Desde el desierto, Europa, el sur y el más allá

Google just launched a online spreadsheet with collaborative functions.

by Duncan at June 06, 2006 02:46 PM

by Duncan at June 05, 2006 07:26 PM

I was yesterday in Rock Im Park. I only went to see Metallica. The show was great, the (long) playlist was something like:

• Creeping death
• Fuel
• The God that failed
• Wherever I may roam

• Battery
• Master of Puppets
• The Thing That Should Not Be
• Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
• Disposable Heroes
• Leper Messiah
• Orion (Instrumental)
• Damage, Inc.

(yeah, they played the whole Master of Puppets album because it was its 20th birthday)

• Nothing else matters
• Sad but true
• One
• Enter Sandman
• So What
• Seek and destroy

I did not bring my camera, but today some photos started to appear in flickr. The official gallery is here.

Other bands that were there include Depeche Mode, Placebo, Tool, Franz Ferdinand, Korn, Morrissey, Bela B., Reamonn, Nelly, Furtado, Sportfreunde Stiller, Deftones, Pharrell, Turbonegro, Tomte, Kaiser Chiefs, Dir en grey, Paul Weller, Goldfrapp, Dresden Dolls, She Wants Revenge, u.v.a.

The above photos are © 2000-2006 Nordbayern Infonet.

by Duncan at June 05, 2006 03:27 PM

Chile's spanish is full of local slangs. Here there is a guide to it (english):

by Duncan at May 30, 2006 11:12 AM

SUSE, Lucent Technologies, Siemens, Fraunhofer Institute ... Formerly a typical blue-collar region, the Franconia area around Nuremberg is trying hard to transform itself into a high-tech center. Some 90,000 people now work in the approximately 2,000 IT companies located there.

Read here.

by Duncan at May 29, 2006 11:46 AM

I was searching for a way to download original photos from flickr in a batch mode. I tried several programs like Flickr Backup and Flickr Downloadr, but neither of both suit me.
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>Instead, I discover a way that works perfectly for me. First, you need this:
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>- firefox
>-
/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/">
/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/">greasemonkey extension installed
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/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/">
/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/">DownThemAll! extensión installed
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/userscripts.org/scripts/show/2012">
/userscripts.org/scripts/show/2012">Flickr - Link Original Image script for greasemonkey
>- and of course, a
/www.flickr.com">
/www.flickr.com">flickr account
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>So, go to a page in flickr for where you want to download the photos, the best is a set page photo or a tag one, where all the photos are displayed.
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>In the page, right click and select DownThemAll!..., and then in the links tab select "Images" in the Inclusive Filters section.
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>Then, click Start and wait for the downloads. That's all.

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/photos1.blogger.com/blogger/591/404/1600/downthemall.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">
>I think with the Renaming mask function can be useful to put the original names in the filename, but I don't know how.

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/del.icio.us/tag/flickr" rel="tag">flickr, greasemonkey

by Vikingo at May 17, 2006 12:47 AM

by Vikingo at May 17, 2006 12:43 AM

Google Calendar

Originally uploaded by HRC.

Acaba de salir el esperadisimo Google Calendar. Lo voy a probar e informo.

technorati tags: googlecalendar

by Horacio Lyon at April 13, 2006 12:47 PM

Chinook

Originally uploaded by HRC.

¡¡Este finde hicimos un excelente paseo!!

by Horacio Lyon at April 10, 2006 09:42 PM

La otra vez me robaron el computador, por suerte tenía instalado un sistema de respaldo automatico en la web gratuito. La magia es un aplicación llamada mozy, da inicialmente un Giga gratis pero yo lo subi a 2.5 respondiendo una encuesta bastante corta. Lo recomiendo muchisimo. Pueden acceder a este servicio aca: mozy

by Horacio Lyon at March 29, 2006 01:42 PM

polar1

Originally uploaded by HRC.

Hace poco que llego a mis manos un reloj polar de la generación más nueva, pero de los baratos… Salia que se pueden subir los datos al pc asi que lo probé. Quede gratamente impresionado con el sistema ya que sube los datos a un portal web en el que queda un registro de los ejercicios con bastante detalle, calorias, intensidad.. etc. Incluso permite planificar los deportes que se van a hacer. El reloj se conecta con el pc vía sonido, como los modems de ataño.

by Horacio Lyon at March 28, 2006 10:51 PM

Like many others, I think the redesign of Google (Google Redux: a design exercise) made by Andy Rutledge is awesome. So, when I found a Greasemonkey script to make it real, I installed it at once. Here is the latest user script.
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/del.icio.us/tag/google">
/del.icio.us/tag/google" rel="tag">google, greasemonkey, design

by Vikingo at March 15, 2006 06:54 PM

Pandora is a great service which help you to find music that you like. Something like Music Plasma, but it plays the music. It's like having a radio station personalize with your "music tastes".
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>PS: Why are you writting in English? Well, I'm studying the TOEFL and GMAT to applied for an MBA. So, I think that's is a good practice to write a little in English. I'd like to ask you, that if you find a mistake in my English, please correct me in the comments o send me a e-mail with the correction.

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/del.icio.us/tag/music">
/del.icio.us/tag/music" rel="tag">music, social, recommend

by Vikingo at March 01, 2006 08:31 PM

by Vikingo at February 24, 2006 12:44 AM

by Vikingo at February 22, 2006 10:33 PM

Te gustaria poder ver tu cuenta de mail de la oficina con la misma interfaz de gmail? Al parecer, esto va a ser posible en el futuro. Te interesa, inscríbete aquí

by Horacio Lyon at February 13, 2006 02:53 PM

Se acaba de estrenar la versión 3 de Google Desktop, tiene varias mejoras como:

• Almacena las busquedas de varios pc’s, guardando esta información en línea… :S, creo que los a paranoicos de la privacidad no les va a gustan esto, a mi me da lo mismo.
• Se pueden sacan los módulos del sidebar, bastante util. Se parece a los yahoo widgets (ex-konfabulator)
• Se puede utilizar password para proteger información en el caso que se comparta un pc
• Mejoras en como se muestra la información en las busquedas
• Mas cosas que no me acuerdo…

by Horacio Lyon at February 09, 2006 07:18 PM

Gracias a Jabphone se puede hablar por Google Talk a teléfonos fijos. Solo necesitas cuenta paypal para cargar tus USD y listo…. se viene!!

Mas encima Google Talk se las mando ayer con la nueva opción de guardar el historial de tus convesaciones en tu cuenta de gmail; Comienza la fusión entre la telefonía, email y mensajería instantánea.

technorati tags: googletalk

by Horacio Lyon at February 08, 2006 01:58 PM

No voy a poder tomar vacaciones… pero si tuviera tiempo y plata seguro que elijo algo acá:

http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/

by Horacio Lyon at February 07, 2006 05:56 PM

Originally uploaded by HRC.

El finde fui a la carrera de MTB Lican Ray - Villarica. Me fue mal, debo haber llegado de la mitad del final… pero por lo menos llegue … pese a los incontables calambres.

by Horacio Lyon at January 23, 2006 02:39 PM

Hay buen material/tips para hacer presentaciones / powerpoints en los siguientes sitios:

• Tips de Sir Edward Tufte
• Tips de Mr Guy Kawasaki
• Visualización de información según Karl Harting
• Visualización de información según Edward Tufte
• Jean-luc Doumont: Papers y artículos ,Otros trabajos

technorati tags: tufte, kawasaki, ppt

by Horacio Lyon at January 20, 2006 02:58 PM

It has been long time since I blogged. Mostly because I was not at home and when I was I did not feel like doing something in the computer other than listening music.

I had to do a quick visit to the States because work, and then my brother came from Paris to my place to spend Christmas together. I showed him Nürnberg and then quick trips to Prag (my 2nd time, and the third is coming...) and Berlin for new year.

I got a hard disk based mp3 player. The cool thing is that it can play ogg files and also works as a standard usb-storage device.

It has its problem though. Like most player, the jukebox database is completely proprietary. Emailing the company did not work as it was a rebranded product. Emailing the original makers resulted only in getting ignored.

After playing with khexedit for a while I was able to figure the simple fixed field length format of the binary database. I wrote a test program using Qt and Taglib (thanks Scott, it rocks, so simple...) to recreate the database for my collection. I haven't however yet figured the index files. Also, I have no idea how to read the FAT short names so I have to mount has VFAT to copy and keep the nice names, but as MSDOS to generate the database and see the shortnames the player stores in the database. Once I figure out the indexes, it should work. If it does, I plan to write an amaroK media device plugin (no idea how to resolve the mount issue here).

by Duncan at January 15, 2006 11:04 PM

On friday, in the need of sweet and hot wein and some food, half dozen of KDE guys took over the Nürnberger Weihnachtsmarkt.

The night was followed by Dunkel Bier and a darts deathmatch. No surprise I won so fast that nobody let my play anymore. Coolo is satisfied with a 2nd place. Dirk still can't get under 500 points (you start with 501). Will used the Royal Air Force superpowers to get rid of the points, but some random luck worked better. The girl sitting next to the target still has nightmares about Beineri throwing darts to her. It was a fun night.

The night ended with Whiskey at Will's place. More pictures here

by Duncan at December 05, 2005 03:38 PM

Gmail does a good job filtering spam. But since some weeks a spammer is flooding gmail with pump and dump spam:

This is a common scam where spam emails hype shares of a little known company, of which the spammer has previously aquired stock. When sufficient people fall for the scam and start placing buy orders, the market value of the stock rises and the spammer can sell at a profit

Of course, as all the stuff you get by email, it is just crap. This site shows you how much money you would have lost if you would have invested in those stock.

by Duncan at December 05, 2005 02:32 PM

On friday, after visiting the Nuernberg Wiehnachtsmarkt and having dinner with Will and Lisann, I went out with Daniel and Thomas, who introduced me to some new people from Spain and Eslovaquia. We were in like four different places over the night, but we ended in the parkcafe, which I wanted to visit since long time, as it is very close to my place.

I got a Christmas tree, thanks to Will (who is getting a bigger one). My place looks really better with it. I will spend Christmas with my brother, who is coming from Paris after a hard semester studying. But he seems to have *lot* of fun there. I think I am going to visit Paris earlier than originally planned.

I booked a flight for Michael and me to Berlin for new year, that will be really cool.

Today, KDE 3.5 was released, and one of the killer features is webcam support for Kopete. The team has done and incredible work, specially the new younger developers. There is a visual guide introducing the new features here.

My University teacher Jaime, who was my MSc. thesis advisor, sent my this link to the presentation given by Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity. The style of the presentation is really cool. It is worth to see it. Congrats to him!

Today I bought batteries for my guitar digital processor. It has been a long time since I played "plugged". After my brother opened the effects processor to fix it after it burned throwing white smoke. (putting in practice his new knowledge in electronics by that time), now it has its own life. It turns on/off randomly, shows strange characters in the LCD screen, and you can not turn it off without pulling off the batteries.

by Duncan at November 29, 2005 11:51 PM