Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 69

I recently started getting mails from no-reply@joindiaspora.com. Usually, a mail from no-reply@whatever is enough to make me believe that the admins of said whatever are clueless regarding what e-mail means and how should it work. And in this case, it really amazes me — If I get an invite to Diaspora*, right, I should not pester a hypothetical sysadmin@joindiaspora.com to get me off his list, but I should be able to reply to the person mailing me — Maybe requesting extra details on what he is inviting me to, or allowing me to tell him why I’m not interested. But...

This is an update to my last post regarding the «Construcción Colaborativa del Conocimiento» book. The book is, as we have repeatedly stated, available online for download — Both as a full PDF or chapter by chapter. In the website you will also find videos of all of the conferences held. But holding a printed book in your hands is just a different experience, isn’t it? :-) Anyway, I said I would give here an update on how to get your hands on it. The main venue would be through my University’s e-store. I recommend it to anybody interested in...

Finally! Last Friday, after two years worth of work, I finally got the first box of books for the Construcción Colaborativa del Conocimiento (Collaborative Knowledge Construction) project I worked on as a coordinator together with Alejandro Miranda (pooka), and together with a large group of 11 authors: Translating over from the back cover text (and this is just a quick translation from me — It reads better in Spanish ;-) ): What defines us as humans is our ability, on one side, to create knowledge, and on the other, to share or communicate it with our neighbors. Both features have...

Free Software is a social movement which brings back knowledge production to how it has worked since the beginning of human history. We go through some examples of how information has been shared, along with specialization in the ways of doing so, to see why code is basically speech. Attachments Presentación “Ciencia, Tecnología, Sustentabilidad y ¿Software Libre?” (fuentes en LaTeX Beamer) (2611 KB) Presentación “Ciencia, Tecnología, Sustentabilidad y ¿Software Libre?” (PDF) (2858 KB) Comments gwolf 2011-10-20 16:35:24 Me da gusto :) Desde la parte frontal del auditorio también la sentí fluída. Lo cual hasta resulta curioso, porque es la primera...

There’s something brewing, moving in Jalisco (a state in Mexico’s West, where our second largest city, Guadalajara, is located). And it seems we have an opportunity to participate, hopefully to be taken into account for the future. Ten days ago, I was contacted by phone by the staff of UDG Noticias, for an interview on the Universidad de Guadalajara radio station. The topic? Electronic voting. If you are interested in what I said there, you can get the interview from my webpage. I held some e-mail contact with the interviewer, and during the past few days, he sent me some...

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Patrick tells about his experience moving from LVM to RAID.Now, why do this? I have two machines set up with LVM-based mirroring, and they work like a charm - I even think they work with better flexibility than setting it up in a RAID-controlled way, as each of the partitions in a volume group can be easily set to use (or stop using) the mirroring independently, and the requisite of having similar devices (regarding size) also disappears. Of course, this flexibility allows you to do very stupid things (such as setting up a mirror on two areas of the same...

After many years of successfully dodging doing any serious programming in PHP, I had to get my feet wet with PHP for my RL job: I was requested to develop a simple but non-trivial module for our Institute’s Drupal-based webpage. It basically meant two and a half weeks devoted to head-scratching: I had read the very good John van Dyk’s Pro Drupal Development book, and knew it would be an important resource were I to face writing a module or work on a theme beyond the most basic stuff… So I checked it out of the library, and started basically...

<p>El pasado 2 de junio, participé en el foro «Software Libre en México, reflexiones y oportunidades», organizado por la Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología del Senado de la República. En este foro tocamos cuatro temas principales (Educación, gobierno, industria y sociedad).<p> <p>Si bien el objetivo explícito central del foro fue presentar ante los legisladores y medios interesados tanto los puntos de vista que tenemos los activistas del software libre como las historias de éxito, los avances y problemas con que nos hemos encontrado en los ya más de quince años que llevamos de existencia en nuestro país, posiblemente lo más...

It’s still early and few people have shown up in the lower hacklab. DebConf 11; Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia i Herćegovina. Photo by Robert “Blars” Larson