SkyNet T-Shirt

To all you dear Terminator believers, Google fans, Google haters,  and  so on... you should buy this T-shirt now!


Thanks to David from Strobbist

Spanish declaration about internet rights

Ante la inclusión en el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía sostenible de modificaciones legislativas que afectan al libre ejercicio de las libertades de expresión, información y el derecho de acceso a la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloggers, usuarios, profesionales y creadores de internet manifestamos nuestra firme oposición al proyecto, y declaramos que?
1.- Los derechos de autor no pueden situarse por encima de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos, como el derecho a la privacidad, a la seguridad, a la presunción de inocencia, a la tutela judicial efectiva y a la libertad de expresión.
2.- La suspensión de derechos fundamentales es y debe seguir siendo competencia exclusiva del poder judicial. Ni un cierre sin sentencia. Este anteproyecto, en contra de lo establecido en el artículo 20.5 de la Constitución, pone en manos de un órgano no judicial -un organismo dependiente del ministerio de Cultura-, la potestad de impedir a los ciudadanos españoles el acceso a cualquier página web.
3.- La nueva legislación creará inseguridad jurídica en todo el sector tecnológico español, perjudicando uno de los pocos campos de desarrollo y futuro de nuestra economía, entorpeciendo la creación de empresas, introduciendo trabas a la libre competencia y ralentizando su proyección internacional.
4.- La nueva legislación propuesta amenaza a los nuevos creadores y entorpece la creación cultural. Con Internet y los sucesivos avances tecnológicos se ha democratizado extraordinariamente la creación y emisión de contenidos de todo tipo, que ya no provienen prevalentemente de las industrias culturales tradicionales, sino de multitud de fuentes diferentes.
5.- Los autores, como todos los trabajadores, tienen derecho a vivir de su trabajo con nuevas ideas creativas, modelos de negocio y actividades asociadas a sus creaciones. Intentar sostener con cambios legislativos a una industria obsoleta que no sabe adaptarse a este nuevo entorno no es ni justo ni realista. Si su modelo de negocio se basaba en el control de las copias de las obras y en Internet no es posible sin vulnerar derechos fundamentales, deberían buscar otro modelo.
6.- Consideramos que las industrias culturales necesitan para sobrevivir alternativas modernas, eficaces, creíbles y asequibles y que se adecuen a los nuevos usos sociales, en lugar de limitaciones tan desproporcionadas como ineficaces para el fin que dicen perseguir.
7.- Internet debe funcionar de forma libre y sin interferencias políticas auspiciadas por sectores que pretenden perpetuar obsoletos modelos de negocio e imposibilitar que el saber humano siga siendo libre.
8.- Exigimos que el Gobierno garantice por ley la neutralidad de la Red en España, ante cualquier presión que pueda producirse, como marco para el desarrollo de una economía sostenible y realista de cara al futuro.
9.- Proponemos una verdadera reforma del derecho de propiedad intelectual orientada a su fin: devolver a la sociedad el conocimiento, promover el dominio público y limitar los abusos de las entidades gestoras.
10.- En democracia las leyes y sus modificaciones deben aprobarse tras el oportuno debate público y habiendo consultado previamente a todas las partes implicadas. No es de recibo que se realicen cambios legislativos que afectan a derechos fundamentales en una ley no orgánica y que versa sobre otra materia
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Basic IMAP command with an Exchange server

Just in case you need it, I've been testing how an Exchange server shows a folder structure via IMAP and type here what command I've been using may helps some other mailadmins...

you: telnet imap.domain.com 143
server: Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
server: Connected to imap.domain.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
server: Escape character is '^]'.
server: * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
you: ? login user@domain.com pasword
server: ? OK LOGIN completed.
you: ? OK LOGIN completed.? LIST "" "*"
server:[here appears your folders list, and it shows if each folder has or hasn't subfolder]
you: ? logout

For further information about imap commands via telnet you may have a look to this blog annotations: http://adityo.blog.binusian.org/?tag=telnet-imap-command
If you want more detailed explanations, specially related with Exchange go to this technet page http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd789687.aspx

Friends of my friends

As Nop has wrotte friends of my friends are not (necessarily) my friends, for sure you may compose an acronym imitating FOF but this is too geek even for me.

Nop says that he receives a lot of Facebook requests for getting in touch with people who is friend of somebody else and not known by himself. (Do I wrotte properly this sentence? ... never know...) He also says that this social-networks are not social but unsocial... and I agree... as long as you use those networks you don't get in touch in real world, what is more social than the real world relationship?

I've been in Facebook but I'm no longer, it is very time consuming and very often it tries to access to personal data or such things. I'm even considering how useful is LinkedIn or Xing.

In my humble opinion it is true that network is changing a lot how our world is, but sometimes, we believe that everything comming from the Internet has a positive touch: we shouldn't loose our critical point of view... neve.

Google, Chrome and support to Mozilla foundation

Via an article published at spanish slashdot I read a spanish translation to an article comparing webkit and Gecko.

This has been the latest buzz in the web... most interesting things for me are two:

1. what's new and what isn't in Chrome and
2. what's going to happen with Mozilla foundation since they keep a collaboration agreement with Google

Is not new; using object oriented programming, isolation tabs by using object orientation and asign for every single tab a different memory area, every tab doesn't affect to others...

About what's new and what isn't in my opinion new things are: Gears integration, virtual machine for javascript, safe browsing and interface aproach (with new start page... also the new comic for show us what is all about...) and finally the whole approach putting new and not new things all together.

Mozilla ang Google has renewed 'till November 2011 their agreement (in spanish here), Mozilla gets 85% of its money from this agreement and that is a too important part of the cake. So... what's going to happen with Mozilla foundation? I really don't know and I don't like to supose anything, but I think that Chrome and Firefox follows differents goals.

The question still remains, if Google will keep on supporting other browser with different target. They both share one very important thing, make the Internet more compatible, open, and fully standard.

Squid with Active Directory or NTLM

I've never do that, but have a look to sample squid config file to authenticate with Active Directory ... the main idea it's to do the same as we do before with Squid with OpenLdap. If you're using Active Directory instead of a true ldap server have a look on that.

Note: This entry has been in the draft for too long ... I should writte more often.

Squid with ldap

I was writting about Squid and I arrive to a sample config file for using squid with OpenLdap. I really don't know if you're using squid ... probably you should do it. And I don't know if you're using ldap ... sure you've to. If you combine squid with ldap it allows you control who is browsing the web or who doesn't it and the main thing is who 'cause squid relies on IP authorization method.

The problem: your method is not useful for me, you just check if the user is a valid user, your method doesn't let us separate all users betwen authorized and non authorized.
The solution: you just need to copy authorized users inside a different OU in your ldap server. If you don't know how to do it look for a ldap administrator ... like me :-)

Save bandwith with squid in five minutes

I received the Redhat Magazine in my inbox, recently I've read an article about how to start up a squid in five minutes.

Since I know good it runs I must recommend you give squid a chance. If you have a company -little, middle or big company- it would save you quite bandwith. If you're a home user but your network has more than just one computer it will save you too bandwith.

Saving bandwith it's very important thing:

1. user time experience
2. you just download from the network what has changed and let squid to do the rest of the job

By the way, squid has changed their website. Now it's a little bit more easy to find what you're looking for. For instance: squid configuration examples, or general squid documentation, or The General Squid Guide ...