Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 233

Our dorm building is the orange one behind the trees. You better like this picture, my poor laptop sweated assembling it! Attachments (0 KB)

Ok, so it is almost 2AM. Unlike many of you, this is not an usual hour to see me awake - I am a nice wake-up-at-8, sleep-at-12 guy. But this last couple of weeks have been hectic, and this is the culmination of the fscking process. Shit, no, it’s not yet the culmination… Tomorrow I’ll have to make a quick space to do some UPN work, which I have left aside for most of the week… At UNAM, things are going well. I have a couple of systems ready to be used, my institute already has a half-decent network presence...

AJ Towns wonders how the hell the timetable didn’t seem to obey to any logic. Well… I agree with you: It was completely computer-generated, and there are many points that should have been taken into account, but were not. This is the second scheduling algorithm that has been used with Comas - I didn’t suggest our previous one, as Don Armstrong’s implementation introduced voting according to your interests so you don’t get locked out by having two interesting talks at once. Of course, this is the first time his algorithm is tried - but it is running on, sorry, incomplete...

Some months ago, I (as well as some other old-time friends) was contacted by my friend Nopal to help Jason Scott translate to Spanish his project of the last couple of years: The BBS documentary, a 3-DVD documentary of the start of our online lives. I joined BBSes in 1992 and started my own in 1993, but there is material in there dating back to 1979 (CBBS)! Well, in the end we didn’t coordinate as tightly as we should have, so we only managed to translate the bonus tracks, not the main feature. Some material we translated didn’t make it...

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Showing the medal on the right pocket. The text reads: “>9000 src pkg” and “15 CDs - 2 DVDs” (over 9000 source packages, and it is the largest Linux distribution, spanning 15 CDs or 2 double-layer DVDs) Attachments (0 KB)