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

DRM chat at Unitec Monterrey

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 […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

Antifeatures

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 […]

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Interesting random stuff

Steve Wozniak Hacks iPhone on TV

Several times Woz has expressed his thinking about having the iPhone as an open platform. But what a better example of it than hacking an iPhone on TV! I loved his quote: “you know some people may criticize you for not having hacked your iPhone”. Related posts: No related posts.

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Fun & Humour GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

Post iPhone announcements

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 […]

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personal

Change default columns in Drupal grid view

I’ve been working with Drupal templates these past weeks and I needed to make a photogallery. I found a great resource for doing it following this nice video. But because of the space available in my template’s design, I needed 3 columns intstead of the default 4 on my grid view. So what I had […]

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Events

Apple’s WWDC Keynote effect

It is incredible the effect that Steve Job’s announcements have on the internets tubez. The keynote is starting and there’s a lot of speculation about Twitter coming down to its knees. Well… so far I can still access twitter. There’s a lot of links where to get live updates: Leo Laporte’s twit live Engadget Techcrunch […]