Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 175

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Last Monday, I went out to meet Álvaro and the LIDSOL gang. At 18:00, I had surely missed his Cherokee talk, which I have seen already a couple of times… Anyway :) …So I had to take the metro. Two stops only, but I didn’t feel like walking - and they would probably leave if I took ~30 minutes to arrive. Problem: I didn’t have any metro tickets, and I had only a MX$500 bill on me. Very previsive, I stopped by the ATM just by the station’s entrance, and got MX$100. One metro ticket costs MX$2. The $100 bill...

Sigh… Here I go again :) gwolf@mosca:~$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10 81 svn 33 cd 29 find 28 perl 28 ls 27 grep 26 for 21 man 17 export 14 cat At least, it clearly shows that I’ve been teaching my workmates on the benefits of Subversion. Anyway, with only 500 lines of Bash history I’m keeping, it’s hard to make this into a trend. I doubt this would coincide with the pkg-perl sprint a bit over a week ago. Still, I call perl interactively (well, if that’s what “interactive” means) a little bit...

One of the things I value most in my workplace is that, unless I break something, I am barely disturbed. People wave at me and recognize me in the hallway, I even have some corridor chats every now and then - but in my office, quiet. Nobody comes, nobody calls, nobody bothers me. I can mostly work on my stuff. Today, however, I have had two over-20-minute phone calls (I hate long calls - keep’em short, to the point, end of story!) and at least four short ones, three people from the institute have come to request my help to...

Today, as it was widely anticipated, the Superior Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) declared Felipe Calderón, of the currently right-wing governing PAN party, elected as president for the 2006-2012 period. My regular readers will know that my political views are against his party’s, and that I completely oppose him - Of course, being consequent, in June I started, together with some friends, FeCal.org.mx, a site destined to show the incongruencies and incoherences in the official version - and that evolved to a site I am quite fond of, having good and deep analysis of the political...

Raphaël: I mostly agree with your post. Having something closer to a steering committee seems saner than having a single leader for projects such as Debian, due to a single person not able to fully follow everything such a large and diverse mass of people works on. I was among the supporters of Project Cabal^W^Wthe DPL team experiment, and of our 2IC role. However, you state that a release should determine the time a DPL team (call it committee, cabal or whatnot. I like the title, in fact: “I am an Elected Member of the Whatnot of Debian”. Whee!) -...

Last Friday, a long chapter ended in my family’s history: The last person of the immigrant generation, my great-aunt Tere, passed away, 99 years old. My family is fully made from immigrants. From my mother’s side, Polish. From my father’s, Austro-hungarian. Tere, sister of my grandfather was born in December 1906 in Felszoviso, Máramaros, Transilvania (then Hungary, today Romania). Most of her family had spread over different countries by 1925 (I know my grandfather chose to become a Czechoslowak to continue his studies in Stakcin, while she and her parents moved to Budapest) left Europe by 1930 - My grandfather...

Thanks, Damog, for starting yet another pissing contest^W^Wnice and informative meme. And thanks, B3co, for writing yet another tool to waste my oh-so-scarce time. Which needs some CSS work if people like me keep showing up just to say “I’m also a frequent flier”. Anyway, here I go. Got at b3co.com! I found at least one Metro I’ve been to missing - But hey, maybe the people at München U-Bahn could not be bothered to come up with a logo? Update Well, B3co updated the site and included München - What can I do if not update my listing? ;-)...

I have always hated and despised the Caps Lock key. Not only it is useless to anybody who works writing code, sysadmining, or plainly writing real text, but its mere existence has degraded the work quality of millions of people’s work. Suddenly, IT GETS NORMAL TO WRITE LIKE THIS - It’s just a magic spell that allows you to get rid of those old-fashioned rules about the language, about where to write in which case. Even worse, in Spanish some people tend to think that uppercase letters do not carry accents, so they produce text that is, um… Lets say...

A couple of days ago, I replied to Madduck’s post regarding unhappiness with XFS. Ben replied with a trackback as well: He’s also moving away from XFS. And… Well, I noticed the unavoidable: XFS, in the end, did eat my data. I use a chroot in my desktop machine as a backups server, for two other machines. The backups are done three times a week. And last time, they failed. Why? Because /dev/hdd2 is not mounted. Why? mosca:~# mount /dev/hdd1 /var/backups mount: Unknown error 990 Oh, nice, great and stinky shit. Ok, lets fix it… mosca:~# fsck /dev/hdd1 fsck 1.39...