Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 234

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)

Who the fuck knows what our government is up to now? Regarding the indigenous rebellion that started (in the eyes of the world) in 1994, our oh-so-dear government has played a stupid but very effective tactics: The Mushroom principle: Keep them in the dark, feed them with shit. This rebellion, where the Zapatist Army for National Liberation jumped to the spotlights, is very different from what you will find in many other countries in this region - and that’s why the EZLN was not crushed on its first days. This insurgent army is not about toppling a government and seizing...

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We Mexicans are known for taking too long to do things… So, nine days after Sarge stabilized, yesterday we had our release party. Much larger than what I originally thought (we only announced it to the almost-dead debianmexico list AFAIK, and most people there do not live in this city). We were over 30, and there were people coming from surrounding cities, up to ~200Km away. We had a good time, food and beer at Hamburguesas Memorables. I arrived over 1hr late because we were printing. What were we printing? Well, that’s obvious: I am very proud of Nadezhda’s work....