To have the tube syncronized...

I am proud to notice that Lisbon's tube/subway/underground (your pick...) is syncronized.
But, can anyone tell the guys from the control tower that syncronized shouldn't mean that two different lines arrive at the station at EXACTLY the same time????!!!!
Either I am the Flash or I miss the connection to the red line... btw, stats on these events are 20-80%.
Lovely.

Merry Christmas

If I was really really geeky, I would put this music



together with these images :)



and geolocate them here

Since I'm not... Feliz Natal! :)

Top 3 :)

Lisbon scores again! :)

Read all about it here

Rainy weather or Cold weather?

Personally, I prefer the cold, for so many reasons... For starters,

and

and these....

The rain, well, it's wet, it's uncomfortable, it increases the traffic on the streets... AND it's a ROYAL PAIN ....

Long story short...

But.... I do like the rain.... as long as it bring the company of the cold... and then we end up with....

From Villanueva de la Cañada Vol. I - Nieve

SNOWWWWW :)

It's booked!!

Lisbon Tube...

I really think something has been lost in translation.... :)

Groovy sound

Great song by a Portuguese band...! :)

La dama y la Muerte

The other night there was a tv show with short animations. This one was absolutely FANTASTIC!

OpenOffice goes Spanish

Well, that's a way to put things...

In fact, OpenOffice.org has been forked into LibreOffice held by Document Foundation and is now available for download and usage.

If you already have OpenOffice in your Ubuntu and you want to try LibreOffice, just get the tgz from here, unzip it and then install it with

sudo dpkg -i $WHERE_YOU_UNZIPED/en-US/DEBS/*.deb

sudo dpkg -i $WHERE_YOU_UNZIPED//en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb

Remove old kernels

When you boot your computer and have 10E10 kernels to choose from in the bootloader, it is annoying... Usually you just have to boot the first one on the list, but if you have a Window$ OS installed, well, you have to go though the kernel list until you find the Window$ loader.

The option is to remove old kernels :)

Here's the trick:

1. Find out what is the version you are currently using with

uname -r

2. Check what kernels are installed in your machine

ls /boot | grep vmlinuz | cut -d'-' -f2,3

that will give you the KERNEL_IDs

2.6.28-23
2.6.28-24
2.6.28-25

3. Find the stuff associated with the kernels you don't want with

dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep KERNEL_ID | awk -F' ' '{ print $2 }'

that should give you the UNWANTED_STUFF_LIST

linux-headers-2.6.28-23

linux-headers-2.6.28-24-generic

linux-image-2.6.28-25-generic

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-25-generic

4. Finally, remove the items in UNWANTED_STUFF_LIST with

sudo aptitude remove UNWANTED_STUFF_LIST[N=1, ..., N]

Personally, I always keep the version I am using, (duh!) plus the previous one... You never know ....

In Orbit Commissioning Phase Photos

These are some shots I collected during the six months I stayed at ESAC.

In-Orbit Commissioning Phase Photos

I'll try to bring the blog back to life....

Or not.. :)

Rita **

It *REALLY* snows!!! :)

From Villanueva de la Cañada Vol. I - Nieve

From Villanueva de la Cañada Vol. I - Nieve

From Villanueva de la Cañada Vol. I - Nieve

:)

It snows!!! :D

Madrid

This is actually the first post about... LIFE!!! :)

Here are some shots taken this weekend in Madrid :)

From Madrid Vol. 1

Well, to be honest, this could have been taken anywhere :P

From Madrid Vol. 1

This one is the Bear in Plaza Sol... Or is it a self-portrait? ;)

From Madrid Vol. 1

Just Plaza Mayor... They have this X-mas Fair there... You can buy lots of decorations!!!

From Madrid Vol. 1

Zeh flag!

And that's it for now :)

Google Wave

I think I will enjoy this a lot :)

How to tell if a cat is plotting to kill you

Instaling new Ubuntu

When you install a new version of Ubuntu there is a cool way to keep track of your installed applications :)

dpkg --get-selections > apps.txt

This will list your installed applications. Then on a new and fresh instalation, do

$ dpkg --get-selections < apps.txt
$ dselect update
$ apt-get dselect-upgrade show

And there you go! :)

How to make your /home in a different partition than the OS

It says it all :)

http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/

Comparing stuff

To compare files I used to be very blunt and use

diff $file1 $file2

but then my front-desk mate said "Add | vimdiff - ". He has shared some ideas on how to compare stuff with another colleague of ours.

In the meantime, my boss introduced me to tkdiff and I absolutely loved it.
As a good open source software ;) works on Linux, Mac and M$ Window$ :)

So enjoy!

Changing your Console Prompt

I've been looking for a while on a good post on how to change it, and finally, a good reference came up.

*This* site is a good guide! Really... ;)