Mi blog personal sobre música y software libre. Vas a encontrar recomendaciones de música: Jazz, Fusion, Funk, R&B, World, etc. y por otro lado de software libre, el mundo de GNU/Linux. Espero que te guste y por favor, no dejes en escribir tu comentario. Have fun!
lunes, noviembre 15
Trucos & Consejos - Habilitar Magnet en Firefox 3.6
Lo arreglamos así: ponemos about:config en la barra url, click derecho -> New -> Boolean -> Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet -> Value -> false.
Reiniciamos Firefox, hacemos click en el link de magnet y ahora nos pregunta por la aplicación que queremos asociar.
Si hiziste una entrada no correcta en about:config simplemente dale un click derecho y reset, la entrada desaparece después de haber cerrado la pestaña.
domingo, noviembre 14
qBittorrent - Excellente cliente para torrents
sábado, septiembre 11
Robin Duhe - Do It Duhe
Cuando estaba buscando mas sobre Robin Duhe y sus trabajos me topé con este artículo sobre él que me dejó muy impresionado:
"For Robin Duhe, the disease that threatened to kill him was a "godsend." Until then, he had been living a dream.
After riding a 30-year wave of success with a famed R&B band, he chucked it all to embark on a promising solo career. But everything he'd worked for came crashing down when life threw him a curveball.
Duhe (pronounced "DO-wee") was an original member of the group Maze, featuring silky-voiced soul singer Frankie Beverly. Starting in 1974, Duhe played bass guitar in the band, appearing on nearly all their albums and sharing in a string of gold records. His unforgettable bass licks open the classic "Joy and Pain," and he played on "Happy Feelin's," "Golden Time of Day," and many more.
It was heady stuff for a working-class kid who grew up in Berkeley, and paid his dues as a member of small combos in hole-in-the-wall joints around the Bay Area.
"I have no regrets," Duhe, 55, says of his years with Maze. "I've seen a lot of things. I've been all over the world. I've been in the presence of a lot of prominent people - athletes, politicians - there's nothing but good I can say about that."
But after three decades of traveling, groupies and hangers-on, the routine got stale and Duhe longed for more creative satisfaction.
"From an artist's standpoint, it's a great thing to have hits because when you've got a show of hits every song is going to get reaction, every song is somebody's (special) song. But it is exciting when you have something new to play, it creates a new challenge for you."
So, after putting on what he says was a killer performance in Detroit in 2004, he quit Maze. He couldn't imagine how tough it'd be on his own.
Suddenly faced with business responsibilities he'd never had to deal with before, his life began to veer off course. Bills weren't getting paid on time, creative projects were languishing and the party lifestyle of the Maze years wasn't completely out of his system.
He managed to put out a CD, "Do It Duhe," but his solo career wasn't taking off. Then, cancer struck. Ironically, the disease hit as he was working on his latest CD's title song, "Life (Gets in the Way)."
Duhe, who has lived in El Sobrante for several years, had always been athletic, playing basketball and working out at the gym several times a week. So when he felt a lump in his armpit in 2007, he thought he'd just pulled a muscle. Medical tests, including a bone biopsy, came back clean.
But then night sweats and constant fatigue set in. Once, his temperature soared to 104. He went to the hospital, but a CAT scan didn't reveal anything urgent. Several days later, however, he got the hiccups so bad that he couldn't catch his breath. He was hospitalized for two weeks. This time a biopsy on the lymph node in his armpit revealed bad news: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at an aggressive stage 3.
His body was full of cancer. Duhe says he was "a sinking ship."
His oncologist prescribed a "cocktail" of four chemo medications. He got so ill that he couldn't eat - even water was nauseating. Duhe's muscular, 6-foot-tall frame shrank by 40 pounds in mere weeks. Whenever he ran his hand over his thick, black, wavy hair, it came out in fistfuls. Heavy doses of morphine left him sitting on his couch staring into space for hours, stupefied, "like a zombie," he says.
Remarkably, despite the suffering he endured, Duhe says he never felt as though he were going to die.
After several weeks of treatments, the chemotherapy worked. And thanks to what he says was a great medical team and a strong support system that included his wife, Monique, and son, Gibran, Duhe pulled through and today is cancer-free.
"People would come by, offer me food, money or just to sit with me. It was a very humbling experience. It's just changed me as a human being."
And with a friend's help, he discovered religion, began Bible study, got baptized and has been "reborn."
"Now that I look back on it, I can actually say I'm happy I went through that (illness) because I was on the wrong track heading in the wrong direction. It straightened my life up."
Today, like the title of an old Maze tune, Duhe is "back in stride." He has a new seven-piece band that's been sharpening its chops around the Bay Area; his own record label - Blaise Two; and a new CD out. And he and his bass are taking center stage, much like his contemporaries Stanley Clarke and the late Jaco Pastorius. Most important, he's playing his music - a freer, funky, melodic fusion of jazz and what Duhe calls "progressive R&B" - his way.
"I'm a happier soul, and since my illness I'm a changed person," he says. "I just feel a lot better about myself, I'm in control of what I'm doing now."
For more information about Robin Duhe, go to blaisetwo.com.
E-mail Brad K. Brown at bradbrown@sfchronicle.com.
(C) San Francisco Chronicle 2009"
Personal: si alguien lo sabe me lo deja saber.
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Nils Lundgren Funk Unit - Live In Stockholm
Este disco da placer de escuchar, desde el principio hasta el final, es jazz-funk en su esencia. Los músicos tocan excelentes, la variedad de los temas es muy buena y para completar esto, no mas ní menos, Maceo Parker, otro maestro de funk nos da el placer de tocar en algunos títulos.
De esta manera los dejo con este album superior diciendo "have fun(k)"!
Personal: Nils Landgren: trombone and lead vocals; Henrik Janson: guitar; Jesper Mejlvang: keyboards and vocals; Lars Danielsson: fender bass; Per Lindvall: drums; Еke Sundqvist: drums, percussion & trumpet; Jan Ugand: sound wiz; Maceo Parker: alto sax, vocals and good spirits; Magnum Coltrane-Price: rap & vocals.
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martes, agosto 24
Coming up - Robin Duhe
miércoles, junio 30
NO a la Barrick Gold!
Espejitos por Oro (www.espejitospororo.com) from Jose Delio Ares Garcia on Vimeo.
Citamos de Wikipedia sobre la Barrick Gold:
Barrick Gold ha sido reiteradamente acusada de llevar a cabo prácticas ambientales dañinas en el desarrollo de sus proyectos, así como financiar actividades ilegales. Esto incluye el uso de cianuro lixivizado no tratado en su proyecto del Lago Cowal (Lake Cowal) en Australia, al igual que el escape de más de siete toneladas de mercurio entre los años 2004 y 2005 en su mina Super Pit, también en Australia.
Actualmente la compañía es sumamente criticada en la República Dominicana,por el aprovechamiento de varios recursos naturales en dicho país, como la extracción de grava del Río Yuna para el relleno de varias carreteras locales, con el propósito de hacerlas viables para el traslado de equipo industrial, además, de lanzar desperdicios toxico al denominado Río Rojo. Barrick argumenta que la contaminacion de la zona proviene de la operacion de Rosario Dominicana y que existe desde mucho tiempo antes de que esta empresa llegara a ese pais.
Actualmente el congreso Dominicano se esta preparando para una revisión del contrato debido a un malestar general de la población que no esta conforme por la firma de un contrato donde evidentemente hubo soborno y trafico de influencia desde los estratos mas alto de la clase política Dominicana. También la Barrick Gold ha contaminado rios de República dominicana.
Barrick se defiende de estas acusaciones argumentando que esta empresa ha recibido certificaciones de diferentes organizaciones internacionales que avalan su compromiso con el medioambiente, con el desarrollo de las comunidades y con la salud y seguridad de sus empleados. Entre otros, ha sido certificada por el Pacto Global - Plan de acción de las Naciones Unidas, también por el Código Internacional para el Manejo, Transporte y Uso del Cianuro en Producción de Oro (ONU), tiene certificación ISO 14001 por su gestión ambiental y la empresa ha sido incluida en el Indice Dow Jones de Sustentabilidad-Norteamérica. Todos estos organismos avalan la gestion que esta empresa tiene en terminos medioambientales.
martes, junio 29
Zenwalk 6.4 XFCE
Temía que cosas como Virtualbox Non-OSE y OpenVAS me iban a dar problemas, pero nada, las instalaciones se ejecutaron sin problemas algunos, la compilación de OpenVAS ha sido practicamente igual a la en Ubuntu, VBox funciona perfectamente con bridging (lo necesito para conectarme a mis servidores via VPN en Win), Openoffice abre los documentos sin demora, y el speed-stepping despues de cargar los módulos correspondientes trabaja a la perfección.
Como aspectos positivos se debe mencionar tambien el booteo rápido, una instalación fácil y rápida del sistema y una buena selección de software por defecto. Puntos negativos: los íconos y temas (hay mejores en mi opinión) y el renderizaje de las fuentes debe mejorar.
Pues, por ahora debo decir que estoy muy contento con la última de Zenwalk, lo puedo recomendar incluso a usuarios nuevos de Linux (por supuesto con un poco de literatura anteriormente consultada).
Descarga aquí.
martes, mayo 25
Joachim Kühn - Hip Elegy & Springfever
jueves, abril 29
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
jueves, enero 28
Instalación de Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) en Ubuntu karmic
1. Añadir el repositorio de los desarrolladores de Firefox (nada de daily updates ;) ) y luego instalarlo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6
Si quereis, también se puede instalar la versión sin branding:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install abrowser-3.6
2. Reponer en función el Java6 de Sun:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 50
3. Arreglar el anti-alising de las fuentes (solamente en caso si no se ven bien):
a) Revisemos en Sistema-Preferencias-Apariencia-Tipografías:
Resolución=96
Suavizado= LCD
Contorno= Completo
Subpíxel= RGB
b) Respaldar ~/.fonts.conf es necesario si tienes aplicaciones de qt4 instalados; despues del siguiente paso reponer este fichero!
c) Seguimos en el terminal:
sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10*
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
Ya está :) Happy surfing!