Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 77

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...

…Or something like that ;-) For those who don’t understand the silly joke – Blender is a production-quality free 3D rendering/animation engine, which you can download for basiclally any operating system you can think of. Thanks to <a href=”http://www.g-blender.org/” title=”G-Blender: La comunidad de Blender 3D en español</a>Claudia and Octavio, from the G-Blender Spanish-speaking community</a>, for the nice sticker :-}

Can I count myself in a majority of people that feel that, while the USB standard is a great advance regarding the way we used to connect our stuff to the computer some years ago (when we used a different cable for every friggin’ device we had, and we had to care about having only one parallel and two seral ports in regular configurations, and don’t even get me started on port settings — speed, parity, etc.), every time we hold a USB cable in our hand we feel one of the designer teams decided to play a prank on...

Sunday. A good day to take some time to myself, and get some much needed excercise. And the pseudo-meditation that comes with it: That’s one of the factors I love the most about cycling. It’s possibly my favorite way of just idling, of allowing for the time to pass without me noticing, just watching the movie of life, watching the world go around me with very little effort. I just love cycling. I have posted here several mentions of the Ciclotón: Every month, the last Sunday, our city government closes a ~32Km circuit to make it for cycling (and skating,...

AGH! My eyes! My eyes! I don’t know where to start. Lets see: The sign should read something like Repair of God-babies and religious images. So, if your God-baby or other religious image is not miraculous enough, you can take it to them for repair?Verrrry professional sign writing «imajenes» where it should be «imágenes». Ok, minor point, but still very prominent.What an "excessive" abuse of "double" "quotes"! — «Repair of God-"babies" and "religious" "images"». So, if I have a semi-adult version of God, does it still count as a "baby"? Or if I have a movie of Elvis, is it...

This is a public garden. Please help us take care of it. I very gladly would, if you were so kind to let me in it, as the fence is blocking the entrance. (Outside a church, over Calzada de los Misterios; Gustavo A. Madero, Northern Mexico City.)