Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 176

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?

Reading Jordi’s blog, I cannot but agree with him (in most points): I plainly cannot understand Israel’s actions in the last weeks. I can sadly understand how some people defend them, specially people not living in Israel - I was talking with a friend today, a friend who does not share a single political viewpoint with me, but still… The world seems to be completely polarized. Some have the impression that Israelis live under constant shelling, that life is unsustainable in that poor country, the last corner of civilization in that mess called the Middle East, and that the Arab...

I’ve spent a couple of weeks half-working my way towards an application to capture, recode and stream media, much in the fashion of what the very fine video team managed to do for Debconf6: Recording, encoding and streaming a live video feed via an Icecast server. Why didn’t I just follow the easy path? Basically, because it’s not friendly enough to be used by our camera operator at the Institute. So, I’m working on a simple GUI that will wrap the process, and provide feedback on its working. Feedback? Yes. We streamed the Mexican economy seminar using the simple commands,...

Means the office where the coffee machine usually sits is closed. Fortunately, that is easily fixed. Now, how healthy will it turn out? I’ll tell you in two more weeks.

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