Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 80

Thanks to Guillermo Amaral for the photo :-D Comments gamaral 2010-08-28 10:00:54 :D Que bien que te gusto el easter egg mod de esta foto. :)

Aug 27 06:00:15 lafa kernel: [7218302.960003] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information Aug 27 06:00:15 lafa kernel: [7218302.960003] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : No Sense [current] My hard drive does not currently make any additional sense. Comments vicm3 2010-08-27 16:21:54 Well Even when it’s on the humor category, do you run smartmontools on your machine? ;)

Just echoing what happens in Planet Debian for people who follow my blog (or any other planet where it is syndicated) and is interested in DebConf processes — I’m specially thinking about people interested in preparing a bid for hosting a future DebConf, as well as people organizing hacking conferences who are interesed in understanding how DebConf works: Richard Darst, a.k.a. our very invaluable MrBeige, started a series of posts describing various processes of DebConf organization. He explicitly asked me for comments while this series was still in planning/wiki stage, but I failed miserably at doing so ;-) So at...

During DebConf, I managed to squeeze out of the middle of everything for long enough to write a column, a short article for a participation I have every three months, for Mexican Software Gurú magazine. All in all, I liked the resulting text — The current number’s main topic is alternative user interfaces. I find it sometimes hard to define what Software Gurú’s audience is — Probably, project leaders in software development; not the actual developers, but people who actually understand about coding… but care more about The Big Picture, Processes, Architecture Engineering and Buzzword Compliance. It is an interesting...

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This Monday, Debian celebrated its 17th birthday. Yay! I was invited to celebrate the birthday at HacklabZAM, but could not make it due to the time (17:00-19:00, and I was just leaving work by 19:00), but still, had some beers with long-time geekish friends Iván Chavero, Rolando Cedillo, Manuel Rabade and Odín Mojica. Nice hanging around, good beer+pizza time, and explicit congratulations to Debian. On the Debian front, Margarita Manterola, Maximiliano Curia, Valessio Brito and Raphael Geissert came up with a very fun Debian appreciation day page. It even included a (slight) hijacking of the bug tracking system’s Web interface,...

Online translators are not hot news anymore. Not by a long, long shot. Still, today I wanted to get a couple of words in Latin. And was amazed that Google’s translation service does not (yet?) offer Latin as an option, so I turned to Translation Guide’s free online translators. And, as it always happens, I thought, hmmm… and what about the random ramblings on my site? So on I went to Gunnar Lupus alio domus. Of course, several funny things popped up, many of which I don’t think are proper Latin, but still, among lotsa’ nonsense, I found that Planet...

So, DebConf time is over once again. The two weeks worth of fifty weeks waiting are left behind once again, and it’s back to get back to normal. DebConf was great — Yes, it always is, and that’s what we are all saying, but hey - Seriously! Being in the same building than 300 crazed developers is always fun, and it’s always better than last year’s fun. A good highlight this year is that, given the number of Free Software and Free Culture groups that exist in USA’s north-eastern coast, we had the opportunity to join a large crowd which...

I finally got myself a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner! \o/

I just bought my Roomba vacuum cleaner - Cheapest model around, as basic as it gets. But, it seems to be hackable! (has a miniDIN serial port on it) Lets see.. :-O