Last week I was invited to talk at the Unitec University in Monterrey about DRM and copyright, of course, applied to mexican law. Which is interesting since the mexican law allows for people to have a copy of a work for personal use only. This means P2P and basically all forms of file sharing are […]
Mako Hill has been talking about the Antifeatures, which are features that you don’t want but the product costs more when they don’t have them instead of costing more for adding them. Sounds tricky? Well, maybe its more understandable with this last news story about Dell will charge $50 dlls to have XP installed. It […]
After today’s iPhone announcements and all the excitement that has been generated, I started thinking about the competition. The nokia n95 and all the other smart phones have little advantage over the attractiveness of an iPhone. The features and the looks are nice. But the price? I can’t think of how a Nokia N95 at […]
Its been a while since the last time I tried blogging with the weblogger mode. I don’t think anything changed so far, but I just wanted to give it a try once more. The other easier way to blog with emacs is using the It’s All Text Firefox extension. It’s weird that there’s a video […]
Just finished publishing ACM Crossroads issue 14.4 online. This speed of publishing is thanks to Emacs. I use tramp mode to edit and fix files remotely on the ACM servers via ssh. Tidy with html-mode to validate and fix all markup so that the files are XHTML 1.1 Strict. Dired mode to rename, move, copy […]
Its been a long day but it has finally come to and end. It all started with a lot of javascript hacking for HoraDeComer.com. It was getting tough but I finally beat it. But the javascript adventure wasn’t over yet. Duke Crawford came to visit for a couple of days, so we started hacking on […]
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