Saturday evenin on Salamanca, originally uploaded by markuz.

This is my first year in Salamanca, working for ICT Consulting .

p1020835.jpg, originally uploaded by markuz.

I love the white clouds.

Ubuntu start..., originally uploaded by markuz.

I found this booting Ubuntu Hardy in my laptop. The progress bar was just "pulsing" but didn't change to a fraction. Well, This is why. This didn't happend before and I don't know how to reproduce this, so, I can't report it has a bug.

There is a bug (I think it is) in hardy, where the brightness button is not working on some laptops including Dell and Compaq/HP. The bug report is here and the proposed fix (for the compaq/hp laptops) is to blacklist the video module to let hal do it's work.

I try it yesterday, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyway, the other way to change the brightness in your laptop is write by hand the /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness file.

If you are trying to install mugshot in Ubuntu (like I did), try this repo:

https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive

Anybody using mugshot here ?

Christine importing a folder., originally uploaded by markuz.

I had worked on christine weeks ago, this week I had no time to give it some love. I have been using this "development" version (I think every version of christine is a development version) for a while.

Christine is faster at the load time, starting in just 4 seconds with at least 1500 items in the list, and the search and sort is quite fast too. But working with something like 6889 items in another 'source' I had make it a bit slow.

I think this is because christine use 3 models in the main list. Yes, three models. One is the main model, the one that holds all the library data. then the filter model and then the sort model. I'll try to make a model that implements in some way the filter and sort to reduce the work.

I notice that when you use a filter or even worse a filter and sort model ever time you select or move your cursor, or do anything with a row this process has to be done for every model you have. I mean, in christine you have to do it three times because of the three models. I think this sucks.

Well, I hope to have the time to write a bit on christine in this week.

Irony, originally uploaded by markuz.

In this week I had the task to look for a new bug tracker here at ICT Consulting, we used to have bugzilla, but it is a bit confusing. In my search I stop in the phpbugtracker site. Diving in, I found that many projects use PHPBT has their Bug and Issues tracker. Now I know why, its pretty easy to use, is really easy to search in the bug list.

Anyway, the screnshot you are looking above is the what I call Irony, Php bug tracker, a project for bug tracking use another bug tracking system, the Sourceforge.net Bug tracker. I think this is because then they have the statistics in the sourceforge statistics and they don't need to host the tracker. I don't think this is a bad idea, but it's funny.

The last weekend my parents where here in Salamanca, I had 5 months since I saw them back in January. The travel took much more time that the spected and arrive here at the night. Anyway, the weekend was so nice and healty.

The Saturday we spend the afternoon at the park and dinner some tacos.

The Sunday we stand up very early and eat Menudo for breakfast, Then we get to Irapuato because my parents did'n knew it. Get back to the house and eat, and then the movies, to see Hulk.

The movie is much better than the previous Hulk movie, this time I think the producers take care about David Banner's pants who use stretch pants, the way David and Hulk look are much more reasonable, since David is the nerd guy, and Hulk is not ultra bigger, ultra strong, and invincible. Anyway, taking away the hulk look and feel the history is very interesting and at the end of the movie.... well, just watch the movie.

Well, I'm very happy that my parents came to visit us. They left salamanca last Wednesday and I'm already missing them.

Yes, I'm happy because my parents are comming to Salamanca to visit us. I have nothing more to say, I'm happy.

Well, as many of you know, this site, islascruz.org was "down", and I put down between quotes because wasn't really down, but, almost everybody uses islascruz.org and not islascruz.com, and that's ok. Anyway, islascruz.org is back again and I hope it never fails again.

Now, What have I done in the last month?, well, not blogging . I have been using twitter but I had this need to post on my own site.

I had worked on christine, making it a little more usable, now,it loads in my computer in just a couple of seconds with a track list that is about 2600 rows, It uses a little less memory and I'm trying to make it better. But I'm working in some projects in the work (the paid work) and the idea to be working 8 hours in the office and get to the house to keep working isn't a very nice idea.

Cristina and I get to the movies, we watch The Happening. Many people didn't like it, and I think this is because there is too much talk, too much death and almost no action. But the point in the movie is the message, we are hurting the planet, and we shouldn't. So, after the blablabla and the blood I like it, just by the message. We also watch Indiana Jones, and to be honest, I like it, but is not by far the most awesome movie I have seen.

As part of the "Leave the stress" activities cristina and I are doing, we are doing scented candles. We enjoy doing it, but the hard issue is cleaning the mess we do.

Well, I think I'm gonna leave this post here, my life is not that intersting. You should read somebody else personal posts..

I have't post a lot in the last month, with was a very work loaded month. Most of it because we where polishing the software we are going to show in the Expo that will start tomorrow. Anyway, this post is not about that, at least not everything.

• As I have already said, I have been working a lot in the office, and get back to the house tired, I didn't want to use the computer in the house, so christine development was stoped in this time, but will start again, in the hope to have more time. The work I already have of christine in the svn drops the gnome-python* dependencies by dropping gconf out of christine. It has the first implementation of the model I had worked on a few weeks ago wich will improve christine startup. I'm planning to rewrite the player module to make it the cleaner way.
• I have been usign twitter for a while, is nice to see what your buddys are doing accros the day, but I'm not that kind of twitter user that post everything: 'Im posting that Im posting on twitter', my twitter name is markuzmx.
• Cristina And I are happy here in salamanca, most of the free time we use to get out of the house, watching movies, going to the museums or just walking and talking. Yesterday cristina tatooed her arm, a small butterfly next to his hand.
• I knew the new. Monster Java flavour
• Went to see Narnia, and Indiana Jones.
• Upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 an found some glitches with Compiz wich I don't like, and One of them is the fact I can't use Button3 to show the main menu, The compiz Config Manager doesn't have that option, just the keyboard one, wich is.... annoying.

• I'm tired, I wish I have a couple of free days...

I have finally upgrade my Ubuntu install to Hardy... Wasn't so easy. It takes more than 1 hour downloading the files, I know, this isn't Ubuntu's servers fault, but, I was supposed to download 1585 files, fortunately I had copied the files from another machine here in ICT Consulting that was upgraded yesterday, from where I grab ~1200 files. So, 300 files in 1 hour, 1200 should be 4 hours (aprox).

The upgrade, indeed is easy, just run the upgrade manager and you have your system upgraded. But, that doesn't mean that you don't have to do anything else, my nvidia driver wasn't working, and I thought it was because I use envy to install the nvidia driver in Gutsy. So, I remove envy and then install the nvidia-glx-new package, didn't work. So, looking for in the system I realize that the restricted drivers manager wasn't working properly, diving there I found that it miss one package, the restricted driver manager for my kernel. I have to install it and then my nVidia work again.

Is nice when you can upgrade your favorite distribution, even when you have to repair your installation after the upgrade.

flickr status, originally uploaded by markuz.

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