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Is your ISP messing with your Internet traffic?

There’s been some reports on ISPs slowing down your Internet connection if you use BitTorrent or cutting your VoIP calls and many other nasty things. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a free software tool to check your connection for ISP’s bad behavior. It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between […]

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The last lecture

I just bumped with this lecture about dreams and life. It’s by Randy Pausch, a virtual reality expert and now dying from cancer. He teaches us his last lecture, which is about how to conduct your life to accomplish your dreams. It has a very emotional and unexpected twist at the end. Loved it. Related […]

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

DRM chat at Unitec: video and slides

A few weeks ago I posted about me giving a talk at Unitec Monterrey about DRM and mexican copyright law titled: “DRM: ¿derechos o restricciones?”. Basically is an introduction to what DRM and copyright is, according to mexican law. I have finally transcoded and published it on Google Video. Slides are also available as PDF […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

Firefox to support OGG in

Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag to embed the videos on web pages. Will be ready on 3.1 release. This is great news since there has been a long debate about the HTML 5 tag on the mailing […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source personal

My apple fanboyism

13%How Addicted to Apple Are You? Created by OnePlusYou – Free Online Dating I’m more into free software, the Apple stuff sometimes is too restrictive for me. Which brings me to the next quiz: 78% Geek Created by OnePlusYou – Online Dating Service The questions on that one were funny. I was the geekiest in […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

PHP syntax error check as you type with Emacs

For those who have to code in PHP, there’s a nice feature in Emacs that makes your coding horror times less stressing and helps you avoid typos and similar dumb errors. For example in the image above, I missed the colon at the end of the line. Emacs 22.1 comes with flymake mode, a nice […]