Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 81

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...

Probably the largest EDUSOL face-to-face gathering to date. Left to right: Mony (Nielmon), Carmen, Carlos (mokitoverde/kako), Gunnar (gwolf), Guillermo (psilab), Alejandro (pooka).

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With due apologies and thanks to my dear and crazy friend UCH: Once upon a timeOnce, because twice would be a repetitive story A kingOne, because two would mean war Who was married to a queenOne, because two would be drama They had a princess daughterOne, because two would be a mess Who was in love with a knightOne, because two would be a soap opera He was given the task of killing a dragonOne, because two would be a titanic feat The hero had an ideaOne, because two would be asking too much Using a unique magic swordOne, because...

Modularización: Arquitecturas de paquetes al rescate Convirtiendo a la hidra en nuestra aliada En el número 27 de Software Gurú, Agustín Ramos presentó un artículo acerca de estrategias para lograr una modularización efectiva en Java. Varios de los puntos de su artículo me llevaron a dedicar la presente columna a explicar a qué llamamos una distribución de Linux, y cuál es su relación –y la solución que ofrece– a los problemas derivados de la complejidad derivada de la modularización, que bien describió Agustín. Como deben ya saberlo, a diferencia de otros sistemas operativos, el entorno operativo completo al que normalmente...

I have been recently approached by several friends, from different countries. Mexico and the violence seems to be a frequent news topic all over the world. I live in Mexico City, as ~25% of the country’s population does. This is not an easy city, of course, and I won’t deny it has tons of problems of its own. However, Mexico City (and even more so the approximately ⅓ of it that is politically located in Distrito Federal, the formal country capital) is very lucky in this regard. Still, in most of the country, the violence is mostly in the news,...