way to CONSOL. I missed the first day, but I hope I didn’t miss much. I’m a bit nervous because I don’t know my way around on south Mexico city, but I’ve been on worse situations. The main thing that worries me is that I didn’t bring any laptop with me […]
I’ve been fighting a battle (one of many) about the use of free format files on private/public organizations. And I think I finally won this one. The Casino Tampiqueño is a social club in my hometown Tampico. So they organize balls and carnivals and multiple events. Recently, they “discovered” email. So they started sending “spam” […]
today, after a long period of hassling with my semi broken laptop I finally sent it to warranty service. I struggled for almost a year with my 5mins lasting battery and as if that was not annoying enough, the ac adaptor had a false contact. So basically charging the thing was a pain. Today, after […]