https://flic.kr/p/Snn5hm

Pintar la puerta del salón de Diego

It is three months old and like 40 hits to the ground.

https://flic.kr/p/SktxNJ

https://flic.kr/p/RjCkst

My daily work tools

https://flic.kr/p/SkLCcP

https://flic.kr/p/S8fVe6

Really, since I moved from Puebla, I had video calls with my parents more frequently, I use the Apple TV so I can “mirror” my iPad screen there so my three kids can see them.

The advantage is that, they can see their grandparents in a big screen, the problem, they often start talking to the screen ?.

How to solve that??  Having the web cam in the TV, and the freaking videocall app in the TV.

If today’s TVs are so smart, why there is no Facebook Messenger app there?. It would be amazing to have a web cam (you can always put black tape there) and microphone directly in the TV so you can easily do videocalls.

https://flic.kr/p/RWM9Rc

https://flic.kr/p/QS6Qwt

https://flic.kr/p/QLtJAx

Burning an ISO from the shell

This comes from the old blog:

I’m currently working on some stuff for my blog, well, not exactly this blog, another, I guess it may be better to sometimes post via email, sometimes just test, sometimes images. This is what I’ve got so far.

# @author    Marco Antonio Islas Cruz <[email protected]>
# @copyright 2011 Marco Antonio Islas Cruz
# @license   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
 
import imaplib
import email
imaplib.IMAP4.debug = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.debug = 1
 
username,passwd = ('usuario','password')
 
con = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('host',993)
con.login(username, passwd)
con.select()
typ, data = con.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')
c = 0
for num in data[0].split():
    typ, data = con.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
    c +=1
    text = data[0][1]
    msg = email.message_from_string(text)
    for part in msg.walk():
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue
        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue
        filename = part.get_filename()
        data = part.get_payload(decode=True)
        if not data:
            continue
        f  = open(os.join(os.environ['HOME'],filename), 'w')
        f.write(data)
        f.close()
        
con.close()
con.logout()

The code is available under the GPL license. You can follow this script (if it ever evolves) in github.

I’m posting it here because I would like to have the answers in the comments of this post. I’ve been using for a long long time but also since 2010 I’m using OS X as my main desktop.

When I’m in Linux I usually check my emails in thunderbird or sometimes with evolution. Both are good but also both have their own issues.

Evolution is somewhat integrated with Ubuntu, by default the calendar and contacts are used in Ubuntu although the email client is not installed by default, for that Thunderbird is the choice, but I see that contacts are not synced (I’m using gmail as mail provider). Thunderbird have a nice notification widget but… contacts don’t sync natively.

Also, evolution is quite outdated, using it feels like being in the GNOME 2.X age.

So, for you which one is the best desktop email client for Linux, please consider:

• Good looking
• Integration with the rest of the OS
• Easy of use (like drag and dropping attachments – in evolution you need to drop in a specific part to add the attachment, if you drop in the message area it add a link to a file)
• Integration with other services (dropbox, evernote, etc..)

Thanks for your help.