Monthly Archives: January 2006

¿Por qué estudias ingeniería? / Why do you study engineering?

Abstract: several answers to what f*ck*ng I was thinking when I chose to study engineering. Vía Benji, vía Quercus, de Mont -Porque dormir más es vivir menos. -Porque el látigo y la cera caliente en el pecho ya me aburrían. … Continue reading

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Volunteers blues

Today was my first day at Portiño as coordinator between the volunteers and the Office. It happpened because the former coordinator, Ana, began to study a master, so she left the group. It’s no good. I’m the third coordinator since … Continue reading

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Boppin’ again

Chick Corea… Al Di Meola… Gary Burton… Phil Woods… Final 80′s. I was young. And highly stupid. I put tv, I saw “Jazz entre amigos”(Jazz among friends), the Juan Carlos “Cifu” Cifuentes’ great programme in TVE-2, and I changed the … Continue reading

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Ostrich behaviour

Once again, privative software, all-powerful enterprise made an absolute fool because a serious security bug. Last summer was Cisco, they sent employees to the DEF CON 13 to tear documentation about a bug in their routers OS. This week is … Continue reading

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…And Google puts up with censorship, too

When we were still congratulating to Google because its resistance to reveal personal data to US goverment, today we wake up with the bad new: Google will colaborate with China in the censorship through their services. No Blogger, no Gmail … Continue reading

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Vatican mistake

Decree signed by Cardinal Angelo Sodano that forces to pay royalties because publishing ecclesiastical documents is a serious mistake: the Catholic Church must spread Message of Christ with every means in its hand. Copyright is only necessary to preserve integrity … Continue reading

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You can’t see me :-P :-D

I’ve just discovered reading OpenBSD Journal about the release of Anonym.OS. If you think in Necromantux as your pocket toolbox, Anonym.OS is your pocket privacy: strong cipher, onion routing network with FSF’s Tor in an OpenBSD live-CD based. Good work, … Continue reading

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Political reasons

Maybe you think I’m an extremist, but free software is in my day-by-day decisions. Near 20 months ago I bought an Ericsson cell phone because they develope and free the Erlang functional language. It crashed yesterday, and, to replace it … Continue reading

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Nobody reminds

They were handcuffed,men,women and children, pushed up in buses without water nor food, and dissapeared into the desert. They dissapeared out press pages, finally they dissapeared out of our minds. Inmigrants crashed against Spanish barriers, Morocco army treat them like … Continue reading

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Peace and love burn

I read the sad new in El Mundo: I’ll never visit the Pilgrim Baptist Church, the gospel birthplace, because it fell down in fire last January,6th. The building raised in Chicago in 1890, and in 1922 passed from jewish to … Continue reading

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Gates uncovers his actual smile

As hours go by, the rumour seems to be real: MSN Spaces (Microsoft blogging service) has shut down journalist Zhao Jing aka Michael Anti’s blog. This is another brick in the tech wall that Chinese communist dictatorship builds to blind … Continue reading

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Quantum cryptography smashed?

I’ve just read Fernando Acero’s article in Kriptopolis about a new cryptography method based in thermal noise (Johnson noise) and Kirchoff laws. If investigators are right, we are in front of a cheaper, easier and probably more secure system than … Continue reading

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