Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 76

Two out of four of the invited speakers to the PGDay in Habana, Cuba, missed their planes back (and got it later on, yes… but still) Fortunately, I didn’t miss mine. And strangely, neither did Jaime, even after buying his ticket with this respectable agency.

Meh, I never liked drinking sweetened, carbonated drinks. Still… :-}

For those of you who follow me through anything other than Planet Debian (who will surely tolerate this repetition): Interesting but frightful things are happening in North African countries. We saw what happened in Tunisia some days ago. Now, Egypt is a way larger, way more populous… And, dare I say, way more important country. Also, it is a country which borders Israel, where I lived in for ~18 months, and to which –although I am today unaffiliated– is very important for me. And what happens in Egypt will surely shape the whole mid-East. So, here goes a copy of...

I lived in Israel between 1994 and 1996 — This was just after the signature of the Oslo agreements, the Rabin-Arafat signature. 1994-95 was a beautiful time to be in Israel; there was the excitement of a prospect of real peace with the Palestinians, something that had been just seen as unattainable for the past 50 years. But we also saw the buildup of a huge tension, of real hatred. And the dream of the end of the conflict, of two people living in peace side by side was heavily shattered on November 4 1995, when prime minister Rabin was...

Uno de los términos ampliamente en boga en nuestro campo hoy en día es el cómputo en la nube. Tan en boga que me parece que se ha convertido en una palabra mágica, bastante hueca y sintomática de querer parecer en sintonía con los últimos desarrollos tecnológicos, sin comprenderlos en realidad. Además, al ser una frase que de golpe comenzó a escucharse con tanta insistencia, asumimos que es una estrategia nueva, una idea posibilitada por los nuevos avances tecnológicos — Y esto dista de ser el caso. En esta columna busco clarificar los conceptos y tipos básicos de cómputo en...

So this is that misterious red type of produce known only to a certain US ex-vicepresident? (seen at a Mexico City supermarket. Note that there was no label stating what the misterious thing was in Spanish) Comments Alex 2011-01-11 06:21:58 Point of Fact It was actually “potato”, not “tomato” that Mr. Quayle misspelled. It makes sense, though.

Once again, a polemic regarding how to properly integrate the Ruby language and libraries with the Debian distribution has been ignited. Similar arguments were presented in November and December 2008 and September 2010 — And excuse me for just refering to my own blog, but there are links to some other posts from there… and there will surely be many others I just missed. There were even nice collaboration attempts (such as DebGem, announced in January 2009… But which apparently never stuck on, as it is still listed as in its public Beta period and lists only support for Debian...

As I’m not currently working on any suitable paper, I’ll just post this to my blog so it does not completely slip off my radar ;-) Also, it might be interesting to my reader. Readers? Oh, there are two of you now? Good! Yesterday, I learnt thanks to Beatriz Busaniche that a group of South American Free Culture activists launched number zero of a magazine that promises to be very interesting: Cultura RWX, cultura en modo lectura, escritura y acción (culture in reading, writing and action mode). Guys, best luck with this new project! Anyway, reading it, I found this...

For the past month, I got disconnected from basically all of my usual activities. Not only from Debian work (well, yes, I followed up on a couple of important bugs and releases, but I was in a very low power consumption mode of sorts), DebConf organization/following (some people have contacted me regarding the DebConf 12 venue decision, for which we should start working and have a presentation soon) — Even the always-so-important Real Life got pushed aside. I barely participated in this year’s EDUSOL (On-line Encounter of Education and Free Software). Even work suffered — I asked my boss to...