Fran's blog

I needed an account that have the ability to get root privileges for running certain scripts without requesting for a password -it’s an unatended process-, so as you know the best way to do this on GNU/LiNUX is “sudo” command. To set up this, on kubuntu -and other ubuntu variants, and surely other distributions- there’s [...]

My obi -karate belt- has shrink about 30 cms. after I washed it. I’ve used the same temperature told by the manufacturer (Decathlon), but its unusable now. My sensei told me that I shouldn’t wash the obi, not just because it may shrink, but because “spiritual things”. Well, I’m a pure rationalist, so I do [...]

Since on Friday my sensei was satisfied with my execution of Heian Shodan, this week I’ll start learning Heian Nidan (Peaceful Mind II). Hope in this case the aphorism “never second parts was good” will be wrong.
I’ve found this nice and very complete video, in which the Heian Nidan kata is explained step [...]

If you’re geek enough to be called geek, or if you love -or hate- Microsoft from your soul, sure you remember the original Steve Ballmer’s monkey dance and his great hit Developers. It’s possible that you also have seen next “remix”, but I didn’t. I found it hilarius, and a bit of Humour here will [...]

Or an alternative title: “Be very careful when you cut and paste from web pages”.
I’m a bit tired of doing var_dump debug on PHP, as today I debug lot of PHP lines every day and use complexer architectures as Joomla! CMS than simpler LAMP, I need to set up Eclipse to work with XDebug [...]

I’ve found this problem many times in VirtueMart forums, but never solved. If you do not know that, VirtueMart is a virtual shop component for Joomla CMS. It’s a good piece of code, however it has some problems -often not very important ones-, and its customization sometimes need hacking its code a bit.
I’m building one [...]

Yesterday I began working on my first kata: Heian Shodan. When I practiced Jiu-Jitsu fifteen years ago, I used to learnt katas just for the belt’s exams, and I used to think that they were useless. I think I was too young and restless to understand the true value of the kata. Today I’m rediscovering [...]

Most usb mass storage media devices, including digital cameras, use a FAT32 filesystem to store its data. That’s mean that even when you just use GNU/Linux filesystems like ext2 or ext3 in your system, if you have an USB pendrive, camera, etc. you’ll be using also FAT32 filesystem within those devices.
I’ve a Nikon D60 but [...]

This is the fish that I’ve fished just about three hours ago:
I didn’t know what kind of fish it was, until I reached home and could ask Internet and found this (spanish). Its maximum size is about 33 centimeters according to that page, and my one have about 30, so I can be happy of [...]

I bought a router D-Link DSL-G624T about a year ago. I was satisfied with the results and its configuration options, but at the end of last week its WiFi interface started to fail. Before I send it to the seller for repairing, I did a last hour test and it was working fine It’s [...]