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When? 2 minutes? 4 minutes? 5? When did I get hooked on Lost? Come on! Next time, please, warn me and I will switch the laptop off in time!

It’s unfair! I didn’t know it was so addictive, I didn’t know I would be waiting every Friday in order to watch the new episode!

Really, I was impressed by this sitcom from the beginning.:It’s different from the others.

Along the episodes, you are more and more… and more, and even more interested in what the bloody hell is going on the island ? But what a paradox… Every time you watch a new episode, you know more things about the mystery that is surrounding the island… But, at the same time, you know fewer things! That is to say, the mystery is growing and growing… Non-stop!
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From the desk of samy,

On April/4/2008, Richard Stallman came to UAB to give a conference about GNU. You can view the WHOLE conference in Spanish at the end of this post (and some pictures as well). I strongly recommend you to view the video as it’s quite interesting.

A brief introduction to who Richard Stallman is:

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”, is an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

Let’s come back to the conference.

RMS came to UAB to introduce and clarify for us what free software really means, and why we should use it. First of all, I would like to advise you that RMS is a showman. But never mind, don’t lose the thread. Some teachers introduce RMS… While he felt asleep on the table.

The first reflexion was:

- Does this program respect my freedom?

Starting from this question, we should know what a program which respects our freedom means. If it does so, it is a free software (from now on free software is going to be FS). Otherwise, it is a privative software (from now on privative software is going to be PS). So, FS is the one which respects our freedom according to the notes below:
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In this chapter you are going to learn how to configure FileZilla (a FTP client) for uploading our files to the hosting and what you have to do to create a database, needed for store our posts, plugins and so on.

To create our database, which will contain all of our posts, etc. You don’t have to design it, just create it… Our wordpress (which we have downloaded it before) will do all things for us.

Once you are log in your account, go to manage account (in the rightside) and save the username. It will be something like aXXXXXXX, where XXXXXXX are seven numbers. This will be needed later, because it’s the intern username.

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You’ll learn how to host your wordpress in a hosting reading the following lines

First of all, we need our blog code. So, go to Wordpress.org and click on the download.zip:

Don’t worry, you do not need to know programming, it’s all kind of authomatic

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Hi!

My name’s Samuel Jiménez and I’m studying computer science (for further information, click on A bit of me… at the top of the page). I want to make a definitive guide to create your own wordpress, so…

This is the first chapter of the Definitive guide to create your OWN wordpress.

Index

1. The definitive guide to create your own wordpress.
2. Our wordpress uploaded in a (free) hosting.
3. Uploading wordpress through FTP using FileZilla.

At first I thought it was very easy to create your own wordpress… But when I got started I realized that it’s not so simple.

So, I hope this guide will be helpfull for everybody to create their own wordpress in a free hosting (or others hostings types). The most important things are:

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From the desk of Samy (do you like this start? I hope so, otherwise you should get used to it… From now on, it’s going to be the same haha)

April 1, at 12.30 p.m., Ricardo Baeza-Yates, researcher and director of Yahoo! Research in Barcelona and Santiago de Chile, came to UAB to give a conference about Web 2.0

It was quite interesting as he talked about what the tendency of Internet will be in the following years. The keyword must be Web 2.0.

I took some notes, you can read them below:

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