I have become comfortably numb

Son sólo imaginaciones mías o este anuncio de ubuntu parece el de una marca de condones para gays.

Eh, que ser hetero también mola.

Después de seis años con gentoo he movido todos mis ordenadores a openSUSE. Llevo un par de meses con KDE 4 y de momento no me arrepiento. Creo que no volveré a una distribución basada en código hasta que esta gente tenga algo interesante.

It may happen that if you send a pdf document to a postscript printer the printed document doesn't use exactly the same font as the digital one. This is because if the printer doesn't find a font in the document it uses some table to find a similar one. This is not a huge problem because printers have a quite long list of available fonts. The problem arises if you want to send a pdf to a publisher to print your book (lulu, for instance). Instead of receiving your book you get an email saying that the printer complained about some missing font called helvetica and just stopped printing the document. The print-ready documents must have all the fonts embedded but sometimes pdflatex doesn't do so. This command is the solution:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress\
 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf

Et voilá! C'est tout!