Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 90

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...

I opened Slashdot’s «Looking back from the 1980s at computers in education» article because I am quite convinced of the point some of the commenters argued before me, (and it’s good to know others think as you do ;-) ) — When I got close to computers, learning computing for children basically meant learning programming in a fun way. For years, my hobbies included Logo and BASIC. At age 7 (by 1983), typing TeX and using Emacs at the computer of the institute where my father worked, I started walking the path I took for my professional life. When I...

…And for Grouchesque representations Comments gwolf 2010-03-10 19:47:45 Obviamente… Se nota: Fueron trenzadas con mucho cariño! reg 2010-03-09 14:44:18 lindas trenzas, lobo vikingo! lindas trenzas, lobo vikingo!

So I finally got off my lazy butt and started the paperwork to get a formal recognition of studies equivalence for a undergraduate studies (Licenciatura en ingeniería de software) via CENEVAL’s Acuerdo 286 (licenciatura). Part of the paperwork involves filling the form I photographed and attached to this node. This is the utmost example of über-redundant paperwork… Where it requires my personal data, some of the fields are: CURPClave Única de Registro Poblacional, Unique Populational Registration Key. This is a string composed by:WOIG: First letter and first vowel after the first letter of my first family name, first letter of...

Nobody cares about me, I thought. Whatever I say is just like throwing a bottle to the infinite ocean. No comments, no hopes of getting any, for several days. Weeks maybe? Not even the spammers cared about me. Until I read this mail, by Thijs Kinkhorst commenting to my yesterday post: (…) (BTW, I was unable to comment on your blog - couldn't even read one letter of the CAPTCHA...) And, yes, Drupal module «captcha» introduced in its 2.1 release (January 2) feature #571344: Mix multiple fonts. Only… no fonts were selected. Grah. Comments Roadmaster 2010-01-29 07:53:03 Duh? FAIL. At...

New guidelines for periodic publications' websites at my University favor the different journals we have to use a standardized system — And it makes quite a bit of sense. It is quite hard to explain to the people I work with that the content is not only meant to be consumed by humans, but also by other systems; the reasons behind rich content tagging and deep hierarchies for what they would just see as a list of words (think list of authors for an article, list of keywords, and so on). After all, aggregator databases such as Latindex and SciELO...