Qué interesante que Barak Obama esté en el Top15 de conexiones en LinkedIn. Cómo han cambiado las cosas con respecto a las anteriores elecciones. Podéis ver la lista completa en http://www.toplinked.com.
Estamos en un punto donde Internet ya no es algo técnico o para técnicos, ni siquiera un lugar donde buscar información o hacer negocios, sino una plataforma social que se ha integrado con prácticamente todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas.
Para quien no lo sepa aún, Redhat ha comprado la empresa que desarrolla KVM, Qumranet. Recuerdo que KVM es en este momento el único sistema de virtualización soportado por Linux en su rama principal.
Teniendo en cuenta el bajo rendimiento de Entrada/Salida que proporciona Xen en algunos entornos (lo digo por experiencia) y las pocas posibilidades que tiene Xen de ser aceptado por completo en la línea principal del Kernel, me imagino que este movimiento va a recolocar algunas piezas del mapa de proveedores de Virtualización.
Por otro lado, Virtualbox acaba de sacar la versión 2.0. Virtualbox es otro sistema de virtualización recientemente adquirido por Sun Microsystems. Aunque desde el punto de vista de arquitectura Virtualbox es una maravilla y puede funcionar de forma confiable en entornos de servidor, su uso principal sigue siendo la virtualización en entorno de escritorio personal. Es el equivalente a VMWare Workstation, de hecho, la interfaz es muy parecida. Todavía tengo que probar la nueva versión, así que no comento nada de momento.
En general, es interesante volver a comentar la misma idea de siempre. Todo software horizontal / de infraestructura (sistemas operativos, bases de datos, virtualización, ofimática, navegadores, …) va a ser copado por el Software Libre tarde o temprano. No hay ninguna posibilidad de crear un modelo de negocio “sostenido” alrededor de este software si no es con Software Libre. A ver si le entra en la cabeza a algunos (Microsoft, Oracle, …).
¿He dicho alguna vez que me encanta Redhat? 
This article is about the way I organize myself (I happily follow the “Getting Things Done” metodology). To help me manage tasks and projects, I use ThinkingRock.
I have finished the infrastructure for integrating of external apps into TR (by using some scripting magic and the Notes field). At the moment it is a quick hack, but “it works for me (TM)” 
This article complements the KMail integration post which can be found here: http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2321
At the moment, I have integrated:
Adding new apps (openoffice, gimp, …) is really easy, as everything is done outside TR and without programming. I will come on this topic later.
VISION
I have just created a project/action in TR, and now I want to:
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MAIN PICTURE
On the TR side, the magic is done by linking to files in the “notes” field. This links are opened by xdg-open, which in fact calls the default application for the file. Nothing new here.
On the Linux side, there is a script (I have created an icon in my panel) which:
1) shows the available templates (you can select one or more)
2) asks for -optional- base names (names and paths are not important as they will be correctly linked from within TR)
3) creates folders to store the new files (it ensures there will be no collisions, so you can have many “Brainstorming” base names for different projects 
). You can choose a folder if you want, but I see no reason for that. This is done through an option’s window, which in many cases you can just accept the defaults and press enter.
4) creates new files based on copies from templates (mm, sxw, pdf, …) and puts them in the new folders
5) Shows a popup with the text you have to paste into TR
THE TEMPLATES
To find the available templates, the application looks into the TEMPLATES folder (see below). There it finds a folder for every template.
Inside every folder, there is a single file named exactly as the folder plus the corresponding extension (NOTE: This will probably be improved in future versions to be able to put more than one file on each template). You can edit the file with the corresponding application to adapt the template to whatever you want:
Obviously, you can put there whatever you want. Any kind of file.
In the end, the template file will be copied to the destination and renamed to the base name you choose.
THE CODE (and install steps)
1) Select all the text and paste it to a text file, named “tr_integration.sh” and assign execution rights (chmod 755 tr_integration.sh).
2) In the code, you will need to change:
- PROYECTOS: which points to a folder where you want to store all files and folders created
- TEMPLATES: which points to the templates folder
3) Create a shortcut available easily
| Code: |
| #!/bin/bash # Name: tr_integration v.0.1 # License: GPL v3 # Author: fmonera at opensistemas dot com PROYECTOS=”/home/monera/temas/personal/proyectos” # List of items # OPTIONS # dir for I in $WANTED # Format TR Text |
You will need kdialog and mktemp. Both are available in every unix system I know.
It might work in Windows and/or MAC if you install KDE4 and adapt a bit the code. You will probably need Cygwin or, at least, mktemp for your environment. I don’t see major problems for that. Sorry, no support for Windows as I am a free software man since 1997