Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 246

First of all: I have been asked why do I post my blog in English. I know it is syndicated in Planeta Linux en México, a mostly-Spanish-speaking planet (I am though not the only one posting in English, but there are few of us). It is also syndicated in Planet Debian, which is strictly in English. I don’t have time to maintain two blogs. I want my Mexican friends to know what am I up to… So well, now you know. ;-) Visor posted his opinions regarding Mozilla’s and Firefox’s trademarks. This is answering to a posting by Damog which...

My country is slowly but steadily becoming more and more like Europe. No, it is not because Mexico suddenly became a free, democratic and advanced nation - it is because Europe is becoming more and more a banana republic. Europeans: Don’t let the antidemocratic Council (not elected by you) get away with it. Don’t let it overturn a decision made by the European Parliament, an elected and legitimate body. If this corrupt initiative does not pass, it will be thanks to the government and people of Denmark and Poland. Thank you very much!

Wow… It is not every day that you have the chance of closing a bug that is over five years old. #41890 can now be crossed out, thanks to Julian Mehnle for his patch. No, no big trumpets, as it was quite an easy bug to fix… But at least is just a little step closer to world domination, just a little step closer to perfect code ;-) Comments tuxsoul 2005-03-07 18:27:35 RE: Bye bye, my oldest bug Eso se oye estupendo, si cuando programo (claro que mi nivel de programación actual es bajo) pequeñas aplicaciones, la verdad se siente...

Daniel Silverstone asked on our opinions on ternary operators, and as it seems his blog doesn’t like comments (boo!). I just love them. I really like being as concise as possible, without being cryptic - I find it awful to say if (condition) var = val1; else var = val2; Not only it hides the real intention of your statement (you want to assign a value to var, not just to check for a condition), but it is much more error prone (when I typed the line the first time I did an assignment to var and one to val....

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I formally started working at IIEc exactly two months ago (Jan 1 2005, although I have been showing up to work here since November 17), and finally today my workplace is no longer the lab - I have my very own seven square meters - a very strange office, 2x4 meters, with one square meter devoted to one of the building’s pillars. I’ll have to find a way to put my desk to be confortable (right now I am facing a corner). I have always admired the care my University gives to having nice, confortable places to work, with nice...

This is the last day of CONSOL, and I am quite happy with it. Tired as hell (have been spending my nights printing T-shirts for about a week), but happy. This is the fourth CONSOL, and it is the first time I am not at all involved in the organization, and… Well, it was smoother than ever. And it feels quite good not to be an organizer, to have time to enter any interesting talks, chat with my friends, to go out have a coffee, even go out in case something is needed back home. I don’t have statistics for...

Shit. I hate losing time due to someone else’s faults. Yesterday, a client of mine told me his Horde is not working. Ok, set myself in debug mode. What do I see? Nothing, just a stupid blank webpage. What does the Apache log say? Not much, nothing too informative, and what’s worse, nothing I expect from a PHP application: [Tue Feb 15 09:54:26 2005] [notice] child pid 2421 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Over and over. I set in paranoid mode, as I had just upgraded the system. New Horde2 and Imp3 versions had just made it in Sarge, so...

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. - Joseph Campbell, mythologist Seen on the January 2005 edition of Scientific American, on Steve Mirsky’s Captive Audience article. Comments me 2005-02-16 02:35:55 RE: Life… One can actually do trainings to figure out what is going on… In my view it is possible to find out how it ends way before the movie is over. http://www.essencetrainingen.nl/english.shtml