Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 180

How cool is this? if pid=fork while true puts "#{Time.now.sec}: I'm the slow #{Process.pid}, parent of #{pid}" sleep 1 end else while true puts "#{Time.now.sec}: I'm the fast #{Process.pid}, child of #{Process.ppid}" sleep 1.0/3 end end What do I get? 18: I'm the fast 9900, child of 9899 18: I'm the slow 9899, parent of 9900 18: I'm the fast 9900, child of 9899 19: I'm the fast 9900, child of 9899 19: I'm the slow 9899, parent of 9900 19: I'm the fast 9900, child of 9899 19: I'm the fast 9900, child of 9899 20: I'm the fast...

So far, Ruby is the only language I have actually liked that imposes a mindset on you. I love Perl’s approach of letting you do things your way, whatever you define by that - Ruby forces you to extensively use OOP. But, actually, it is so well implemented that it even makes sense. It is even fun! Of course, that paired to an excellent introspection ability leaves enough room to make the cleverest (and, yes, most obfuscated) code you can think of. Well… But there are limits to everything, and I think I found a spot where all the nice...

Ok, it may not be ready yet, it might be lacking too many details. It might even make sense to make this initial announcement in Spanish - But a long time ago, I decided my blog would be English-only, as most of the people who read it are not Spanish speakers. Anyway, here I go. We are less than one month away of the presidential elections in Mexico. We are facing the choice between two candidates (the others won’t really make a difference this time): Felipe Calderón, a conservative member of the right-wing PAN party (currently ruling), and Andrés Manuel...

This is the time of year when most Free Software-related conferences in Mexico have their calls for papers. /lists.consol.org.mx/pipermail/consol/2006-May/006443.html”>send my proposal by mail, and I do hope it gets in the official program - For sentimental reasons more than anything else ;-) CONSOL is, after all, still my baby!). Yesterday I had to come up with something, as CICOL’s deadline was also hanging upon me. Now my attention has been brought towards FSL, for which I still have almost one month to think. And, of course, although at other times of year (but, of course, still clashing with other conferences)...

Yesterday night, without all the stares and ceremony I would have liked for such an important moment (but, hell, it was ~500m away of the Oaxtepec entrance!), I gave the three-finger-salute and rebooted moe.mexico.debconf.org. After some seconds, I started unplugging the six Ethernet cables that this noble machine held together forming Debconf6’s connection to the world (thanks, Punk0 and [friend]Jyr[/friend], for working with this bunch of crazy and nervous people, five days nonstop until the wireless link between homer and moe worked fine and reliably, and still talking to us!) and ran back to the hacklab to finish packing the...

Debian is love. After my scream for help a couple of days ago, and after a mountain of hard work, things are just running. No, we are not -by far- free of incidents, and it would be foolish to expect it to be so, but we are working nicely. And by the way, thank you, I have been receiving the largest amount of hugs ever, and believe me, each of them has been important. We are not over yet. At least two more days of work, and onem more day of taking all the shop back home, and that only...

Debcamp was really stressing - It seemed we would not be able to get things to work for Debconf. And it would suck. I was quite down when I last wrote a blog entry - Not in mine, but in Debconf’s. Things looked quite hellish, and I was very annoyed - Well, I must say: Thanks to you all for the support. Mooch’s request has been honored extensively, and it does help. Really. Yesterday we had the Debian Day. About 50 Mexicans showed up, after we had to jump through some hoops with the Oaxtepec management people (thank you, thank...

One of the most bitter and hardest tasks of running a large international conference such as Debconf 6 is the absurd process to ensure that every person interested in attending is able to do so. Before I start ranting, let me point you to a very well written text my father wrote about two years ago, out of a similar frustration after organizing the XXV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics - On travelling to Scientific Meetings. Mexico is not a first world country, as you all know it (you didn’t know? Well, please take note). Mexico is...

Turns out my blog is becoming some sort of metereologic forecast for Oaxtepec… Would you say it’s because Debconf is getting dangerously near? Replying to H01ger’s question on IRC: It is raining. More than usual for this time of year. It’s a good thing, though. Why? 10 days ago, I was bitterly complaining April was the hot season in Mexico. Rains usually start in mid- to late- May - But this year, they came a bit early, and this week we have had low to medium intensity rains almost every evening. Now, how is the rainy season in this part...

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