Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 32

With eclectic sushi and several other goodies.

After the projector blew up at the beginning of the class, all of the exposition had to be directly in Kaz’s laptop screen… Comments gwolf 2014-05-17 19:06:57 Good reference! Thanks for your attention to detail. Kaz 2014-05-17 16:57:21 The credit for this image The credit for this image goes to M. Tim Jones, Consultant Engineer, Emulex Corp. and was used only with explanatory purposes (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-filesystem/) I will add a bibliography for your students and send it ASAP so they have an idea where they can start in the case they require to develop drivers. Best Regards!

A full group of students following on Kaz’s thorough explanation

I try to invite about three friends per semester to give a talk at my Operating Systems class. Some photos are sometimes taken there…

Yesterday night, we had the opportunity to have –for the first time– my friend Kaz as a guest in my Operating Systems class. We are about to finish the semester, and he took the opportunity not just to show how the Ext4 filesystem is structured, but how it is implemented in a current Linux release. Kaz took a very different approach from what I do: He did it really hands-on, starting with the explanation on how a hello world module would be created, and then digging in following the code of the ext4 module in Linux 3.14 (and some bits...

Shame on me… I should have uploaded this video a long time ago. I wanted to edit this video to remove pauses, add some in-band indications on who and what it is, and stuff… But after a month, I have not yet got around to do it. On April 23, I invited César Yáñez to present a talk on virtual memory management to my students (for the Operating Systems class). As always (this is the third time I invite him — The previous iteration was on process scheduling, and is on my site as well), he gave a great class....

Until a cartoon version of one of the attendees is produced!

This is, beyond any doubt, one of the weirdest talks I have given. Almost all of my friends know that, if there is a topic I don't know much about (and, I must say, I don't really care much about learning) is the insertion of Free Software in a commercial world. I often criticize the entrepeneuring culture, and my concept of a happy life involves having a stable, long-term employment. Neverhteless, my friends at OS-UPIITA invited me to talk in their conference cycle, expressly asking me to tackle this topic. And in the end, I liked the topic. Besides, the...

I was invited to give a talk at a local conference, OS-UPIITA. I have been invited to this conference before, and will gladly be there again. But I was recently pointed at the invitation poster they are distributing (which I reproduce here for your convenience) — And I must make a couple of corrections here: First and foremost: I don't want to trick anybody. I am not the Director of Debian Mexico. In fact, Debian Mexico does not exist. I am just a humble Debian Developer. I accept the conference title, because that's what they requested from me. I'm trying...

I have heard many good things about Docker, and decided to give it a spin on my systems. I think application-level virtualization has a lot to offer to my workflow… But the process to understand and later adopt it has left me somewhat heart-torn. Docker is clearly great technology, but its documentation is… Condescending and completely out of line with what I have grown used to in my years using Linux. First, there is so much simplistic self-praise sprinkled throughout it. There is almost no page I landed on that does not mention how user-friendly and user-centric Docker’s commandline arguments...