Reading Blog de Cine, I have found a link to a video showing some of the most famous top-less images in movies. While the video, called Show them to me is interesting, what gives it the point is the companion song. Enjoy!

Yesterday, a Spanish court decided to ban a sex cartoon of Spanish Royal Family. It was published by a satirical magazine, called El Jueves, which publishes every week cartoons of Spanish Royal Family, among political cartoons, or others talking about different issues. I am not going to argue here if this is censorship or not. I think that freedom has some limits, and if they have been surpassed, people doing that has to be judged. What I want to write about is more related to information and how it flows nowadays. As we have seen here, it is completely impossible to stop some document from spreading around the world in some hours, with hundreds of websites talking or showing it. Call it globalization or Internet. The effect is the same, information flows more quickly than what can be controlled. The measure taken by the court was the seizure of all copies of that magazine. Of course, reaction from other media was to publish the news including the banned cartoon. Also, tens of blogs show it, both in Spanish and in English, which has made that international media and news agencies also got the news, contributing to its spread even more. Soon, a local cartoon, that usually would be only knew by usual readers of El Jueves, has become a worldwide news item, with millions of people looking at it, commenting, republishing. And everything came from a bad choice: the court tried to set fences to information. This issue reminded me what also happened last two days, when waiting for the last Harry Potter's book to be published, it was known that it was yet available in every P2P netwok, and that some people had yet received it at home. Even, today, some newspapers published plot details of the book.

For those who have asked youself sometimes, when watching any of the Spanish sucess in any kind of sports (but football), why when Spanish athem is sounding no one signs anything, or why, when sound system breaks, people sings "ti-to-ti-to-ta-ri-ro-ri-ro-rit-to-ti..." you have to learn that Spanish Athem has no lyrics. Of course, it had, but was removed when democracy imposed over other darker options 30 years ago. Today, I have seen that, from a mistake, the old lyrics were used by a Romanian ship in a competition at Barcelona. You can see (and listen to it) below.

I cannot understand why this can be considered fascist by reading the lyrics. But listening to it I have felt again that we need lyrics. We cannot go out at the world mumbling our athem, as we cannot sign it. Recently, Spanish Olimpic Comitee requested lyrics to be written. I strongly think that they will be some king of "flower power" lyrics, to avoid hurting anyone (which is impossible)

For those who have asked youself sometimes, when watching any of the Spanish sucess in any kind of sports (but football), why when Spanish athem is sounding no one signs anything, or why, when sound system breaks, people sings "ti-to-ti-to-ta-ri-ro-ri-ro-rit-to-ti..." you have to learn that Spanish Athem has no lyrics. Of course, it had, but was removed when democracy imposed over other darker options 30 years ago. Today, I have seen that, from a mistake, the old lyrics were used by a Romanian ship in a competition at Barcelona. You can see (and listen to it) below.

I cannot understand why this can be considered fascist by reading the lyrics. But listening to it I have felt again that we need lyrics. We cannot go out at the world mumbling our athem, as we cannot sign it. Recently, Spanish Olimpic Comitee requested lyrics to be written. I strongly think that they will be some king of "flower power" lyrics, to avoid hurting anyone (which is impossible)

One day like today, ten years ago, E.T.A. kidnapped Miguel Angel Blanco and gave the Goverment 48 hours to transfer all E.T.A. prisioners to prisions in Basque Country. On 12th July 1997, they shoot him twice at back of head, after one of the biggest demonstrations in Spain against terrorism, with millions of people out at the street asking for him to be freed. Anyway, there are still people that considers them only a separatist group, though they are considered a terrorist group by European Union, United States, and United Nations.

Miguel Angel Blanco


The first day. Newspapers talk about him.


When the given day and hour arrived, every TV channel showed this image.


He is found yet alive and taken to the Hospital. He fighted for life during 12 hours more.


Spain at the street on 14th July. 1.5 million people in Madrid.

All photos were taken from elmundo.es

I am using PyBlosxom as my blogging software. It is quite simple and thus I love it. I think it is a bit overkill to use MySQL for writing some few entries (as wordpress does). As it is simple, it uses file text entries, with a directory based hierachy, so your entries are only going to one of those categories you have defined. Of course this is little flexible; you cannot file a entry in two oro more different categories. This leads you to have quite generic categories, in which almost everything can fit. I have looking today for a tagging system for PyBlosxom and I have found a folksonomy tagging plugin which serves my needs fine. Welcome tagging world to my blog!

I was a bit surprised when I haven't found any comment in Planet Debian about GPL v3 release. I feel strange when our project is not even metioning an event like this. A great piece of the software we distribute is now licensed both under GPL v2 and GPL v3. I am pretty sure that most of Debian Developers don't know what is new in this new GPL (and LGPL) version, and how it can affect the software he is packaging or how it can affect upstream developers for whom we have been for some years now 'license consultors'. I think we have made a good work in this last point, making upstream understand why he has to license properly his work so it can be safely distributed. For those interested, Luis Villa has written some articles about this issue

• 1. The License
• 2. Developers
• 3. Companies
• 4. Odds and ends

A nice reading if you want to understand the key points of GPL v3.

Reading once again Enrique's blog I see an entry about Pownce, an enhaced Twitter-like web. As you can read in their own website they are using Debian as their distribution, and utils as Apache, MySQL, Python, ... A nice example on how powerful things can be made in an easy and cheap, but at the same time powerful, way.

Enrique Dans writes about the "The Coming Battle: Apple's iPhone vs. Corporate IT Departments". He makes an interesting point on how this new gadget can be a point of friction between managers of IT departments and their employees using this kind of gadgets, usually corporate executives. Syncing the database with RIM devices, or redirecting email accounts (iPhone is not capable of using corporate Blackberry or MS Exchange servers), can be a problem in corporate world. If you read those articles, they blame iPhone for not supporting all these enterprise-class software. Basically, IT departments are blaming iPhone for not supporting their competition systems, and they are not requiring all them (and themselves) to be using standards, which were just designed to avoid this kind of problems. They are afraid. No more comments.

Enrique Dans writes about the "The Coming Battle: Apple's iPhone vs. Corporate IT Departments". He makes an interesting point on how this new gadget can be a point of friction between managers of IT departments and their employees using this kind of gadgets, usually corporate executives. Syncing the database with RIM devices, or redirecting email accounts (iPhone is not capable of using corporate Blackberry or MS Exchange servers), can be a problem in corporate world. If you read those articles, they blame iPhone for not supporting all these enterprise-class software. Basically, IT departments are blaming iPhone for not supporting their competition systems, and they are not requiring all them (and themselves) to be using standards, which were just designed to avoid this kind of problems. They are afraid. No more comments.

I was looking for a way of sharing folders, without the need of using Samba but that could be used from Linux and Windows (I actually wanted to share a folder in my Debian server to a Windows client). I found an article on sharing folders using FTP and Avahi. It is quite easy to implement, and works like a charm. [Original post] I think that all these ubiquous network technologies are very interesting as network access trend is to be a commodity, available in every place. One of them is Avahi and the other is XMPP (previously known as Jabber). Mixing both makes creating ad-hoc networks in which people can share files, chat, printing, and use distributed SCM repos painless, and without the need to set up server-like stuff in you laptop. Update (24th July): Emanuele Aina pointed me to Telekinesis project which makes just what I was talking about above, using avahi and XMPP, it makes possible to share folders among peers in meshed networks, without the need to use any kind of server stuff.

I was looking for a way of sharing folders, without the need of using Samba but that could be used from Linux and Windows (I actually wanted to share a folder in my Debian server to a Windows client). I found an article on sharing folders using FTP and Avahi. It is quite easy to implement, and works like a charm. [Original post] I think that all these ubiquous network technologies are very interesting as network access trend is to be a commodity, available in every place. One of them is Avahi and the other is XMPP (previously known as Jabber). Mixing both makes creating ad-hoc networks in which people can share files, chat, printing, and use distributed SCM repos painless, and without the need to set up server-like stuff in you laptop. Update (24th July): Emanuele Aina pointed me to Telekinesis project which makes just what I was talking about above, using avahi and XMPP, it makes possible to share folders among peers in meshed networks, without the need to use any kind of server stuff.

I have fixed an error and added some comments, as well as changed the title, to my Postfix/SASL/TLS HowTo for Debian Sid, Sarge and Etch document. I wrote it three years ago as a reminder to myself on how this should be configured, after not having found any good howto for Debian, and is one of the things most searched and used of my website. It is currently in 3rd position on a Google search for postfix sasl tls. If you add Debian it jumps to the first position. Believe me, I am proud of it!

Yesterday, I read a Ben Maurer post about reCAPTCHA. It is a free CAPTCHA system but with a hidden feature: you will be used to decipher words that were not correctly recognized by OCR software in text from digitized books, that will be made accesible in an electronic form. Currently, they helping Internet Archive. The idea is to present a couple of words, distorted as usual in CAPTCHAs, once of them yet correctly recognized by OCR software and the other unrecongnized. The CAPTCHA will be resolved in the known one is entered correctly while the unknown one is guessed to be the word entered. To be sure about what has been entered, the unrecognized word will be presented to more users. A nice idea

I have added my site to FeedBurner, so now you can read my RSS feed also from there. I thought on using it as the feed that Planet Debian uses, but I have not made the change for now, as I have surprisingly discovered that nobody in Planet Debian is using it.

In the image below you can see that NetworkManager is finding 16 wireless networks in my house neighbourhood. And for the ESSID I know that there are some others, that are not running today. I don't know how many networks can the spec hold at the same time, but for sure we are near to channel saturation.

Or how online media can affect shares markets. Reading Enrique Dans' blog I have found an interesting entry on how a wrong piece of news published in an online medium made Apple shares to drop more than 4% in 6 mins. The history starts when Engadget published a false ticket talking about a delay in iPhone and Lepard releases. A supposed real internal mail from Apple was leaked to them, stating that delay. Actually that was a hoax. A spoofed mail that trespassed Apple mail servers and was delivered to a bunch of Apple employees, one of them leaking it to Engadget. About one hour and a half later, Apple sent another mail to their employees stating the untruth of the previus mail, and Engadget quickly published a rectification. But, in the meantime, the word spread fast and shares drop the 4% percent I mentioned before and with a lot of volume, which is an important signal for brokers that something is going wrong and that you have to sell your shares, increasing the effect in a snow ball way. The shares price drop meant Apple's market capitalization was 4 billion less (as US billions here) in 6 minutes. Information is crucial nowadays. But the speed at which it spreads is even more important.

Better said, politicians. I am pretty sure most of you will know yet about a Belgian politic party called NEE in which the main candidat is a young girl that appear naked in promoting posters. But in a word joke, she promised 'blowjobs' for people who vote for her. Or perhaps she promised that for real...

Also, here in Spain we had our own naked politician. She is not at posters, but she was the girl on portrait of an important Spanish magazine.

It is interesting to see how politics is changing lately. It is becoming more and more insteresting... Do you trust your candidate? Undress him!

It has been for three years that I am blogging here. This blog has had periods in which I blogged almos every day, followed for long periods in which I have not posted anything. Now, I am not using it a lot, as I am far from home. I am thinking that I need a way to write entries offline and commit them later. Keep on reading

This is mostly a reminder for myself, but if you connect a LCD TV to your computer, remember that with some drivers (as nv) you need to reboot to make the LCD be POSTed by the BIOS. Now, I will try to install Elisa on it to have my own Media Center.