Monthly Archives: March 2006
Incoming Finis Terrae
Yes, it’ll be the most powerful computer of shared memory (19.000 Gb) in Europe. It’ll be installed in Santiago de Compostela. And no, won’t run Windows, can you guess? CESGA (Galician Supercomputation Center), HP and Intel, will build the prodigy … Continue reading
Miles Davis:”Kind of Blue”
In the Miles Davis 75th anniversary edition back cover you can read that this album change your life. I think simply a miracle: Miles Davis (trumpett), John Coltrane (who returned with Davis after a year working with Thelonious Monk) and … Continue reading
Stop brutality!
Canadian government allows (and give subsidies and tax profits) this year the biggest seal hunt in 50 years. Methods in this hunt pushes human back to the Stone Age. They smashes the head of seals, and, no waiting to their … Continue reading
XI Ciclo de Jazz in Coruña (and Vigo)
Via Jam Session, we have the announce of XI Ciclo de Jazz of Fundación Barrié. This year we’ll have events in Coruña and Vigo too. I think the more interesting lives will happen here: Gary Burton (April 8, Palacio de … Continue reading
John Coltrane: “One down, one up(Live at the Half Note)”
I’ve just bought this 2-CD box with two live sessions (NY March 26, and May 7, 1965) performed by the legendary John Coltrane Quartet (John Coltrane, sax, McCoy Tyner, piano, Jimmy Garrison,bass and Elvin Jones, drums). These sessions has been … Continue reading
Free (as in freedom) hardware strikes back
Via Barrapunto (in Spanish), Sun Microsystems has released under GPL license specifications, and design and implementation of OpenSparc processor. After the first steps on OpenSolaris, Sun guys are wining lots of new friends. Maybe it’s an business operation to fight … Continue reading
Drowning men
I’m wondering about how numb is Spanish society. These days we got aware our government had a report three months ago about the death of 1700 inmigrants trying to reach Canarias Islands on boats from Mauritania, in the final of … Continue reading
Dreams
Like trepanations sights in the night She appears She smiles She jokes She hides I play her game It’s funny Smoke rings Got awake in my nightfall She vanishes Just another heroin fix to go away with her I only … Continue reading
Three days thinking about Paradise
From Wednesday to Friday I have been in the “I Xornadas sobre Infravivenda e Chabolismo” (I conference about Infrahousing and Shanty Town) at the Sociology Faculty. We could hear different points of view about the problem, and different actions to … Continue reading
One step towards purity
Near Easter. I don’t eat flesh on Friday. And I’m leaving thunderbird for mutt+fetchmail+procmail+msmtp+urlview and snownews(rss reader), firefox for lynx, and gaim for centericq. Maybe I’ll learn a little vim in order to increase the penance
Breaking Enigma
Thanks to Kriptópolis, I discovered the M4 project (wiki at Distributed Computing). This project begun last january and tries to break three messages cyphered with 4-rotor Enigma (Enigma M4) at North Atlantic in 1942. We can contribute to the work … Continue reading