No veo la opción de Compartir Internet en mi iPhone 7

Si sos un usuario de Movistar en Argentina.
Tenés un iPhone 7.
No ves la opción de "Compartir Internet".
Y cuándo pedís ayuda a cualquiera de los canales de Movistar te responden esto...

"Tenés el manual del celu? Podés chequearlo ahí. Otra opción es que realices un reseteo de fábrica. Si no te aparece la opción de esa forma es necesario que te acerques a un servicio técnico externo ya que como nosotros no comercializamos esa marca no contamos con otras opciones para brindarte"

... qué es lo mismo que nada

Esto es lo que podés hacer:

Asegurate de que tenés buena recepción.

1. Apagá la Wi-Fi

2. Pasate a 3G

3. Entrá en Ajustes/Settings -> Red Celular/Cellular -> Opciones de Datos/Cellular Data Options -> Red De Datos Cellular/Cellular Data Network -> Compartir Internet/Personal Hotspot (No estoy muy seguro de las traducciones en castellano de las opciones.)

Completá el campo APN con: internet.movistar.com.ar

Dejá el usuario y la password en blanco.

4. Apagá y prendé el iPhone y listo.

5. Deberías ver la opción.

6. Volvé a LTE.

Si no funciona, deberías resetear la configuración de red y repetir los pasos 1 al 6.

Este post es para gente que no necesita el paso a paso y conoce el iPhone. Y fue escrito usando mi conexión de Internet de Movistar en mi compu 💪🏼

Disfruten y déjen su comentarios abajo.

How an IBM Redbooks publication is born?

A white board with an "I AGREE" phrase followed by several signatures and a pile of post-its stuck in the back that just a couple of days ago where all over that board. Today their job is done and now they stand there as a proof and a promise that will end up on a brand new IBM Redbooks publication.

When a ITSO Residency starts a new group of residents coming from all over the world get together with on thing in common, passion for what they do.

After a few days ideas go from one place to the other, from one brain to the other, and if one is fast enough all of them can be cached and post-it to the board. Structure is added and it becomes the TOC, or table of contents, of a new book.

Then each team member stands in front of this board and leaves their signature, this simple act creates a strong connection between the passion, the ideas and those post-its, that reflects what each one of them and the team as a whole expects and will do for a brand new IBM Redbooks publication.

La Suegra

Cada tanto nos pasa que nos encontramos con publicaciones de nuestros amigos de las redes sociales en las que despotrican contra el universo de Facebook e Instagram al sentirse cuestionados en sus ideales y principios. Ideales y principios que incluyen desde cómo hacer las milanesas, criar a nuestros hijos o ser veganos.
Esta es mi reflexión acerca de la causa de estos exabruptos que nos llevan a aclararle al ciberespacio, quienes somos y de dónde venimos.
Antes de las redes sociales le rendíamos cuentas a nosotros mismos, nuestra pareja, y de acuerdo a la edad, a nuestros hija/o/s. Quién te producía estos malestares eran, como mucho, tu familia extendida que podríamos llamar en su colectivo "La Suegra." Compuesta por la suegra, claro, pero también tu suegro, tu cuñada/o/s, amigos de tu pareja y aunque en menor medida tu familia y amigos. "La Suegra" representa al colectivo de todo lo que tiene una crianza y principios diferentes a uno, son los de otro palo.
Hoy con las redes sociales "La Suegra" somos 2200 millones de personas que nos sentimos con el mismo de derecho de opinar. Y ese derecho crece cuánto más compartímos nuestras vidas en las redes sociales.
Así que la próxima vez que vayamos a nuestros muros a despotricar sobre nuestro derecho a ser quienes somos y a pensar cómo querramos, revisemos nuestra lista de amigos y nuestros últimas publicaciones en las redes sociales.

Spiritual but not Religious

Every time someone inquires about my religion I feel uncomfortable because I know my answer will not be enough for who is asking. I can not respond: “I am atheist.” I can not respond: “I am agnostic”. I can not respond: “I was baptized as a catholic”. And I definitely do not like to be referred as a “none”. It’s easy to say I am tall, I am thin, I like pasta, I like travelling, and yes! although I am an Argentinean, I do not care about “fútbol”. These are all short sentences that describe without any doubt who I am and how I feel toward things. But I do not have one to convey what my beliefs are. Recently I came across the concept of being “Spiritual but not Religious” so here I dive into its meaning to see if it could be the answer to my prayers.

I am not atheist. Doing a quick search in Google you can find that an atheist is a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. I don’t consider myself a person who disbelieves. In fact, I firmly believe that there is something else beyond what our five senses can show to us. I am always learning as much as I can about Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and other creeds. When you strip them to their core they all speak about how to treat each other and agree on the existence of a superior being. This superior being is all that it is good in us and you can call it God, Universal Spirit or Energy. And by the way, believing in this also rules me out as agnostic, because agnostics only believe in what they can perceive with their five senses.

I am not religious. John Blake quotes Greeley, a professor at Sacred Heart University, in his CNN.com post “Religion demands that we accord to human existence some absolutes and eternal truths . . ." Absolutes and eternal truths simply don’t agree with me. Absolutes and eternal truths go hand in hand with fanaticism. And sadly, I don’t need to go far in human history to find many examples of what fanaticism can do in the hands of bad or ignorant people. Just take as an example what is happening in Syria or the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. On the other hand, organized religion nurtures the needy and the poor. But as happens with any organization, when they are led by the wrong people or when their existence is threatened, they “inevitably [degenerate] into tussles over power, ego and money.”

I don’t like to be called a “none.” In one of its reports, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life defines nones as “. . . people who answer a survey question about their religion by saying they have no religion, no particular religion, no religious preference, or the like.” According to this research work, the term “. . . provides a negative definition, specifying what a phenomenon is not, rather than what it is . . . [and] implies that only those affiliated with a formal group are religious.” The Center avoids these misgivings by referring to this group as religiously unaffiliated. It emphasizes that “. . . the absence of a religious affiliation does not necessarily indicate an absence of religious beliefs or practices. On the contrary, as the report makes clear, most of the “nones” say they believe in God, and most describe themselves as religious, spiritual or both.

I am Spiritual but not Religious. The definition of spirituality as found in the first sentence of its Wikipedia’s entry reads “Spirituality may refer to almost any kind of meaningful activity, personal growth, or blissful experience.” John Blake quotes a Jesuit priest called James Martin arguing that “being Spiritual but not Religious can lead to complacency and self-centeredness. If it's just you and God in your room, and a religious community makes no demands on you, why help the poor?" I could not disagree more bluntly with his remarks. We tend to confuse self-centeredness with egomania. Even the most educated people make this mistake. Being self-centeredness is not a bad thing. It is actually a natural behavior. Self-centered people do everything in their power for their own well being and remain as the center of their own personal world. They procure to feel good by doing the things that better their world. This creates a virtuous cycle and allow them to be available for others. On the other hand, the egomaniac wants to be the center of other’s personal worlds. This creates a conflict situation for both where no one is complete. You would not say that Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa were self-centered, but they were! Their great self-sacrifice and self-renunciation for their idea of God ultimately brought them joy. So you don’t need a religious community demanding you to do good because helping your community is helping yourself.

As you can imagine there is not only one definition of spirituality. The definition has evolved through the years but the etymology has remained. The Wikipedia entry on the etymology of the word spiritual explains that the term spirit means "animating or vital principle in man and animals." It is derived from the Old French espirit which comes from the Latin word spiritus (soul, courage, vigor, breath) and is related to spirare (to breathe).” In the context of Spiritual but not Religious, this etymology explains why I can not consider myself atheist or agnostic because I believe in something greater than the sum of the parts.

Having said all of the above I have to conclude that “Spiritual but not Religious” quite describes my approach to spirituality. I practice my beliefs independent of an organization. I am not affiliated and I do not forget that I am part of a community because balancing my existence with the existence of this community, and the whole world, is a part of my spiritual experience.

Si pudimos con el tomate a 18 pesos

En Agosto de 2012 los Argentinos nos vimos obligados a valorar la moneda extranjera de otro modo. Y sin quererlo, también aprendimos a valorar la nuestra de otro modo. Para principios de 2013 algunos medios hablaban de hasta 15 tipos de cambios diferentes. Aparecieron el dólar Blue, Ahorro,

Turista, Bolsa, Liqui, Ladrillo y hasta el Celeste. Y con cada tipo de cambio apareció una manera distinta de valorar la moneda nacional. Una discusión distinta entre compradores y vendedores. Una ponderación más completa de todas las cuestiones que hacían al valor de una transacción.

Esta mañana mientras la Argentina vuelve hacia un mercado desregulado de las divisas muchos Argentinos no van a salir desesperados a buscar dólares. Muchos aprendimos que nosotros somos los responsables de las famosas corridas cambiarias. Entendimos que no vamos a pagar más por aquellos dólares que no necesitemos. Entendimos que si pudimos vivir sin ellos, y viajar sin ellos y hasta comprar "el iPhone" sin ellos, podremos seguir haciéndolo.

Quizás porque miro el vaso medio lleno, es que rescato el aprendizaje que nos dejaron las restricciones. Entendimos que valorar no es sobrevalorar. El precio del dólar está mucho más allá que en el numerito de una pizarra en el microcentro de la city porteña o en el valor que canta a viva voz un "arbolito."

El precio del dólar no es un designio divino, cómo no lo es el precio de la leche o el pan. Si un producto no tiene demanda y hay alguien que quiere venderlo, entonces el precio baja. El principio de la oferta y la demanda en su origen siempre ha sido justo. Por eso, si pudimos contra el tomate a 18 pesos, también podremos con un dólar más caro por que ahora sabemos valorarlo.

Viveza Criolla

Argentineans are known for what we call the viveza criolla. Viveza could be translated as cleverness. And criollo was used in the colonial times to describe a person who was a direct descendant from Spaniards born in Argentinean soil. So, viveza criolla is used to described the Argentinean way of being clever. The inventions of the floating ball pen and the fingertip identification system are said to be products of this attribute. As a child, I heard it in one of my mom’s pieces of everyday wisdom. When she’d see us heading towards the long corridor that connected our rooms at home, she’d give us pieces of our scattered stuff in the kitchen and say: “Save on trips. Take this with you.”

Viveza criolla came in handy when Pablo and I went on our first U.S. vacation together. I had been here for work several times so it was my turn to plan for the trip. We were going to visit San Francisco and then drive south through the west coast to Los Angeles. We even got lucky enough to get tickets for a Madonna concert in one of our three days in Los Angeles.

Since it was Pablo’s first time attending one of her shows we didn’t want to miss anything. One of the things I love about the U.S. is how everything seems to work like clockwork, and the whole trip had been great in that sense. Everyone here respected the rules, dates and times. So I figured that since we were staying close to the stadium leaving one hour in advance would be enough. We were not acquainted with the city so we let the GPS take us there. It was the time when GPSs didn’t know about traffic conditions so it took us via the shorter time path, which turned out to be the path everyone was taking.

The two lanes of the road heading to the stadium main entrance were jammed full of traffic. After 45 minutes we had only moved half a mile. As we were approaching an intersection, the viveza criolla in me kicked in and put this question in my mind, “Is it possible that this is the only road to the stadium?” I overrode the GPS directions, looked at the map and turned left at the intersection. A couple of blocks ahead we found a parallel road. We took it and it was empty to our surprise. No one was there. We drove all the way down that road until we were a block away from the stadium where we even found a free parking spot!

After the excitement of the concert I thought about how this tendency to follow the rules can keep American society from evolving when rules are followed blindly. We would have been late to the concert. In fact, many people continued arriving way after the opening act was over and Madonna was already on the stage.

There is no folly in following the rules. But strictly following the rules without applying common sense can be a problem. Failing to understand that rules are bounded by the time and situation of their creation is a mistake. Can you imagine African Americans still riding in the back of buses, or that after 14 years together Pablo and I would not have been able to marry?

I’d like to think that the U.S. court justices had a stroke of viveza criolla when they saw that this was a mistake and ruled in favor of marriage equality. For centuries American society was blindly following the same two-lane road that denied the diversity of relationships and the right to marry. They took the turn to find a faster road to social justice. They understood that they had to ensure diversity in the application of human rights. They knew it was their job to be always alert to change rules for the better, to validate them against common sense and the wisdom of the times. This is the essence of our viveza criolla and we Argentineans know that the secret ingredient is diversity.

Absent Adults

Langston Hughes’ Salvation and Floyd Dell’s We’re Poor essays have a main common theme about two boys coming of age, but there is a secondary and maybe not as easy-to-spot theme: the consequences of adults underestimating children.

Langston is a boy who believes in Jesus the way many kids believe in Santa Claus. He has listened to many grown ups telling stories about how Jesus saved them. His aunt starts speaking about a special meeting for children that is going to be held before her church’s revival ends “to bring the young lambs to the fold.” His aunt has even given him many examples of what he is going to experience when Jesus comes into his life: “you [see] a light, and something [happens] to you inside!” And he believes her because “old people . . . ought to know.”

Floyd is a happy boy who does not feel anything is missing from his perfect life. His parents are always home. He always has potato soup which is his favorite meal. And when the Sunday-school superintendent makes a speech about hard times and children not having enough to eat, he is able to help with an envelope with coins and a bag of potatoes. But everything changes when Christmas gets closer. His parents do not seem to want to talk about it. He starts thinking about the reasons for his parents ignoring the subject completely. And finally the anxiety of this situation makes him to confront them by asking “This is Christmas Eve, isn’t it?”

Langston goes to church on that special night and sits on the mourners’ bench with other children. When the preacher finishes his sermon the whole congregation starts calling the children to the altar to meet Jesus. Langston waits for Jesus to come and take him but nothing happens. None of the clues his aunt has told him to wait for show. And when he realizes that it’s getting late and every one is waiting for him, he stands up and runs to the altar to be saved. But he knows that he is doing this for all the wrong reasons. Later that night when alone in bed he thinks that Jesus has not come to help him. And he regrets having lied and deceived everybody. He even believes that there is no Jesus at all.

After Floyd asks his Christmas Eve question, his parents look away. His mother is noticeably distressed and leaves the room. His father puts on a joking face and explains he does not know if it is Christmas because he has not been reading the papers. He also leaves the room and Floyd, like Langston, goes to his room and is left alone with his thoughts. That is when he realizes that they are poor! This is the reason why his mother did not want him to put his name on the envelope. This is why the envelope only had pennies. And the reason why his father is always home is because his has no job. He also wrongly concludes that because he is now a poor boy he is not allowed to want anything or to have anything, not even hope.

It is not a coincidence that the turning point in these stories is when both boys are left alone to their own thoughts in the dark of their rooms. In Langston´s story his aunt fails in explaining what his journey into spirituality will be. And in telling him that she is trying to put into words what it was like for her. Letting Jesus come into his life is more of a private experience in which he is not supposed to actually see Jesus but understand that this very concept will help him to explain faith as an adult and share it with the church community. In Floyd´s story his parents underestimate the ability of the kid to perceive all the hints about their situation. It could be said that they do this to try to shield him from a painful situation, but not explaining what is actually going on has a worse effect.

Both kids arrive at conclusions of their own based on what they think it means to be saved by Jesus or what it means to be a poor kid. These two notions are perfectly natural for anyone entering adulthood but they are rendered more painful because the adults do not support them with the truth along the way. Entering adulthood should be a journey to share with other adults who should treat you like one. At home my mother was like this but my father was more like Floyd’s father. The only decision I was left alone with as a child was to choose what method I preferred. I chose my mother’s.