Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 21

I will join Lars and Tincho in stating this, and presenting a version contrary to what Norbert portraits. I am very glad and very proud that the community I am most involved in, the Debian project, has kept its core identity over the years, at least for the slightly-over-a-decade I have been involved in it. And I am very glad and very proud that being less aggressive, more welcoming and in general more respectful to each other does not counter this. When I joined Debian, part of the mantra chants we had is that in order to join a Free...

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Discutir acerca de mecanismos de virtualización implica cubrir una gran cantidad de tecnologías distintas. Y no me refiero con esto a diferentes proveedores que ofrecen productos con funcionalidad similar, sino que a herramientas de muy distinta naturaleza, que a veces incluso no parecen tener nada que ver entre sí. La primera acepción que vendrá a la mente de muchos, es la virtualización asistida por hardware, donde una computadora con ciertas capacidades de hardware (disponibles en la arquitectura x86 desde hace ya diez años, y hoy presentes incluso en los CPUs de más baja gama) ejecuta un hipervisor, software específico que...

Today I was refered to the publication of an “agreement” signed by my university’s Rector: The Agreement that establishes the General Guidelines for the Open Access Policy of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. This is a document we have been waiting and pushing for throughout several years; I got involved in the Network of Digital Collections (Red de Acervos Digitales), RAD-UNAM back in 2011, and am honored to be its current coordinator, but this group has roots back in 2005. And, of course, by then several other people had been working on the topic without formal coordination. Not only we...

OK, I already bragged that our book on Operating Systems is finally printed and has, thus, been formally published. What I had not yet mentioned is how we planned its physical distribution. Yes, it is available for sale at some UNAM libraries… But coming to UNAM is sadly an option only for people who are in Mexico City. I have been quite busy, and was unable to come up with anything earlier, but I have finally finished setting up a decent although minimal web page for the book. In it, I mention the possible ways you can get your own...

– Me llamo Gunnar, y soy programador. – ¡Hola, Gunnar! – Tengo que contarles hoy respecto a mi abuso de las abstracciones y de la automatización. Por aprovechar lasfacilidades de un /framework/ completo y poderoso, me he ido olvidando de las interacciones reales. Me engolosiné con un ORM que me presenta los datos como objetos, y me olvido de la realidad de su representación entidad-referencial. Mis métodos son todos cortitos y asumo que el ciclo de atención a solicitudes es corto, olvidando que dejo referencias en memoria. Hago llamadas a procedimientos remotos en proveedores SaaS y no considero que pueden...

As far as how to install and maintain Drupal, it would seem there is no need to dig any further. Installing Drupal in any hosting provider is just a matter of decompressing a tarball, and Drush large-scale automation gives the seasoned sysadmin a wealth of administrative aides. However, when considering integration with the system as a whole, there is ample room for improvement. Drupal cannot exist outside of a given environment. Say, the PHP version used, the way it is integrated into its host operating system, the modules for connecting to the database — And the database engine itself. Ideally,...

Artículos y columnas publicados en 2015

180 degrees — people say their life has changed by 180° whenever something alters their priorities, their viewpoints, their targets in life. In our case, it’s been 180 days. 183 by today, really. The six most amazing months in my life. We are still the same people, with similar viewpoints and targets. Our priorities have clearly shifted. But our understanding of the world, and our sources of enjoyment, and our outlook for the future… Are worlds apart. Not 180°, think more of a quantic transposition.

<Sigh/> For the second time since I joined Debian, I missed DebConf. This time, mostly for two completely happy reasons (which have, of course, grown up quite significatively): But adding to that very important factor, early-to-mid August is possibly the worst date for me to attend DebConf — As that’s when we start classes at UNAM, and I really don’t want to delegate introducing my class to somebody else (besides it being or not possible). Life has been quite busy here. Besides starting my seventh semester as a teacher (finally being able to present my book on operating systems to...