Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 28

We like showing our friends around UNAM. Not only it’s where I work, but it’s a great and beautiful university. And it’s only a block away from home! Some photos from UNAM

The following text is not mine. I’m copy-translating a text a dear friend of mine just wrote in Spanish, in Facebook. He writes far better than I do (much better than most people I have known). I am not also a great translator. If you can read Spanish, go read the original. I hate my country. I want to get the hell out of here. This country stinks. Phrases that appear in talks between Mexicans since yesterday. On the network and outside of it. And to tell the truth, I would have put them between quotation marks if I had...

Last Wednesday I had the pleasure and honor to have a great guest again at my class: José María Serralde, talking about real time scheduling. I like inviting different people to present interesting topics to my students a couple of times each semester, and I was very happy to have Chema come again. Chema is a professional musician (formally, a pianist, although he has far more skills than what a title would confer to him — Skills that go way beyond just music), and he had to learn the details on scheduling due to errors that appear when recording and...

Petter posted yesterday about Listadmin, the quick way to moderate mailman lists. Petter: THANKS. I am a fan of automatization. But, yes, I had never thouguht of doing this. Why? Don’t know. But this is way easier than using the Web interface for Mailman: $ listadmin fetching data for conoc_des@my.example.org ... nothing in queue fetching data for des_polit_pub@my.example.org ... nothing in queue fetching data for econ_apl@my.example.org ... nothing in queue fetching data for educ_ciencia_tec@my.example.org ... nothing in queue fetching data for est_hacend_sec_pub@my.example.org ... [1/1] ============== est_hacend_sec_pub@my.example.org ====== From: sender@example.org Subject: Invitación al Taller Insumo Producto Reason: El cuerpo del mensaje...

Two days ago, Drupal announced version 7.32 was available. This version fixes a particularly nasty bug, allowing a SQL injection at any stage of interaction (that means, previous to the authentication taking place). As soon as I could, I prepared and uploaded Debian packages for this — So if you run a Debian-provided Drupal installation, update now. The updated versions are: sid / jessie (unstable / testing) 7.32-1 wheezy (stable) 7.14-2+deb7u7 wheezy-backports 7.32-1~bpo70+1 squeeze-backports (oldstable) 7.14-2+deb7u7~bpo60+1 And, as expected, I’m already getting several attacks on my sites. Good thing that will help you anyway: Even though it won’t prevent the...

Two causally unrelated events which fit in together in the greater scheme of things ;-) In some areas, the world is better aligning to what we have been seeking for many years. In some, of course, it is not. In this case, today I found our article on the Network of Digital Repositories for our University, in the Revista Digital Universitaria [en línea] was published. We were invited to prepare an article on this topic because this month’s magazine would be devoted to Open Access in Mexico and Latin America — This, because a law was recently passed that makes...

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El pasado mes de julio tuve nuevamente la oportunidad de participar en el congreso anual que organiza Software Gurú, presentando la conferencia Desarrollo de software y criptografía.1 Me doy cuenta que, si bien su relevancia resulta clara y hay interésen la comunidad de desarrolladores por comprenderlo, el tema de la criptografía es visto por muchos como un tema casi mágico o místico: Hay unos pocos expertos, pero está fuera del alcance para el común de nosotros, los simples desarrolladores que carecemos de un sólido conocimiento matemático de fondo. Y sí, no puedo negarlo: El uso correcto de la criptografía requiere...

Back in 2009, I set up githubredir.debian.net, a service that allowed following using uscan the tags of a GitHub-based project. Maybe a year or two later, GitHub added the needed bits in their interface, so it was no longer necessary to provide this service. Still, I kept it alive in order not to break things. But as it is just a silly web scraper, every time something changes in GitHub, the redirector breaks. I decided today that, as it is no longer a very useful project, it should be retired. So, in the not too distant future (I guess, next...

I got word via the Electronic Frontier Foundation about an act of injustice happening to a person for doing… Not only what I do day to day, but what I promote and believe to be right: Sharing academic articles. Diego is a Colombian, working towards his Masters degree on conservation and biodiversity in Costa Rica. He is now facing up to eight years imprisonment for… Sharing a scholarly article he did not author on Scribd. Many people lack the knowledge and skills to properly set up a venue to share their articles with people they know. Many people will hope...