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It's been a while since the last update, many personal and work related changes kept me really busy the lat months. More interesting content related to development and system administration will continue to flow on this website soon.
Regards,
-Urivan
Configuring a Brother MFC-9970CDW Printer in Ubuntu 12.04 Linux
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I decided to upgrade the printer in home and got a Brother MFC-9970CDW multifunction laser color printer, these are the instructions I had to follow to enable the printer on my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop.
Formatting external USB drive on Linux
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Recently I bought a 2TB external HDD that I'm planning on using as backup and family media storage (photos, videos, etc). The very first thing I noticed after connecting the drive on the USB port was the fact that the Linux system identified the partition as NTFS/HPFS/extFAT. This might suffice those who plan to move around the external hard drives between different system but for me this is not a concern,
Obama's reelection presured for U.S. UAV policies
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Prior to the reelection, Obama's administration worked on developing explicit rules for targeted strikes conducted by UAVs, in case Obama didn't win the new president will have a clear standard and procedures guide.
Android: How to setup your environment
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While I've gone through the steps of installing the Android SDK in multiple systems (Linux & Windows) as part of my daily job, I've found that those who are new to the Android world might found themselves in a sea of links and options to follow. This article describes a simple list for what to install and configure in order to setup your Android SDK environment.
Solving an issue with Gitorious while enforcing https
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I had a previous setup instance of Gitorious running in http (port 80), everything was working just fine. one day I decided to enable https (443) and permanently disable http (80). The certificates were created, apache was configured accordingly and everything was working fine... or so I thought...
Middle School Friends Reunion
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Last Sunday I had the joy to meet two friends from middle school, it was a great pleasure to get to see them and their families. We had fun conversations and many stories to remember. The time went by so fast that we agreed to have a second reunion to compensate.
Looking forward to our next meeting Sheila and Lucio!
Last day of May... A good one!
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A lot of work as always, keyboard crunching and banging is part of the culture nowadays.
Despite the load I've been able to give myself time for a walk/hike at lunch. I recorded the track with my GPS and here is the map. Funny enough, the small hill doesn't have a name, or as a co-worker mentioned "people call it Chuck's Peak", so decided to name it just like that. Without further delay, the link to the route is http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?sport=12&route=57851
For those who know about my house construction effort in Baja, finally today the concrete was poured on the ceiling! I'm so excited!! 8^]
Blog opening (finally!)
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Well... after many years of postponing the opening of my blog (due to time restriction mostly), I've decided to move along and start it. Don't know yet the update interval but will figure it out on the fly.
Thanks for your continuous support!