French National Assembly Embraces Open Source
Finishing my Ph.D. Thesis really hindered my touch with news, so here it goes, with 2 months' delay: The French National Assembly switched to GNU/Linux. I read about it in Menéame.net, referring to...
View ArticleMy public and open University II (es)
Copy-paste de un e-mail que recibido de la UPV/EHU, y la respuesta que he mandado. Para información adicional, leer anterior post (en). Estimada XXXX, No es cierto que me sea imposible remitir la ficha...
View ArticleMicrosoft and MP3 patents
I read in the Diario Vasco newspaper (online article[es]), that Microsoft has been recently sued by Alcatel-Lucent over some MP3 patent infringement, and found liable for a fine of around 1.100M euro....
View ArticleAccessing Linux ext2/ext3 partitions from MS Windows
Accessing both Windows FAT and NTFS file systems from Linux is quite easy, with tools like NTFS-3G. However (following with the MS tradition of making itself incompatible with everything else, to...
View ArticleAvoiding time_increment_bits problem when encoding bad header MPEG4 videos to...
There is some debate going on lately about the migration of YouTube to HTML5, and whether they (i.e. YouTube's owner, Google) should support H.264 or Theora as standard codecs for the upcoming...
View ArticlePlease, choose the right format to send me that text. Thanks.
I just received an e-mail with a very interesting text (recipies for pintxos), and it prompted some experiment. The issue is that the text was inside of a DOC file (of course!), which rises some...
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