Monthly Archives: May 2006
Hey Jack Kerouac
Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother and the tears she cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in our little world that hated and that dared to drag him down. Her little boy courageous … Continue reading
Pedrido Bridge over Mandeo river
This bridge is an execptional monument to overcoming the difficulties in engineering works. Political pressure, technical difficulties in the foundation, and the Spanish Civil War (concrete suspenders were the solution against lack of steel) delayed decades the end of works … Continue reading
Next battle: treacheous computing
I read in the OpenBSD Journal about the new intitiative against DRM (Digital Rights Management): Defective By Design. The first action was a protest in Seattle, USA, in the Microsoft developers annual conference: The press release in Defective By Design … Continue reading
Linux Device Driver Kit, released
I read in Kernel Trap an email from Greg Kroah-Hartman announcing the release of the Linux Device Driver Kit. It’s a cd-rom iso with a kernel, docbook kernel documentation in easy-browsing format, and the book “Linux Device Drivers”, third edition, … Continue reading
The filesystem namespace…
…past and present was the title of the lecture by Christoph Hellwig last tuesday in the Faculty of Computer Science. Hellwig is kernel developer. After a fast review of history of the filsesystem namespace in diferent operating systems, he reviewd … Continue reading
Playing to be Turing
Bruce Schneier, author of the mythical “Applied Criptography” and one of the most important current security experts, has released a very interesting document with lots of references for block-cipher cryptanalysis. Via Kriptópolis.
Please allow Internet in Cuba
If it’s an injustice the EEUU commercial blocking to Cuba, it’s an injustice too the Internet blocking by the Cuban government to its own citizens. Guillermo Fariñas, a Cuban dissident stated in hungry strike last January, 31, to ask for … Continue reading
Santo Domingo de la Calzada 2006
and the end of bloggy… dayS. The last weeks ended going home from a party in the Civil Engineering School of La Coruña. Santo Domingo, bridge builder in pilgrimage routes to Santiago, is our saint. We celebrated his day in … Continue reading
Finally, Jim Hall
I tried to go to Gary Burton live, but I was ill. I tried to see Elian Elias in concert. But I was very busy. Finally, I could go to Jim Hall’s. And I enjoyed. It was a soft and … Continue reading
Portiño Blues again
Don’t have time to think where I am and what I’m going to do. The number of children increased again in these weeks, but the number of volunteers is very low. And, it’s worst, I’m their leader because I’m the … Continue reading
Say NO to Nuclear power plant
Some press media has been echo of declarations of Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder, saying it’s a mistake attack nuclear energy. Some environmentalists begin to think nuclear energy is the solution to stop climatic change. But I remember: Nuclear power plants … Continue reading
The graphical monopoly
RMS began officially the war against ATI’s closed specifications (via GNUticias,es), he was expelled from an Norm Rubin speech at MIT three weeks ago. ATI and Nvidia have the monopoly in graphic devices, we can not allow their abuses.
Too much African blood
African blood: More than une hundred persons die in an oil pipeline explosion at Nigeria(es). The oil that we buy to Nigerian dictatorship. With money that never will get away of the poverty the Nigerians More African blood: Near 40000 … Continue reading
Third betrayal of Yahoo!
RSF reported a month ago implication of Yahoo! in a third arrest of a Chinese ciberdisident, Jiang Lijun. By the way, the veredict of Li Zhi proves implication of Yahoo! in his arrest too. Be aware you clients of Yahoo!, … Continue reading
Let’s smash excuses…
Open Document Format is standard ISO for exchangin documents: ISO/IEC 26300 New at Slashdot New at Barrapunto (in Spanish) Press note of OASIS Alliance New by Teodd in gpul.org I don’t want receive any .doc from a public institution nevermore
The art of deception
I won’t talk about the Mitnick’s book (in fact, the book is in my wishlist). But I’ll write about social engeneering. Because politics is, in fact, social engineering. As I linked from the post about VI FS Con, it happen … Continue reading
GPUL’s VI Jornadas sobre Software Libre (VI Conference on Free Software)
As every year around March-April, there are a little conference organised by the Coruña Linux User Group. And, of course, I tried to help with my work and, a little speech if I can. This con was the first to … Continue reading
The killer was’t the majordomo…
…but he was related to mail systems… While team was incoming to carry out the new works in the Lab, I had my own old problems. I was working in the SAPO (Sistema Autónomo de Predicción de Oleaje- Autonomous Wave … Continue reading
Teaming up!
The movement began in March, I think. The new generation in the Ports and Coast Lab was growing, and, today, I think the new team is complete. Good fellows in the trench
A bloggy day
Leave the train behind. Walk slowly on the old station street, laptop hangin’ the back. Half-shutted eyes, Prelude to a kiss sounding in the ears. It’s Friday, 9:00 a.m., where does the geek come from? It was the end of … Continue reading