I’m sure everyone already knows that OpenSUSE 11 has been released, if you don’t then you are literally living in other world. Anyway, I’ve received my copy today and it includes two beautiful stickers:
One for my laptop and the other for my door:
It’s been awhile since my last real post (more than a few words I mean).
I’m not dead, I’ve been very busy moving from Mexico to US, looking for a good deal to get a great place in Boston, and I did it. I moved to Boston about two weeks ago. I like here, I mean, the office is usually very quiet and my apartment has great view and I have almost everything just around the corner, I even like the weird weather.
And my cubicle has windows! I like having sunlight, and because of the airport I usually see airplanes, pigeons and doves and sometimes you can even see Zeppelins flying around. I would be lying if I said that has always liked sunlight, but after months of being in a Dungeon (not literally) I realized that having a window is very important for being productive.
I’ll be adding my personal touch to my cubicle, you know, hanging stuff, using some posters, etcetera, in the following days, I still have plenty of free space.
I’m still missing some home furniture, I think don’t need too many, but who knows. Anyway, let’s continue!
Translation: “Less license bullshit and more programming, more good-code sharing, examples to learn, more publishing tutorials or useful links and make them available for those who want to learn.“
How old am I today?
Month’s news are:
Yes I know, both news are so great!
I’ve upgraded my Gutsy to Hardy and everything was nice until I noticed Banshee was playing but no sound was heard. This bug reminded me when I installed Gutsy first time, I tried the same solution but didn’t work, however I decided to re-read the wiki and the ALSA configuration to try new arguments:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m26
It worked. By the way I like the Clock update:
Here’s a small example about the commands implementation on the MonoHotDraw framework.
Update your repository and execute:
make && mono dbapplication.exe
Be aware this a preview implementation, there a lot of bugs to be fixed related to those new commands.
Despite having acting like marathon runner I couldn’t depart on the scheduled time because the previous flight arrived too late at Houston, so waiting like 12 hours was the only solution to depart on 9am and then wait another 2 hours to finally arrive at Veracruz.
Spending time at the airport wasn’t funny at all, at least I ate fruits cocktail and drunk a cup of coffee.
However, this trip let me meet all the a11y team which will be implementing the Accessibility API on Mono on the following months. Great experience.
And I brought a new friend:
Nokia 770 doesn’t have (right now… or I haven’t found it) a user-friendly client for twitter and for some unknown reason you can’t post through the twitter web page. After googling I found a website that includes a list of twitter clients. mitter seems to be in the future the default twitter client because their plans include to port to Maemo and use Hildon, but not now; so if you are planning to post from your device then you have to figure it out.
Finally, after trying I found a solution by using the power of vim and its plugins, of course you will need to install vim and curl packages in your device to allow twittering from it.
By the way, don’t forget that the BACK button (the button below the arrows left the screen) in your device acts as ESC key.
Update 2008-03-07: If you add the twitter user to your gtalk you will be able to twitter by sending him messages, nice isn’t it?
I don’t know why, but am feeling something, something that may happen in this year that will change, somehow, my life.
To remember old days.
