Salud a vosotros, espiritus libres!

“!Salud a vosotros, bravos carreteros,
Siempre “cuanto más largo, tanto mejor”,
Tiesos siempre de cabeza y rodilla,
Carentes de entusiasmo, carentes de bromas,
Indestructiblemente mediocres,
Sans genit et sans esprit
[¡sin genio y sin espíritu!]”

Estas palabras dichas hace mas de cien anos por Friedrich Nietzsche fueron, a mi parecer, un homenaje escrito a la mediocridad. En el fondo Nietzsche admiraba esas mentes débiles, cobardes y sin ánimo de lucha y por qué no? En el fondo todos añoramos una vida fácil, sin complicaciones, sin preocupaciones mas alla de las cotidianas (donde estan las llaves, tengo que comprar leche, que caramelos le gustan a mi novi@) y los “debiles de voluntad” tienen las de ganar incluso en la cotidianidad, ellos no se preocupan ni siquiera por donde dejaron las llave.

Mi deseo y mi anhelo es llevar mi mente a límites superiores, sentir que cada nuevo límite es inalcanzable y partirme el cerebro por asimilar experiencias, conocimientos que me permitan volver aquel cielo alcanzable y superable. No es díficil pensar, no es díficil aprender, lo díficil es tener la voluntad para hacerlo y la disciplina para mantenerse en el camino. Muchas veces el paso de la voluntad es relativamente sencillo, basta con proponerse en hacer algo; pero la suma de ese deseo a la disciplina de ejecutar la accion es lo que nos retiene. Lo mejor es empezar suave, organizar la vida cotidiana de uno mismo puede ser un buen primer paso: organizar el sitio donde esas llaves deben ir para no volver a perderlas, organizar los cajones y tal vez ese polvoso librero para saber que literatura tenemos y que nos gustaria aprender.

Este es un homenaje escrito no a la mediocridad sino a la falta de ella.

Vosotros que os encontrais en el borde
Vosotros que sois tratados cual parias,
cuyo único crimen fue pensar, fue reir, fue dudar.
Vosotros que no os contentais con simples palabras,
con especulaciones baratas de la cotidianidad,
vosotros que sois dignos de llamarse “almas libres”
vosotros que sois dignos de llamarse humanos.

O Piano

This is an amazing Video, espero que lo disfruten La melaconlía expresada en el personaje throw his memories makes you thing about how long and beautiful a life can be.

Let’s play an infinite game: Learning

Learning with action traduces in KNOWLEDGE and that can only be obtained if we question things, because if we question ourselves about something we don’t know we will look for an answer, so we’re learning, after that we apply the learned things and as result we acquire knowledge

The important thing is not to stop questioning
Albert Einstein

About learning there’s somethig that few people will tell you: learning is an infinite game: there’s two kinds of game finites and infinites. The first one has as goal to declare a winner and a loser, everybody play that game: actually I love playing chess and that game is a good example of what I’m talking about.

The second one, inifinite games, has as goal to survive, mmmm… I don´t like that word, so let’s say that the goal is to keep playing as long as we can: climbing, martial arts, thinking (yes, thinking), reading, LEARNING, developing, living are good examples, it’s obvious that some people do this thinking in a competition environment (“I can learn faster than you!, I can fight better than you!!! :-S “), that’s stupid, everyone does these things because it’s a way to test ourselves, to see how far we can go and after that try a little more. So if learning it’s a competition game, it’s a game where each one is the only player in his own field.

But humans as some species are socials, so everything we have as knowledge can serve others as well and symbiotic is the keyword here because we can improve the knowledge of any tribe we belong (our family, our work, our friends, everyone) as everyone can improve our knowledge.

I got a question from a friend at work: “who’s winning… you or the universe?” and that’s a tricky question if we don’t see the whole:

  • Plato said that the ideas (the abstract concept of everything) are inmutables, so they contain all the knowledge, but that knowledge is just “there” unless some conscious being has the ability to do something with that
  • Everyone as everything is part of the universe
  • Learning is an infinite game, so there’s no winner nor loser
  • The goal is to improve our knowledge
  • If we improve our knowledge, we improve our environment knowledge

So I don’t feel able to answer that question with a winner/loser answer, I just can say that this game it’s more a symbiotic relationship between the universe and their components, so everyone is winning. What do you think?

Lenny/Sid with KDE4.1

Well, i have a some time so I decide to write a little how-to install kde4.1 in debian.

There’s some advantages when you compare Debian with Ubuntu and viceversa: Today a friend at work decide to install Kubuntu, he had never used linux before, so he tried with the live cd of kubuntu. Basically it’s the same, Ubuntu is one of many “Debian’s sons” :) but Ubuntu has libraries and configurations that make easy the installation and use, it includes apps ready to use with the configuration done, with Debian some of that work must be done manually; BUT that extra-value added to favor user interaction added some extra-resource use, and the other advantage is the extra control you have with a debian package, so I choose debian and let’s see how to do it:

  • Download the netinstall: it contains the minimum components to start with your linux system
  • Procede with a normal installation, until the moment to chose what kind of installation do you want to load: I choose “Base Install”
  • After installation you will receive with a terminal interface so let’s use these commands (the text after # are comments)
    • su #to login as root user
    • nano /etc/apt/sources-list #add the next lines

      deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
      deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

    • #To close nano, with the keyboard: ctrl+x
    • apt-get update
    • apt-get upgrade #restart after finish with reboot -n
    • aptitude -t experimental
    • #a blue terminal will open and you should type “/” character to start a search, introduce kde4 and look for kde4-minimal, choose just kde4 if you want with some programs by default
    • type “+” character and after that “g” – twice
    • after finish the installation to quit aptitude type “q”
    • reboot -n
  • You can start with an amazing desktop enviroment

After this I advice to open Konsole (a terminal emulator), login as root user, open aptitude and download these packages:

  • KGet
  • Konqueror plugins
  • Kontact (A unified interface for an organize package, it includes: kmail, akegrator, kaddressbook, korganizer, To-Do)
  • OpenOffice
  • Iceweasel (it’s the same firefox with minor changes because of licence issues but you can install firefox if you want)
  • Dragon (it’s a video player, just like vlc, which you can install too, if you want)
  • kopete (the IM)
  • KSnapshot (a utility to take pictures of your desktop or parts of it)
  • Kcalc
  • KRDC (a remote desktop app)
  • VirtualBox (so you can install that annoying Windows app)
  • Juk (a music player)
  • Amarok (it’s amazin this jukbox but it’s still in beta, so it’s up to you to try it)

Some tips:

  • Alt+F1 launch the start menu
  • Alt-F2 launch “launcher” an app like QuickSilver for mac (not that amazing but it’s a great utility)
  • Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F4 allow you to go from any desktop to another one
  • In “system settings” you can configure anything even the keyboard shortcuts
  • You can delete your Panel and use the dashboard widgets or add more panels

Well that’s all I can say about my kde4.1 installation in debian, just play with it and I assure you will love this desktop.

    Debian + KDE 4.1 + Virtual XP

    One of my first posts was how to install Ubuntu server with KDE 4.1 in my D630 but two days after i publish that post i needed to uninstall, reformat my computer and install again Ubuntu, suddendly I found that some libraries were broken in the repository and I start to think that probably I just should install gnome. My firs encounter with linux was using gnome and I like that desktop but KDE 4.1 is amazing so I decide that “I want it so I will get it”

    My first configuration was: three physical partitions, two NTFS and One with several LVMs with ext3 as filesystem. One of the NTFS hold a native XP with Visual Studio and all the software needed in case I was assigned to a MS Project. The Other NTFS partition hold my music, my library and all the files needed to work, so it’s obvious why I need to have those in a shared partition (ntfs-3g is a great tool to work with NTFS filesystems from linux).

    And the ugly day appeared, I need to install Windows Vista because I need to study Windows Azure, 17GB only in base installation!!!! (OS X uses 16GB with multi-language installation and developer package!!!!!), and the downloading of all the updates was not only boring, ANNOYING is the word, obviously after the complete installation with the necessary was done (that includes the antivirus) I was using 38GB of 49GB of the first partition, yes, I need to format the first partition.

    So after I finished to study Azure, I decide to move back to XP because of the excesive resource use (60% of one processor’s core just for the transparency border :-S ) and in that point I decide to see if virtualization could help me with my frustration.

    I decided to use the netInst of Debian (Unstable version), the partitions are LVMs and the Desktop Enviroment is KDE 4.1 (BTW, To get the wireless functional is easier than using Ubuntu) and start to look for VirtualBox or KVM.

    However KVM has a better perfomance because of native use of resources, while VirtualBox actualy is paravirtualization, version 2.1 of VBox has good enhancements, but the most important thing that make me choose VBox was the NTFS support and yes the easier configuration based mostly in a nice GUI (Some of you can argue that KVM well configured can beat VBox, but I didn’t have the time to seat and to learn how to configure kvm if the enviroment had to be ready in two days maximum with xp included, while I was working with bugs )

    So now I have a nice Linux system and virtualized it’s XP with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, when I need to work with Visual Studio and not only test pages with IE I assigned 2.5GB RAM and I can compile, debug and build the project solution, the use of resources is good and if someday I need to keep KDE down because of resources I just can run VBox from X

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