Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 136

Last Wednesday I went for the first time in many years to FES Iztacala, the UNAM faculty where I worked for four years (1999-2003) and where I have most learnt and advanced in my career so far. I have a very special spot in my heart for Iztacala :-) But it was not just a nostalgy drive - In no small part, I had not visited Iztacala -despite several invitations- because… It is really far away, in Tlalnepantla, Northern Mexico City (while I live in the South, just by UNAM). It takes me approximately 1.5 hours to get there via...

Virtualization is the technique (or rather, the set of techniques) that allow to share a single computer’s resources so that, for the user, it appears as several independent computers. There are several motivations to virtualize our systems, such as: Ease of administration (keeping our installations as simple as possible) Isolation/security (limiting the damage a potential attacker can achieve to the smallest possible domain) Resource control (avoiding a system failure to consume too many resources in others, leading to a denial of service - Or selling our computer resources by volume) High availability (transparent service migration between servers for maintenance tasks)...

[ updated on December 2009 ] The Free Software movement has traditionally been seen mainly as a technical movement, working towards a common knowledge body, expressly focused towards operating computer systems. We are presenting it, however, as one of the triggerers -and as one of the clearest success cases- of the Free Knowledge movements. We explore how the Free Software movement’s ideary, born as an ideological movement in the mid 1980s, corresponds with the historical logic of the scientific development that has evolved all along mankind’s growth, and is presented as a mechanism that should reempower the scientific and technological...

Almost a month ago, Mauro pointed towards acerfand, a daemon to keep the Acer Aspire One’s fan quiet while not needed. Thanks, Mauro, you made my life more pleasant ;-) Today I had some free time in my hands (of course, putting aside everything else I should be doing), so I decided to un-uglify my machine. I hate having random stuff in /usr/local! So I packaged Rachel Greenham’s acerfand for Debian. It should hit unstable soon. Of course, it will not make it to Lenny - which is a shame, giving how nicely Lenny recognizes everything in this sweet machine....

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,...