I’ve had a great time in Primavera Sound 2007. It was a really good festival and -despite some flaws this year- very well organised.
This time more than 100 artists and bands played in the festival so it’s really hard to summarize everything in a few lines. Some of my favourite concerts were (in no particular order): Wilco, Spiritualized, Billy Bragg, Sonic Youth, The Durutti Column and Malajube.
Lots of pictures and videos are already available out there.
And now, back again at work!
I’m glad to announce that, after some months of unofficial packages, John Stamp is now the official Debian maintainer of the Last.fm client.
You can find his packages in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. So if you’re using the development version of either distribution you can forget about this page and install this software using apt-get.
However, as many people are using etch, feisty, or some previous version of Debian or Ubuntu, I’ll keep compiling backports of John’s packages for these distributions, at least for some time.
You can get them from my home page, as usually.
As time passes more and more applications are web-based. The World Wide Web has switched from being a place where you basically see static data to a place where everything is interactive.
Good examples of this are wikis and weblogs: two of the most remarkable kinds of applications that have appeared in recent years and can be used with nothing more than a web browser. Web applications are nice as they allow you to do the same job no matter where you are: at home, at work, at an internet cafe, at a friend’s house, …
One of the biggest problems of this is that a web browser is not really suited for all kinds of tasks. Example: a wiki is a great tool because you can edit a page very quickly, but the browser itself is a crappy editor. It lets you do very basic things besides moving around with the cursor keys, cutting and pasting text.
A great solution for this problem is Mozex, a Firefox extension that lets you use external programs for some of the actions that you normally do with the browser, including the editing of text areas. You just press a key combination and a text editor pops up with the text of the area that you have selected. Very easy to use.
Here’s an example of my browser editing the Wikipedia using my favourite text editor (click on the image):
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A great tool. I’m sure you’ll like it 😉
Galicia Global é um foro público onde cada galego se pode situar no mapa do mundo, para desta maneira deixar constância de que os galegos estamos em todas partes 😉
(Clica na foto para veres o mapa)
Today, 23 April is the 25th anniversary of the greatest computer ever made…
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25 years! I’m growing old…
We had a great time last weekend at DudesConf. We met a lot of Debian people from all parts of Spain (and some non-Spaniards too) and had some interesting talks and BOFs. Check Mario’s report and don’t miss our photo with Steve Langasek!
As usual, John has been doing the hard work and has updated the Debian diff for the Last.fm client.
I have been very busy these days so I had no time to release the packages until today. These are the news:
You can get the packages here.
Some friends have been asking me how to use QEMU. While there are many other virtualization packages (such as Virtual Box, KVM or the non-free VMware Player), QEMU has been around for a while, it’s already packaged in Debian stable and it’s really easy to use.
Moreover, the (optional) kernel accelerator kqemu has been released under the GPL a couple of months ago, so it’s a good moment to give QEMU a try.
Let’s see the basic usage:
And that’s it! QEMU has built-in SMB, TFTP, DNS and DHCP servers. Everything in user space, so you don’t need special permissions nor additional configuration: no kernel modules, no tun/tap interfaces… nothing!. I said it was very easy to use, didn’t I? 😉
Of course there’s a lot more, but you won’t need it for the basic usage.
If you’re too lazy to install an operating system inside QEMU, you can download a hard disk image built by someone else. Note that QEMU can read the VMware disk format, so you’ve got a really big collection of images ready to work.
And if you want a bit more, you can compile the kqemu kernel accelerator, which will make QEMU run faster.
Now I can remember the old times when I first installed Debian…
I’ve been playing a bit with Google’s new toy: my maps.
It’s very easy to edit things, create routes and share maps. I’ve created a sample map showing how to get to my office 🙂
Cool!
DudesConf is starting in less than 10 days!
DudesConf is a DebConf-like meeting for Spanish-speaking Debian developers that will take place in Corunha University from 13 to 15 April 2007.
The program includes several talks, workshops, bug-squashing parties and BOFs. I’m sure that we’ll have a great time and of course it will be a great opportunity to meet Debian people from everywhere.
Just like other free software-related events such as Guademy, GUADEC-ES and GUADEC, DudesConf is sponsored by Igalia.
See you there!!