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CGSOL 2010

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Al levantar la vista ahora y ver mi pizarra veo un quetzal con una fecha que apunta a noviembre:

CGSOL en Nvoembre

CGSOL en Nvoembre

Claramente me recuerda que CGSOL se tendría que celebrar aproximadamente en un mes, tengo entendido que es en Xela, por lo que desde ya es una alegría regresar a Xela y tomar una o dos cabros con varios amigos :) , tengo que ir pensando desde ya en alguna charla que pueda ser interesante.

Squeeze will have Boinc 6.10.58

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Thanks to the efforts made by Steffen, and recently the great work from Daniel(Boinc’s Ubuntu maintainer, and now member of pkg-boinc team) Squeeze will have boinc 6.10.58 \o/.

If you are curious you can see all changes since 6.2.14(Current version on lenny) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/b/boinc/current/changelog

The main feature for this release is that now nvidia and ATI users can use their GPU with boinc(they need to download the non-free libs and apply some workarounds).

And if you read trough here, and you are a boinc user and want to help us, please send an email to pkg-boinc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, we need freshblood there :)

27 years

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Yes, 27 years(earth year) spinning around the sun(our sun).

Almost 11 years knowing about free software, and 10 years using Debian, and almost 4 years trying to work on Debian.

At least for me is a good time to say cheers!, holding a beer and keep trying to still be around for at least 27 years more :)

MiniDebConf Panamá 2010

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Finally, after almost 6 months of planing, this event is coming and will be start tomorrow, this is really great, There was a first attempt, and an idea to do a local(central-america based) Debian gathering on 2007 IIRC, now it will happen :) (almost 3 years later and at the same country).

There was a lot of things that actually change since the fitst attempt, now Central-america has a more strong FLOSS Community, and now this event is possible, and it will happen this weekend yay!

I really need to say thanks to Anto, Mauro Rosero, David, Caro and Gunnar, but I realize that doing all the orga stuffs was hard, I was quite involved since January, and I really say that you need a lot of work and energy to make a small event like this happen, but right now while I still sitting at home trying to finish to prepare my talks I realize that there was a lot of hard work put on this from everyone, and I’m really happy to attend this gathering, also I hope that this event do something good on the local FLOSS people, since we have quite nice people here, but they are afraid to contribute, this is the chance to work together and push a bit to get more contributors from central-america.

I have my netbook back

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Well, not exactly today, but this Tuesday I when to the Acer’s tech support to reclaim my netbook, as many people said on the first post, the problem was the CPU Fan, they just replace the Fan, and then put the HDD again and tested the hardware, so far everything looks ok, Now I need to catch up again with some Debian work, I have some people asking me to sponsor some packages, and I stil have a couple of bugs that was solved on my local git repo.

Acer support, so far looks nice

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Yesterday I  went to the local support service center for Acer at El Salvador, I realize that I bought my Acer One on Dic 21 2008, so the warranty is still valid :) , my first concern was my HDD, since at the time the netbook fails I did have a copy of my GPG Key on a non encrypted file system, also all my data was on the HDD and I did not want to leave my computer with my data on the hands of a $RANDOM tech support.

It took me like 15 minutes to convince the representative to remove my HDD before I leave the netbook, but they agree, and they even agree on let me see when they remove the HDD before give it to me, for me this looks like a nice tech support, I actually thought that they will refuse to follow this «extrange» request, and I even thought that they will be refuse to admit the computer, since the original OS was no longer installed.

The netbook should be up and running this Thursday yay! :)

The Creative Commons Hot sauce

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

I Found this on a both of the SFD at San Jose Costa Rica,The Sauce was really good, but I actually was amused for the really good name(picante) and the funny design of the bottle.

BTW, the recipe is license under CC-BY-SA

picante

The three photos taked by Daniel Céspedes are here.

UPDATE: The actual recipe is attached to the bottle, but here is a picture

Un resumen de Guatemala

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

El evento muy bueno, llego bastante gente, también que tenía 7 años de no regresar a la Universidad San Carlos,
Me encontré también a un amigo, fundador del grupo de usuarios de la Universidad San Carlos, que tenía los mismos 7 años de no verlo :) .
Conocí a «chema» un developer californiano de sugar, salimos por unas cervezas con toda la gente, y una visita de noche a los bares de la Antigua Guatemala, todo esto bien :) y el toque malo del viaje ( por lo menos para mi ) la ley anti-tabaco, no encontré ningún bar que permitiera fumar y no estoy siquiera seguro que sea _legal_ tener una sección de fumadores en un bar.