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Rasberry Pi

Alejandro Leiva — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:59:18 +0000

Waiting anxiously for the Rasberry Pi, an ARM GNU/Linux box for $25!
Kernel sources are at github now https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux

More info at http://www.raspberrypi.org/

New mailing list for Spanish-speaking Orca users

Alejandro Leiva — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:07:50 +0000

Puedes ver este contenido en español en mi espacio personal del universo emergya, aquí

Joanmarie Diggs and I are very pleased to announce the creation of the orca-es-list, an official GNOME list for Spanish speaking users of the Orca screen reader.

Providing ways for non-English speakers to get more involved in the Orca community has been a long-time goal of the Orca team — and up until recently, an unachievable one. Now, thanks to the support of the Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos, the continued involvement of developers from Emergya, and the willingness of existing Spanish-speaking Orca users to contribute their time and knowledge, the team is able to support such as list.

To subscribe, fill out the form available here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-es-list

We are grateful to everyone who has made this new list possible, including GNOME for providing the infrastructure through which to host it. And we look forward to seeing you on orca-es-list!

This list will be moderated by Javier Dorado a great user and hacker of Orca.

Enjoy!

Announced in the official orca mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2011-February/msg00012.html

Special thanks for their support and work for the creation of this list to Juanje Ojeda and J. Félix Ontañón.

Talk: Turning local need into global solutions: Guadalinfo accessible

Alejandro Leiva — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:07:14 +0000

At the The 1st AEGIS International Conference, J. Félix Ontañón and I had the opportunity to give a presentation about Emergya’s work on the Guadalinfo Accessible project. This project, funded by the Consorcio Fernando de los Rios, is one of the first projects I became involved with since joining Emergya. And I’m very happy with, and proud of, the work of my colleagues.

Through Guadalinfo Accessible, I became acquainted with the variety of assistive technology solutions used by people who are blind or visually impaired, including Orca, the screen reader of the GNOME desktop. I also had the chance to meet a number of the GNOME Accessibility Team members and developers like Alejandro Piñeiro and Joaquim Rocha (from Igalia), Joanmarie Diggs (Orca maintainer) and Javier Dorado among others.

Thanks to this project, I have been contributing to the GNOME a11y community, especially Orca, in my spare-time and some of my work-time. I expect to stay hacking and pushing in that community for a long time! :-)

You can read the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/aegisproject/2-5392909

A really nice and interesting project to help bridge the digital divide.

Trocear un PDF de gran tamaño en A4 (a4 tiles)

Alejandro Leiva — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:15:32 +0000

Debido a la necesidad de convertir pdf\’s de planos de gran formato a a4 para su posterior pegado manual he encontrado una aplicación que hace justamente ese trabajo en Linux Debian.

Esta es la secuencia de órdenes para completar el trabajo.

// Convierte el pdf a ps
$ pdf2ps extra330.pdf

// Obtenemos el tamaño y lo pasamos por poster !
$ poster -v -mA4 -i1179x900mm -s1 extra330.ps > out.ps

// Lo reconvertimos a pdf y a imprimir, cortar y pegar
$ ps2pdf out.ps

Por si le interesa aquí puede obtener el plano

P.S. El amigo sntg me comenta que con KPrinter también se puede trocear, incluso hacer cuadernillos.

Recursos para el alquiler / compra de viviendas sin moverte del ordenador

Alejandro Leiva — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:15:55 +0000

Hay excelentes recursos en internet para conseguir información de las viviendas.

QDQ Fotos (fotos de las fachadas)
Catastro (Cartografía y metros)

Audi commercials

Alejandro Leiva — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:34:06 +0000

Los últimos anuncios de Audi son de una calidad audiovisual inmejorable. Especialmente los dos últimos que he visto que son el anuncio del Audi A6 inspirado en la obra de M.C. Escher y el del Audi R10. El anuncio del Audi R10 destaca sobre todo por la ajustada integración de la música (muy buena) y el montaje visual.

Buscando el autor del anuncio de R10, especialmente de la música, he encontrado un recurso de Audi (sólo en alemán, de momento) cargado de material multimedia, donde puedes encontrar las canciones de todos los videos y sus autores. Además de poder descargar el vídeo para el iPod y la PSP.

El nombre del vídeo del R10 es \”a new dawn of power\” (\”neue kraft entsteht\”) o en español \”un nuevo amanecer de la potencia\”. La composición audiovisual del video está llevada a cabo por la empresa alemana Bauhouse.