Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 168

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...

Before anything else: Please excuse some grammatical mistakes I’ve made in this post. You should understand the topic is really upsetting, and typing while searching for links, listening to news, and gathering the basic information for a five month old conflict is not exactly compatible with me spewing out proper English ;-) Just to re-state the obvious: Mexico is, once again, on fire. This posting is mainly written with the Debian people in mind - An important number of them, after Debconf 6, went to visit Oaxaca - In late May, during the first weeks of this incredible, stupid and...

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Went to Potosí, Bolivia, for the National Computer Science conference - All in all, I had seven conferences in three cities (Sucre, Potosí and Santa Cruz) in the week between October 14 and 21, for a total of ~12 hours on stage. Phew! And besides that, I somehow still managed to have a great time ;-)

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