Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 127

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...

Finally, temperatures are back to sanity, and the air is no longer a mass of dust. For us Mexicans (well, for us central-Mexicans), spring is the hot, dry season. In spring, we usually reach up to 30°C… Not too much for many people, but hellish for me. Summer is much more palatable, having decently sunny days, cloudy evenings and a nice shower as it gets dark. Even if it is a bit harder for a cyclist to take the streets, I think this is my favorite season. This year, we had several (and early!) false starts. I have come to...

It is time for stupid, empty politicians slogans once again in my dear country. And, as always, while we had lively, controversial presidential elections three years ago (and I won’t rant this time on why so many Mexicans still believe the current president can only be called a de facto president), the mid-term elections… Fail to get any attention and cause only bored reactions. I am writing today mostly because I stumbled upon Francisco’s post on why the Mexican Ecologist Green Party (PVEM) campaign does not impress him. As many, many other people with strong political opinions I know, I...

…Just going out of almost two weeks of reclusion due to the porcine^W human^W atypical^W new-and-yet-unnamed AH1N1 influenza. The streets are still mostly deserted, but at least we are allowed back into our workplaces. Comments 2009-05-06 14:26:00 Otro logo Mi muy querido, tu logo no me parece muy kosher, creo que me quedo con mi adaptación: Atte. Nadezhda 2009-05-10 14:24:00 Rafael Bucio haha, bonitos logos

We have had a quite strange couple of days… Everything was smooth as usual on Thursday. As I posted here, I cycled to Iztacala to give a talk and back, and basically had a good time. We had heard news some days earlier on the radio that the usual seasonal flu was still present by mid-April, while usually it disappeared by early March… But nothing more. But Friday morning, as I listened to my usual news program, Aristegui repeated over and over that the Health ministry had ordered (in a press conference at 23:00 the previous day) schools of all...

I was invited to talk about Free Software at yesterday’s FLISOL. Yesterday? Aren’t FLISOLs organized on Saturday? Well, not this one, for various reasons which I won’t quote here. And no, I am not a supporter of the installfests idea, but I went gladly to talk about what is Free Software all about - The philosophy behind Free Software. Besides, the talk was at FES Iztacala, where I worked for four happy years, 1999-2003. I have not been often to Iztacala since 2003 (probably I have visited only three or four times), partly because of the distance (~25Km from home...

I was contacted today via private e-mail by Rafal Czlonka, as the hackergotchi I use (at least) in Planet Debian is wrongly rendreed by his WebKit-based web browser, Arora. So, in order to get more people to notice the bug if it exists: This is my hackergotchi (copied from Planet Debian, so I can update it and this post still shows a valid one): And this is the sample he sent me on how it is rendered by Arora - Pay no attention to the horizontal lines (those are taken from the background where it is rendered): So, is the...