A week ago, I spent most of my afternoon helping Ada with her new Debian system. She’s writing her thesis and for that she needs to have music notes on the document. I’ve insisted her to write her thesis in LaTeX but she still refuses to learn the syntax and commands. So she’s doing it […]
Emacs identica-mode, a way to read and post to Identi.ca microblogging site and any Laconi.ca installation from Emacs, now has support for several (friends, replies, public and user) timelines. Also added support to send direct messages. Some of the changes are: All API calls are now through HTTPS Changed keybinding, pressing “g” on identica-mode buffer […]
After years of talking about it and her coming with me to my free software talks and meetings, she finally let me replace the proprietary OS on her laptop with Debian GNU/Linux. I think it took us both much time to migrate her laptop for several reasons. First, she barely has time to sit at […]
Today I gave a talk about DRM technologies and how they affect everyone that consumes products with them. It took place at the UANL physics and mathematics faculty. It interests me very much the fact that its the second time they invite me to give this talk (and I hope to get invited many more) […]
I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community". The talks were great, with very interesting subjects, and there seems to be a lot of interest in virtualization this time. Rolman gave his talk about virtualization with KVM and the basics of […]
I had the opportunity to attend to LibrePlanet 2009, the annual Free Software Foundation members meeting that was held in Boston. It was a great experience and I was very happy to meet lots of FSF members, something I don’t get to see very often here in Mexico. I met with Evan Prodromou, the creator […]