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1.- Pere Navarro tanca files amb Rubalcaba i li transmet el suport del PSC, El Punt/Avui, 5 de febrer

2.- Carme Chacón no serà a l’executiva del PSOE, Ara, 5 de febrer

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Ara fa un parell d'anys, un 30 de gener, a Vic, un personatge anomenat Joan Carretero va perpetrar un dels episodis més vergonyosos de la història del catalanisme polític.

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This is very retro, but I like the idea. From Norman Walsh’s blog:

“Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions. Point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.”

So, I did and funny things, the nearest book was Bible (honestly!). So, it is “Připravil jim hostinu, dal napéci nekvašené chleby a pojedli.” For those who don’t understand my beautiful native language, it is Genesis 19:3, which is in NASB translation: “[…] he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.” Nice text, thinking about it. I am getting hungry.

This past Friday we had a testday for Firefox 11.0b1. I would like to thank everyone who made the event a success.Throughout the day we had 8 testers and 16 moderators working hard to test, confirm bugs, and provide garbage and cycle collector data using the Memchaser add-on. I personally want to thank Aleksej, gaby2300, lcamacho, Swarnava, and everyone else for their hard work.

Stay tuned for details about next week’s Firefox 11.0b2 Mobile testday.

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VALLFOSCA. El pla d’acció política del nou govern espanyol es fonamenta en fer una Espanya forta i gran a base de re-centralitzar-ho tot amb una determinació absoluta, per terra, mar i aire.

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JOAN BORRUT i RÀFOLS. Un País sempre està associat a un territori. Territori, etimològicament ve de terra, la Natura. Si diem, estimo el meu País, també vol dir que estimes a la teva Terra… doncs perquè l’emmetzinem?.

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Publicat un estudi sobre la introducció de la impremta a l’illa de Mallorca. Tracta sobre els tres primers impressors establerts a Mallorca: Calafat i Caldenteny, fundada el 1485, Fernando Cansoles i Vilalroel (1540–1600) i la impremta Guasp (1576).

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El llibre també inclou el catàleg de totes les publicacions conegudes d’aquests tallers, amb la seva reproducció xilogràfica.

A la contracoberta

A lo largo de los últimos años, Miquela Forteza ha ido componiendo con paso firme una bibliografía personal de estudios sobre la impremta mallorquina muy notable y que ya es de referencia obligada. […] Como consecuencia natural de todo ese trabajo de acopio y ordenación de datos, Miquela Forteza se ha atrevido a entregar un volumen tan ambicioso como necesario.

«Los orígenes de la imprenta en Mallorca» es una obra llena de precisiones que desde aquí ya no estará permitido ignorar: los nombres de Nicolau Calafat, Bartomeu Caldentey, Fernando Cansoles y Gabriel Guasp llaman ahora a unas personas con una fisonomía clara, los seguimos en sus concretas preocupaciones para consolidar y dignificar la labor del impresor, y nos explican su lucha por sobrevivir día a día. Vemos como la labor de estos hombres se mezcla con decisiones políticas, disputas religiosas y disposiciones legales, posibilidades de comercio y contactos internacionales, restricciones económicas, impericia de los herederos y golpes de suerte. Los detalles del recorrido se certifican paso a paso con la exacta anotación de las fuentes, de modo que el libro no solo ofrece un completo «estado de la cuestión», sino que además ha de guiar hacia múltiples investigaciones futuras.

Sin duda, sus adiciones y correcciones a los catálogos de obras impresas hasta ahora conocidos (en especial en de Cansoles) completan un cuadro del que estudios posteriores pueden sacar conclusiones que enriquezcan nuestra percepción de la historia cultural de Mallorca.

(Del prefacio de Antonio Bernat Vistarini)

Títol: «Los orígenes de la imprenta en Mallorca»
Autora: Miquela Forteza
Lleonard Muntaner Editor, col·lecció «Objeto Perdido» 4
Primera edició, octubre del 2011
177 pàgines
ISBN 978–84-15076–75-9
Preu: 23,00 €
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[The Telegraph] Satellite phone encryption cracked. Es tracta dels algoritmes GMR-1 i GMR-2 utilitzats per alguns serveis de telefonia per satèl·lit. I es pot interceptar el tràfic d'una forma relativament econòmica.

Mr Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users would cost as little as $2,000. His demonstration system takes up to half an hour to decipher a call, but a more powerful computer would allow eavesdropping in real time, he said.

By publishing details of how to break the encryption, the researchers hope to prompt ETSI, the organization that sets the standards, to create stronger algorithms. A major problem with GMR-1 and GMR-2, Mr Driessen said, was that their details were kept secret so security experts cannot test them.

L’actriu nord-americana Leyla Hyams (1905–1977) llegint una revista

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La forma més habitual de transmissió utilitzat a les xarxes actual és unidifusió (unicast), on hi ha una connexió un-a-un, amb un emissor i un receptor. El protocol IP, però, també permet una modalitat diferent on un únic emissor envia els paquets que són rebuts per molts receptors, l'anomenada difusió selectiva o multicast. Aquest document d'IBM, IP Multicast Protocol Configuration, explica com implementar i configurar aquesta modalitat.

The most common transmission scheme used in networks today is unicast, which represents "one-to-one" transmission, with one sender and one receiver.

Sometimes there is a need for one host to send packets that are received by multiple hosts. The problem with implementing this kind of transmission using unicast is that the stream of packets would have to be replicated as many times as there are receivers.

IP multicast addresses the problem by intelligently sending only one stream of packets and then replicating the stream when it reaches the target domain that includes multiple receivers, or when it reaches a necessary bifurcation point leading to different receiver domains.

In this IBM® Redpaper, we introduces principles of IP Multicast, describe the IPv4 addressing used for multicast, and the protocols that are used to implement multicast in an IP network.

We then provide the general IP multicast configuration procedures and then presents IP multicast configuration in a sample network.

We then conclude this Redpaper with command reference that includes all commands and their parameters for configuration of multicast protocols and features.

Over the past several months BrowserID adoption by sites both inside and outside of Mozilla has started to take off. We have received a lot of feedback from site operators, some good, some bad. Far and away the biggest complaint from site operators is that completing the new user flow in BrowserID is causing drop off in potential users converting to verified users. Because of this, our own User Researcher Mary Trombley and UX guru Crystal Beasley have made it their mission to make this experience as smooth as possible.

Mary user tested our current sign up flow with people who had never used BrowserID. The results were eye opening. Users are doing things we suspected may cause problems, but we did not realize the extent of the confusion we were witnessing.

The core problem is that users get lost once they verify their email with BrowserID. No clear indication is given for how to return to the original site being signing up to. Sometimes users close the original site, sometimes they open the verification page in a new window, sometimes they start on mobile and finish on their desktop, sometimes they do everything we expect but don’t realize the original site is still open in another tab. All users see after completing the new user flow is some text that says (paraphrased) “You have finished signing up to BrowserID…. You may now close this window.”

Clearly, we have to do better.

Lloyd Hilaiel came up with some initial ideas outlined in the GitHub Tracking Issue. Skinny (Crystal) took these ideas and ran. She’s got UX talent. The changes she suggested were so obvious it was like “duh, how did we not think of this before?” But then again, it’s easy to say that in retrospect – the process for coming up with a smooth flow is anything but smooth.

Lloyd and Skinny’s initial suggestion was to use some browser trickery to get the user back to the initial site once they have completed the verification step.

If the original site is still open, we can use a window.alert to return focus to its tab. This works in Firefox, Chrome and Safari – neither Opera nor IE play nicely. Mobile browsers universally show the alert message, but fail to return the user to the correct tab.

If the original site is no longer open, we can redirect the verification tab back to the original site. Overall this offers a much better experience, but still leaves a huge hole – if we have to redirect the current tab to the original site, currently we have no way of indicating to that site that the user is now logged in. We think we have a solution to this using DOM events. I did a quick proof of concept on this last night and will post a video once something more concrete is available.

These simple changes boosted our conversion rates quite a bit. Skinny then took the flow and made it even smoother. She thought “why not enter the password inside the dialog?” Brilliant – when the user opens the verification link from their email, they have no additional work to do – all they have to do is worry about logging in.

BrowserID New User Verification Flow Experiments Screencast from Shane Tomlinson on Vimeo.

Both of these flows can be tried with right now. This is experimental work made for user testing and feedback – these flows should not even be considered alpha quality.

Flow 1 – https://feature385.myfavoritebeer.org/ – window.alert if original site is still open or redirect to original site if closed.

Flow 2 – https://feature1000.myfavoritebeer.org/ – Same as flow 1 with initial password entry inside the dialog.

Note, for these experiments we are using “hacksign.in” as our test version of “browserid.org” – you are not being hacked. Both domains are running in separate environments, so you will have to create an account on each.

I will be continue hacking on these flows over the next couple of weeks. Additional user tests will be done. We are going to keep refining until we get it right. Any and all feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

Check it out, see what you think.

Want to get involved?

• Check out the code on GitHub.
• Message our mailing list at dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org or sign up to receive daily updates.
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We’d love to hear from you about how we can make this better!

DAVID MORGADES.

INFORME D’AUTÒPSIA Nº1714

Amb data de 01 de febrer de l’any 2012, essent les 22 h, els perits médico-linguístics que subscriuen aquest informe van iniciar  l’autòpsia a la llengua de la nació catalana.

El cadàver reposava a la taula central de la sala necrològica sobre una llitera de lona de campanya cobert per una manta gruixuda i en posició de cúbit supí.

Passem a continuació a fer la relació de les nostres observacions:

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Això és el que ofereix Scott Aaronson, un científic del MIT:

I’m now offering a US$100,000 award fora demonstration, convincing to me, that scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world.  This award has no time limit other than my death, and is entirely at my discretion (though if you want to convince me, a good approach would be to convince most of the physics community first).

Ara bé, tingueu en compte dues de les condicions, «physical world» i «scalable»

Estava banyant la meua menuda, que aleshores ho era molt de menuda, quan de sobte es va posar a cridar i a dir que no veia, que no veia res. Alarmat pel plor i espantat per la perspectiva em vaig precipitar al telèfon. A l'altra banda Fermí, el nostre pediatra, va respondre amb tanta calma que em va calmar a mi i tot: 'no passa res, posa-li un glaçonet de gel a la parpella i tornarà a veure normal'. Ho va dir com si a ell li passara cada dia i efectivament la vista va tornar.

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Això és el que diu el govern alemany. Jo sóc més radical i dic, senzillament, que Chrome és el millor navegador que hi ha ara per ara.

I pel que sembla, les previsions eren bones i ara Chrome ja és el segon navegador més utilitzat segons statcounter.com:

Estadístiques d'ús de navegadors

Deu són les dones assassinades pels seus companys enguany. Avui un home ha mort a ganivetades la dona, és l'arma habitual de la violència mortal de gènere. Ell és un maltractador condemnat per la denúncia fa uns anys d'una altra dona.

Les dones mortes són un degoteig sagnant inacabable de la violència masclista. Només la voluntat col·lectiva d'enfortir una societat que visqui en la igualtat podrà acabar amb el malson.

Denúncia incansable i condol.