Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 137

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...

Back from Argentina, back from DebConf. As always, the ~3 weeks I spent there were really great, in as many fronts as I can imagine or describe. But I won’t go into that now - For the purposes of this posting, the single thing that I got out of DebConf was looking with envy at all the people that had something that used to be called a sub-notebook some time ago, and now morphed into the more modern(?) name netbook. Several people were seen with their tiny Asus Eee machines, of various models. And I definitively decided I want one...

Ruby on Rails has become a very popular framework for Web-based applications. And, even though Rails itself is neatly packaged and integrated in Debian, supporting Rails applications (specially in a large-scale provider) can prove rather difficult. Besides the core application, we face problems such as handling plugins, concurrent versions, and the like. In this BoF session we discussed the different problems we face, looking towards adequate solutions. This talk was presented at DebConf 8, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Attachments debian+rails.pdf (160 KB) debian+rails.tex (7 KB)

A theater play by Javier and Antonio Malpica. VERY good! Attachments (66 KB)

Several weeks ago, the people in charge of maintaining the Windows machines in my institute were desperate because of a series of virus outbreaks - Specially, as expected, in the public lab - but the whole network smell virulent. After seeing their desperation, I asked Rolman to help me come up with a solution. He suggested me to try replacing the Windows workstations by substituting local installations by a server having several virtual machines, all regenerated from a clean image every day, and exporting rdesktop sessions. He suggested using Xen for this, as it is the virtualization/paravirtualization solution until now...

Last week (July 7-13) was basically hell on Earth, for me and for the group that somehow got the name Cabras locas, of which I am part since I joined the National Pedagogical University, where I worked full-time 2003-2005. It was, yes, the first of my officially three weeks of Summer holiday at IIEc-UNAM, so no problems here. So, why hell on Earth? Because we were in charge basically of anything related with information flow, retrieval and manipulation at the 11th International Congress on Mathematical Education, in Monterrey. What we thought would basically be one or two days of hard...

At the Cola de Caballo waterfall, near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico Attachments (491 KB) Comments A. Anonymous 2008-07-20 18:22:10 sometimes, if it doesn’t sometimes, if it doesn’t hapenn, it is your fault as well. don`t u think so? almost Anonymous 2008-07-16 11:07:49 of course it is! always. of course it is! always. gwolf 2008-07-17 13:27:45 Detalles… Si pasa, si sucede… Detalles. Claro, lo que este letrero quería realmente decir (en inglés) sería “enter at your own risk”. Detrás del letrero había una reja, pero varias veces se ve que la habían abierto. Cruzando por esa reja, puedes subir el cerro...