• chile earthquake 2010 – howto

    I will be writing this post in my free time this week.

    The idea is to write a little manual to explain how to survive a major earthquake as an observer.

    My family is in chile, it’s been more than 30 hours with no communication at all.

     February 28th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • macSOD

    macSODMy beloved macbook had a crash, after two major versions of Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard) and almost a year and a half of hard work, virtualized guest Linux distributions and worst things.

    All I can say is that even a crash is sexy ;)

     February 15th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • snow

    This video was taken using my Huawei U8230+Android

    open source video, video platform, open source video editor

     February 1st, 2010  admin   No comments

  • el mundo post-postmoderno

    el otro día comentaba de mi fascinacion por este mundo post-postmoderno que nos toca vivir
    en que las cosas tienden a ser al mismo tiempo cada vez más complejas y cada vez más simples
    yo trato de vivir en esa dualidad, simple , amistoso, poco complicado por fuera y muy complejo por dentro

    Cada vez que veo un smartphone, un computador o cualquier gadget de última generación me pregunto si el mundo es más simple un más complejo que hace 10 años. Hace 10 años podíamos hacer lo mismo que hoy, pero con recursos muy limitados y realizando operaciones que eran más complejas.

     January 25th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • The LaTeX guide to the galaxy

    This a short tutorial explaining how to write a report using LaTeX and preferably TeXMaker that will include images and tabulars.

    I’m a little late, yesterday ir was my birthday :)

    <code>

    \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}

    \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

    \usepackage{ucs}

    \usepackage{amsmath}

    \usepackage{amsfonts}

    \usepackage{amssymb}

    \usepackage{makeidx}

    \usepackage{url}

    \usepackage{hyperref}

    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

    \author{Francisco-Fran\c{c}ois VARAS}

    \title{How to write a (simple) \LaTeX{} document}

    \begin{document}

    \maketitle

    This document summarizes the procedure of creating a basic \LaTeX{} document. It is manly intended to be read by people who is not happy with their WYSIAYG editors . Prior to this procedure, some conditions must be met, I recommend having \emph{TexMaker} installed on your system. The details for installing TexMaker or other software are not detailed in this document, if you have any question, Google it.

    \pagebreak

    \textbf{Generic Case}\\

    Steps to create a basic document.

    \begin{itemize}

    \item Download \& install \textbf{Texmaker}:

    \url{http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html}

    \item Configure \textbf{Texmaker}:

    \url{http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html}

    \texttt{this is sample <code> text with\textunderscore{}underscore}

    \end{itemize}

    \pagebreak

    \textbf{Images \& Tabulars}\\

    How to create a tabular.\\

    How to insert an image.

    \begin{itemize}

    \item This is just an image.\\

    \includegraphics[scale=0.3]{LaTeX_logo.png}

    \item This a very simple tabular.\\

    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}

    \hline English & French & Spanish & – \\

    \hline English & Fran\c cais & Espa\~{n}ol & \\

    \hline cat & chat & gato & \\

    \hline

    \end{tabular}

    \end{itemize}

    \end{document}

     January 18th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • video engine testing

    adding video

    open source video, video platform, open source video editor

    By the wy, the guy in the video is not me. It’s one of my brothers.

     January 15th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • the perfect drug game

    the perfect drug game
    world of goo.

    then, buy it, you will not miss this insignificant amount of money from your wealthy bank account.

    Linux gamers are welcome :)

     January 11th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • linux skype client 2.1.0.47

    This version seems to work very well. I could send an SMS, it worked.
    For the rest of the features I didn’t see any regression.

    Thanks Skype :)

     January 4th, 2010  admin   No comments

  • telescope

    as a Xmas gift, I gave myself a telescope, alway dreamed of it.

    the telescope "chez moi"

    It is a very simple Dobsonian telescope.

     December 28th, 2009  admin   No comments

  • Xmas special (or why religions)

    How can people buy something that doesn’t work?
    How can a single individual think that the universe will really care of what he does when nobody is looking?
    How is it that some persons decide to go blind (and suffering) through their lifes?
    How can you take a bowl of lies for breakfast every single devoted day of you life?
    Can anyone explain to me the guilt-that-leads-to-frustration-that-leads-to-anger-that-leads-to-more-guilt loop?
    What kind of benefits come from religion (apart from money and power, that can be honestly gained through politics and/or corruption)?
    Which are (in real life, real word) the advantages of religions (apart -of course- guilt)?
    How will we explain to future generations that in the XXI st century, even before you were born, you had already millions of declared enemies only due to the fact that your local folks had superstitious beliefs that were not appreciated by their neighbours?
    And, yes I was baptized when I was a child, without my consent (doesn’t matter), and I was a believer for the first 18 years of my life (matters a little), and then I became bad and cruel.

     December 21st, 2009  admin   No comments