effiejayx’s blog

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please consider apologizing to the entire Open Source Community for what your CEO thinks. before even considering asking form My participation. I am Open Source. WE ARE ALL OPEN SOURCE. And don’t get me wrong, there is something in me that wants to believe you initiative but YEARS of bad OS experiences and the previous reference of your CEO makes me say…

I PASS

“Fool me once Shame on you… Fool me twice shame on me”!

Ubuntu-ve’s participation in the “Congreso Nacional de Software Libre” (CNSL) in Maracaibo, Venezuela really proved what Ubuntu is all about… sharing with the people the spirit of ubuntu in more ways than one.

Looking for inventive ways to promote Ubuntu. I decided to offer small 10 minute talks on how to do stuff on ubuntu. and questions from the crowd. I also handed out stikers to ubuntu enthusiasts.

Due to the lack of CD’s I decided to do some screencasts from screencasts.ubuntu.com (thank you Alan Pope ) to show people how to download an ISO image of ubuntu. and how to install dual boot. I showed and I explained in spanish so questions at the end were reduced in numbers .

A small flyer was distributed a flyer among attendees to further directed them to our loCo team and to our mailing list. for them to have a way of interacting with the Venezuelan community at large.

It was all about the people and that’s what I enjoyed the most of this event. there is nothing like the eager questions regarding how to use Ubuntu or how life is like in the Ubuntu side .

At the end of the day I did the typical “ASK THE UBUNTU DUDE” kind of thing, a few installs on some laptops and fixed a couple of wireless issues on others. I even showed some development scenarios under Ubuntu and showed my new Python moves.

Big thanks to Artemisa (One Cool Ubuntu-ve Chick), BELLA-VE (one Cool Debian Chick) and to C3s4r (Keep it up bro).

My flickr set with pics here

Well The CNSL Circus is comming to town. Maracaibo will be the site for the wrapup of the Congress that travelled all over my country.  This year marks the third edition of the Congress. and this time they got RMS to come to my city. It is put together by GLoVE lead by Octavio Russel.

 UBUNTU-VE:

I will be in the stand for UBUNTU-VE along side other ubunteros from all over the country.

KUDOS:

C3s4r (Cesar Sevilla) for putting together such wonderfull event.

BELLA-VE for being such great inspiration and a great mentor, I truly learned how to deal with the putting together events.

Ok… here it is again… PLAY OGG’s…

I just read a pretty common dilema for new users “Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux”, The use of ILEGAL CODECS.I don’t intend to open the Pandora box all over again. I found pretty valid his position and it got me into this reflection.

How did the WMA (Windows media Audio??. I can’t  remember the acronym anymore ) got so relatively big. How did it happen?

Well it got big because it was the default format for recording on the default Media Player on the OS. and often I recorded and forgot to change the default format for recording… DUH!

When I first joined the Ubuntu crowd, back in the hoary days, Installing  proprietary codecs was no easy task. but luckily for me I was not left defenseless. I learned I could use SOUNDJUICER to get my cd’s into sound files that my system new hoary OS would recognize. pretty neat. so if I was once stuck with the WMA by mistake… why not give OGG a chance…
Enter MP32OGG 

then looking for a solution to all the mp3’s and WMA’s  I already had on my computer. I found the Nifty MP32OGG on the repositories… I installed it and I was expecting some kick ass app with a nice GUI…  better luck next time noobie… It was a command line app but it was easy to use. and I got a hang of it. I changed all my mp3’s to OGG’s just using this command

mp32ogg thefile.mp3

or better yet

mp32ogg thedirectorythathasallthefiles

and I would get the new ogg thefile.ogg and the directory for the ogg’s

I felt like I could take on the world. I did a command line to do something that cool. 
Then it was the dilema again… would an Ipod play ogg’s… I said… NAH who needs an Ipod… I’ll buy an Icheapod .

ENTER ICHEAPOD..

This mp3 player… as cheap as it is … PLAYS OGG! although it does not say… so Imagine my surprise.
OGG’s GOOD QUALITY AUDIO…

Then I learned OGG’s have GOOD Sound Quality (Test of sound files)… and I said.. WHAT! NO WAY!
Now the Morale of the story…

You are as FREE you want to be in this Free and Open Source World.

When thinking about audio you don’t HAVE TO install Ilegal codecs

Kudos to:

• “THE NIX MAN” nixternal for his awesome OGG set of mind
• jono for kicking ass with Jokosher (Now I can edit audio and export on OGG’s )
• Mako for his always insightful look at the free music and free culture and His excepcional work at FSF.
• FSF for their Campaigning efforts.
• and to all the OGG listeners out there…

Inspiring as always

- ” Keep on Rocking in the Free World”

                                        -Neil Young 

Alright… I was siting on my computer with a little time to share…

I have seen several cool OS evolution, Fedora’s, and much recently I saw Window’s (they missed Millennium Edition). I have seen tons and tons of screenshots of Ubuntu screenshots on the web. So I decided to set up this little evolution for the Ubuntu desktops…

As I looked at them I remembered different moments in my last two years. It literally brought tears in my eyes. and one can only wait til Gutsy hits the mainstream .

This is a tribute to the Desktop Team… CHEERS GUYS…

P.S. maybe someone can do the same for Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, add infinitum…

THE UBUNTU DESKTOP EVOLUTION

Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog

Released Oct 20th, 2004

Notes: Initial release, support for x86, x86-64, PowerPC. ShipIt.

Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog

Released April 8th, 2005

NOTES: Inclusion of update-manager/upgrade-notifier, Kickstart compatibility, improved laptop support.

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger

Released October 13th, 2005

NOTES: Graphical boot process with progress bar (USplash), OEM Installer Support, Launchpad tracking, GCC 4.0

Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake (LTS)

Released June 1st, 2006

NOTES: LiveCD and Installer on one disc, Ubiquity installer. First Long-Term Support release. The next LTS release is planed for Feisty+2.

Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

Released October 26th, 2006

NOTES: Automated problem reports, Upstart.

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Released April 19th, 2007

NOTES: Migration assistant, KVM, Easy codec/restricted drivers installation, Desktop effects, WPA support, PowerPC support officially dropped.