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October 10, 2011

Open Source Bare Metal Backup & Restore

~200MB Live CD/USB

via: Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Backup & Recovery, Business, Linux.

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September 23, 2011

Companies with the worst customer service in Costa Rica.

 

Ranking Compañia Problema reportado # de veces reportado Problema Resuelto Nivel de Indiferencia (max=100) Notas
1 Bac San Jose / Credomatic ~ Oct 2010 >10 NO 100 Campeon Indiscutible
2 Amnet  ~ Sept 01 2011 >10 NO 50
3 ICE Tel Oct 01 2011 2 NO  50

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Costa Rica, Web-Ecosystem.

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September 12, 2011

BO.LT

 

 

Cool service, interesting take on URL shortening and sharing.

Wonder what their business model is?

 

BO.LT | A more interesting way to share.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Web-Ecosystem.

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August 12, 2011

Less of it

Nice quote, I totally agree with it.

“No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.”

Alan Cooper.

So today as an exercise, I bumped this site’s theme from 0.97 to 0.98. Mostly minor changes to reduce clutter. Added some color to the links to improve usability. Some minor changes to improve multi-language support.

Still far from beautiful and cool…

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Web-Ecosystem.

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August 11, 2011

Mature, Production Ready Open-Source Software

This will be an ever-growing list of mature and production-ready open-source software:

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, CMS, Linux, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem, WordPress.

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June 22, 2011

Migrate from Gmail to Google Apps and keep labels, read-status, stars and email date

Install imapsync:

Under Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install imapsync

then:

imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --user1 username@gmail.com --port1 993 --ssl1 --password1 GmailPasswordHere --host2 imap.gmail.com --user2 username@YourGoogleAppsDomain.com --port2 993 --ssl2 --password2 GoogleAppsPasswordHere --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN --syncinternaldates --split1 100 --split2 100 --allowsizemismatch

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Google, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem.

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May 30, 2011

TV Channels Costa Rica

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January 13, 2011

Install GnuCash 2.4.0 with database support in Ubuntu 10.10

Be sure to enable the “Source Code” repositories first.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz gnucash-2.4.0.tar.gz

sudo aptitude build-dep gnucash
sudo aptitude install texinfo subversion intltool libdbi0-dev libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql} guile-1.8 guile-1.8-dev doxygen libdbi0-dev libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql}

cd /usr/share/guile/1.8
sudo ln -s ../../slib slib
sudo guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"

cd ~/gnucash-2.4.0/

./configure --prefix=$HOME/stable/gnucash --enable-debug --enable-doxygen --enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings --enable-dbi
make all install

and finally, run it

~/stable/gnucash/bin/gnucash

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel
4916 grains of sand from alejandro cuervo