During the last decades in all developed countries new industrial firms have appeared that combine manufacturing activity with the services needed. Instead of traditional resources, this new industry is based on the intensive use of technological knowledge and the generation of value added through the design and the improvement of distribution channels and commercialization.

As it is quite well known, Canonical decided to drop support for the desktop it had created and adopted in 2010, called Unity.

I use Emacs as editor, but in my new laptop it opens always fullscreen and maximized. I tried everything suggested in this thread:

https://superuser.com/questions/124891/emacs-starting-maximised

I'm trying to do as much as I can with R instead of Stata, but Stata has positive network externalities in the economics profession and it's hard to move away if you have coauthors using it.

I have renewed my laptop after using my previous one several years. But what is remarkable is how easy it is to migrate both applications, its settings and the data from one computer to another one when you use GNU-Linux systems like Ubuntu, so that you can continue working in the new computer exactly as you were working in the old computer. Here you have some notes on how I did it.

This is an update on how to identify an URL stream using wireshark. In a previous article I explained how to install wireshark:

https://puna.upf.edu/node/108

For some reason, radio stream providers are increasingly obfucasting the URL of the radio stream, probably because they want users to access their streams through their web page. So my old instructions do not work.

I like to work hearing music, especially classic music. I also like Radio Clásica, the classical music radio of the Spanish public radio. In rhythmbox it is easy to enter a new radio, just entering the URL of the radio stream in the "Properties" field of the radio.

The Linux console is where all messages from the kernel are received, but it allows also user interface as in dektop terminal.