Monthly Archives: October 2006
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That hurricane day Will soon pass away And someone will sweep All the jetsam back into the bay And we’ll come down Like we always did And knock on my door Like the big bad wind Born in a storm … Continue reading
The tunnel (of knowledgement)
Today I have been in Engineer Legarreta’s speech about an hydroelectric dam in the Lérez River, in the South Galicia. Legarreta is one of the legends of my School (it’s said he made all the problems of two volumes of … Continue reading
Exploit your screen
The risks of using little pieces of privative among free software: the rotten apple doesn’t recover, just the sane ones decay. Via OpenBSD Jorunal, a vulnerability to Linux, BSD and Solaris in the NVidia’s binary device driver allows to local … Continue reading
Little earthquakes
Last tuesday was the first class day in Portiño. It was a shiny day, and children (around fourty) were so naughty that I’ve never saw in four years I’m in the project, I think. Good new: there is a new … Continue reading
Blind computing, state of art
If it’s important take care of the server-side of the accesibility, we can’t forget the client-side. A very interesting thread in OpenBSD Journal concerns about the actual usability of operating systems and applications. It seems OSes that care their command … Continue reading
Two clear thoughts
…by David A. Wheeler. In his blog: “If your goal is to have a useful program that stays useful long-term, then a protective (“copylefting”) license like the LGPL or GPL licenses has much to offer. Protective licenses force the cooperation … Continue reading
Improving packet filering
OpenBSD Journal has published three articles (in fact, three chapters of a cancelled book) by Daniel Hartmeier about advanced topics using OpenBSD’s firewall, known as Packet Filter (PF): Firewall Ruleset Optimization Testing Your Firewall Firewall Management Remember OpenBSD 4.0 is … Continue reading
Day against DRM
Today is a day to remember our digital freedom is not ensured. Defective by design.
6/68
This number was written with marker on the shirt that an African teen weared in a youngers center at Canarias Islands. I saw the scene in the report “Menores a la deriva” (Youngers go adrift) in the program Espejo público … Continue reading
Vynil kicks CD
I’ve saying for years: vynil LP’s are better than CD to a complete enjoy of music. Recently Dylan declared: “You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, … Continue reading
Animals and the beast
The bull of Tordesillas (and the Spanish form of bullfighting), the yearly hanging of greyhounds by their owners (hunters), the recently filmed killing by beating of a dog in Ribeira… make me think Spain has still an extremely cruel with … Continue reading
Free knowledgement to build a better world
The concept of free software extended. I read at Slashdot an article about Open Prosthetics Project. This is an wonderful initiative to innovate in designs of prosthetics and make it free for everybody. They use as CAD system Alibre, it’s … Continue reading
Random guy
An interesting post by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper about design of anonymizing systems, reflects on using randomness as the lonely solution to strengthen the communication. Random even cause the opposite effect, as Clayton and Danezis study in this … Continue reading
Free as in freedom
Eight years ago mi life changed because reading a great article. Today my duty with the free software movement is stronger.