Monthly Archives: July 2006
The Petaflop Age
I read a brief in Slashdot about the completion of the first supercomputer that breaks the petaflop barrier. Its name is MDGRAPE-3 (Molecular Dynamics GRAvity PipE 3), and it’s 3x faster than the current Top500. The machine will be used … Continue reading
Upgraded
I’ve just upgraded this blog from WordPress 1.5.2 to the wonderful 2.0.4. I’ve seen some annoying effects with RSS feed(every latests post appears as new in RSS readers and planets). Sorry for the inconvenience
Bloody hypocrites
Edward Atkinson, a 75 years old English citizen, became in prisoner of conscience when he was arrested and convicted to 28 days of imprisonment because his action against abort. He sent to Ruth May, chief executive of the Queen Elizabeth … Continue reading
Welcome inmigrants! manifesto
A group of catholic priests in the Canarias Islands signed a manifesto trying to give an (christian) appropiate point of view on the inmigrants drama. The manifesto consists of five items: Inmigrant is victim not a hangman Spaniards we were … Continue reading
Moore’s law in free knowledgement
Michael Hart, the Project Gutemberg founder, said in his speech at the sixth HOPE conference (Hackers On the Planet Earth) the size of the project doubles every 18 months. The Project Gutemberg was founded 35 years ago and it lodges … Continue reading
Losing the innocence
I have been thinking about how the University changes the life. It’s supposed this is time to think with critical mind, and it would be good. But I’m not sure this process really exists. I saw how the students change … Continue reading
XIV Festival de Jazz de Pontevedra
This jazz fest begun last monday, but I realized today looking for the Jeff Ballard bio. Of course there will be very good lives and jam sessions with local jazzmen and international ones. But next saturday will be the most … Continue reading
The tick hunter
Last saturday evening I was in the marriage of Jorge Vázquez, one of my best friends in the Civil Engineers School (mental note: I must pass mentest on myself: until friday, I though the celebration would be on Sunday in … Continue reading
GPUL’s III Taller de Criptografía, Seguridad y Privacidad (III Workshop on Cryptography, Security and Privacy)
On Thursday we celebrated the 3th edition of our annual crypto workshop. This year we extended the workshop to more stuff related to data security in general. So we started with an speech about viruses. Javier Muñoz Mellid , from … Continue reading
GPUL’s I Jornadas sobre Tecnologías Web y Software Libre (I Conference on Web Technologies and Free Software)
I couldn’t have rest after the June tests. GPUL planned to middle July this year for first time a web technologies conference, the I Jornada sobre Tecnologías Web y Software Libre, on 12th, and the traditional cryptography workshop: III Taller … Continue reading
Tense days
These days I put my eyes in Democratic Republic of Congo. There are two main reasons for it. The first one is there are the first democratic election in four decades. DRC has suffered the colonialist Belgian govern, then alternated … Continue reading
Target: ext4
After a two months discussion at the Linux Kernel Mailing List and proposal of several patches[slashdot.org], Theodore Ts’o has explained guidelines to develop the next version of the Extended Filesystem. Full thread at Kerneltrap.