Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 168

I’ve been working a bit over a week on writing SmbGate, a simple and quite braindead Web app giving my users web access (read-only for now at least) their home shares in a Samba server from outside the Institute, which will be basically closed for vacations/moving to a new building for over a month. It went quite smoothly. Even using a quite ugly API (Filesys::SmbClient - It works, but in an ugly fashion), getting the basic app to work took me only two days, and I’ve been beautifying bits of it for around a week. I even got around to...

I was very happily surprised today. Some weeks ago, walking in downtown Mexico City, I found the Interactive Economy Museum (Museo Interactivo de Economía - MIDE, for which I had seen some posters at my workplace (of course, as some of you know, I work at UNAM’s Institute for Economics Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas)). MIDE is one Mexico’s youngest museums (opened about two months ago), and it is… Frankly impressive and well done. When I first heard about an interactive economy museum, I could only think about entering a room with buttons that would cause economic or politic crisis...

I came across Adam’s post inviting everybody to participate in a simple meme propagation speed and path tracking experiment. Well, I bite. Here I am. Some points to consider (for Acephalous, who started and tracks this meme): If people like me read Adam’s blog via an aggregator (Planet Debian), and when I post I I get syndicated at the same aggregator, won’t this disturb your metrics/readings? Or if I know I’m syndicated at least in two aggregators (Planet Debian and Planeta Linux México - If there is another one, please tell me :) ), won’t that also influence somehow?

Wow… The amount of press/coverage inside the FS community (not necessarily good press) the Ubuntu people are receiving lately is huge. I smell the possibility where Canonical might face what many people call the ugly side of Debian - But what we, the insiders, call it the most important part of it: Our people’s devotion to the Free Software ideals. Of course, even inside Debian there are all kind of opinions (to the point that Debian’s main activity seems at times to be debating rather than coding), but the general perception is that we are the fundamentalist zealots. It’s only...

Wow…This time I’m truly amazed. A spam just hit my debian-devel mailbox. That’s sadly not strange at all, I know. Only that I started reading it. It says: Spammers don't seem to target us for their random alias generation tools, or maybe they haven't got to the letter 'o' yet. com for subsequent posts, but that whole barn door thing comes to mind. In so doing, values are overlooked often and mistakes are made. Maybe Microsoft will let me change my alias. Maybe some of it would actually be useful to me. For whatever reason, my Microsoft email address didn't...

Tezcatlipoca, the smoking mirror, was (quoting from Wikipedia) the god of the night, the north, temptation, sorcery, beauty and war. He was known by other descriptive names, such as Titlacauan (We His Slaves), Ipalnemoani (He by whom we live), Necocyaotl (Sower of Discord on Both Sides) and Tloque Nahuaque (Lord of the Near and Nigh) and Yohualli Èecatl (Night, Wind). And today, I strongly feel as being born his servant. Why? Because today I took courage and started working on the integration of our ~20 print servers into a single, smarter scheme, with user control and printer assignment done by...

Winter is mercilessly arriving in Mexico City. This is the third day we get an average temperature of 10 Celsius (although the first day it happens with a nice, unclouded sky, as Winter is usually offered here). People wear jackets everywhere, and every conversation starts with mention of the cold weather. Of course, remember very few people have any kind of heating here, as the lowest we ever get is close to the freezing point. In general lines, I enjoy our winter. However, something happened today that made me have apocalyptic visions: Automatic, synthetic and terrible Christmas music. Yes, somebody...

Over five years ago, I wrote a very simple web-based system. This system, however, did some basic client-side (Javascript, of course) validations before sending the data off to the server. And it worked nicely. On Linux, of course. The system went live. It worked correctly less than 1/10th of the time. Yes, somewhat strangely, quite close to the ratio of Netscape/MSIE users. Yes, a Javascript coding bug. The embarassment made me swear not to get close to Javascript ever, ever again. Of course, we live in a world where idle loops get optimized and where infinite loops have an ETA,...

Races, training, and whatever comes along

With Geno, our dear trainer, having just finished Attachments (0 KB) Comments g33kman 2008-04-20 20:58:35 Gunnar eres un ejemplo a seguir g33kman, tambien es muy abolsadito y esta buscando algo que hacer para perder los 45 Kg de peso que le sobran. gwolf 2008-02-12 15:57:59 Jajajajaja, creo que tiene… más ;-) Esta foto tiene ya más de un año ;-) Y mis 40 kilos, tiene ya desde noviembre de 2005 que se fueron despidiendo, uno por uno ;-) Pero gracias! La neta, con 95 kilos la vida se ve mejor. José Luis Ayala 2008-02-12 13:57:32 Ay WEY!!!! No lo puedo...