Monthly Archives: April 2007

The golden age, 25 years after

Thanks to Berto, I got aware today is the 25th anniversary of launching of the ZX Spectrum. The age of 8 bits home computers marked us a generation of computer enthusiasts. Snif, snif :’-) I still have my Spectrum 48+ … Continue reading

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Only for very, very geeks

Xmonad, a window manager written entirely in Haskell Via OSNews.

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On the air, on the School

The days after DUDESconf I still had some work related with GPUL. On Monday, Emilio and me went to Radio Intereconomía to an interview about free software at the radio show “El Oasis”. Emilio was a bit nervous but it … Continue reading

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The last waltz

The DUDES conference ended a week ago, and I still have no time to write about this until now. It was an exhausting experience (but we have a lot of fun). The differences with the Guademy were clear: the DUDES … Continue reading

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Thinkpad AC adapter repair

Same weeks ago the AC adapter of my Thinkpad (R51, buyed in 2004) began to fail. In the beginning was a simple, annyoning failure that was solved moving the adapter. But as it usually happens, the real collapse came when … Continue reading

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Running: DUDESconf

Without time to enjoy of the sucess of the Guademy, the next weekend we will celebrate the DUDES conference (Dudes in an Unofficial DEbconf in Spain) in the Faculty of Computer Science. The event was a little conspiration of Debian … Continue reading

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Etch released!!!

21 months after the former release codenamed “Sarge”, the Debian project has announced the releasing of Debian 4.0 “Etch”. This week will be wonderful…

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The thin, non-return line

I have a lot of fun with House, MD series. Even with this season that it’s becoming a bit monotonous. Even when sometimes it has the same annoying attitude of another series about hospitals: they take the left-wing views about … Continue reading

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Quality of life

That’s the expression that I usual hear in the mouth of a doctor in front of an ancient that has NOT asked for leave him/her to dead. It’s a softer expression than “your life is shit. Die and leave us … Continue reading

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Mourning of fortraners

It happened two weeks ago, but I couldn’t pass without write about the death of John W. Backus, the team leader of developers of the Fortran language at the 50′s, developer of the Backus-Naur Form, and Turing Award winner in … Continue reading

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And I use WindowMaker…

A week after, I’ll write about the Guademy that GPUL celebrated in the Faculty of Computer Science(FIC) of UDC. I still wonder how in near four months Bille, Chema and Millán organized maybe the best event ever in our free … Continue reading

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