Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 136

Consumer Electronics Association Attachments (102 KB)

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Stand up for the right to share the music you love! Attachments (97 KB)

I just sent a letter to the very well-known national newspaper El Universal. At least I think I did, as their contact form is a sad excuse of unusability. The reason I contacted them is the publication, over a week ago, of a note where they invite children to take part in a contest by IMPI towards fighting piracy. But not only they engage in doublespeak and prior judgement by further pushing the term piracy for an action that has nothing to do with it, they also expect children to denounce their parents and teachers if they engage in such...

When it comes to legislation regarding what goes in your ears, some people would prefer you not use the space between them. Digital Freedom Attachments (172 KB)

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. Attachments (32 KB) Comments Billy 2008-09-27 16:05:05 ¿Emacs? ¿qué no es VIM? …. jajajaja saludos Gunnar :) Bucio 2008-09-25 13:10:07 i wanna u coral :), u can i wanna u coral :), u can sell ¡¡ damog 2008-09-26 13:55:12 Sí, yo no dije que no Sí, yo no dije que no tuvieras derecho :) Salú por el chivo :D damog 2008-09-25 11:04:05 Gunny, eres cada más hippie Gunny, eres cada...

I was invited to participate at Festival Internacional de Software Libre (FISOL), in Tapchula, Chiapas. The other invited speakers were Sandino Flores (tigrux), Alexandro Colorado (jza), Eric Herrera (crac), John Hall (maddog) and Fernando Romo (pop), all well-known due to very different contributions to the Free Software movement in Mexico and abroad. Several other people also presented tutorials, but I was not involved in that part, and mentioning one while not the rest would be unfair. The conference was quite massive - Tapachula is a medium-sized city (~200,000 people) in Mexico’s Southernmost point - Sadly, due to its geographical location,...

I was already used to regularly receiving Bubulle’s bug 500000 contest reports. Lately, he has been busy pushing translators to get d-i in shape - But expect notices from him soon! Right now, we sit at 499416 bug reports so far registered in the Debian BTS. We are really close to the half megabug mark!

A common trait of virtually all of the media in Mexico -and, as far as I have been able to see, in Latin America- is the push for society to be afraid. The government and the media (which go hand-in-hand, mainly due to a series of favors owed to each other - currently stemming from the government’s illegitimacy and lack of trust from the general population) wants us all to think the country is as violent and as dangerous as it has never been before. And yes, I cannot and won’t try to deny that there are many critical points...

I stopped playing so-called memetic games a long time ago. But I liked this one - Thanks to Nicolás Valcarcel. So, what are the current names? Netbook aikoa (temporary name, /methinks) Laptop malenkaya Work desktop mosca Home server cajita (yes, not very imaginative - it's a Mac Mini) Main work server lafa Virtualization host pulpo Work firewall joma Other current machines have much less exciting names. Some of the older machines I have named (and with which I worked enough time to remember them) include shmate, lactop, conetontli, tepancuate, tlamantli… And many other long forgotten. Oh, and… About a pattern?...

For about eight years, I was a very happy WindowMaker user. It was very lightweight, aesthetically pleasing, and I had interiorized its behaviour and keybindings so much, I didn’t feel I’d ever switch away. I periodically tried (forced myself even!) to use any of the other, more en vogue environments… Experimented using Gnome for a week, KDE for a week, XFCE for a week (so I would have enough time to learn their ways)… And always came back to my good, well-known wmaker. In 2006, when we held DebConf6 in Mexico, I saw how other people worked with ion3. I...