Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 164

Russell blogs about his new 22” cheap TFT monitor. You lucky bastard. I use a 17” Dell LCD monitor at work (sorry, cannot recall the model), and I’ve been quite pleased with it. Granted, 1280x1024 isn’t what I had gotten used to (1400x1050 on my previous laptop and previous work machine), but it does the trick - And for my current laptop, I went for a smaller machine, with a 12” wide-screen 1280x800 monitor. I still find the monitor somewhat small, and the missing 224 pixels are noticeable - but the size is well worth it. But what I’ve been...

And, while on my way there, I’ll get to visit my family in New York (and get to know a bit of the city, I hope) for a couple of days as well! :D Leaving Mexico in June 7th, three days in NY, travel to Edinburgh on June 10th (arriving early on the 11th), and head back home on the 24th. Yay! BTW, attempting to save some money and the pollution caused by air travel, I asked Google for how to drive from New York to Edinburgh. It looks clear and easy, but in the end I settled for air...

It’s been two weeks I got my latest toy. And, lets be honest - I don’t buy me toys very often. My very own espresso/capuccino maker! No, it’s not a pro-level machine, nor does it try to be. I’m a bit disappointed as the espresso comes out slowly and homogeneous, with no foamy layer on top - But hey, it tastes great. So far, I’m still a terribly lousy capuccino maker, but perfection comes with practice. Now, what’s bad about this? First, that -although I’m a heavy coffee drinker, pouring at least 1 liter of regular filter-drip coffee down my...

As I have stated here long ago, I do not really believe in the Debian Project Leader. Yes, it has an importance. Yes, it’s not merely a decoration figure. But I do doubt it can really make much of a difference. I don’t hold exactly the point of view I held back then, but it’s still quite close ;-) Anyway… [ 1 ] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst [ 7 ] Choice 2: Aigars Mahinovs [ 3 ] Choice 3: Gustavo Franco [ 2 ] Choice 4: Sam Hocevar [ 4 ] Choice 5: Steve McIntyre [ 4 ] Choice 6:...

I run my blog using Jaws, a simple and quite nice blog-minded CMS project started by several friends of mine. I’ve long wanted to contribute to the project, but so far, I’ve only reported a couple of bugs. Boo for me! ;-) Anyway, I just updated from 0.6.2 to the just-released 0.7.1. Guys: You rock! What a painless, easy and (so far) well-working update! I am late already, so I’m not going to check into all the new features. So far, I’m quite happy with the extra easiness and control to get some comment-spam protection, my main gripe so far....

Uwe asks about fast, reliable, not noisy storage mechanisms - And yes, of course, he talks about Flash memory’s well known limitation: The relatively low number of write cycles each area of the memory is known to be able to withstand. I recently told this same argument to a friend who was enthusiastically telling me about his dream project of setting up a computer based exclusively on solid-state storage. Of course, he didn’t like the limitation. But after reading a bit (sorry, I don’t have the URLs at hand - but Google is a good friend), it seems that many...

Ben, Erich and Russell bit - Why shouldn’t I? A. Copy the list below to your own journal and Bold the actions you are already taking Underline the actions you plan to start taking Italicize the actions that don't apply to you B. Add one (or more) suggested action(s) of your own C. Leave a comment here, so that she can track the meme to your journal, and copy your suggested action(s) back to my master list. Shame - I cannot comment on this, as I'm no a LiveJournal registered user. And I don't intend to be either. Replace standard...

Eddy Petrisor wrote quite an interesting text about the shortcomings of the .deb packaging format, specially comparing it to Gentoo’s ebuilds. And, basically, it all comes down to this phrase: Why this is not possible for deb right now? Simple, we have it as a rule in the policy that the debian/rules file is a makefile. So even if one would implement a class-like model for deb packages, you'd still have the debian/rules file as a make file Now… Is debian/rules really expected to be a makefile, or it is just customary for it to be so? Look at the...

[ Warning: Long post follows ] Just today, I read that H01ger is happy he can wear just a T-shirt somewhere in Northern Germany. Well, from my point of view, much the opposite has happened. And I’m not just happy - I’m fucking proud! About four years ago, Nadezhda went almost every weekend to hike to the mountains with the Grupo de los Cien people. I’ll sidetrack a bit to speak about them: Grupo de los Cien is a group of mountain lovers (no relation with the enviromentalist group which later took the same name) that, since the 1950s, have...

Due to the extreme stupidity of the bank that holds my money whenever I have some, we were unable to pay my main domain name (gwolf.org) together with two others - I mean, the fscking bank mixed up the secret questions/answers, and we were unable to confirm our identity in order to pay to my favorite registrar (do you know they sponsor Debconf? I’ve been their customer for at least five years, and they rock). As of this Sunday, gwolf.org went off the net. Of course, being it a sunday, it was impossible to get a human in the right...