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Today I went to see the movie Tron, it was a fun time,  if you pay attention to the charachters, situations, and dialogs, I can really tell that Tron is a combination of StarWars and Matrix.

It’s also interesting the support to free and open software.

Enjoy.

For the first time in my life I’m buying a Microsoft product:
An Xbox 360 with Kinect for my daughter.
I really hope is worth for the money.

On 1998 Will Smith and Gene Hackman starred a film where a lawyer -Robert Dean- gets possession of incriminatory evidence that would put a high level politician into troubles because he had proof of illegal acts committed by the politicians and his team.

Being the bad guy part the NSA, he starts an operation where Dean is the Target, some parts of such operation where:

-Spy the target.

-Cancel his credit cards, and bank accounts.

-Incriminate the target with some fake, but elaborated accusations, in order to make him lose his credibility.

-Capture him.

That story is happening now in 2010, but in Reality:

-A Journalist -Julian Assange- gets in possession of documents that may serve as proof to incriminate some politicians. The USA government has “probably” organized an operation against him:

-He’s team reported being under spy surveillance.

-The bank accounts and donation system for wikileaks have been cancelled.

-He’s being incriminated.

-He’s captured.

In the movie, Dean had a tape and some guys from a gang, that served as an insurance for him, and in the end he won.

In the Reality, Assange has published an encrypted file called INSURANCE that he’s expected to let him win. And there is a group of hackers that are protesting in his favour.

My questions:

Are the journalist going to unite and back him up?

Is reality exceeding fiction?

What can be in the INSURANCE file?

If your iPhone Power Button is broken, and it’s turned off, it will turn on when the battery starts to charge by connecting it to the PC or Power cord. But if for some reason id doesn’t there seems to be no way tu turn it on…. But it certainy there is a way!

This worked for me, an I have read about some other guys succeding:

Press the Glass in an area below the power button with one finger and other in the back while pushing the powere button. Good Luck!

My first complain when I started using Google Docs as my primary Office Suite is the lack of an Auto Filter.

These are the options:

-There is the option to use a filter by changing to List View with Menu View>ListView but it’s quite limited.

-There is a built-in function to filter a range and return the results in a new range.  That might be useful for certain situations, but not for my general usage.

-And the winner is:

Someone has already solved this problem programming a script that does the trick, is not the perfect solution, but is definitivelly the best. To use it, go to the Menu at Tool>Scripts>Insert… and then look for it in the business section.

The best part is that  now I know that scripting is possible in Google Docs.

iPhone 3G with an iOS4 is just toooooo slooooow, almost unsusable, so I had to downgrade to iOS3.

There is no official Apple support to do it, but I did it following this blog:

http://www.redmondpie.com/downgrade-ios-4-iphone-3gs-3g-and-ipod-touch-to-iphone-3.1.3-3.1.2-how-to-guide/

I did that from a WinXP running inside a Virtualbox inside Ubuntu Maverick.

Justa correction to that post, In order to make iTune let you choose the firmwire file you have to hold SHIFT+ALT while clicking on RESTORE.

While jailbreaking, If blackra1n gets an error asking for ASL.dll, try this:

http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/how-to-fix-missing-asl-dll-while-running-blackra1n.html

The rules have changed, now is completly posible to move from the desktop to the cloud, let’s do the leap:

A desktop or even a laptop is not competly needed for the daily average use today, let’s inspectmy daily activities:

-Emailing can be done from any of the excelent webmail services that exist today, I have been using Gmail for the last 4 months. It’s fun to see how the world is upsode down, I rememeber some years ago when we were trying to use webmail service like hotmail from the desktop email client like Outlook in Windows… Now I do the opposite, I fetch my messages from my domains to Gmail, and manage everything from the web.

-Productivity Suites: Lots of people uses Microsoft Office, many have moved to OpenOffice.org (LibreOffice), and some other use many other options, Now this huge applications are NO LONGER NEEDED, Most of the daily work can be done in the excelent Web Applications like http://www.zoho.com or of course Google Docs (http://docs.google.com).

-Photo Management can be hosted on free services like FLICKR or http://picasaweb.google.com

-Many Diffrent files can be hosted on free services like Dropbox or UbuntuOne.

There will be of course several caveats -that I’ll be bloggin here-, but the benefits are huge:

-I can relay on inexpensive -very light- hardware, In fact one of the resons for this movement is to prepera myself for the adoption of a tablet next year, now it does not matter wich one, because anyone will be compatible with what I need (maybe even the iPad).

Let’s move on.

There is a problem with the default configuration of Virtualbox in Ubuntu Lucid that avoids the iPhone in Recovery Mode to be visible inside virtualbox. Therefor this grays out the option to connect the device.

Solution is very simple:

Add your user to the vboxusers group, and start over.

First you must have tethering enabled in the iPhone, either via your carrier, or via a 3rd party app such as MyWi.

Simply add the corresponding PPA repository, either via your prefered GUI or with the command:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

The update your sources with your GUI or with:

sudo apt-get update

And the install ipheth-utils via Syaptic, or with the command:

sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils

Ready, next time you connect your iPhone, Ubuntu Lucid will automatically connect.