Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments

Posted by guille on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments Thumbnail

We wrote this article for the Analysys Mason newsletter, Communiqué, for the February release.
Femtocells are an exciting technology that is getting more and more important. After several launches – Sprint and AT&T in the US, StarHub in Singapore and Softbank in Japan – Vodafone UK has started the first European deployment the 1st of July, [...]

New look – Update your RSS!

Posted by admin on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments New look – Update your RSS! Thumbnail

Please, update your RSS by clicking here. The old ones will work for a while, but might disapear at any moment. Thanks!
Well, it took a lot of time, but eventually here it is: The new look of my blog.
To be honest, it was mainly a gift for my wife. She wanted to start her blog [...]

Capas Seseña: La tradicional capa española

Posted by guille on Jan 23rd, 2008 | 2 Comments Capas Seseña: La tradicional capa española Thumbnail

Todas las culturas tienen una vestimenta que las distingue. Los japoneses tienen sus maravillosos kimonos, cuadros de seda pintada a mano. Los escoceses y griegos tienen sus faldas que exiben con orgullo en la vida civil como en la militar, hasta tal punto que solamente se abandonó su uso en combate durante la Segunda Guerra [...]

Implementing Backup for a home network

Posted by guille on Oct 10th, 2007 | 0 Comments Implementing Backup for a home network Thumbnail

Backups are one of the least beloved activities in computing. Few people like to do backups, and thus they don’t think about doing them.
My motto is, if you think you should do a backup, it’s already too late. And lately I am thinking about doing a backup, so I’m concerned.
In order to implement automatic backups [...]

Le futur de Facebook

Posted by guille on Oct 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments Le futur de Facebook Thumbnail

Une copine m’a fait lire un article qui donne son avis sur le commentaire de Steve Ballmer, actuel patron de Microsoft:
“I think these things [social
networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a
faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”
Malgré le manque d’estime que j’ai pour cet homme, je [...]

Ghost software and other stories

Posted by guille on Apr 21st, 2007 | 3 Comments Ghost software and other stories Thumbnail

As I said in other posts, I am now in an important insurance company taking care of the organization of users in functional groups for the LDAP server. This allows me to be in constant contact with the managers of all the main application the company’s business is based on, the main majority of [...]

Fire in the Sky

Posted by guille on Apr 15th, 2007 | 0 Comments Fire in the Sky Thumbnail

Fire in the Sky  es un juego de MMP que representa la lucha que opuso al Imperio de Japón y al Imperio Británico y su aliado los Estados Unidos en el Océano Pacífico.
Dicho teatro de operaciones ha sido siempre uno de los grandes retos de los diseñadores de wargames. Esto es debido a la gran amplitud geográfica (el Océano Pacífico [...]

Raúl: Por qué pienso que es un cretino

Posted by guille on Apr 9th, 2007 | 9 Comments Raúl: Por qué pienso que es un cretino Thumbnail

Rectificación: Este Raúl Artacho
no tiene nada que ver
con el director de cortometrajes,
de teatro y guionista. Son dos
personas completamente distintas.
Pido disculpas por todo malentendido
que haya podido generar esta confusión.
 
Hace poco recibí el email de un chico que no conocía de nada. Intentaba vender su coche, y no se le ocurrió nada más que escribir un email [...]

Authentication puzzle, a real-world example

Posted by guille on Mar 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments Authentication puzzle, a real-world example Thumbnail

I am working now for an insurance company with more than 25.000 employees and with offices  in such exotic places as South-America, Hog Kong or Bahrain.
Of course, such important company has a complicated and intricate structure. Companies that depend of companies that  are controlled by companies that are dominated by a big holding that keeps [...]

I met a banana yesterday night!

Posted by guille on Mar 3rd, 2007 | 3 Comments I met a banana yesterday night! Thumbnail

Sometimes you meet with people that have just enough intelligence to talk to a banana. Those people do not appear to be  a banana until you start speaking with them. And when you realize what they are… it is too late
I met one of those specimen yesterday. A blond, tall girl that was [...]

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