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A few months after the first year since the President of Ecuador declared the use of Free Software in Public Institutions of the State, and you can see the first results.

According to a news item published by the newspaper El Comercio , the savings from the use of free software to date amount to USD 15 million.

Additionally, in the coming days, the Undersecretariat of Computer released the source code of a document management system called "Quipux", a system that is based on the Colombian project Orfeo .

He shakes his press release: Meneame.net

Today we find many music videos, lectures, films through Youtube , Vimeo , among others and is very nice to be able to hear songs from years ago that found them anywhere, well that is my case, that many songs from the 80s not find them.

We can download the videos to play on our computers using a firefox add-on called Download Helper , but when we hear by means of an audio player things get complicated.

That is why for GNU / Linux has a program called ffmpeg that can be installed through the repositories, or through terminal

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

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Today marks two years of the meeting between Rafael Correa and Richard Stallman , why Rafael Bonifaz and I have decided to write about as it did this meeting. You can read the version of Rafael on history.

During the election campaign of 2006, where I worked , one day we received the following email message:

--- Forwarded message ----
From: Rafael Bonifaz
Date: October 4, 2006 11:53
Subject: Free Software
To: Rafael Correa

Dear Rafael,

My name is Rafael Bonifaz and I am a Systems Engineer. Currently in addition to my professional work I am an active member of open source communities of Ecuador. In this country, little is spoken on the subject, but countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, parts of Spain and Europe are migrating to the use of Free Software. To win you the election, would propose a plan regarding the use of free software in the state?

To cite one example, today the municipality of Quito should pay IBM a value approaching $ 200,000 per year for the use of your email server and that the mayor can share your calendar with the council. We can offer a similar solution, with some software development and use of free software for a cost of nearly $ 20,000 for a single time. Hence, the municipality can hire us to support us or any other company who knows the subject. They do not get attached to us.

With $ 200,000 a year can do more for the benefit of the community rather than pay a fee for use of computers. This is only a servant of a municipality. Imagine the cost of all licenses of Windows, Office and other programs that use the state. How could we save by using free software and the money spent would stay in national vocational training, instead of paying multinationals.

Sincerely,

Rafael Bonifaz

PD. The main free software community in Ecuador:
www.ecualug.org

One person who was responsible for reviewing the post he said, and what I do with this, read the message and told him, give me what I say.

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Well a few days ago came the version 8.10 of Ubuntu, so I downloaded it and decided to try on my machine.

So far I can say that truth is a very good version, and I really like the changes I have seen it go smoothly.

My machine has 3 partitions root, swap, home, thus it is easier to me to change distro and have a more secure my files and preferences.

I made the respective format of the root, and after completion, I could see that this version starts much faster than 8.04.

That has worked for me (from what I've tested so far)

• Audio: no problem, even before working alone with the alsa mixer, but this time I decided to put everything to PulseAudio Sound Server and works great, really worth it, all my audio programs work with no problems.
  Well I have it configured:
  Sound Events, Music and Movies, Audio Conferencing everyone with the option to PulseAudio Sound Server
  Defaul Mixer Tracks: HDA NVidia (Alsa Mixer)
• Video: One of the best, and they've released an Nvidia driver version 177 works and works smoothly and all purposes in the previous version gave some problems but this has been corrected.

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Few people had access to computers when Richard Matthew Stallman realized that the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying users the four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it. Today, millions of individuals, businesses and governments use the
result of efforts to preserve and defend their freedoms started 25 years ago, but few even know about the GNU project. Celebrate the achievements and spread the word!

• http://www.gnu.org/

On September 27, 1983, RMS announced to the world his goal of writing a UNIX compatible operating system and free, ie not requiring users to give up their freedom to use, study, modify and distribute any software, modified or no. He invited programmers to join this task of developing a sufficiently large body of software to enable people to use computers in freedom, according to the moral foundations of sharing, solidarity and reciprocity.

• http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html

• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.es.html

After the initial focus on development tools such as a compiler, debugger, integrated development environment and system libraries (GCC, GDB, and Emacs glibc, respectively), hundreds of other applications, utilities and libraries were contributed by a growing number volunteers.

• http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/

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Well a few weeks ago the idea of writing a post to help migrants with the use of tools available on the internet, but I really think this may also be useful post for exchange students, frequent travelers, backpackers, people who one way or another want to be in touch with loved ones and acquaintances, even within the same country.

I hope these tips can help you, if you have any other suggestions, send me a e-mail for inclusion.

This is written based on my experience when I travel out, and some new things I've ever met in recent months in Korea.

Blog
I think one of the most interesting things to be traveling is that you have everything you do and show everything you do, at least this is my case, so I recommend you open a blog.

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During the International Congress of Society and Electronic Government CONSEGI developed in Brazil from 27 to August 29, 2008, the countries of Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay and Ecuador signed a document in protest against the ISO standard (trout) from OOXML .

As you may recall in recent months, the approval was made standard OOXML , this process was marked by much controversy , because in some countries are able to check the manipulation of the vote by Micro $ oft, now the countries that voted NO on this occasion have decided to raise a protest at the adoption of the standard.

Today's blog by Charles Escobar , I heard that the CONESUP has informed the directors of the Country on the Decree 1014 of Free Software .

This speaks well that we are moving in the right direction. I hope the universities to implement it and begin to teach courses in greater depth the issue of Free Software.

In good time, comrades!

This tutorial I did to connect with Alegro NIU Broadband USB modem with Franklin Wireless's CDU 550 via EVDO Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

For Ubuntu 7.10 you have to first make an additional step that copies it to the final, but it's easy.

We connect the USB modem Franklin Wireless's CDU 550 EVDO in any of the ports and through a terminal window tipeamos

$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

There goes that port scanning is mounted USB modem. In my case I get the following result: Read the rest »

This forum on the 1014 Act will be made on a radio program on Science and Technology Multimedia Urban World 106.

Participating: Charles Escobar (President of the ASLE ), Ernesto Kruger (Chairman of the AESOFT ), Rafael Bonifaz (Director of Free Software Computing Secretariat ), Esteban Mendieta Jara (Presidential Advisor)

Moderators: José Rivera ( Multimedia 106 ), Paulina Paredes ( PC World )

Live by the 106.9 FM, Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 11:30 to 12:30

Can follow through internet

For people who did not follow the live interview am available the same

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