http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/blog/1 robert 2010-03-10T23:42:37Z http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/183 <p>Yea, finally did it. Impossible to describe, everyone must try this at least one time</p> <object width="544" height="368" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="movie" value="https://media.dreamhost.com/mp4/player.swf"/> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"/> <param name="flashvars" value="&amp;file=http://www.marcanoonline.com/videos/saltoparacaidas.mp4"/> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed width="544" height="368" flashvars="&amp;file=http://www.marcanoonline.com/videos/saltoparacaidas.mp4" wmode="opaque" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" src="https://media.dreamhost.com/mp4/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/> </object> Personal 2009-02-11T22:13:27Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/182 <p>Estoy teniendo problemas con CANTV debido a que han decidido cambiarme al plan 256, baj&aacute;ndome del que estoy pagando que es el de 1024 (Zona: Carrizal). En el Call Center solo se dedican a leerme un comunicado que solo lo leen, nunca lo envían oficialmente que dice que est&aacute;n cambiando los planes para <em>"brindar un mejor servicio"</em>. He consultado con muchas personas y no tienen este problema, por lo que estoy creyendo que alguna loter&iacute;a interna han hecho para reducir el n&uacute;mero de subscriptores con planes de alta velocidad. Por favor si pueden regar esta informaci&oacute;n para medio averiguar que tan grande sea el porcentaje de cambios forzosos, y ver que se puede hacer contra esta discriminaci&oacute;n aparentemente aleatoria</p> <p>Nota: Es incre&iacute;ble que cuando uno pide un supervisor ahora cortan la llamada, cuando anteriormente era regla de nunca hacerlo aunque el cliente se quedara una hora completa pidiendo una explicaci&oacute;n, y lo se por experiencia</p> Personal 2008-10-03T13:00:11Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/180 <p>Sometimes when playing a video game the gamer has a wonderful experience, but many times we forget to acknowledge the help of the music to achieve it, take for example the <a href="http://lacamadehojarascaazul.blogspot.com/2008/06/jackie-presti-love-theme.html">introductory theme</a> (flash player on that page, lyrics and spanish translation) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_4:_Guns_of_the_Patriots">Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots</a>. Amazing how a lot PlayStation 3 owners are requesting the option of player customized soundtracks on all games. I am not one of them, for me the soundtrack is part of the game, removing it is like removing a weapon, a car, etc.</p> PlayStation 2008-07-28T14:43:03Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/179 <p>It is very rewarding to coordinate a team of developers, that are able to migrate a third-party application to Linux, working without access to the central Host the application requires, and that when We deploy it to the testing site every module works amazingly well, no major bug found yet, only little things that are being fixed in minutes</p> Development 2008-06-03T10:08:19Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/178 <p>The PlayStation 3 uses standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3gpp">3GPP</a> tags and does not understand iTunes style tags so every song I imported do not show the correct information, so instead of fixing them on the PS3 (something that does not changes the file, only on the internal database) I wrote a script with the help of <a href="http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/">AtomicParsley</a>:</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-sh">#!/bin/sh addTag() { line=`mp4info "$file" | grep "$2"` if [ "$?" -eq "0" ] then command="$command $1 \"`echo $line | sed -e "s/$2: //"`\"" fi } for file in *.m4a; do command="AtomicParsley \"$file\"" addTag --3gp-title "Metadata Name" addTag --3gp-performer "Metadata Artist" addTag --3gp-album "Metadata Album" addTag --3gp-genre "Metadata Genre" exec 3&lt;&gt;"$file" read -n 8 &lt;&amp;3 echo -n 3gp6 &gt;&amp;3 exec 3&gt;&amp;- eval "$command" -W exec 3&lt;&gt;"$file" read -n 8 &lt;&amp;3 echo -n mp42 &gt;&amp;3 exec 3&gt;&amp;- done</pre> <p>It add a few 3GPP style tags taken from the original iTunes style tags. As AtomicParsley rejects to add that kind of tags on non 3GPP files, the script changes the ftyp field on the file temporaly to <em>3gp6</em>. The script process all files with the extension m4a on the current directory.</p> PlayStation 2008-04-27T18:53:32Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/177 <p>Everyone is doing this on <a href="http://planet.gnome.org/">Planet GNOME</a>, so I wanted to see the results too:</p> <pre>$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 150 cd 135 ll 105 hg 89 vi 39 less 39 find 37 sed 35 rm 35 tail 35 cat</pre> <p>ll = ls -al.</p> On the Net 2008-04-10T15:08:48Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/176 <p>While I was learning how to use <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a> in order to contribute to the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> platform, I became addicted to it, and with the migration tools now I have access to my repositories with full history on the go, without need of permanent connection to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">CVS</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)">SVN</a> server. I can even do offline commits to my local copies.</p> <p>I had not found a nice GUI for it yet, but being restricted to the command line is not a big reason to not use the powerful offline features. ummmm <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">OpenJDK</a> is stored on Mercurial, and <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/">Netbeans</a> 6.1 finall will have support for it.</p> Development Open Source 2008-04-10T00:19:09Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/174 <p>Amazing.... just look at the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/09/25/foldinghome-petaflop-barrier-crossed-update/">comparison with the other platforms</a>, I am happy to have contributed at least a small part of it. This achievement is just only an example of how well made is the <a href="http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3">PlayStation 3</a> that its owners do not hesitate to left it turned on for continuous days doing CPU intensive calculations, with the fans working at maximum speed to reduce the machine temperature.</p> PlayStation 2007-09-26T13:23:25Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/173 <p>Maybe I will have the luck that someday some Nokia developer visit this remote page, so I will ask them a little favor, please take your time to learn what is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif">Exif</a>. A long time ago I decided to not use more Nokia phones, but still sometimes when I meet with friends they take photos with their phones and sent them to me, I classify all of them by folders and dates so I have a chronological structure on disk. Yesterday I imported all my photos to my Playstation 3 to be able to show them more easily to family and friends and what i found, no Nokia phone I have received photos store complete Exif information, specially the date and time the photo was taken, and the PS3 uses a lot that info. The workaround was to add the metadata using <a href="http://www.exiv2.org/">exiv2</a> to all those photos</p> Personal 2007-08-08T10:36:30Z robert http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/post/1/171 <p>Reading the <a href="http://onsmalltalk.com/">onsmalltalk.com</a>, found the article named <a href="http://onsmalltalk.com/programming/smalltalk/why-smalltalk/">Why Smalltalk</a>, and I share the feelings of the author, you must try Smalltalk to understand why we Smalltalkers think that way. I still dream with an opportunity to teach Smalltalk in an academic environment, because as the article says "Object oriented programming means something entirely different to a Smalltalker than to someone doing OO in another language"</p> <p>Do anyone need a seasoned Smalltalker demonstration?... hahahaha</p> Development On the Net 2007-05-02T10:38:06Z robert