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Free antivirus programs for Windows

Some of the free (not necessarily as in freedom) antivirus programs I recommend when asked are: clamwin This is the first one I recommend, being my best ethical pick since its free software. It is a good scanner and it takes almost no memory, since its not constantly scanning every single thing you do. This […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source Programming & Web Development

My 5 reasons to leave Ruby on Rails

I’m stopping all my ruby on rails development. Its been a while since my last rails line was written and I will not continue to develop on that framework. Here are my reasons for this: Documentation and entry point price First of all, to get any serious documentation on how to use the framework, you […]

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I’m a lucky guy

Seeing this xkcd comic made me think about how lucky I am with my girlfriend. She listens to all my ramblings about free software and free culture and she even went to my anti drm talks I’ve given on several universities. She puts up with it. I’m not sure if she buys it, but at […]

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Sarah Brightman Symphony tour concert

I just arrived from being at the Arena Monterrey, where Sarah Brightman gave her Symphony tour concert. I was very excited for weeks that I’ll finally see one of my favorite opera singers. Bought the tickets with months of anticipation. The day I the tickets started selling, I got mine and most entrances were sold […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers and friends do. Gunnar Wolf sent an open letter (in spanish) to the newspaper and […]

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Lifeblog post

Fri 26/09/2008 00:46 Text note (Note): Testing lifeblog from nokia n95 Testing Related posts: No related posts.