Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 67

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You are scaring away much more than that. I just came across an invitation for BugCon 2012. BugCon is a Mexican conference devoted to computer security — I cannot comment on its level or value because, although it’s a topic that has long interested me, I must recognize each day I feel less of an expert, nowadays finding myself at the level of a “sysadmin who tries not to be too dumb for his own job security”. Oh, and also because it would be completely off-topic for this post. If you look at Vendetta’s (the main organizer) blog post, it...

Las culturas del denominado mundo occidental han transitado por grandes etapas claramente diferenciadas — Si bien no hay un criterio único, en líneas generales podríamos hablar de cinco: Prehistoria, antigüedad, edad media, edad moderna y era contemporánea. Uno de los principales factores de quiebre que marca el salto de una a otra es la forma que tiene la humanidad de difundir el conocimiento — Historia, cultura, nuevas ideas. Y hoy estamos sin duda alguna a las puertas de un nuevo cambio, que con toda seguridad replanteará el mismo funcionamiento de la sociedad. La antigüedad, primer etapa de la civilización inicia...

Every year, on January 1st, new material ceases to be protected by copyright and enters the public domain. This means, every year, more knowledge, literature, paintings, music, movies and a long etcetera becomes collective property, instead of being artificially held by the current holders of their rights. As this image shows (source: http://publicdomainday.org/node/39 ), I have the honor(?) to live in the country with the longest copyright protection term in the world. Copyright in Mexico does not only last for 100 years — It lasts for the natural life of the author plus 100 years. This means that the popular...

I came to Argentina with my girlfriend to visit her family and friends, and to spend here some disconnected days during my winter^Wsummer vacations. And so it was, we had some very nice, relaxing days, with everything running smooth and with infrequent but enough sessions of mail access to withstand the disconnection without pain. Of course, I didn’t anticipate that the Network Operations Center of my university would break my institute’s connectivity while performing their planned maintenance on December 23. After some days, I was able to talk with one person in the university, but connectivity was not restored. Nobody...

Thanks to Cripkey! :-D

March 2011

I frankly have no words to describe what the “artist” had in mind (seen in Xochimilco, March 2011)