Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Tijuana

Un mensaje de Mozilla México

2008-05-04T15:22:18+00:00

En Mozilla México estamos convencidos que los GUL son elementos
importantísimos dentro del sistema del Software Libre siendo, entre
otros aspectos, un excelente punto de contacto con sus miembros.

Nos encantaría poder ser copartícipes de sus actividades
promoviéndolas en nuestra comunidad para mejorar la experiencia del
usuario en el uso de los productos Mozilla.

Actualmente contamos con una infraestructura de organización que está
madurando y aumentando como Noticias, Foros, Documentos, entre otros.

Una de los objetivos de Mozilla México es crear la traducción y
localización de los productos Mozilla, así como de sus extensiones, a
las lenguas de México, incluido el español por supuesto. Para lograr
dicho meta es necesario la participación de un gran equipo
multidisciplinario para cada lengua; traductores, desarrolladores y
testers. La única manera de hacerlo es con su participación.

Aprovecho la ocasión para promocionar el lanzamiento mundial de
Firefox 3. En Mozilla México estamos organizando las Firefox 3 Release
Party’s de toda la República y nos encantaría que pudieran organizar
un evento en su comunidad, pueden encontrar más información para crear
o formar parte de alguno en nuestro sitio web.

http://mozilla-mexico.sf.net

Hay una gran cantidad de temas que podríamos comentar y proponer, por
el momento les agradezco su atención y espero sus comentarios.

-Ricardo Meza

No Need for Twitter

2008-04-11T20:43:19+00:00

I just updated my Amarok Twitter Script, added a few suggestions sent to me by Charles Nepote.

Install:

1) In AmaroK goto Tools > Script Manager
2) Hit install and select the downloaded package.
3) After install right click on “twitter-update.sh” and select “Edit”.
4) Customise your Username and Password in the specified location and save.
5) Now hit Run and Close.

Download:

Download Package

—- Also updated my twitter from console script

#!/bin/bash # # Twitter Update # # Requires: cURL http://curl.haxx.se/ # By Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas gamaral@guillermoamaral.com > #

### CONFIGURE ###

declare -rx USERNAME=”YOUR_USERNAME”
declare -rx PASSWORD=”YOUR_PASSWORD”

### DONT MODIFY ###

declare -x STATUS=”$@”

curl ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml’ \
-u ${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD} \
-d “status=${STATUS}” > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

# EOF

Usage:

./twitter Update from console woot

Download:

Download Script

No Need for Double Vision

2008-04-07T02:10:41+00:00

Quick Updates:

I bought a couple of EEEPC’s for the family a few months ago, they both run Gentoo, one KDE one Gnome.
I got screwed by my last employer.
Partnered up with a few friends and created a new company, we have something in the works to help launch our company.
Changed the business application projects I am work on from KDE4 to QT4, sorry Ted.

KDE Amerika

2008-02-16T09:54:35+00:00

Estoy organizando una evento similar a “Akademy” de KDE en Tijuana, nuestra única competencia es Jamaica. Así que con un poco de suerte para la tercer semana de Enero 2009 mas de 150 programadores de KDE estarán aquí en Tijuana.

Si ganamos se ocupara mucha ayuda y traductores. Quien quiere participar ?

Linux Magazine

2008-02-16T09:47:30+00:00

Linux Magazine España nos ha regalado 3 magníficos artículos:

“El Día a Día del Administrador de Sistemas: Nttcp.”
“Uso de Perl con un multímetro para informar del consumo eléctrico.”
“Acceso a GUIs remotos con VNC.”

Los enlaces serán distribuidos por nuestra lista de correo general.

No Need for a New Year

2008-01-31T08:57:20+00:00

New year, new theme for my titles…. Any guesses ?

\brief KDE Release Event

I would like to thank everybody involved in the KDE 4 Release Event, It was a pleasure to meet fellow KDE gear heads, talk to media people, get drunk at google, make new friends, get drunk at the hotel, sneak in the backdoor of the oasis pub ( I think it was called oasis ) and sing karaoke till they kicked us out.

\brief Distro Hooping

While at the event I decided to try out Kubuntu since the great Mr. Riddell was so kind as to leave a few install cd’s for anybody who was interested, sadly my POS laptop didn’t like the idea; My Compaq V3010US is one of the worst laptops I have had the pleasure to buy. It has a horrible ACPI implementation, 30 minute battery life, it uses that damn broadcom wireless chipset and a nasty nvidia video chipset that burned out the original LCD display and has already killed a pixel or two in the new display. Sadly Kubuntu lowered the battery life down to 15 minutes and the video drivers didn’t work at all. I have been a hard-core Gentoo user for quite some time and I was a bit worried trying out a binary based distribution but I gave it the old collage try for the duration of my trip yet it didn’t stick, I reinstalled Gentoo as soon as I got home. I love to try distros but I have noticed I keep coming back to good old Gentoo.

\brief Closure

A little under a year ago one of my cars got stolen breaking my stolen car recovery streak; I have recovered every single car that has been stolen from me or one of my family members in a day or even minutes. — I found the damn thing last week in a impound lot!!! The car was stolen on the 14th of Feburary 2007 and was impounded the day after. So it has been waiting for me for almost a year. On the up side my streak has not been broken but on the down side it got stripped by thieves. Que sera sera.

\brief Wrap-up

Well after taking care of most of my backlogged work I can finally get back to some fun and interesting matters! A few photos from ( outside ) the KDE Event and my stripped out car can be found at http://photos.guillermoamaral.com/.

Cheers!

KDE 4 Release Event

2008-01-22T00:55:56+00:00

He regresado del KDE 4 Release Event en Mountain View, CA y tengo fotos para todos ustedes.

http://photos.guillermoamaral.com/

Montain View Kalifornia

2008-01-17T01:02:28+00:00

It is time to get ready for my trip to Mountain View for the KDE Release Event, I will be sharing a room with Dave Yates from the Lotta Linux Links site and podcast, so it should be entertaining.

Expect a lot of pictures!

Installfest

2007-12-29T23:00:36+00:00

Se ha decidido hacer Installfest el 3er Domingo de cada mes de 11:00 a 16:00.

Reunión Inicial

2007-12-29T20:31:40+00:00

Nuestra primer reunión sera durante la ultima semana de Enero, 2008, en donde se discutirá las metas del TJLUG.

Se anunciara el lugar, día y hora tan pronto como se decida. Si le interesa participar por favor envié un correo a info@tjlug.org.

Mensajería Instantánea ( Jabber )

2007-12-26T23:27:47+00:00

Nuestro dominio “tjlug.org” ya cuenta con servicio de mensajería instantánea ( Jabber ), solo registren su usuario usando su cliente de Jabber favorito.

King Pest

2007-12-18T23:37:26+00:00

LUGs + Tijuana, some of my friends and I have looked long and hard for something that might resemble a *proper* LUG with coffee, beer, pizza, hackfests, installfests, monthly or fortnightly meetings, etc.
The only groups found are Internet based, so we decided to start our own.

Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Tijuana

I added all the fixins, our own Planet, Mailing lists with Gmane as the archive and NNTP gateway, Jabber server, POP3 POP3s IMAP IMAPS electronic mail access for LUG members. We just need a location, I will scout the city for a good place to hold the meetings.

Anybody have any tips for LUGs in a city with very few GNU/Linux users ?

On a sad note, I might be in the job market next year. I am currently working two jobs and it has taken its tole on my relationship. I have talked it over with the misses and I might accept a job offer from one of my ex-employers, I also got a good job offer from a local big *evil* corporation ( I dare not utter their name ).

Merry Tijuana Christmas to you all

I hope saint nick brings you all a zebra painted donkey .

Bienvenido

2007-12-15T18:13:32+00:00

Preparando todo para lanzar TJLUG

Never Bet The Devil Your Snail-Mail

2007-12-04T21:41:48+00:00

As I picked up my P.O. Box mail yesterday evening I noticed something was different, a large rectangular envelope had found it’s way in to my slot. It was a FedEx Express Envelope, I decided to open it right then and their and as I did a fresh off the ‘Google’ smell came from the inside.
At first I did not believe it, I looked away and started shaking the envelope vigorously until a smaller envelope fell from the inside, carefully picking it up from the soft carpeted ground I noticed it had some sort of new protection technology — “What is this Sorcery ?” my daughter shouted; Two small plastic rectangular pieces covered with glue on one side kept me away from my prize, I put on my emergency latex gloves and proceeded removing the strange objects, after a growling 2 hours of pealing I was Inside the smaller envelope. Their it was… my Official KDE 4 Release Event Invitation from Google Inc.

Why the Little Frenchman Submits Electronic Mail Using Port 587

2007-11-29T01:33:42+00:00

After playing around with my electronic mail server I have decided to only accept outgoing mail from authenticated clients via the Submission ( 587 ) and SMTPS ( 465 ) ports on all servers under my control, during the past few days I noticed that server load and spam are way down; since I can now be more strict with client name and HELO/EHLO checks on all connections via the standard SMTP (25) port, something I could not do before.

Authenticated client messages can bypass strict SPAM checks but do get checked for virus infection and are signed with the server’s DomainKey on their way out.

Blocking port 25 doesn’t sound like such a bad idea to me now because 95% of spam attempts on my servers seem to be from windows zombies. After I implemented the new checks I just get a handful of spam from a few hijacked servers and open relays. SpamAssassin gets most of them in the first try.

I am quite happy with the results so far. :-)

Loss of Post

2007-11-28T00:41:06+00:00

I hope everybody had a great weekend, specially the Yankees among you. I also got to eat some delicious turkey since my girlfriend loves to cook.

On a sad note, I screwed up a few minutes ago while playing with Weblogger in GNU Emacs, who knew that C-c C-k deleted posts! *woops* :-). Now my last post has gone A.W.O.L. and I find my self filling in the void.

But I do have some good news, I was added to the Planeta Linux Mexico planet, so I invite you all to go and check it out.

The Gold-Bug in KNotes

2007-10-22T03:40:05+00:00

I wanted to get the new KNotes layout out before the big freeze coming up, I still need to allot time and effort to get the code cleaned up and add much needed improvements.

This following screen shot shows the new layout in all it’s glory.

* What you may not notice is that the Size Grip is no longer set as the Editor’s Corner Widget,
I had some problems getting that to work well on Qt 4.

* KNote now uses actual Qt Layouts to split the components inside each note.

* The note close button is larger and responds to hover and mouse down events differently.

How To Write A KNode Article

2007-10-17T17:08:16+00:00

Well after commenting a few posts ago about newsgroup use or the lack there off, I switched all my KDE mailing subscriptions to newsgroups in Gmane :-D, now all my news and mailing lists reside in KNode instead of KMail.

BTW, I will attend the KDE 4 release event at Google, this will be my first KDE event since the European events are quite a long way from my home office in Tijuana, Mexico and the old KWallet is empty during that time of the year. I hope to meet many of you there :-)

P.S. Many people have sent me e-mails asking about my post titles, only two got it right. all titles come from Edgar Allan Poe works, I might have also used a movie title at some point.

The KNotes Of Unrest

2007-10-13T09:58:57+00:00

Back from my business trip :-)

Everything went well, these past months have been hectic :-S in both my personal and professional life, I will be having more free time on my hands ( if my current employer keeps his word ). But I did get some free time today and I dedicated it to KNotes.

KNotes is now QT3_SUPPORT free, *main.cpp* has a new structure and the application class can now handle command line options.

I will work on the a few bugs I found during my trip this weekend.

The System of Dr. Linus and Professor Brooks

2007-09-29T07:00:44+00:00

Just confirmed today, I will be going on a business trip to the south
on Monday, I decided to take a couple of books to read during my stay.

Just for Fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.

The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks, JR.

I usually don’t get to read them on business trips but I will make time
and read them before my triumphant return in one weeks time.

Does anybody have any suggestions on a good science fiction book to take?

EDIT: Thank’s `Serge` for the head up on the misplaced `r` in `Torvalds`, yes even I. The fastest typist in the west sometimes makes mistakes :-)

NewsGroup Blues

2007-09-15T01:38:06+00:00

More than 10 years ago… this was the last time I went into a newsgroup.

A couple of days ago I signed up for a paid news group service and I have rediscovered the great feeling of posting without having to remember what site I posted on, passwords, profiles, etc.

I was shocked to find that there are no groups for KDE ( besides the a few mailing lists ). I did find many well maintained groups for Debian, Mozilla projects, GNU projects and a few others.

Does anybody still use Usenet?

KNotes sur un triangle

2007-09-05T04:31:06+00:00

KNotes Update

Finally had time to clean and commit some base fixes for KNotes,
now to merge all my other fixes, they are starting to gather dust. (You may thank my job for that)

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
~Bertrand Russell

Back in Hack

2007-08-27T07:05:59+00:00

A few weeks have past and I have had no time for code hacking, I have finished most of my backed up work and now am left with some extra time on my hands.

I need to assign some quality time with Kopete and KNotes, this week will help me get back full speed.