There is a joke I heard long ago and that reflects what happens to us from time to time in the cubicle life of big business: Hell Spanish.

Wit said:

"They killed a Spanish and tries to enter heaven. Upon arrival, St. Peter told him:

- I'm watching what you did on earth, and do not deserve to enter heaven, so you go to hell.

- But San Pedro, there's nothing you can do?

- Today, I've got in a good mood, so I let you pick the hell you gonna go: either Spanish or German.

- And What difference is us?, Tell me some of those infernos

- Seem to be enough, are two ways to atone for your fault. Look at the hell is a German jail, you're locked in a cell and every day at eight o'clock, you phone the door and a devil, you should bring a boto paint and a brush. You spend all day painting your cell in that color. The next day, the devil will bring you another boat of another color, and you will paint you paint throughout eternity.

- Not too bad what the Spanish

- It's the same thing, you're in the cell, but one day it will not be painting, another day there is no brush, paint the other day is the same color as the previous one, another day the devil you forget to go ... "

Well, the other afternoon to go through something like that. I stayed to eat at my firm in the morning to see if it ended an urgent task. I was alone in the room. In the two hours of being there, and the task is almost finished, are cut off. Nothing happens, we have a good UPS. I was left without heating, but as is normal, get a jacket I have for these cases. On the half hour, turn off the PCs of the room, but not in normal light fails. I did not understand anything, if we have a huge UPS ... call maintenance, were on holiday meal. At the end I realize that some plugs in the room if they have power.

I take my PC to these outlets, and when I go to boot, I see that do not arrive on the local cable network. Tour of several cubicles and revised cabinet meeting ... at the end of a cable network long enough for a printer and what I provided. Get your computer ... and see a pretty hard disk error. I can not continue. I called the SAT and do not know when it may happen, but surely not that afternoon ...

I keep looking at, and I see a couple of PCs as if they have light. But they are consultants. In the end, it started with my user one of them. It turns out that in my company in the mornings there are Active Directory and in theory, can go into any PC for the company with my keys. While PCs are of another company, are connected to our corporate network. Indeed, I reonoce and the user can enter. But since I am a bad user, I have no privilege in this machine, and I can not run anything, there are no icons on the desktop, no start menu ... I can not do anything.

I keep looking and find a PC in my company, unused. I took the electrical outlet that worked, you connect everything ... what it started, I put my password, I know, loading a desk full time ... and ... is for me and pulled away. The reason is that it detects an open meeting on the server for that user and that has not been closed. It is a measure of security of our Department. But I can not sign off on a PC unbootable ... call again to support ... is not that you can do that ...

In the end, I lost an entire afternoon and I could not do anything to work. But there are still more. I leave it for another day it will be back the next morning to ask me to kill the session of the server and I repaired the PC, it will be another meeting of hell Spanish.

As you all know the next release in relation to Microsoft and its operating system is Microsoft Windows Seven, or Microsoft Windows 7 to put it another way, so the entire Internet is constantly talking about it, about their future innovations and on the current availability of its versions before the final release ...

For my part I have no desire to venture into this world to launch or to find a little time of it, but if, as with the article "Wallpapers of Microsoft Windows 7," I want to share another collection of Wallpapers that I found myself in Visitors created by the users' Frnak "which allows us to download for free ...

In the download in two editions that I have put together in a single download to make things easier we can find a total of three different designs in eight different resolutions in order to align the wallpaper on our monitor, either Widescreen or Standar ...

Download Windows Se7en Pack

In the previous image can be seen two of the designs that includes the download, while the third was equal to the first with the difference that the Microsoft Windows logo is replaced by the phrase "Windows Se7en" Greetings ... ...

I have a friend who has a saying: " The family is so you can exploit, to exploit" . And what happened the other day at a compeñero the tendency has been to corroborate.

It turns out that the other day, we have a an comrade at the workshop, assembling and repairing equipment, a political family, he asks for a budget. He passes the request to my partner, who set up a computer according to the requirement that we had (come on, less than 500 Euros, which carry around and bear ...)

Spend the day not tell us nothing about the budget, for nothing, it will be bought from another site. But is our partner in the shop quite goat (difficult thing, because it has a character that makes very few times we see in this state) and tells us. It turns out that his family calls him by telephone. Ask for advice on the budget. When they look, it takes another three budgets, fraquicias three of these do-it-yourself software. It puts the four budgets on the table and asks our colleague:

- Yo, what would you do?

- Clearly, our budget is the cheapest, best equipped and best of all. Besides the cash you have put, I and the amount of noise does nothing.

- No, you do not understand, if you realize, in the budgets of Monta_PC, Encaja_PC and BRR, if you take away the assembly are 13, 14 and 18 euros cheaper than yours, I want you to tell me which of these three is better and that I mountains you ...

Our colleague has declined the offer, we will see now whether the political family, draws on lines of affection closer.

But people have an incredible nose. In addition, this family, we have purchased computers to us before. A PC with problems, and it will repair a couple times in guaranteed without putting stick to anything. But worse, is what our colleague said: "If what amount myself, I know I'll have to go home to make the SAT Free lifetime."

And then the little that people value their time, there are going to ask budgets, to make queues and to study, study the final price, because our components were also quite better than the competition ... if I no longer understand anything.

Those who have never played with a Tamagotchi on a personal level my suggestion is to commit suicide in the hope that reincarnation exists and thus better able to enjoy childhood ... Those who have had if ever a Tamagotchi, and they want to live again this experience to keep alive a pixilated picture, I found the game on whether to Motorola cell phones ...

His name is simply "Tamagotchi" compatible with multiple phones in the range of Motorola, and as we know specifically if we ever going to work on our phone it is best to try ...

The functions that incorporates this version for cell phones are a lot more of that personally I expected ... In the first place after performing the installation of it, and then run it, we will have to put a name to our new pet ... The next step before to enjoy our mascot is to define the speed of the game between " Lower " or " High " ...

Needless to say this as in all Tamagotchi will have to wait until this is decent exit from your egg ... And then, once that happens, start playing like any normal Tamagotchi (need to feed it, play with, meet their needs, bathing and teach him discipline) ...

Finally, if you miss too much the old game pixel, we can disable the colors of the game and really see how it was before the Tamagotchi Greetings ... ...

A few months ago got a ticket on a HTPC with capital letters, the SuperMediaCenter, who called him. Well, at the end assemble something quite similar to that configuration. I am a truly spectacular HTPC

The box we used was the Originae S21T. It is a box that stands out for its size and especially for his spectacular touch screen. The whole front of the box is a display of 12 ", touch, capable of playing Full HD video. In addition, taking advantage of that should be high in order to have such a screen, as this box you can be everything. Thus, we can ride 10 hard drives, graphics card of any size, large coolers for the processor. The box is constructed of aluminum and given their mass, we can also use it to help dissipate heat from its interior, using as little as possible to the fans.

In this image, we can see the box open and already mounted. In the bottom left, there is a bloc of hard drives still empty. In the bottom right you can see the power supply and fan 12 cm. that cooled the whole. In front of the fan can see the passive heat sink behind the processor and graphics card too passive.

And in addition to the box, that we came to this HPTC. It takes four disks of 500 GB SATA hard. That means that for the moment we road with 2 storage. And we still have a place for six more hard drives. ReWriter of a Blu-Ray (and of course also reader and rewritable DVDs and CDs) to be able to view any high definition content without ninún problem.

A passive power supply 600W. to be able to feed well to everything we have inside and yet not generate any noise. He was curious, you feel the heat from the source, was cleared by the smooth side of the box which is mounted. Bear in mind that the box is all aluminum and it is thicker than in other boxes were built in this material. Does not reach the effect of HFX, but they get enough heat to draw from the box in this way.

In this image, from another angle, we can see how hard drives are mounted on the side of the box.

The motherboard, a Asus P5Q Pro. Capable of all that you fit disks to the system, with an option to make crossfire. We thought it was a good choice. We accompany the plate with 4 GB of RAM

The graphics card, an Ati 3870 with passive dissipation. The chart had acquired the client before, at that time, there was nothing so powerful on the market without fans. He moves with ease across the full HD content to say and also has a plus power to play with the HTPC quite well.

The processor, an Intel Core2Duo 8400. Power and little heat. We also got a heatsink Asus Triton 75 to help reduce noise from the box.

And at the end HTPC is a really spectacular. Will get what you're looking for the customer who does not look like a computer. The display has a special quality, both in terms of graphics, as to when to use it as a data entry system. We can handle Windows Vista MediaCenter the finger without any problem.

Here's an example, with the covers of some disks stored in the MediaCenter. Simply touch the finger of them, for us to show information Enlarged and a double click, to begin to see it.

System performance is extraordinary. The noise is nil. We only left a fan 12 cm. turning to the minimum speed at the back of the box and is not heard nothing. In addition to achieve a good ventilation and all internal components are at an ideal temperature.

In addition, the system of access to ReWriter of Blu-Ray and the connections front of the box is very striking. If you realize, in the picture up there, do not look anywhere by those connections. In the lower right corner of the screen, there is a button. If you click, the screen moves with a motor and becomes the first forward and then down, leaving bare the rewrites and USB connections and audio front.

The box also includes a remote control MCE from Microsoft and leading receiver built into the box.

If you're looking for an HTPC that does not look like a computer with a screen of truth embedded in the box and also going to put many hard drives, a system like this is a good choice.

The issue of price, a configuration like the previous one, you can drop about 2,400 Euros. But the result is worth it. It should be borne in mind that the box is worth half the price and we have a PC in the first division.

BoxMaker classic is a small free program that allows you to easily generate 3D images of books, boxes of CDs or software . It is very useful to make this image that you need to promote the book you're offering free software or you're giving away.

Although compared to other similar programs have few options, BoxMaker contains enough to create an attractive image in a few minutes . Let's see what are the steps you must follow.

First, we need to create three images in the editor you use regularly: the spine (side), the home of the (front) and the top (top). Although you can create just the cover, it is recommended that you also think at least the spine. Depending on how to place the book, it may be necessary to make the top, although in this case is sufficient to an image with horizontal lines to the edge so the pages. The images must be in JPG or BMP.

After. We will click on each of the corresponding parts of the section Cover image to upload images.

And that's it. We already have our home almost ready.

If you move your mouse over the image and press the left button, we can rotate the image to take up the position we want.

We also have the option of choosing some predefined positions and other forms of the box containing your images in the section Form .

To control over the outcome, we also have other options such as Surrounding , which allows us to slightly change the lighting and color of the same; Box dimension , where we can adjust the size of our cash, and tables that are below the picture , which allow us to define more precisely the position parameters of our image.

To save the result as a JPG or BMP image, click on Writer , which will make the result is exported to either of these formats. If you give to save, save the file to BoxMaker format, so you can retrieve it later to change any of the aspects we have seen (or to create other books in the same position, for example).

The end result is attractive, and although it may miss her some effects, you can serve as a basis to save labor and add things like shadows or reflections by using a more advanced editor.

Download BoxMaker Classic

Image used to cover sample: Mike Licht

When I buy the iPhone 3G, or rather when they learned that he had a 3G iPhone, I asked them to move any photo or screen shot of your blog visible from the apparatus itself, as it undoubtedly is something that everyone wanted from the first moment that we knew of the existence of such a cell phone ...

I personally never got a screenshot of it until I buy my own 3G iPhone, and based on this I have no hesitation in sharing a screenshot of some of the blogs that appear in my Blogroll: Blog on Serio, Francesc Josep, Kabytes, Porta-Folio, SpamLoco, TecnoBITA and Tecnobot ...

As some have noticed I have not taken screenshots of Geek Code, Linux For Human Beings and Weblog Lab for different reasons, including having an extension that transformed the design adapts to the iPhone or not operated something of the page ... Anybody want to catch something? Greetings ... ...

The lack of response to comments on this blog, unemployment in my production of articles (which might not be noticed by the articles scheduled to replace me these days), is not the thousands of unread articles on Google Reader, the little use to Windows Live Messenger, among many other changes in my daily activity are justified by the acquisition of the beautiful machine that can see in the image at right ...

This is, after the first iPhone would be available on July 29, 2007, and later submit the new model with the ability to use 3G networks, I remember that Claro Argentina along with other operators would Indeed in Argentina on August 22 this year ... This is how Tuesday December 16, a few days ago, I present in the Customer Service Center of course, I sat in front of one of the sellers and told him that he had come to change the model of my cell, to which the answer to the question of whether I had already decided by one, and my answer was that he had always expected to give: "Yes, I want an iPhone" ...

This is how I took over four hours locked in by four walls that were one hundred and eight laps to be able to sell the iPhone 3G, which is no fault of the vendors that make it clear that it behaved excellently, but the very bad organization of the whole organization ... Also awaiting me was indistinct because if I had been told that I had to be left to sleep, he did ...

Even before completing the purchase, as you can see in the picture, the seller put the phone on the table and, I guess to note that the impatience in my face, I said he could not open it until the purchase (which is logical case the price of the same and that we are talking phone) ... Finally, I have my cell phone with 3G Internet Claro Argentina unlimited, so we are not going to crash to where my social life ...

A curious fact that he always said if I buy this cell phone, is that the seller told me that by company policy of the Apple iPhone 3G should be unpacked into our house (which I assume will be the sensation exclusivity that give the products of the Manzanita), but the most funny was that the seller, almost as excited as I am, I said, "But we are going to open here" Greetings ... ...