Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 80

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

La Evolución del rol que cumplen los sistemas en las organizaciones ha cambiado por completo -afortunadamente- el punto de vista que la mayor parte de los desarrolladores tiene con respecto a la seguridad. Hace una o dos décadas, el tema de la seguridad en cómputo era frecuentemente evitado. Y hasta cierto punto, esto era muy justificable: ¿Intrusos? ¿Integridad? ¿Validaciones? Conceptos que hoy a todos parecen fundamentales eran vistos como distracciones teóricas que sólo entorpecían la usabilidad de los sistemas. En la década de los 80 había muy poco software diseñado para su operación en red, y mucho menos para la...

If you have seen me anywhere near my computer at DebConf, you probably have seen the face of a hurried, worried developer. Still, if you monitor my Debian-related activity, you will notice it is still quite low, even given my (much needed and very much enjoyed) vacations pre-DebConf. Yes, orga-team work is very time consuming, even if my role is far from central this year. And yes, DebCamp+DebConf are known for sucking time into social interaction, which is great but not so (formally) productive. And yes, I even took 1.5 days off to visit my family and a friend who...

If Tim can report his movements around New York, so can I! ;-) Sadly, due to Nokia deprecating my still-quite-new N95 phone by not allowing me to use their service anymore, I won’t be able to share my routes with you – But anyway… This morning I decided to take a quick run to start off the day on Riverside Park (the park where we had dinner yesterday). I went South for about 3Km and headed back (for, you guessed right, a grand total of 6Km), and decided that 45 minutes of exercising are enough to declare my day started...

I spent the past three weeks away from basically any kind of usual contact. I took a three week vacation in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy, Córdoba), got my first snow experience and enjoyed a real lot… But got completely disconnected from all of my usual activities… and responsabilities :-} Anyway, yesterday afternoon I landed in New York. Arrived to Columbia around 2PM, and spent most of the day zombying around with the Debian crew. And today it starts feeling like the real job is starting. As always, there is a lot of excitement when DebConf starts....

At keyring-maint, we got a request by our DPL, querying for the evolution of the number of keys per keyring – This can be almost-mapped to the number of Debian Developers, Debian Maintainers, retired and deleted accounts over time since the keyrings are maintained over version control. Stefano insisted this was more out of curiosity than anything else, but given the task seemed easy enough, I came up with the following dirty thingy. I’m sure there are better ways than cruising through the whole Bazaar history, but anyway - In case you want to play, you can clone an almost-up-to-date...