Some people that’s approaching to GNU/Linux ask me the same question: can I install one distribution in an old computer? I usually explain how I install Debian in my Compaq Armada 4131T using nfs or network to get the packets, use 2.4 kernel series, X with WindowMaker…

I read via Slashdot an alternative method: (how to) breathing life in old computers with Damn Small Linux.

I was today in Transport Engeneering class, talking about combined systems, when the yellow bulb lighted. It happen when the teacher was showing carrier ships photos.

I think about I was child, and friends of my family gave me a Tente box. It was Spanish toy like Lego, but the final result was more realistic. That box I received has standard blocks and special pieces to build several kinds of civil ships (I think the present was related to the fact my Dad is capitain in the Merchant Taiwanese Marine).

I spent lots of evenings building ships following the drafts. My parents bought me more Tente boxes with lots of more designs.

I’m aware of difficulties of my school mates to think in 3D with designs, and these problems are
more serious the more they are younger. I think Tente put me in advantage.

By the way, I found a fans of Tente blog (via Barrapunto)

I receive one gift every year because my birthday, of my School friends Raquel, both Silvias and (now far-away-so-close) Olga. Every year is an special gift, but this year the present is more special if it is possible: the 30th anniversary box of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run.

I think it’s the best album of the Boss, I wouldn’t quit neither put any song. Raquel and me won’t never forget Thunder Road in concert, the May 15th, 2003 at Molinón Stadium (Gijón). Yes! We were there! After 6 hours of travel and 9 hours awaiting beside the Stadium door!

Thanks a lot, my friends!!!!

I read the new in Slashdot, Microsoft has retained the professional services of Burton Smith, co-founder of Cray Inc. It seems one step to try to push MS cluster group, there is only one Win2003 cluster in the Top500 between more than 370 Linux machines.

Maybe the truth is in an Anonymous Coward comment:” Microsoft also announced Windows Vista will require a Cray supercomputer to run.”

Abstract: We can see in show at Spanish public TV how govern lies to parents and teenagers explaining the called the-day-after pill and in-utero devices are not abortive, when the actual scientific fact they both are abortive.

Informando a padres españoles que ven la televisión pública:

Ayer tenía un poco de fiebre, es la época. Pero la fiebre me aumentó cuando estando tirado en cama, haciendo zapping, me encuentro en el programa “Padres en apuros” que emite La 2 de Televisión Española hacia el mediodía, un reportaje sobre embarazos no deseados. (more…)

Via my friends of Linuxbeat, I’m joining to protest against Spanish Social and Labour Issues Office because its oblivion of Centro de Ayuda a Minusválidos Físicos de Ferrol (Ferrol Attention to Handicapped Center). This residence is the home of handicapped that need strong assistance to live. This letter written by a resident explains how the Spanish Govern promised some years ago to engage more and younger assistants, but at the present day they haven’t done it, and the way of life of residents is critical.
Please send the letter to MTAS to remember them their promises.

It happen a week ago, I didn’t had no time to write about it. But I’m still ashamed about Chinese president Hu Jintao visit in Madrid. He came essentially to make business with Spanish enterprises through the Spanish govern. He talked with King Juan Carlos and signed in the honor visit book of the Parliament,our main democratic institution.

Hey, does anybody know China Hu Jintao is the president of the biggest dictatorship in Earth? Does president Zapatero know to say “human rights NOW“?

I had funny time today. After Maths and Grammar, children of Portiño worked for first time in the computation classroom we assembled with old PC’s of my School.What a pity, I have not photo camera

November, 18th, 1930, was published “La rebelión de las masas” (Rebellion of masses, the great work of the most Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset in the 20th Century. I read the it yesterday, in the opinion section of Domingo Bello Janeiro in La Voz de Galicia newspaper. The columnist thinks Ortega’s vitalist though, his analysis of man in the mass culture and the Spanish political situation not only aren’t outdated. Actually we can apply to the present.

And I agree.

Wild, wild times. I began this week in defcon 1 because three critical points: these are my first days as sysop in the Ports and Coast Engeneering Lab in my School; my group of Territory strightening and town planning(OTU) must deliver the 1st phase of our work about Pontedeume, and I have my first session as teacher in an basic linux short course that Benji and me teach.

And these are the facts:
Monday: I am still tired from climbing on Sunday again to the Castrillón, the street in the highlands of Coruña where lives Rocío, one of my mates in the OTU group. We meet Rocío, Silvia and me to coordinate our works.Then we decide to print the designs in our School. Rocío and me arrive eraly in the morning, and, Silvia comes with her sister Cristina that leave us in the Achitecture School in the Zapateira campus. We see the prices, the methods and delay of the laser printing there and we decide it would be the last option.

Down in Elviña campus again we try to print with inkjet printers in our school, but the only software installed in the PC of A3 printer (the printer is NOT connected to a net) is and old version of Autocad. But we work with Bentley’s .dgn format, because a) the original designs of the goverment were in this format, and b) I was working with .dxf files created by Qcad for GNU/Linux that Autocad doesn’t support neither. (more…)

… so I have no problems with Sony’s rootkits in CD’s
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can read the amazing history of a security expert that discovered some Sony music CD’s with anticopy install a rootkit in PCs to prevent duplications. There are interesting comments at Slashdot. Kriptópolis has a minute-to-minute case tracking (in Spanish).