Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 126

Just bough a foldable bike — Here, Nadezhda rides!

Today I went to the La Merced area to finally buy a foldable bike. There were basically four options: Benotto’s 20” Utopia, Alubike 16” Foldingbike, Alubike 24” and a custom-made bike at a smaller store, Bici Universo. In Mexico it is also possible to buy a Brompton, although they are not available in larger stores and their pricing is prohibitive. Sergio Mendoza advised me to look for the Dahon bikes at Benotto, but they have discontinued them in favor of their own making. I ended up buying the Bici Universo one. I must say this: I sincerely hope not to...

The cats get acquinted with our new foldable «Universo» bike Comments 2009-06-06 22:02:51 ¡Esta fregona Gunnar! hace ¡Esta fregona Gunnar! hace años que busco uno bici doblable hecha en México. Me encanta que tenga la rejilla para carga, una alforja hubiera sido de lujo. Supongo que la pequeña escuadra del marco sirve para darle estructura y tener de donde tomarla. Felipe 2009-06-08 08:28:33 WoW Está muy chida. Siempre y cuando no decida “doblarse” en un momento inoportuno. Envidia de la buena…

Today I attended RubyCamp (schedule available), organized by my friends at Instituto de Física, at my University. I presented three plugins I made and regularly use. The organizers followed a short, more informal scheme than most conferences I am used to — Talk slots range between 5 and 15 minutes, so we attended a whole day of semi-lightning talks. Of course, many people have run late, and although there was quite a bit of free space in the schedule, it has been practically non-stop — I was thinking on also giving a talk on encodings (as many people really still...

I prepared this for a short presentation at RubyCamp UNAM. I present the three Rails plugins I wrote in 2008, acts_as_catalog, real_fk and acts_as_magic_model Attachments LaTeX sources for the presentation (5 KB) Presentation, PDF format (269 KB)

Yup — Over a month ago I was contacted by Norman García (who I met via the various EDUSOL activities), and René Mayorga (who I met thanks to his Debian involvement) inviting me to join them for the First Central-American Free Software Encounter. I had insisted to several Central American friends on setting up such an encounter for several years, and I am really glad I was invited. So, if you happen to be near Central America between June 17 and 21, don’t miss it! They are even organizing a bus (which still has place for more travellers!) going from...

BEAUTIFUL lake. And WONDERFUL weekend with friends! Comments 2009-06-02 13:41:57 The Best Gunnar Eyal Wolf Iszaevich pic of all time. Simply the best of all pics I ever seen of Gunnar ;) – Kaz

En la edición anterior de SoftwareGurú prometí que en esta columna trataría temas relativos a la seguridad en cómputo, a cómo escribir código más confiable y más robusto. Las vulnerabilidades más comunes son también las más fáciles de explotar para un atacante - Y utilizando algunas prácticas base, son también las más fáciles de evitar o corregir: Casi todas ellas se originan en la falta de validación (o exceso de confianza) en los datos que nos proporciona el usuario. Prácticamente la totalidad de los sistemas que desarrollemos procesarán datos provenientes de terceros. Ya sea mostrando o grabando lo expresado en...

I am afraid to say this… But my good friend Kaz has just created a great iconic representation of this angry viking-like antihero on his crusade to spread Free Software and clobber every naysayer with the DFSG and his own personal interpretation of the Social Contract (where Guideline is defined as… Well, better left as an excercise to the reader. To the very patient reader). So, the unofficial, unsanctioned and not related in any way to this (or any other) person, dead or alive… But thanks, kaz, for keeping my name alive in this chaos that Internet has become, even...

You might have noticed that during last week the Mexican Debian mirror, nisamox.fciencias.unam.mx (a.k.a. ftp.mx.debian.org, a.k.a. debian.unam.mx), went offline. The motherboard died on us, and Facultad de Ciencias was kind enough to give us a brand new one. So, excuse us for the blackout, but we are back – Meaner and badder than ever before! Now, Sergio (nisamox’s main admin) prefered to rebuild the whole mirror, as there was a shadow of doubt regarding the data integrity. So, rsync was pulling as fast as he could for the whole weekend (leading to some people scratching their heads regarding the 404...