Friday, September 29, 2006

woovy groovy


Los Buenos. This was recorded back in 1969.

how come it is so hard to find this kind of bliss?. How is it possible to hide for so long?. Ok. the magic of the radio surfaced this to me. It seems there is a soul compilation called Sensacional Soul with this song and other songs on it.

Hola Hi Hello/ Groovy Woovy. Acción AC-07 (1969)


Thursday, September 28, 2006

firefox vs Debian

There is a nice post about the Firefox / Debian discusion. I do use both of them, and while at my Xubuntu box, it fells awkward clicking the non-firefox icon to launch Firefox. That said, I think both sides are right, and the way i see it, i'm afraid i won't see the Firefox icon on Xubuntu. Even more, Firefox at Debian will not be Firefox anymore

Also, as a side note, i really agree with Adam when he does post this:

# Adam Says: September 28th, 2006 at 12:33 am

Luis > I’m mostly aware of how copyright and TM are different and being used against each other here. AFAICT, it’s pretty much how Mozilla is capable of shipping stuff under the GPL (a copyright license) but still preventing people from exercising the rights the GPL is supposed to grant them. (using TM law)

The point is that Mozilla claims to release Firefox under the GPL (which is DFSG-friendly), but prevents some GPL-granted uses of the work (which is not DFSG-friendly). Therefore Debian will, in a positive step protecting its and its users right to freely modify and redistribute the software in its main archive, either remove Firefox or fork it.

(And I say “prevents” instead of just “threatens” as the threat of unleashing the dogs of law can be almost as bad as actually doing so. I’m not that involved in Debian, but I’m pretty sure that no-one there wants to take things as far as court to find out which way it might go. If a developer wants to take them to court over them using their software, I’m pretty sure they’ll figure it’s not worth it and just drop the package. If the developer doesn’t want you to use their software *that* much, it’s not really Free anyway, is it? Mozilla are effectively preventing Debian from using Firefox.)

so let's just wait to see how Firefox is dropped from Debian, time will tell.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Lyx 1.4.2 at (X)ubuntu taking too long

For several reasons i've need Lyx 1.4.2 on my Ubuntu 6.06 and it is taking too long to get there. so i've googled for a bit, and after some reading i've decided to update by hand.

i've downloaded lyx-1.4.2_1.4.2-1_i386.deb ( thanks ) and instaled it...

dpkg -i lyx-1.4.2_1.4.2-1_i386.deb

it works for me.