2008 March « effiejayx’s blog

Windows Vista vs Mac OSX vs Ubuntu en Hackathon

March 29, 2008 at 10:28 pm | In Español | Leave a Comment

¿Quien aguanto los tres dias de hackeada? veamos:

Traduzco para ustedeslo que nos dice Mackenzie:

“Pwn 2 Own es una competencia donde si lo hackeas, te lo ganas con una pila de efectivo, todas las vulnerabilidades deben ser originales y no pueden ser publicadas hasta que el creador del software haya tenido chance para repararlas. La competencia fue entre una MacBook Air, una laptops con Vista SP1, y una Laptop con Ubunt, distintas cosas son permitidas.

Día 1
- $20,000
- Sistemas operativos, Drivers, Redes
- Todas aguantaron
Día 2
- $10,000
- Software Instalado por defecto
- MacBook eliminada en 2 minutos con Safari, Ubuntu y Vista aguantaron
Día 3
- $5,000
- Aplicaciones Populares desarrolladas por 3ros
- Vista eliminada con una vulnerabilidad de flash

Con respecto a hackaer una MacBook Air, el ganador dijo “Fue la mas facil de las tres” (según Channel Register). Es la primera vez que escucho que OSX es mas fácil de hackear que Windows. Pero, Resulta ser verdad, y pienso que nosotros resultamos ser los verdaderos ganadores Hasta el año que viene podemos decir que somos el Sistema Operativo mas dificil de hackear!”

Sin duda alguna… esta noticia esta rondando la red…

PCWORLD ya tambien dijo lo suyo al respecto…

FUERTE AHÍ UBUNTU…

Venezuela goes NO on OOXML

March 28, 2008 at 9:51 pm | In English | 5 Comments

Get the full scoop from Jose´s Blog Post

Hardy…

March 18, 2008 at 7:13 am | In Español | 1 Comment

Bueno después de meditar la situación un poco me decidí y instale Hardy. A mi me gusta instalar las ramas en desarrollo de ubuntu, es muy emocionante cada cambio que hacen (siempre y cuando no rompan las X o se esplote libc6). La novedad abunda en hardy y la interfaz se ve mucho mas integrada. la nueva seleción de programas (brasero para quemar cd’s, transmission para bajar torrent, Firefox 3b4) renuevan un poco al experiencia desktop.

Ya ha entrado en Beta Freeze asi que se que el lanzamiento de la versión Beta es inminente. Puedo decir que la instalación fue de lo mas hermoso que he visto en un sistema linux . El redimencionamiento de las particiones ahora identifica con nombre del OS cada partición.

Tener una tarjeta ATI ya no es un dolor de cabeza. El driver de ATI en hardy ya hace uso de aiglx para extensiones composite. Lo que hace que cosas como Compiz no necesiten de un entorno de X’s completo ensima sobre X para poder hacer los truquitos 3D. Broadcom 4318, tiro al piso. b43-fwcutter y listo. wireless trabajando.

Firefox 3 beta 4. lo estoy usando y quizás me guste. pero hay algunas cositas que faltan pulir. algunos diccionarios no son compatibles para esta versión. y cuestiones asi. Los muchachos de la mesa técnica Ubuntu decidieron no cambiar los colores debido a que esta versión de ubuntu seria estable y un cambio aquí les brindara pocas oportunidades de pulirlo.

Disfruto de Hardy en verdad representa una alternativa para la gente que quiera salir de su viejo sistema. Mis intenciones ahora es actualizar hasta llegar al lanzamiento y asi ahorrarme el cuello de botella para instalar el 24 de abril .

Aquí les dejo Mi desktop recién instaladito

(haz click para ver)

NOTA: Los pre-lanzamientos de Hardy *NO* son recomendables para alguien quien desee un sistema estable o alguien que no este cómodo con encontrarse con mal funcionamiento ocasional o frecuente. Sin embargo, son recomendados para los desarrolladores Ubuntu y para aquellos que deseen ayudar a probar, reportar y arreglar errores (bugs). (Si instalas y consigues un error, reportarlo )

P.S. Solo una cosa. Si eres uno de esos que detestan el marroncito ubuntu, (para no decir otra cosa), usa sistema » preferencias » apariencia y listo.. o visita http://www.gnome-look.org

Going to school part 2: International Day.

March 9, 2008 at 1:18 am | In English | 1 Comment

Today, I had the chance to go back to the school I am advocating FOSS in a school project called “Technology Ripples”, a project his school will be sharing with other schools in other countries. Today was a special day for the school, it was International day. Kids get to exchange on really interesting topics, Poverty and Hunger, Digital divide amongst some of the ones that really caught my eye. I have been working hard his past week in getting Edubuntu on these machines and that’s probably why you see that I have been a little absent from the IRC. the young ones made the presentation of the project really worthwhile. Being able to share what Charlie and Pad (Teachers from the School) and I have learned with the kids can’t simply not be expressed in words.

The kids couldn’t believe a second generation Pentium I machine was running 2008 software (Xubuntu / Edubuntu packages). A Pentium Celeron with a 32 MB graphics card could offer a 3D desktop and that the PC they have at home could really be a computer from the future, If and only if they used a linux-based operating system. Kids were hyped about the presentation and they were bringing in more friends and even their parents to see. The main idea was to get more PC donations and general awarness on the use of FOSS.

Curious thing, This young boy looks like the little brother of CHICAGO LOCO TEAM very own Martinez Brothers (Freddy and Eddie) . He has been trying to get linux on his Playstation 3. when asked why he replied with a simple “I just want to take my gaming machine beyond, make it a computer”. He had already done research on how to accomplish this with FEDORA. Imagine mi reaction… simply SPEECHLESS.

The fun thing about this is in helping other we help ourselves. kids are considering switching OS’s. These computers will be delivered to the school in a month’s time. I am really looking forward to this. We are currently planning with teachers there. and I shall keep you al posted in part 3 of this story.

Charles Nicholas (Arts Teacher) – Efrain Valles (LoCo team contact for Ubuntu Venezuela)

two happy FOSS advocates

watch the video interview with Charlie and Nelson

Hunger and Poverty

Entrance to the classroom

In the International day, I attended an activity organized by the senior students from this school. They prepared an excellent activity which consisted of a presentation on poverty and hunger and a banquette. the participants where parents, teachers, friends.The decorations in the room not only gave it ambiance, it also provided with very keen messages for the people participating.

The students presented the issue with real detail, the images talked for themselves. The delivering was excellent, the youngsters made their point without missing a bit.

The tables are set

For the banquette, The attendees picked a ticket, and they were seated in tables which had an interesting arrangement, it really made it interesting. Out of 30 people only 5 got to sit in the full course meal ( entrée , main dish, dessert), 15 people would represent the middle-class and they had only sandwich and a soda. Another table of 5 would represent the poverty-stricken class, they would have crackers and water. and the critical poverty table just had 3 packs of crackers. Each sit would have statistical information on the situation of each table. so it was interesting just to walk around the tables and read the facts.