Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 35

This year, I had slowly taken again running. It’s an activity I enjoy, even though I’m far from the condition I had when I did it every day — My maximum was running about 8Km four days a week (ocassionally up to 15Km, say, on weekends)… But I slowly drifted out of it over the last three years. Yes, I have taken it up now and then, but dropped out again after a few weeks. Well, this year it felt I was getting back in the routine. Not without some gaps, but I had ran most weeks since July at...

I’m very happy: I was finally able to present a talk at a Free Software conference in Paraná, Argentina — Regina’s hometown. Not only in Paraná, but at the Vieja Usina culture center, half a block away from her parents’ house. So, I must doubly thank Laura: First, for letting us know there would be a Free Software conference there, and second, for taking some pictures :-} What was this conference? Conferencia Regional de Software Libre, organized by Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Entre Ríos (GUGLER). Of course, flying to Argentina (and more specifically, to Paraná, which is ~500Km...

Presenting my talk via videoconference at Conferencia Regional de Software Libre, set up by GUGLER, in Paraná, Argentina, November 7, 2013

The audience during my (network-provided) talk in Paraná, Argentina; November 7 2013

Thanks to Brit+Kaz for the picture! :)

I invited Sandino Araico to give a class in my Operating Systems class. Photographic evidence.

As a guest speaker at my Operating Systems class

Students paying attention to Sandino’s talk on memory management related to computer security

Sandino as a guest speaker to my Operating Systems class

This last Thursday I was able again to lure a good friend of mine into presenting an interesting topic to my students at my Operating Systems class: Sandino Araico, a very well known and very well regarded local security guru, presented several issues regarding memory management. I asked him to present the issues on buffer overflows, as well as possible mitigaion strategies, but of course, to present that topic, he had to walk all over the map of memory management. A good and interesting class. I was able to film it again, and here it is — Sadly, as I...