Monthly Archives: December 2005

Similar logos

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I have signed again with the Martin Ennals Foundation to take care of their website again; if you don’t know it yet, the MEF gives a yearly prize to a Human Rights defender, providing press coverage as well as much needed protection. The MEF is composed of 10 Human Rights organizations, among them Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.

And while preparing some stuff, I was struck by the similarity between the logos of Ubuntu and the Human Rights First organization, another member of the MEF:

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Update, 2006-05-13:

Here you are, more similar logos:

MSN Spaces:

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Prodem Fondo Financiero Privado:

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Scripps Health: A World of Healing (courtesy of http://www.brandinfection.com/2005/04/25/msn-spaces-steals-ubuntu-logo/):

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Don’t hesitate to send me more if you find any!

One of those dialog boxes…

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A couple of weeks ago, a colleague and I were doing the design of a Pocket PC application, and I suggested to quickly put up a prototype; I had Visual Studio .NET installed in a Virtual PC virtual machine, so I fired it up, and created the application. As soon as I tried to launch it to see how it behaved, the following dialog box appeared:

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Visual Studio .NET developers really believe they are funny.

iTunes through the years

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This weekend I reinstalled my iBook G3 with Jaguar, Ruby, MySQL, and of course iTunes; I grabbed a couple of screenshots while upgrading; these show the evolution of the iTunes interface in 3 years:

iTunes 3 (2002):

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iTunes 6 (2005):

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RadRails

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After having received a comment from Steven Ross I saw in his website a reference to RadRails.

I must say that I have never used Eclipse before, but this application literally blew my mind. I had known it before doing the application I’ve blogged about before! I strongly recommend it: ruby code highlighting, integration with Subversion, available for Mac, Linux and Windows, data manipulation screens, and under strong development. The first version is dated October 2005 and apparently is getting lots of contributions; the current version is 0.5.1 and it is stable enough for everyday use.

Thanks Steven for the reference!

diversidad cultural, por alejandra pinto

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busco lo imbuscable el trozo exacto de un estado sólido a punto de disolverse

una armonía breve y lastimosa como un suspiro adentrado en los alvéolos

un espectro biológico que no me encadene a sus decisiones ni arme futuro a partir de cosas que no cumplió

una promesa dicha al revés un sueño pensado como un recuerdo lo que trae la tarde tras su camino la verdad de la filosofía

todo se anida en mi cuerpo como pequeños lazos de un vestido

lo que se guarda en la noche de la diversidad cultural

Ubuntu and the iBook sleep / wake

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Well the only problem found so far with Ubuntu is that the computer hang when I sent it to sleep (closing the lid of the iBook). When re-opening the lid, the computer would become unresponsive.

This post gives the exact procedure to do to solve it, until a fix comes in the next Ubuntu kernel…

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2368.html

Only thing: in the scripts, replace “dbus-1″ by “dbus” both in the name and the contents. This way it worked without problems on my G3 800 Mhz iBook…

Ubuntu

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This is my first post from a brand new world.

I have just installed Ubuntu 5.10 (“Breezy”) in my G3 iBook, and so far I just love it. Fast, stable, incredibly easy to set up. The whole install took 45 minutes (10 minutes copying stuff from the CD to the hard disk, and then 35 minutes configuring itself). Ubuntu recognized every bit of hardware of this machine, from the Airport card to the trackpad and the Ethernet adapter. It comes with OpenOffice, GIMP and much more pre-installed, and I really find it easy to use. Very intuitive user interface, really great operating system. And free and open source.

Now I’m following the instructions in http://www.fo64.com/articles/2005/10/20/rails-on-breezy for installing Ruby on Rails on this brave new system.

I really look forward to use Ubuntu in my everyday work. I plan to use it as the default system for this laptop for a while. Stay tuned…

Microsoft Support en Español

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Sin comentarios.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;es;247970

Cómo para habilitar través, autenticación FTP UNC directorio virtual

AVISO: Gracias por utilizar el servicio de Traducción Automática. Este artículo ha sido traducido por un sistema informático sin ayuda humana (Machine Translation). Microsoft ofrece estos artículos a los usuarios que no comprendan el inglés, exclusivamente, con el fin de que puedan entenderlos más fácilmente. Microsoft no se hace responsable de la calidad lingüística de las traducciones ni de la calidad técnica de los contenidos de los artículos así como tampoco de cualesquiera problemas, directos o indirectos, que pudieran surgir como consecuencia de su utilización por los lectores.

No, si ya nos dimos cuenta.