Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 144

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April 26, 2008: Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (Latin American Free Software Installation Festival), held simultaneously in over 200 cities in the whole continent. I was invited to give a talk in Monterrey.

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I like them. And if there is such a thing, I hope they carry good luck with them - Not that I believe in good luck, but anyway - Yesterday was a very good day, in quite many fronts. And it’s nice to make a nice, closed leap on so many bases: >> puts [was,am].map {|age| [98,111,100,120].map {|s| sprintf "%#{s.chr}", age}.join(', ')} 11111, 37, 31, 1f 100000, 40, 32, 20 And just for coolness sake: It gets even better when looking at coincidence with my father - at least for the next couple of months: >>puts [f_was, f_is].map {|age| [98,111,100,120].map...

I’m about to leave for Monterrey, Nuevo León, some 700Km North. Why? Because I was invited to be at the Monterrey FLISOL. And what exactly is a FLISOL? A very nice and interesting idea: Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, Latin American Free Software Install Festival. So far, I have stayed away from install-fests. I don’t like them. And I will keep what I have always said: I am going because I was invited to talk about network security (of course, giving more than a little bit of relevance to Free Software as the IMHO only way to get...

One week ago, I went to a branch office of Servicio de Administración Tributaria, the government office in charge of processing taxes. This year, I plan on doing something quite bold, as my Mexican friends will acknowledge: I will prepare my (quite simple, I hope) tax declaration by myself. I do not want to be held hostage of the accountant guild - So I might end doing some fuckup which in the end costs me money or time. I hope it is not the case. Anyway… Last week I went to this office, as I needed either a CIECF (Clave...

It seems everybody is ranting in Planet Debian about what our planet should be about, what content should be acceptable, whether technical-only, Debian-only, everything-goes… Even archiving the posts via a mailing-list interface has been mentioned. Besides, following the planet seems to have become mandatory to people linked to Debian, almost as mandatory as following debian-devel-announce. I won’t bother linking to other posts in this topic, as they are far too many. The whole discussion seems childlike and sterile to me. For different people, Debian means different things - This topic has come up in the planet a couple of times...

Wouter, you seem to enjoy using huge filesystem volumes. So, dear lazyweb… I have a 500GB disk for my users’ home partitions - they mainly use it to back up their desktop data, but I do expect them to give it more usage. Anyway - I am currently using around 350GB of it, leaving the rest still unpartitioned. I have switched over to ReiserFS, as online resizing it is way faster than online resizing ext3 - it’s basically instantaneous. It seems I do belong to the old sysadmin school, and I value highly the reliability that comes from not having...

This is the third plugin I have been working on for Rails - It’s the one that still needs most work to be fully usable (for what I originally envisioned it), but is almost there - I have not touched it (nor the other two I recently presented here, acts_as_catalog and Real FK because real-life has demanded my time on various other fronts. Anyway, this is IMHO the most interesting of the three plugins I’ve written so far. So, following what I did with the other plugins: You can go to acts_as_magic_model’s main page, or jump straight to its SVN...