Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 32

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...

Ok, so the day has come: Today begins the much awaited Drupal Camp Mexico City, yay! For those that cannot make it to Mexico City, I understand understood[fn]I cannot find the link to the information, but it might appear later on… /mehopes[/fn] we would have live streaming of at least one of the rooms, but anyway, talks will be recorded, and will be put online later on. As for the talks schedule, here you have it. Yes, today my workmate and I will be giving a simple introduction to having a useful basic Drupal install. Today is the tutorials /...

Hay dos ángulos principales desde los cuales podemos visualizar el uso de la nube: Por un lado, como desarrollador y proveedor de servicios, hablar de la nube nos hace pensar en escalabilidad, paralelización, distribución geográfica en redes de entrega de contenidos (CDNs), y demás aspectos técnicos, estoy seguro que la mayor parte de los textos en este número irán en ese sentido. Sin embargo, la nube es también, y cada vez más, un concepto que manejan los usuarios finales. Nuestros usuarios, incluso los menos tecnófilos, están empleando los servicios en la nube con cada vez mayor frecuencia. De una forma...

Artículos y columnas publicados en 2014

I woke up to the news that, after a very short tenure, Brendan Eich steps down as the Mozilla CEO. Why? Because of the community outcry. Because some years ago, Eich pubilcly supported (and donated funds) the ban of any kind of marriages in California that were not between a man and a woman. The world has advanced enormously in this regard in the last years/decades, and so many individuals and organizations opposed and announced they would boycott Mozilla that either him or Mozilla could not stand the pressure anymore. So, of course, it’s sad the person had to resign....

We are organizing a DrupalCamp in Mexico City! As a Drupal user, I have so far attended two DrupalCamps (one in Guadalajara, Mexico, and one in Guatemala, Guatemala). They are –as Free Software conferences usually are– great, informal settings where many like-minded users and developers meet and exchange all kinds of contacts, information, and have a good time. Torre de Ingeniería This year, I am a (minor) part of the organizing team. DrupalCamp will be held in Torre de Ingeniería, UNAM — Just by Facultad de Ingeniería, where I teach. A modern, beautiful building in Ciudad Universitaria. Talks, tracks So,...

So a good friend of mine talked about something in the debian-private mailing list. And we should not disclose that something outside such a sensible space without his approval. But Jakub is right. Once the discussion goes over to only messages talking about non-private stuff, the discussion should be moved to a non-private area. After all, we will not hide problems yada yada, right? So, not knowing where in the Debian lists this should go to, it will land on my blog, reformatting mail to make sense in this media: Luca Filipozzi dijo [Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:36:49PM +0000]:...

As I posted some weeks ago, I have been playing with my CuBox-i4Pro, a gorgeous little ARM machine by SolidRun, built around an iMX6 system-on-a-chip. My first stabs at using it resulted in my previous post on how to get a base, almost-clean Debian distribution to run (Almost? Yes, the kernel requires some patches not yet accepted upstream, so I’m still running with a patched 3.0.35-8 kernel). After writing this step by step instructions, I followed them and built images ready to dd to a SD card and start running (available at my people.debian.org space. Now, what to do with...

I have just pushed our pseudo-monthly batch of keyring updates to Debian. I am happy to inform you that, while the situation described in Clint Adams’ interesting assessment of the state of the Debian keyring (and the quite constructive conversation that followed) still holds, and we still have way too many weak (1024D) keys in the Debian keyring, we got a noticeable effect as a result of said thread: 20 key upgrade requests in somewhat over a one week period! (mostly from DDs, with two from DMs IIRC). So, for any DD or DM reading this and not following the...