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12/20/05

Permalink 11:37:00, by Bruno Email , 22 words, 2141 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Announcements, Culture, Family

El blog de Mabela

¡Mabela ya recuperó sus datos de usuario y contraseña para escribir en su «blog»! Espero ver muchos «posts» suyos muy pronto.

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11/28/05

Permalink 02:17:36 pm, by Bruno Email , 123 words, 275 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Business, Communication, Economics, Internet

Interesting statistics

Doug Kaye (IT Conversations) publishes his preliminar results on the survey he set up in order to better understand his listeners.

Personally, I find the results almost disturbing:

Some very interesting early results from the survey:

  • 92% of you are male
  • 40% of you have a Master's degree or higher (that surprised me)
  • 76% have at least a four-year degree
  • 47% of you are outside the U.S.

The results are well beyond the statistically significant threshold.

Attention: those are preliminar results. It would be nice to have more people taking the survey (of course I already did), to grasp some more valuable results.

This, in my opinion, has a lot to do with the new trends in advertising, well described by Juan in his recent post.

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11/24/05

Permalink 12:59:32 pm, by Bruno Email , 16 words, 179 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Business

Advertisement in truth

Advertisemnt spaces have been added to both the truth sites, the english and the spanish one.

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11/15/05

Permalink 09:48:25, by Bruno Email , 72 words, 1511 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Announcements, Health, People

Kathy Sierra está enfermita

No sería una mala idea darle unas palabras de consuelo, dado todo lo que ella nos ha dado a nosotros.

Kathy: espero que te recuperes muy pronto.

Como no sé si ella sabe español, va de nuevo:

Kathy: I hope you get recovered very soon.

A los que quieran darle un comentario de apoyo, la liga al post es http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/11/chicken_soup_po.html

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11/10/05

Permalink 06:14:02 pm, by Bruno Email , 335 words, 1360 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Computing

Putting a Mac OS X to work in vmware

I've finally been able to configure my tiger-x86 image using vmware-workstation 5 for GNU/Linux, so now I have a fully functional Mac OS X. It works like a charm, though it haven't been exactly what I'd call "a piece of cake".

Several things had to be taken care of before the machine was usable.


  1. Obviously, a vmware-workstation with a valid license must be available. The details of getting to this point exceed this explanation.


  2. Obviously as well, the famous tiger-x86 image should be available. It can easily be found using a P2P service.


  3. Time to boot for the first time. It can be useful for the virtual machine performance to deactivate the serial and parallel ports in the BIOS of the virtual machine, unless they are really needed.


  4. Of the utmost importance is the deletion of a certain file: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext


  5. Time to reboot the virtual machine.


  6. Certain applications (iTunes, for example) require a CPU with sse3 capabilities. Whether the machine has that capabilities or not can be found by running cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags in the host machine. If it happens that the CPU is sse2, the fabulous patch solution, by the fabulous Maxxuss, should be obtained and installed.


  7. Time to reboot the virtual machine.


  8. Almost there. The network card that vmware provides to the virtual machine is not usable by it, unless the fabulous AMD-PCNET-II Network Driver, by the fabulous Maxxus, is fetched and installed.


  9. Time to reboot the virtual machine (hopefuly for the last time).

Most probably, the single most useful reference for me has been http://osx86.theplaceforitall.com/howto/ Kudos for them. And undoubtedly the most useful utilities have been the Maxxuss pcnet driver and patch solution. Without them it would have been impossible to make this work. My thanks to him.

Hard to believe, but true: my blog engine is not allowing me to put links to Maxxuss site. I'll keep trying, but in the meanwhile, a google search can easily find his page.

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10/21/05

Permalink 01:00:00 pm, by Bruno Email , 81 words, 195 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Education

Approved my professional exam!

Well, it's true: my jury have decided that when dealing with informatics and computation I'm competent enough to deserve a professional title. Good!

This is me, waiting for the exam to begin. I was a bit nervous: before the exam

This is a photo of the first one of the 290-slides-long presentation, waiting to be presented: first slide

And this is my jury: the jury

Thanks to Sebastian for taking the photographs.

Time to continue the tramit before SEP, in order to obtain the real piece of paper!

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10/14/05

Permalink 03:55:06 pm, by Bruno Email , 89 words, 237 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Computing, Education

I've got a date for my exam!

I've finally got a date to sustain my exam at CENEVAL: October 21st, at 10:00 (MST).

I must convince my jury that I know what I do in the computing field. I'll be defending my thesis: a system to run an on-line flower shop.

If they hadn't taken the long time they took to set a date, I surely would be much happier than I am.

At any rate, I have one week to reread my thesis. I must be very well prepared for whatever my jury has in mind.

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10/06/05

Permalink 02:09:19 pm, by Bruno Email , 91 words, 704 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Society, Music, Family, Entertainment, Anthropology, Internet

Social software day

Today has been a social software discovery day for me.

On the one hand, I created today my flickr account, and used it to publish some photographs of my incredible family.

On the other hand, I've got acquainted to the last.fm site, which is interfaceable with my amarok music player. I created an account there, as well.

It is amazing how the social networks (although not a difficult to express concept) can have such a broad, rich and surprising applications. Let's see how I feel about this after some days.

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10/03/05

Permalink 01:47:32 pm, by Bruno Email , 24 words, 2810 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Internet

A new version of b2evolution

Sebas and I have just installed this new version of b2evolution: 0.9.1.

Hopefully, that will render itself a nice and useful investment of time.

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09/13/05

Permalink 01:45:55 pm, by Bruno Email , 58 words, 175 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements, Communication, Internet

A poll in my blog!

Sebastian brought into my attention the existence of blogpoll, a tool for bloggers to add polls to their blogs.

In order to test the concept and to have some fun (à la gringa) I've set up a poll in my blog. You'll find it in the right sidebar. It doesn't make much sense, but it doesn't have to, anyway.

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  • Valley-Mexico mentoring grooms firms for growth

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    When Alberto Herrera started his own tech company in Tijuana two years ago, he was confident he had the knowledge to take on the risk.

    His team had worked at Panasonic's office in the Mexican border city and had the technical expertise to craft a new kind of wireless sensor network -- one that can be used for hotel room key cards and turn on the heating system once a customer has entered his or her room.

    But Herrera didn't have contacts with venture capitalists and didn't know how to spiff up a business plan.

    That changed last year, once his company, Medida, started working with the Mexico-Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA for short) in San Jose, funded by an annual $6 million grant from the Mexican government.

    TechBA assigned a special adviser to Medida, to mentor it in Silicon Valley's arcane ways.

    The help is part of an effort by the Mexican government to jump-start its technology economy -- in part through better connections to leading tech centers like Silicon Valley and their entrepreneurial cultures and practices.

    Mexico's domestic information technology and software market totals more than $3 billion a year and has 2,095 companies, according to its economics ministry.

    Mexico exports about $400 million in technology services each year to the United States, about half in business process outsourcing, half in software outsourcing. But Mexico wants to do more than supply its northern neighbor with a cheap source of labor, says Jorge Zavala, chief executive of TechBA. ``The question is, how do we switch from low value-added services and move into information technology?''

    The goal of TechBA, he said, is to help create Mexican companies that own their own technology, and to export $5 billion in technology and other services by 2012.

    In Herrara's case, TechBA appointed a mentor -- Adolpho Nemirosky, an Argentine entrepreneur who has worked in the valley's semiconductor and telecom industries for 13 years. He had co-founded a venture-backed company, Xtreme Logic, and was eager to help others. He is paid a stipend by TechBA.

    His help has already gone a long way. Nemirosky taught Herrera how to make an elevator pitch -- that is, a two- to five-minute synopsis of his company, tailored for impatient investors. He advised him to focus on specific areas, such as sensor systems for hotels and for entertainment software. And he took Herrera to meet with some professors at the University of California-Berkeley, where Herrera was able to secure a technology adviser.

    To top it off, Nemirosky groomed Herrera to present to venture capitalists Tuesday evening at an event hosted by TechBA and an angel group called Silicom Ventures. Besides the investors, a live audience of more than 200 people looked on. And Herrara performed well enough that three of four venture capitalists invited him to talk with them further. ``I'm very pleased with him,'' Nemirosky said of his protege.

    Currently, 40 companies participate in the TechBA program, and the group recently announced its first tangible success: Mexican company JackBe. The company, which has created Web sites for Sears and Citigroup's Mexico operations, raised $6.5 million in venture capital funding in November -- the first Mexican tech company to raise venture capital from the United States, according to TechBA's Zavala.

    There are other signs of late that the U.S. venture capital market is waking to not only to Mexico, the world's ninth largest economy, but also to the fast-growing Hispanic market in this country.

    Sausalito venture firm Sienna Ventures is now raising $100 million for its newest fund to focus on the Hispanic market.

    Herrera's company, Medida, meanwhile, is expanding in the United States. It has $1 million in revenue after a year's work, 10 employees and an office in San Jose, where employees can drop in from Tijuana. Silicon Valley is a good place to develop contacts for customers, said Herrera.

    ``We've gained visibility that would otherwise be very hard to get,'' he said.

    One of his customers is XaviX, which makes interactive sports games and also has offices in San Jose. Medida provides XaviX wireless sensors for its newest fly-fishing game -- where the sensor detects when game players flick their wrists and feeds information back to the game.

    Mexico is just the latest country trying to develop a network here in Silicon Valley.

    Gadi Behar, managing director of Israeli-focused Silicom Ventures, has reached out to groups from Canada, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Hawaii, offering help such as crash courses on Silicon Valley's business culture. ``They all want access to Silicon Valley,'' agreed Michelle Messina, a public relations professional who has also helped companies in these groups.
    Contact Matt Marshall at 408-920-5920 or via his blog at www.SiliconBeat.com

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