Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 23

That’s all I need to enjoy the best best party ever. Oh! Shall I mention that we got a beautiful present for the kids from our very dear DebConf official Laminatrix! Photos not yet available, but will provide soon.

(No, I’m not talking about a future Ubuntu release… After all, what kind of weird animal would a weekend be?) This weekend we took the kids outside for the first time (not counting, of course, visits to the pediatrician). We were quite anxious… Of course, they were born somewhat under weight and at 7½ months of gestation. But this Saturday we feelt adventurous, and took the kids out for a day among people! It might not sound like a big deal, but… Well, we took a not such beautiful or scenic route: We took them to the supermarket, and had...

Once again, on March 11 I had a great guest to save me some work and give a talk at my class! This time it was César Yáñez, and he talked about memory management algorithms, emphasizing on ARC. The video is available, both at this server and in archive.org. Thanks a lot!

My good friend Felipe Esquivel is driving a crowdfunded project: the first part of the “Natura” short film. I urge every reader of my blog to support Felipe’s work! Felipe, the director for this project, is a very talented Chilean-Mexican animator. He has produced short animated films such as A duel and One fine day. Not only that: It might be interesting for my blog’s readers that a good deal of the work of Chamán Animation’s work (of course, I am not qualified to state that “all of” their work — But it might well be the case) is done...

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Welcome little babies! Yesterday night, we entered the hospital. Nervous, heavy, and… Well, would we ever be ready? As ready as we could. A couple of hours later, Alan and Elena Wolf Daichman became individuals on their own right. As is often the case in the case of twins, they were brought to this world after a relatively short preparation (34 weeks, that’s about 7.5 months). At 1.820 and 1.980Kg, they are considerably smaller than either of the parents… But we will be working on that! Regina is recovering from the operation, the babies are under observation. As far as...

I would expect brute-force login attacks to be more common. And yes, at some point I got tired of ssh scans, and added rate-limiting firewall rules, even switched the daemon to a nonstandard port… But I have very seldom received an IMAP brute-force attack. I have received countless phishing scams on my users, and I know some of them have bitten because the scammers then use their passwords on my servers to send tons of spam. Activity is clearly atypical. Anyway, yesterday we got a brute-force attack on IMAP. A very childish atack, attempted from an IP in the largest...

Escribo el presente artículo en octubre del 2014. Resuenan aún fuertes los ecos del inicio del ciclo escolar, hace apenas poco más de un mes, y por la radio siguen sonando los anuncios de la SEP presumiendo al Programa de Inclusión y Alfabetización Digital — particularmente, acerca de la entrega de tabletas a todos los alumnos de 5° de primaria,1 en esta primera etapa en los estados de México, Colima, Sonora, Tabasco, Puebla y el Distrito Federal. Según la información que pude encontrar, esto significa la entrega de unas 700,000 tabletas, con un costo aproximado de 1,400 pesos cada una....

Having seen the end of December and the beginning of January, this is the time of year where we say “Happy new year!” But this is a very interesting new year: We have also went past our much announced deadline for the <2048 bit keys to be removed from the Debian keyrings. And yes, our highly efficient keyring-maint team managed to deliver on the promised time — And, I’d say, with much success. Lets see the numbers — Only before that, refer to Jonathan’s mail to debian-devel-announce for further, fuller information. So, first of all, how do overall numbers look?...

I have long wanted to echo Gregor’s beautiful Debian Advent Calendar posts. Gregor is a dear project member and a dear friend to many of us Debianers, who has shown an amount of stamina and care for the project that inspires everybody; this year, after many harsh flamefests in the project (despite which we are moving at a great rate towards a great release!), many people have felt the need to echo how Debian –even as often seen from the outside as a hostile mass of blabbering geeks– is actually a great place to work together and to create a...