• Videojuegos 16.07.2008 1 Comment



    As someone know, one of my favorite games style are strategy games. I have always loved these kind of games (my curriculum can talk alone: Worms Armageddon, Age of Empires II, Warcraft III -the best game I’ve ever played-, etc.). I’ve played another game genres that sticked me on my chair (Final Fantasy series, Need for Speed…).

    However, I have lot of work in the university, and now I can’t play all games I played in the past.

    Nevertheless,I want to mention two GNU Games that you can enjoy a lot (I’ve enjoyed them): One of these is chess and the other, Battle for Wesnoth.

    Everyone knows what is chess. However, there is some people who doesn’t have a partner for playing it every time he wants. 1 GNU chess server exists, called FICS, where you can play for free with other players (or your friends). This server has his website in http://www.freechess.org.

    For playing on this server, you need a chess client. Lots of interfaces/clients are avaible for all platforms (the most used is Jin, an interface you can you on the web or in your PC, written in Java and is compatible with all platforms). However, as a Linux user, I use eboard.

    Regardless the interface you choose, you have to create a FICS account to play on the server in the main website. (It’s quite easy and it’s free), or playing as guest.

    Once you connect to FICS, you will be ready to play chess with other people. Interfaces often has a “seek graph” where you can see all people that want a match. If you want to play with someone, write the command “seek 2 12” (for example, for a 2 minutes and 12 increment game). Read the help for more help (or ask me).

    If you want to talk on a chat channel or to an user, use the command “tell user/channel text to say”.

    Ahhh, also, write the following command to add me to friends: “+notify davigetto”. I will be notified if you add me to friends and if you wish, we can play some matches :)

    The following game is Battle for Wesnoth. The main website is http://www.wesnoth.org. Again, this game can be played in all platforms. It’s a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme (with orcs, elves, dwarfs…) where the main objective is “destroy the opponent”. It’s quite easy to play this game, and when you catch “the feeling of the game” you can be attracted strongly, so be careful :)

    Once again, if you want to play with me at this game, send me an email or a comment to this post. However, in this game, opposite to Warcraft III, matches often are very long, so often I prefer playing the campaign mode.

    Also, if you wish, I can play with you to the mythical Warcraft III… for remembering oldies purposes :)

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  • I put there some screenshots I have made in ArchLinux with KDEmod, for people feels curiosity about this distribution and how is his look&feel. Enjoy them, I will make some explanations in every screenshot:

    Here we have my Desktop clear. From top left corner to top right corner:

    • Kmenu, Home, Show Desktop, an applet for docking apps for fast accessing, Desktop switcher, Taskbar, a CPU/Memory/Swap monitor, and opened apps, clock and close session/shutdown button. Preety, right? :D

    Also we can see the links in the desktop. Don’t you like the icon Style? :D

    Here, the same Desktop with Konqueror opened and Yakuake dropped down. Yakuake is a very beautiful Console for me, and look at konqueror: windows colors fit with background without any problems, and the icon theme Tango is the most beautiful icon theme I’ve ever seen.

    Well, this is my Desktop, and also, the default theme of ArchLinux’s KDEmod. Try it!!! You will not be disappointed with him!

    I hope you’ll try it and you will email me saying you’ve successfully installed it :D

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  • I put here an e-book with GNU rights, called “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. Recommended reading for all this people that love computer world and want to learn more about GNU world.

    I am reading it now, it seems interesting :)
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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El autor: David Jiménez

Soy Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Gestión titulado por la Facultad de Informática de Barcelona, donde me encuentro actualmente cursando un Máster en Computación especializado en Sistemas de Información e Ingeniería de Servicios.

He trabajado como desarrollador de la plataforma educativa Moodle durante casi dos años en la UPC, y mis intereses profesionales están enfocados hacia la excelencia en el mundo empresarial.

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