Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 165

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...

Ok, Vicm3, I’ll bite. Looks we can continue working together… Umm… Or should I say, paralelly and close to each other, since we are both better as independent rather than team workers? Your programmer personality type is: DHSB You're a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money. You like coding at a High level. The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same...

My dear comment-hating Bubulle, you forced me into writing yet another weblog entry :) I have not yet worked it out completely, but it might be that your problems with suspend to RAM your Dell machine are related to having the Composite or AIGLX extensions loaded. This is just an hypothesis, and might be just wrong, but: My Dell XPS M1210 worked beautifully right out of the box. It suspends to RAM without a problem, and comes back to life fresh as lettuce. I have even used the suspend to disk, although I don't really like it if I have...

[ Yes, entry written for my Mexican fellows. My blog is in English. Don’t rant about that, your pleads won’t be listened ] Damog just ranted (in Spanish) about too many people coming to Mexico City. I completely agree with him, but not with his conclusions. We are a ~25,000,000 people city, in a ~100,000,000 people country. The inequity we face every day is huge (Cd. Nezahualcóyotl, among the poorest in the city, is the most densely populated region in the whole world, but you can easily spot over 2000 sq mt houses in Bosques de las Lomas or similar...

It is no news that Richard Stallman spent some days recently in Cuba, and not precisely on vacation - He was quite active. But no, not only on politics: Also artistically. Yes, I do think he has to work a bit on his voice, but… Guantanamero surely deserves being listened to. Good Cuban musicians and all. Oh, and of course: The credits. Thanks to Maykel Moya for the links.

I just submitted my talk proposal for YAPC::EU, which will be held in Vienna in late August. The topic? Integrating Perl in a wider distribution: The Debian pkg-perl group. I took part in YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference - North America) in 2001, in Montreal, and YAPC::EU (you guessed right: Europe) in 2002, in Munich. While in Munich, I met Debian’s Erich, Weasel and the late Jens. It is a very nice conference with all kinds of Perl-heads, apt for different experience levels. the talk I am proposing will be about what do we work for in Debian, how can...

Steinar: You can get some (few) Dell desktop models with no preinstalled Windows, IIRC they are called the «L series». I tried, however, to get a OS-free laptop. I had to buy my XPS M1210 (sweet machine, BTW) with Windows XP. Tried on the phone, yes. Comments Gunnar 2007-02-22 15:28:50 Re: Dell laptops without Windows? No, not yet The machine looks so far quite good. As for your points: Yes, it is quite handy. Not (by far) the lightest I’ve seen, but quite light, while still full-sized enough not to make me uncomfortable. The keyboard is comfortable. It will take...