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

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

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

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

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Today marks 2 years of the meeting between Rafael Correa and Richard Stallman , why Rafael Bonifaz and I have decided to write about how this event happened. Here you can read the version of Rafael on history.

During the election campaign of 2006, I worked one day receive mail the following 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 active in free software communities of Ecuador. In this country little is spoken on the subject, but countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, parts of Spain and Europe are moving to the use of Free Software. To win you the election, propose a plan regarding the use of free software in the state?

To cite one example, now the municipality of Quito should pay IBM a value close to $ 200 000 per year for the use of your email server and that the mayor can share your calendar with the councilors. 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 that knows the subject. Do not stay locked 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 used by the state. How could we save by using free software and the money spent would stay in training national professionals, instead of paying multinationals.

Sincerely,

Rafael Bonifaz

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

One person who was responsible for reviewing the emails told me and what I do with this?, I read the message and said, give it to me I answer.

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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've seen that have been made are the best.

My machine has 3 partitions root, swap, home, that way it's easier to change distro and more safely have my files and preferences.

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

That has worked for me (from what I've tried 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 all the audio programs I work with no problems.
  Well I have it configured:
  Sound Events, Music and Movies, Audio Conferencing all with PulseAudio Sound Server option
  Defaul Mixer Tracks: HDA NVidia (Alsa Mixer)
• Video: the best, and they've released an Nvidia driver version 177, which works without problems and now work for 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 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, companies 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/

The September 27, 1983, RMS announced to the world his goal of writing an operating system compatible with UNIX and free, ie not require users to give up their freedom to use, study, modify and distribute any software, modified or not. 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 including a compiler, a debugger, an integrated development environment and system libraries (GCC, GDB, Emacs, and 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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I did this tutorial in order to connect with NIU's Broadband USB modem Alegro with Franklin Wireless CDU 550's EVDO via Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

For Ubuntu 7.10 you have to first make an extra step that I copy in the end, but it's easy.

We connect the USB modem's Franklin Wireless CDU 550 EVDO in any port 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 »

Is the holder of the note published in the Diario El Pais in Spain.

This gives us the reason, once again, why use free software , and we can not be at the expense of a company change the systems and support we run out, or are required to have to buy a new computer, think about whether this happen with a system that manages a country's securities and the company that owns the system decides not to give more support or simply does not give us the keys or access to the system, there is a clear example as happened in Venezuela .

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Yesterday, Thursday April 10, 2008, the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado , 1014 signed a decree to which the Free Software becomes a state policy to be adopted by all entities.

This has been a big step for the Ecuadorian community of free software, because a year ago the President by a video declared a state policy on use. Today it is a reality.

Not only the citizens' revolution is underway, but also the technological revolution.

The decree can be downloaded from here .

Ahead free software, go ahead!

Related news:

• President Correa authorizes the use of Free Software in Public Administration Central

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"Software is like sex, is better when it's free"