Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 147

Attachments (101 KB)

Seen in Ocoyoacac, Estado de México Attachments (413 KB)

It is hard. Some parts of life are just continuous joy. Some are hard. This is a hard part for me. At one time, I feel the urge to come to my dearest and closest people -and even to the complete unknown ones, such as probably you are, anonymous reader- and speak of whatever comes to my mind. At times, I just want to shut up. Completely shut up, not even talk with myself. And that is a big problem. My stupid self does not shut up, and keeps thinking over and over. Anyway… Good friends, anonymous bystanders: A new...

Rhonda, The webinterface for it doesn't require any authentication at all, leading technically to anonymous translations all over the place. The so-called "review" process consists of the same not-existing authentication, leading to a situation where unknown people can put in whatever they like and have other (or potentially the same) unknown people acknowledge that. The language team has actively chosen that way because it was said that bad translations simply won't happen and that the review (three people opening the page and clicking onto a button) will not let that happen. Well, it happened. And is happening all over the...

I have been maintaining several minor sites hosted at Dreamhost for about a year. And since over one month ago, my personal website is with them as well. And I must say, I am very pleased with them. No, not (well, not only) because they run Debian on their servers, nor because they are probably the cheapest game in town (I paid something like US$200 for a basically unlimited package , for three years), but because of their degree of responsability and personal service. Responsability? Aren’t they well-known for their network outages? Why, yes, of course - Today’s example is...

Madduck complains about the lack of attractive data plans for mobile phone providers in Switzerland. Madduck: As always, you will have to remember there are many people confronted with a much worse situation than yours. Up to a month ago, I never envisioned using my phone for anything besides… Well, talking. But yes, since I got my new gadget, I keep playing with GPS or using it for simple things that require Web access and do not require much interactivity (the suckiness of a 12-key keyboard is überhuge!) - Provided, of course, that I am near a WiFi hotspot, of...

What’s the best way to join a community, any community? Little by little. I have been working with Ruby on Rails for well over a year already, even given a talk (at Encuentro Nacional Linux y Software Libre ENLi) inviting other people to use this very nice and well thought out environment. But, so far, I’ve been only a end-user, not really giving anything back besides minor bug reports. Well, it’s not as much as to say that I’m now a contributor - this is just a first statement of intent. I have worked a bit on several bits of...

Perl modules are very well organized in CPAN: They can usually be easily found and, thanks to tools such as the CPAN shell, they are easy to install and update even by novice users. However, when people start using Perl systems (as opposed to using Perl for writing such systems), asking them to take care of the dependencies or having them worry about different distribution architectures is a pain that should be spared from them. In my talk, I will describe how Debian (and other Free Software distributions) addresses this problem by packaging a large subset of the CPAN archive,...

This is only a first approach, and not a presentation I’d like to regard to as finished. I was asked to present this as part of a panel in Linux World Mexico Conference & Expo 2008: A brief introduction to Free Software licensing schemes. Attachments licenciamiento_sl.pdf (429 KB) licenciamiento_sl.tar_.gz (178 KB)

I just spent the productive part of the last couple of days going over several alternatives, as I didn’t want to do the most obvious thing. But I ended up doing it. I think I did it carefully… And in a restricted system. Still, having a Web-facing script that executes a password-changing script running with Sudo-granted privileges… No matter how much correctness and sanity checking it involves… Makes me feel dirty. Comments Anonymous 2008-02-21 08:43:35 …if you did it …if you did it carefully. and if you know that you had tried to find an other ways. if you are...