Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 165

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...

On January 13, I sent a mail to debian-private saying I’d be on a semi-vacation until around February 10 - And yes, for over a month I’ve basically not touched my packaging, and for around three months my general profile in Debian has been really low. I sent this message because the Institute I work at moved, and I got the task of taking care of everything related with electrons flows carrying information (namely, voice and data networks). It’s not that I’m really-really-back now - Work is still too absorbing, users still come too often to me expecting me to...

This morning, we woke up to find out that Vicuña, our most senior cat, had passed away. She was 13 years old, and appears to have went away peacefully, shortly before our wakeup time. She chose our home - In March 1994, the first night my mother, brother and me spent at our current home, we woke up with scared, little meow sounds. We found her over our fence - it took us years to finally understand how a baby cat could have got there. I don’t want to start describing all the ways in which Vicuña brought love and...

One of the leading newspapers in Mexico, often associated with its left-wing ideology (and, I don’t think it’s a coincidence, my personal favorite newspaper) published today this cartoon: So, dear Rocha… Are you implying that many past and present Debian releases are identifiable with the corrupt Mexican government? Our de facto president is like our first official release, Buzz (1.1)? Does Rex (1.2) properly represent the worst of the PRInosauric regime? Is Hamm (2.0) a good symbol for our whole political class? Woody (3.0), the first release I had the opportunity to work on while still being in NM, is...

I’ve been feeling dirty lately - For my netadmin tasks, I’ve been heavily relying on running virtualized instances of the various MS Windows flavors, to check for compatibility with my work. Of course, being a zealot, I would not run VMWare (as it is grossly non-free from every possible angle) - I used Qemu. I’m also, however, impatient as hell - If I’m going to suffer from the sluggishness of the typical Microsoft desktop OS, I just don’t want to suffer from emulation slugishness as well! Of course, the KQemu kernel accelerator module came to my rescue. I felt tainted,...