Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 176

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...

Aigars: I agree with Womble’s comment in your blog. Maybe GnomeVFS is just way too much? Maybe it could be substituted by an on-demand FUSE-based mounter and unmounter? It seems to me it’d be saner to get all the relevant file manager GUIs (or plainly UIs, maybe even some overpowered shells) to be able to interpret an URL request as just a call to said script and a local filesystem operation? Mounting via FUSE in a protected, per-user area, and then just unmounting after a given inactivity timeout. Yes, I know GnomeVFS is able to do all that and more....

We had a very nice day of work, following Rodrigo’s BSP invitation to the debianmexico list. The day started at 10 AM, when Rodrigo and I arrived to Nul-unu. After a small time setting up some cables and some coffee, we sat down and started working our way through the BTS. Soon afterwards the rest of the crew arrived. We were seven people. We spent the day not only bug-squishing, but giving informal talks and one-to-one lectures on how Debian’s processes work, on how the BTS (and the BSPs) work. The bug list is not impressive, and they were not...

Coincidentally with Madduck’s account, yesterday night, my institute lost power for about five hours. This by itself surprises me, as at home (only ~300m away) I stayed awake late, and didn’t notice this until I got to my office and my desktop had rebooted. Any damage? So far, only minor things - i.e. the Gaim buddy list… Nevertheless, it might be minor, but there is always something. And I don’t want to wait until massive fsckup happens. And, since I’m already using ext3 as it is more solid for my root partition, I think I will be switching back to...

Sorry, this post will only mean anything to you if you can grok an es_* locale, preferrably an es_ES one. B3co points to a wonderful site, which I came accross sadly when I am about to start working. Still, lots of good laughs taken from mistakes in the Spanish press. The site? Morderse la Lengua (Biting your tongue), from Centro Virtual Cervantes. I found such beauties as the world’s largest telescope, which can see object 100 meters away, a Boeing that goes back to Madrid through a crack, a Spanish airplane crashing in Turkey for the third time in a...

Junichi is delighted with sshfs. So am I - I now keep mounted some directories from several of my servers from my workstation, and it becomes oh-so-much-easier to do basically everything. Besides, sshfs seems to have been planned right security-wise - It is based on FUSE, so any user can just do $ mkdir remote_home $ sshfs user@server.org:/home/user remote_home and start working - What I found as a very sensible default is that the mounted pseudofilesystem is not visible by any other local user - Not even to almighty root. Of course, this is overridable. Now, Junichi just misses some...

Goes, of course, to good Maulkin. Worst of all, it seems to be inspired by real life - Now, could you do a similar analysis of end results? :) And when sharing it, Rodrigo sent me to Spamusement. What’s that, you ask? A magic machine that turns spam titles into humor. Two beautiful examples: It’s not a joke and Your Dog Will Love It!. Now, please, can I have my 30 minutes back?