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1) People in Cyprus (and investment funds?) start using Bitcoin. 2) "Biggest" attack in Internet ever, latency increase. 3) ECB send trucks with cash to Cypruss 4) Guys are caught …

One step closer to Ghost in the Shell ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shel... )

Philipp K. Janert, author of «Data Analysis with Open Source Tools», spends a few pages for explaining how he perceives this «difference». From his point of view Machine Learning i…

Can you imagine offering a fully scalable AD online? Having access to the code you can start doing things that Microsoft never allowed you to do ;) (Google Docs is, as far as I kno…

"Get Xorg + gnome/kde/xfce (xfce should work, kde is missing working dbus (due to local socket auth and bugs in select() cornercases)) + some webbrowser working (iceweasel 9 works,…

Microsoft AD is the ONLY reason many companies (Apple shops included) have Microsoft servers. People cannot imagine how disruptive is a fully operational Samba 4.0 AD for Microsoft…

Duke Nukem forever... Samba 4.0... what's the next? A GNU/Hurd competitor to Ubuntu? Space travels to Pluto? Time machines?

Being from Málaga, and my wife from Ronda, I can confirm what you say xD. Well, 'a few kilos' too heavy is not that bad compared with USA people :p. It's all about the change in th…

«Manuel, a waiter played by Andrew Sachs, is a well-meaning but disorganised and confused Spaniard from Barcelona with a poor grasp of the English language and customs.» http://en.…

Curiously my answer (I don't know if it's THE answer) is that Spanish people do not like conflict. We don't have class actions as in other countries and people are not used to clai…

Change comes when a paradigm no longer can support the evidence of its failure and a new paradigm can replace it. All these countries (Portugal, Italy, Greece Spain... PIGS!) are n…

The waiter of Fawlty Towers was Spanish :)

Everybody hates Endesa. In Spain is highly probable that when someone takes your call to a company he/she will be in South America ;) And about Spanish companies and how they treat…

«Oh, there are plenty of entrepreneurs, mind you. But many of them are “serial” entrepreneurs, whereby “serial” I actually mean lazy, ineffectual bums living off subsidies for year…

Yes Davidw, but I can tell you something about quality of life... it doesn't exists if you don't have money :) Salaries in Spain for IT are so absurd: 600~1500 EUR/month in the sou…

Yeap, UK people are heading for the Valley and for NY. Curious migratory movements, isn't it? My question is, where is the ultimate cause? what about USA people? Are they heading t…

Same situation in Spain, incredible brain drain of IT people. In the last months ~ 40% of my IT colleagues in Spain have decided to move to other countries (UK and Germany mainly).…

And you forgot about food and weather ;)

There even a not written rule in Spanish companies: «you never leave the work office before your boss». Effort in Spain only correlates to the time spent in the office and not with…

I'm Spanish and I approve this article! I didn't knew that there was a "Spanish Management Theory" ;), it seems we are just giving the world awesome things... like the Spanish Flu.…