Monthly Archives: January 2007
Why we love LaTeX
Have you suffered the random whims of Word? Do you have a 5-years old document and you can’t read properly because the version or the word processor missed? Ok, here is an interesting document about why do you must learn … Continue reading
LKN CC-ed
I read in Kriptópolis that Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman released under Creative Commons License the O’Reilly book Linux Kernel in a Nutshell. This book is focused in using and customization of the kernel from user (not programmer) side. Greg K-H … Continue reading
Friendly (and unfriendly) manufacturers of wireless devices
One of the actual problems in developing a free operanting system are the wireless devices. Some manufacturers forces to make inverse engineering to avoid the lack of specifications. Some forces to use a closed firmware. Even some plugs a HAL … Continue reading
POSIX Parallel Programming
Via OSNews, Informit Network is publishing a serie by David Chisnall introducing some styles of paralell programming: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Message passing Part 3: Threads
Sun releases Fortress
Well, and after the psychotropic attack of the day , I’m happy because Sun released a group of new tools (OSNews): Fortress, Sun’s attempt of replacement of Fortran. I don’t know the new features in depth, but it seems it … Continue reading
Be hacker, my friend!
D4NG3R!!!! 1′m 4 bl4ck h4t h4c3r 0ut 0f c0ntr01!!! D0n’t 4110w m3 t0uch th3 k3yb04rd!!! I c4n st34l y0ur id3nt1ty 1n th3 M4tr1x w1th my l4pt0p!!!! (dedicated to my f*ck*ng funny friends of FIC 0.00 ) Updated Jan,16: GOTCHA!!! I … Continue reading
Detroit and Philly mourning
Two bad news for jazz enthusiasts: on friday died Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane’s widow and his pianist in the latest years (of course she was performer in the mythical “Olatunji Concert” (April 23,1967); on saturday, the same bad new with … Continue reading
Wonderful MIT
The legendary Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created OpenCourseWare, a plataform to share pre- and grade courses materials: lectures, notes, exams and more, all under a Creative Commons Lincense. There are courses about all knowledgement fields: Civil Engineering (environmental, town … Continue reading
The taste of friendship
Today I meet with my friends of my Civil Engineer School Raquel, Olga, Juan and both Silvias. It’s more difficult year to year this meeting happen, our works and lifes scatter us all around the world. So, this is the … Continue reading
DRM obsession
Sure many people believes that RMS is fool and FSF is losing the way in campaigns like Defective by Design. I was a little skeptic the first time I read “The right to read” near a decade ago. But today … Continue reading
gvSIG 1.0 released
A very interesting project that joins Civil Engineering and free software has reached its first stable version. gvSIG is a GIS program which development is pushed from the Infraestructures and Transports area of regional government of Valencia (Spain), and funded … Continue reading
Same steak, same illness
One of the more interesting analogy between GNU/Linux vs Windows and biology is, because Windows it’s exactly the same all around the world, a vulnerability is more destructive than vulnerabilities in the GNU/Linux world, where there are different kernels and … Continue reading
And after Taipei 101…
I read in Taiwan Review a very interesting report about the building of Syueshan Tunnel, in the highway that joins Taipei and Yilan. This is not the longest tunnel in the world (12.9 Km, it’s the four longest, the first … Continue reading
Angry with Caffarel and friends
In 2006 RTVE, the Spanish public TV, celebrated the 50 anniversary of its foundation. It was too the beginning of a reorganization (in theory) to improve the policy of former goverments. In fact, the new policy has two clear effects: … Continue reading