Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 135

There is quite a bit of software whose upstream authors decide that, as they are already using Git for development, the main distribution channel should be GitHub - This allows, yes, for quite a bit of flexibility, which many authors have taken advantage of. So, I just registered and set up http://githubredir.debian.net/ to make it easier for packagers to take advantage of it. Specifically, what does this redirector make? Given that GitHub allows for downloading as a .zip or as a .tar.gz any given commit, it suddenly becomes enough to git tag with a version number, and GitHub magically makes...

Thanks to some unexplained comments on some oldish entries on my blog, I found -with a couple of days of delay- Rubigem is from Mars, Apt-get is from Venus, in Pelle’s weblog. And no, I have not yet read the huge amount of comments generated from it… Still, I replied with the following text - And I am leaving this blog post in place to remind me to further extend my opinions later on. Wow… Quite a bit of comments. And yes, given that the author wrote a (very well phrased and balanced) post, I feel obliged to reply. But...

Seen in the “Universum: Museo de las Ciencias” library: This hall has an anti-robbery safety system. Avoid it. Attachments (427 KB)

I love it when a lack-of-humor and lack-of-appropriateness-originated flamewar causes somebody to point me towards a very nice display of intelligent humor. Specially when it is so close to me, to my roots, to my family and my personal history. FWIW, for several years, while I was a BBS user, I used WereWolf as my nickname. Great thanks to Frank Küster - and, of course, to Christian Morgenstern. The Werewolf - English translation by Alexander Gross A Werewolf, troubled by his name, Left wife and brood one night and came To a hidden graveyard to enlist The aid of a...

It’s sad that today in Planet Debian we have hit an Eurocentric geographically discriminating meme. Particularly, one I’d love to take part of. Well, at least I can assure you we have reached the usual low temperature of 2 Celsius in Mexico City… As always, people say it’s so cold that this year we will get snow. And as always, I’m sure it’s just wishful thinking ;-) So, even with Marcelo’s frozen Zócalo live again for this winter, I can only reinforce our tropical paradise stereotypes by reminding you that this is less than 500Km away from home - All...

Wouter insists that Ruby Gems are enough of an argument to keep Rails at a distance. Even though I agree with the basic claim and think that Gems are basically insane and sick, this should be taken a bit more under perspective. We are blessed. We are blessed to have Debian, such a rich OS with such a great package management system, and with superb integration between so many packages. Blessed are also the users of most Free Software based distributions, as they share the advantages of systems growing with full consciousness of their interaction’s benefits. However, integration with the...

This might be a good message to write in Spanish… But then again, a long time ago I decided this is an English-posting site. So be it, I’ll only have to give more background information. This day marks the date when, 98 years ago, Francisco I. Madero started the Mexican Revolution - About a decade of unrest, civil war and ideologies. The revolution is what created the violent, uncivil image of the Mexican, which accompanied us for long years in many foreigners’ minds. The revolution brought to an end 30 years of a single-man rule, the Porfiriato. But that’s only...

Yesterday I took part of the fourth inter-state bike ride, requesting the construction of proper and safe cycling ways. Tens of Mexican bike-rider organizations were part of the organization, althought the effort is basically grouped under the Ciclopistas y Ciclovías Interestatales project - For further details on the route we took, you can look at the México-Pachuca road map, although it was not followed literally. I am very happy I decided to take part of this - I went with Adrián, but after the first rest/grouping we lost track of each other, and decided the best would be for each...

Michael blogs about Critical Mass. What is Critical Mass in case you are too lazy to go to Michael’s or to the Wikipedia? A cyclist-awareness movement, showing how bikers are safer (i.e. more visible) when there are more of them. The (dis)organizational nature of this movement (at least according to Wikipedia’s information) seems quite fun and interesting. However, I have to oppose what Michael says is a strong point of CM in Austria - At least, given my country’s culture. People who don’t bike often say we have the least bike-aware culture, and that this city must be like hell...

Via Kees Cook (and sorry for the reiteration for people following along Planet Debian, thanks to Caspar Clemens: Recent (>= 5.1) versions of OpenSSH (found at least in Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Intrepid), have the VisualHostKey option. What does it do? $ ssh -o VisualHostKey=yes 172.16.10.1 Host key fingerprint is db:7a:d8:a8:2e:41:a2:e5:51:e1:7f:d0:73:bd:85:bf +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | .. | | .. . . . | | .. . o . o . | | + .. . o + | | + + . S . . | |. . . . o . | | . .+. E | | ....