Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 90

Taken from the University library

Where can a better place be found for Av. Carlos Salinas de Gortari than at the neighbourhood where his would-be successor, Luis Donaldo Colosio (whose assassination is often seen as Salinas’ direct orders) was shot and killed in 1994?

Sitting at my hotel room in Tijuana, about to hit the bed, quite tired because of a nice, long walk I will write more about tomorrow, I have been listening for at least five minutes to a long, stupid infomerciative spam in the History Channel: A fountain pen, a five-point pen, and three other pen-like implements (plus extra and extra and extra things… They are listing a case with 63 implements now!) Now, what is the hook into getting somebody to call for a classy pen? Elegance, of course! Just for the sake of this exercise, the spam continues to...

Several months ago, around the Central American Free Software Encounter (ECSL) in Estelí, Nicaragua, I started stirring the waters — The Central American regions have vibrant, beautiful Free Software communities, but have mostly (with some very notable examples, of course) shied away from being active participants in major development projects. What was I to do about it? Of course, try to get them to become Debian contributors! During the following weeks, I talked about it with several friends from the region, and the result was an announcement and lots of arguments that followed it. Panamá was decided as the host...

Today I took a break before my usual lunchtime to go to the movies — Boogie el Aceitoso was on at 13:00 (and not at the more usual, late screenings). Oily Boogie is a great antihero drawn by the much beloved Roberto El Negro Fontanarrosa, a very widely known Argentinian humorist/cartoonist. I got acquinted with Boogie as during the 80s-90s my parents were asiduous readers of Proceso, a weekly political analysis magazine which included one of his cartoons at the last page. Boogie is a pathological ex-Vietnam, ex-Laos ex-El Salvador, ex-Gulf War, ex-(whatever comes next) USA soldier, who deals with...

The release of OpenSSH 5.4 was announced today. Its announced features include many small improvements, in usability and in crypto strength. One of my favorite tricks using ssh is what Ganneff named ssh jumphosts – Many (most?) of my machines are not directly accessible from across the firewall, so the ability to specify in the configuration files where to jump through is most welcome. Well, with this “netcat mode” it will be much clearer to read and less of a hack… Of course, it loses a bit of the hackish æsthetic value, but becomes easier! (yes, this post is basically...

I must confess I don’t remember who I got this invitation from. Anyway, if you are in the right geographic area, you might be interested. I will try to participate: This is a year-long seminar that will be held the second Thursday every month at Fonoteca Nacional (a place I have wanted to visit for a long time!), in Barrio de Santa Catarina, Coyoacán. Among the organizers they have Creative Commons Mexico. Free entrance (but limited space - so they ask interested people to confirm their presence by mail to bvallarta@conaculta.gob.mx). [update] I went with Pooka to the first session....

Yay! The ticket is ready, and the long trip is getting closer. Long trip? Won’t most Debianers have a longer trip than me this time? Nope, not by far – My University will be on vacations starting July 3, and it is three weeks before DebConf… So I will be travelling Southwards before :-) Details will follow later. Suffice to say that I am more than happy to announce that… I am definitively going to DebConf10! Attachments im_going_to_debconf10.png (24 KB) Comments jeremiah 2010-03-06 03:10:55 Yay! See you there! I am planning to attend my first DebConf in New York! I...