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If last week we learned that Sun had bought MySQL, today Trolltech, the developers of QT libaries, has announced its adquisition by Nokia.

Is every company taking its position into the Open Source World?

Today I received an e-mail saying that my credit card had been charged with a hundred bucks. I wouldn't normaly care, as this kind of mails are usually spam/spoof, but the message was digitally signed by my hosting provider, Dreamhost.

Then I noticed something even weirder: the date of the bills was from january to december... 2008! WTF?!.

Of course, it was a mistake. Someone at DH screw it up, running the wrong script. Luckily, it was solved in a couple of hours, and DH income went from 0$, to 7M$, to 0$ again in a while.

Scary, in any case...

Compare with the promotional video of the N800, last year:

Nokia's Linux-based Internet Tablet "N800" got his successor: the brand new N810. New face with only a few new features: integrated physical keyboard and GPS. In fact, it will run the same software as the N800 (IT OS2008). It will be realeased on November.

Alsa new and Debian-based is the latest release of Ubuntu: 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon"). More hardware support and 3d effects are the most remarkable features of this version. A new step towards the freedoom of the desktop user?

Being a user of one of the latest Intel processors I have learnt about some frightening hardware vulnerablities of this chips. ¿Unfixables? ¿User-code explotables? Nothing is clear. More info at Slashdot.

Play ogg is the new Free Software Foundation Campaign, encouraging support to this free audio format among users and their music players.

Someone may find interesting the speeches that University of Zaragoza has organized for Internet day: David de Ugarte and Hugo Zaragoza.

Last week I ended the 20-hour "Advanced Openoffice.org" course I gave for the Zaragoza Council in Hispalinux-zgz.

I made a web page of the course, where I published all the material I used, except the manual (wasn't mine). The course was taught in Spanish, but maybe someone will find it interesting...

Although this site has been runing for years (more than five), there are posts that date back to 2004 and I have been using this domain for almost two years, I have not posted yet any kind of statistics of the number of visitors and referrers.

First, the numbers. From the 24th July 2005 there have been (only in jynus.com, not having into account the other domains):

• 1,221,878 file requests
• 429,759 pages served
• 10.47 gigabytes transferred

In mean:

• Around 9,179 distinct hosts per month
• 400-500 distinct hosts per day
• Most of the visits come on Thursday
• Most of the visits come between 15:00 and 22:00 GMT
• Bussiest week was Feb/19/06 (I think they published an article in barrapunto)
• Most visited pages are: rss syndication, Cómo recuperar una clave de root perdida, the photo gallery and the article Por qué no debemos usar imágenes de cd propietarias.

Most of the traffic comes from Google, which likes me quite enough, as it gives me a Page Rank of 4. Of course, from time to time, I get an ocational visitor from other blogs, like barrapunto. Some referrers are really hilarious, but, being most of them in Spanish, I will reserve them for other section.

No, the numbers above are not the ones John Lock has been typing every 108 minutes on his term. They are not the accords of a song (although someone thought they were).

It is impossible to ignore all the fuss that has been created around the "cease and desist" communication sent to digg and the subsequent boicot of its users spreading the history. From Slashdot to British Tabloids. From Barrapunto to Menéame. All are linking to this "illegal number". It is not the first time this happens, you will probably remember the DeCSS case a few years ago.

Let's see what happens next. Will they take down half of the sites of the Internet, including this one? Or will they have to admit that their DRM doesn't work. After all, it is only a number, isn't it?