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Gnome looses minimize, maximize buttons
Looks like in the next release of GNOME 3 there will be the surprise that there will be no minimize buttons or maximize buttons either. For me it seems like GNOME is looking for minimalisms, in order to get a slicker interface. For others who make a lot of use of this buttons maybe it […]
Google uses remote kill switch on malware
March 9, 2011
Now in the free software master have been studying the project management subject, so this particular action from google is an example of the actions and decisions that sometimes the management of a community has to take. Apparently since the tuesday google have seen that there are many malicious apps in their android market, so […]
The gently approach for dealing with Trolls
March 8, 2011
In the project management subject we have been focusing on tips about managing communities and stuff related. We also have study certain jargon terms that are commonly used in the computers and internet culture, among which was mention the “troll” term. A troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online […]
SGAE compatible with Creative Commons?
March 7, 2011
Apparently the Spain General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) is letting its assosiates use Creative Commons licenses for their works. As an example there is the case of “La zona sucia” of Nacho Vegas which is licensed under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Apparently the authors demand to the SGAE only the rights of commercial […]
Introducing R
February 16, 2011
R programming language is a well known statistical environment, that is widely used for data analysis. So I am going to talk a bit about R and the things I have learnt just to give you an introduction and get to know this environment. First of all to install this environment in Ubuntu or Debian […]
Compiling the Linux kernel
January 3, 2011
Well now, for the people that always have been wanting to know, I’m going to explain how to compile and customize a kernel using Ubuntu linux. First in order to do not break the one we use, we could use another one from kernel.org which is the place where are located the changes that the […]
CVSAnaly
January 3, 2011
Today I’m going to talk about one helpful tool called CVSAnaly that always could come in handy when studying a software repository is about. In order to show you the power of this tool I’m going to talk about an excersise we did on the master and how CVSAnaly helped me, as an example. The […]
Setting up Ruby on Rails on ubuntu
January 3, 2011
I remember that like three weeks ago I lost most of my Sunday trying to install the rails for ruby on my ubuntu 10.04. This is all because months ago I have been trying to learn rails development since I found the scaffolding interesting, but that time ago I just made the simplest application ever […]
Importance of Brand Names
December 29, 2010
Today as I was finishing the works related to the Introduction of Free Software and remembering the cases we study in class. I remembered something I was willing to post since the beginning but never really got the time to do it. And it was that studying the experiences of the first people that founded […]
Dropbox 1.0
December 22, 2010
So today we are going to talk about a service that has surprised me a lot. This service is named Dropbox and it is truly made for people who have a lot of stuff scattered along differents PCs or hard drives or even smartphones and never gets to find anything when they need to. If […]
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