Monthly Archives: November 2006
Infernal workshop
It’s too late to register, but I’ve just read in the 9fans-es mailing list they will allow to go into until full up room: The IWP9-2006 First International Workshop on Plan 9 and Inferno will happen next December 4th-5th in … Continue reading
Paul Stocker Quartet… and half
Last week Bille and me went again to another jazz concert from “Jazz en Outono” series. The American saxophonist came to Ferrol featuring the veteran Tony Heimer on piano, the young Héctor Rojo on bass, and the virtuous drummer Nithankar … Continue reading
Jass it up, Bille!
On friday Bille and me went to Jon Mayer Trio concert in Ferrol. Bille was tired and he had to get up at seven o’clock. So he didn’t wanted to go too much. “If you don’t go to the concert, … Continue reading
No solidarity, no God’s Justice
I read in the Christian Cultural Movement web (es) that a week ago Julián Gómez del Castillo has dead. Julián was a christian militant worker with a great history in fighting for workers rights. He was friend of Guillermo Rovirosa, … Continue reading
Those wonderful years: “The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 EDPM”
I meet with this brief, interesting notes about Fortran I in Paul Graham’s personal page. As the author writes, the document express the state of art when Lisp was created, that is, the beginings of the modern computer science. Fortran … Continue reading
NO
Even if Adobe opensources whole Flash, it is NOT an standard. Even if it becomes an standard, it is NOT accesible. FLASH SUCKS!!!
Geeks for a better world
No, I won’t talk about goodness of free software. It’s a post about a NGO I’ve just meet thanks to Newsforge: IESC Geekcorps. This non-profit organization founded by Ethan Zuckerman has as main goal to promote prosperity in development world … Continue reading
Luxury jazz in Ferrol
This month begins the fith edition of “Jazz en Outono” (Jazz in fall) series in Ferrol. These concerts are organised by the Caixa Galicia foundation, and these year we’ll have two very interestings concerts: the next nov., 17th the Jon … Continue reading
DCL runs free (as in freedom)
It was a necessary project: OpenVMS (the native OS to DEC VAX and Alpha platforms) was one of the most solid (and privative) OSs but the sucesive IT business operations pushed it to ostracism. As it happen always around a … Continue reading
Charlie Haden and Michael Brecker: “American Dreams”
I seldom buy a non pure acoustic album. But this one has on the head two great musicians: on bass Charlie Haden, and on sax Michael Brecker. The quartet is completed with two members of a new jazzmen generation: pianist … Continue reading
Bureaucratic killings
A Danish journalist’s investigation unveiled(ElMundo.es, es) supposed illegal aborts tourism in Spain. The hidden camera is explicit enough about what is happening: “we inject digoxine in the heart of the victim[the fetus, upon 24 weeks reported(CNA,en)] so he deads because … Continue reading
Stem cells, tumour cells
We could see in TV and more Michael J. Fox asking votes to Democratic Party because they support investigations on embryos stem cells to fight illness like Parkinson’s. But I still haven’t seen any new about the latests investigations that … Continue reading
Time to reflect
Last September I crashed again my test about Territory Ordering and Town Planning. It’s not good because I will have a problem more in this new course. But this is a chance to read in depth some books: Town Planning … Continue reading
Floods
After summer forest fires (La Voz, es), Fall strong rains brought floods and lot of mud into the estuaries. Oddly, efforts of population as seen in Combarro, were stronger to stop the flood than Galician government with more machines and … Continue reading
Solaris UFS architecture (and more)
I read in OS News that it has been released a chapter of the book Solaris™ Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, by J. Mauro and R. MacDougall. The chapter published by Informit.com explains history, architecture and use of … Continue reading
La suxxe (¡nenos!)
Thanks to bille, via Planet KDE, the amazing agreement between Microsoft and Novell: M$ is going to give sales support to Suse Linux, among another items: patents, virtualization, .NET, Open XML. References: Wall Street Journal new Slashdot thread Two opinions … Continue reading