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markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:57:39 -0500

Ubuntu 9.04

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:23:20 -0500

Hello World! I just upgrade my Ubuntu System, now it runs the 9.04 with the 2.6.28 kernel (Read the goodness of this kernel). The upgrade process was quite simple, It took more or less 5 hours downloading the new packages (1060MB) and 30 minutes intalling.

After installing the system restart and the boot process was pretty smooth. But one problem gets to the surface.. my terminal emulator doesn't open! after a small google search I found that I had to add a line to my fstab, in the bug report they recommend to restart, you just have to mount /dev/pts after adding that line to your /etc/fstab.

Then, everything was quite fine. Until I get home where I found that the Franklin CDU-680 was not working, and trying to add the usbserial module result in a "there is no module usbserial" message. Looking through the kernel configuration (/boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic), using the BAM requires to pass the vendor and product params to the moudule, if the module is built into the kernel I can't, actually I can, passing those arguments in the boot loader. But I don't want that way. At the end I compile my custom kernel based on the same configuration of the Ubuntu's kernel just change the usbserial as module.

Another thing that is annoying is that I had to reconfigure Compiz. All my keyboard shortcuts were deleted.

Everything else is just fine.

How many applications do you open on your daily work

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:49:00 -0500

Try to open the same number of applications on Windows with no virtual desktops.

March Desktop

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:10:26 -0500

March Desktop

Originally uploaded by markuz

This is how my desktop look like.

Starting to GDM in 22 seconds

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:20:49 -0600

Best bootchart ever

Originally uploaded by markuz

More about the new laptop

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:13:40 -0600

I have one week playing with this beauty, which I have called "homer" you I guess you already know that the name is because I like a lot The Simpsons.

This machine, as I said in the early post is an AMD Turion 64 x2 Dual Core with 3Gb of RAM and a disk drive with 250Gb. To be more specific here are the specs:

markuz$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 9602
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
08:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

The last sunday, when I arrive to Salamanca, Gto. I installed Ubuntu Hardy just to test it and because I didn't have a copy of the install CD, and the BAM was not the right way to make a dist upgrade. I found that Hardy is not 100% compatible with this machine, first. it doesn't have the Ethernet module, that as you can see in the lspci output is an Attansic Gigabit ethernet which works with the atl1e module. Then, the Wireless card is an Atheros AR928X that works with the ath9k module.

Sound is great! and you can turn on and off the subwoffer, sound is clear, no distortion and the volume up and down are touch buttons, the same the prev, next, play/pause and stop button. Another buttons that are touch too are the ethernet, bluetooth and a couple of buttons that are used with the Acer software. The webcam works just fine using the uvcvideo module and the graphics card works fine but as any other privative software it has his limitations.

I haven't yet explored it completely, I don't know if the multi card reader really works but as far I have used it, it fills my needs.

The best is that Ubuntu, that boots in more or less 37 seconds on cucusa, here it does in just 24 seconds using startpar booting process.

Find the error

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:56:26 -0600

Find the error

Originally uploaded by markuz

Today I found that my battery seems to be broken.. So, I try to completely discharge it just to recharge it and see if something was wrong with the gnome power manager or if in fact my batter is broken.

I was checking the state using

watch "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

And Found something funny about the info in the battery state file. It looks to be discharging even when the remaining capacity is 0. As a bonus the present voltage with no capacity is more than 0.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:20:19 -0500

One thought... If apt could download chunks of the packages from several servers like any p2p network the upgrade process may be faster.

update Finally, I have upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.10. the process took about 6 to 8 hours most of them downloading packages.

Dear Ubuntu...

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:54:14 -0500

Why the Fuck did you stop playing sounds on the speaker? I can't use the headphones all day...

Ubuntu start...

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:15:52 -0500

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.

Brightness button Compaq V3017LA Ubuntu Hardy

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:20:37 -0500

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.

echo $value > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

Mugshot in Ubuntu

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:11:00 -0500

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

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

Anybody using mugshot here ?

About my life in the last month

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:08:05 -0500

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...

Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:49:17 -0500

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.

27 segundos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:20:11 -0500

Bootchart, originally uploaded by markuz.

Tiempo record arrancando Ubuntu Gutsy en mi maquinita con un AMD Mobile Sempron de 1.6Ghz, 1Gb de ram (menos el video) y ReiserFS.

Cuanto haces en tu maquinita??

OpenOffice 2.4 en Gutsy

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:04:17 -0500

If you are trying to install OpenOffice 2.4 in Gutsy, check this how to:

Installing OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Gutsy

Gnome open location dialog

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:34 -0500

Gnome open location dialog, originally uploaded by markuz.

It is quite usefull, but, where can I configure the key bindings for the gnome open location dialog?? I mean, It nice if I click on the Desktop and press +l then it appears, but it's not the same if I am on any other application.

You can configure the key shortcuts to show the main menu, or to show the run dialog, you can even configure the shortcut to show your home, but, what about this?.

If you know how to do it (on GNOME), please, let me know.

Christine in up-to-down

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:11:20 -0500

This is nothing but just an announce that get in my mail today: Christine is available via up to down a site for program search.

Well, christine has been added to it:

Actualizacion del bios Compaq V3017LA

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:48:17 -0500

Le actualice el bios a mi maquina, de la version F.07 a la F.39, todo bien, aunque en ubuntu, para que arranque despues de la actualizacion necesitaras pasar los siguientes parametros al kernel:

pci=assign-busses apicmaintimer idle=poll reboot=cold,hard
Una vez que hayas arrancado no se te olvide ponerlo en grub para los siguientes arranques.

Esto tambien puede ser util para aquellos que han comprado una laptop Compaq V3000 o HP dv2000 reciente y tengan problemas al iniciar Ubuntu (o algun derivado)

Something weird

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:20:02 -0600

There is something weird about this screenshot...

Epiphany

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:53:16 -0600

Que haces cuando Epiphany se muere antes de poder arrancar por completo?

Compiz Fusion Memory leak ugly fix.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:34:56 -0600

Como ya saben Compiz Fusion+nVidia tienen un BUG del tamanio del mundo, consumiendo chingos de megas de memoria en RAM. Bien, una solucion simple, aunque no la ideal es correr compiz de esta forma:

compiz --replace --indirect-rendering

Aunque el bug parece ser sobre todo del controlador de nVidia, parece que ya ha sido solucionado y que se vera reflejado en la siguiente version del controlador.

WTF??

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:04:58 -0600

Que chingados esta mal con compiz ??

Primera semana con Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:02:22 -0500

Pues bien, he dejado de ladito el Slackware un rato para usar Ubuntu, debido a que vaya, ahora entiendo a quienes antes me habian dicho por montones: Yo quiero trabajar, no lidiar con dependencias.

Dado que siempre tengo que hacer en ICTC, cuando llego a casa pocas veces me intereza estar peleando con la compu, tal como lo hacia en casa, donde siempre tenia chance de hacerlo. Entonces me he instalado Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon para evitarme estas tranzas y usar el poder de apt.

Obviamente, me tuve que desprender de toda esa libertad que me da Slackware al no amarrarme del arbol de dependencias, pero es todo en favor de poder chambear o lograr lo queq uiero con el menor esfuerzo posible. Y pense que si lo conseguia todo seria bonito.

Bien, pues estaba bien perdido. He tenido unos ligeros problemas con Ubuntu. Antier tuve pedos con el controlador que te ofrecen para poder usar las tarjetas Broadcom. el bcm43xx funciona bien, pero no tan bien como deberia. Segun esta cosa si se conectaba con el router al que deberia de conectarse, pero aunque deshabilitaba cualquier otra interfaz de red y agregaba las rutas, el ping al mismo router jamas funcionaba!. Ha. y NetworkManager no me fue de mucha ayuda. Use wlassistant y ndiswrapper para lograr mi objetivo.

Ok, no fue todo. Resulta que a como tenia mi configuracion funciono bien en su momento, pero al dia siguiente al iniciar, Bolas don cuco Gnome no inicia... o mejor dicho, si lo hace, pero tarda Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucho y las aplicaciones tambien tardan Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucho a pesar de que el uso del CPU estaba al 0% o cuando mucho al 5% y el load average tambien estaba normal.

En fin, me hice una cuenta de usuario alterna para probar y nada, no pelaba. Gnome en modo seguro, tampoco, me asegure. Entonces entro en consola a prueba de fallos (simon, si falla la consola quito Ubuntu a la chingada y meto Slackware otra vez.. es mejor pelear un solo dia que pelar todos los dias!)..

En fin, aproveche e instale xfce y justo cuando va arrancando me dice que no encuentra la ip de cucusa (cucusa es el nombre de mi maquina), voy a echarle un ojo al /etc/hosts y veo que me faltaba el nombre corto para la maquina. se lo pongo y arranga perfecto. salgo de Xfce y entro en Gnome y Jala perfecto.

Aqui viene el descontento, recuerdo que en Gnome 1.x te avisaba que no podia resolver el nombre del equipo que esto posiblemente te acarrearia problemas. Entonces hacias las correcciones necesarias (tal como me paso con xfce). Por que jodidos lo quitaron?. Si GNOME es GNU Network Object Model Environment, porque jodidos no te avisa cuando hay un error en algun aspecto de red??

Ok, va una, la segunda sucede cuando llego a Salamanca, Me la volvio a hacer. Llego, conecto la compu a la corriente, arranco, y sopas, GNOME no arranca, Xfce si lo hace y no advierte de nada, muy probablemente porque ahora si resuelve la ip de mi maquina. Problema, la configuracion de red, deshabilite las interfaces de red que tengo, arrango GNOME, abro el NetworkManager y le digo que ahora mi configuracion ha de ser por dhcp en ambas interfaces (eth0 (alambrica) y eth1 (inalambrica)), y entonces si funciona bien.

Hasta ahorita no he tenido mayor problema que este, pero si es algo frustrante que despues de cambiar mi configuracion de red tenga tantos pedos para poder usar Ubuntu.

Somos cuates pero...

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:40:38 -0500

Hoy he instalado Ubuntu en cucusa en la reunion del Grupo Linuxero del Bajio y hablando sobre ubuntu salio a la luz lo del shipit, el hecho de que en los primeros envios te motivaban a pedir varios CDs para que al menos valiera la pena el costo del envio.

Tambien estabamos hablando sobre la educacion en mexico, el hecho de que empresas como Microsoft esten dando "Gratis" las licencias de Microsoft Windows y Microsoft Office y de otro software de Microsoft a las escuelas, de forma que los usuarios se acostumbren a usar sus productos y cuando salgan tengan que pagar por las licencias de los productos que usaban en la escuela. Lo mismo que aquel que le regala droga en un principio a la victima para decirle que despues siempre ya no, que hay que pagar "Somos cuates, pero no me chingues...'

Y entre todo esto, regresamos a la platica de Ship it de Ubuntu, donde salio que Mark Shuttleworth, despues de ver que en todo mundo se pedian cantidades industriales de CDs completamente Gratis de Ubuntu, seguro ha de haber dicho:

Somos cuates, pero no me chingues

Sin que decir.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:39:46 -0500

Esta semana ha sido muy poco productiva para mi, no tengo mucho que decir.

Sigo trabajando en C. Me gusta mucho, ya le agarr??????� cari??????�o, a pesar de que he estado utilizando Python que es super sencillo, este lenguaje me ofrece buenos retos y viendolo bien no esta tan dificil, cosa de hacer las cosas como deben de ser. Yo creo que despues de esto implementar??????� mas cosas de Christine en C.
Con esto del cambio de servidor, muchos de los dominios que tenia registrados siguen fuera de linea, uno de ellos christine-project.org :-(.
Estaba cabilando, hace unos a??????�os obtener una copia e Solaris legal era algo dificil, ahora me llegan por correo. solaris 10, OpenSolaris (esta me la regalo alo), y hoy me llego el Solaris Express Developer Edition.
Mi hermano instalo Kubuntu en su maquina, que es algo que me alegra mucho, aunque me molesta que Ubuntu no incluya por defecto las utilerias para compilar. En mi casa tenemos una red inalambrica, algo que ya discuti en un post anterior, Yo tengo ndiswrapper y bueno, con eso tengo mi red funcionando, pero mi hermano la unica forma de conectarse de manera inalambrica es gracias a windows, el driver de su adaptador de red USB debe ser compilado como modulo, es un driver oficial por parte de los de Encore, problema con unbuntu, no puedo compilar porque no tengo ni gcc.

Less memory more speed?

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:43:52 -0500

Ok... Ubuntu is (by the moment) out of cucusa, the reason.. well I tought that using a 64 bits processor will speed up my experience, I wonder firefox and evolution opening in just 1 second :-P, naaa, but It's suppossed that using a OS at least compiled/optimized for amd64 shoud run faster that Slackware, compiled and "optimized" for i486.

I guess that happen, but with ubuntu that is not the real life. The reason: Ubuntu uses a lot of memory. I check my memory state after bootting and it was using at least 180Mb!!!. and that was at booting (gnome and session already started), and in this time using ubuntu I feel like when I had voladora, I mean, I had 60% memory used by active programs and 38% by cach??????�, and having Evolution, Firefox, gaim, xchat and some terminals opened I had that and 50% of my swap used. So, more or less 250 Mb where used by active programs (and 50% swap)!! That, for me, is too much!.

With Slackware I have Gnome with all my session openen for less than 100 Mb, and with evolution, gaim, and everything else with 250 Mb, but, with no swap used. Well, that is nice for me, because the system doesn't have to deal a lot with read/write in swap, and then it is faster.

I feel Slackware faster than ubuntu linux, until ubuntu linux team fixes the memory leak in their system.

screenshot

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:36:17 -0500

Ubuntu in Cucusa

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:49:14 -0500

Well. One day and My laptop runs smooth with ubuntu version 6.06. I have to say that this time everything works fine, and I had just touched the config files for tunning, but no more. Even the nvidia Driver runs fine. I was getting angry but, that was because I wasn't searched so well in Google: I was trying to use "1280x768" pixel resolution, while the maximum (and working) resolution is "1280x800". that's why I was looking everythin in "1024x768".

Well. this is it, ubuntu is finally in my computer. :-)

	wenas wenas again
	MaoP, ya quedo la cosa del puto driver de nvidia, era yo, el pendejo que queria meterle resolucion de 1280x768 (como en cunegunda) pero esta madre funciona con 1280x800	12:38
* markuz	piensa: Nota personal... Pendejo, recuerda buscar primero eng google
	O.o	12:39
	o.O
	el mismo lo dijo
	markuz, quien soy yo para negarte las cosas.	12:40
	:>
	XD	12:41
	jajaja