…but f*ck*ng enough. Theo De Raat put the salt on the wound.

Atheros HAL is not only in Free and Net BSD. Until an operative OpenHAL, Linux kernel users are exposed.

I read this new about vPro [es] wonders. I did a fast overview on Intel’s whitepaper. Then, I thought automatically in Ross Anderson’s FAQ about Trusted Treacherous Computing.

Updated, August 30th : I’m not the lone paranoic. Via OS News.

From the report of Ars Technica:

“You won’t really see much mention of DRM in most vPro coverage, because Intel has (quite appropriately) spent a lot of time and effort over the past few years talking up the TXT + VT-x and VT-d combination as a robust enterprise security and remote management solution. And indeed it is. But as a potential technological enabler of more effective DRM, it’s also the ideal companion to Blu-ray and HD DVD, and a godsend to Big Content. Look for it across the rest of Intel’s desktop and portable line by the end of 2008 and prepare to kiss fair use goodbye.”

It seems the jazz scene is improving in my humbly, little hometown. Yesterday we reach the II Festival de Jazz de Pontedeume, and, despite of the rain, I hope it won’t be the last. The people of O Abrevadeiro bar are doing a great effort to push a nice festival in a 10,000 population town.

This year we could listen to The Gypsy Jazz Project, a two-gitars and bass trio from Barcelona, the played nice swing in the Django style. Then we knew the new quartet of Guillermo Lacelotti, Mr. Dixie Jazz Band’s trumpet: Cool Beat. They show us the hidden bop inside Guillermo. And finally, more than two hours of Sonny, Parker, Coltrane… performed by Enrique Guzmán Quarter. The concert end around 3 AM and we were still in the square under the rain crying for more

More photos in my gallery.

“And why not death rather than living torment?
To die is to be banish’d from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is by
And feed upon the shadow of perfection
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon;
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster’d, illumined, cherish’d, kept alive.
I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
Tarry I here, I but attend on death:
But, fly I hence, I fly away from life.”

William Shakespeare, “Two gentlemen in Verona“, act 3, scene 1

The work published some weeks ago  by Torbjörn Pettersson at the CCC 2007 is, at least, worrying. It shows techniques about how to get the keys in a memory dump in systems using the old cryptoloop and the new dm-crypt of the linux kernel.

Via Kriptópolis[es].

Some days ago my felipoper friend Carlos Holgado brought to me this jewel:

To hear one of the greatest albums of the history of the music in pure vynil is a priceless gift

Since Thursday to Sunday took place in Ourense the first GNU Hackers Meeting. This event was organized by the Spanish chapter of the GNU Project and our little brothers of GULO, the Ourense free software group.

Emilio and me attended since friday afternoon. So, we missed the first 48 hours of the event. It was a pity because we passed a very, very pleasant and funny time in the weekend I want to stand out the organization because they did a hard, nice work. With the quarter of the staff we had in the Dudesconf, they made us to be confortable every time: we only had in mind free software and the GNU project. The place to hack and sleep was hardly surmountable, the Univesitary Students Residence of Las Burgas. Even we had sessions in thermal springs (I didn’t had a bath because I’m a dry-land geek ). So, congratulations to Kaderno, Kabute, Juan and the rest of GULO people. You know the difference between talk about free software and really work on free software

Personally I had the chance to meet with the GNU España people that I only knew by e-mail or instant messenger: Nacho González, José E. Marchesi, Antonio Díaz, Juan Añel, Antonio Becerro, and more. We meet with two very interesting luxury guests: Sylvain Beucler, admin and developer of Savannah, and Brian Gough, the GNU Scientific Library maintainer. And, of course, I enjoyed with GPUL people too: Emilio, Teodoro, Eduardo, our future member Pedro Varela, and Ana Guerrero (well, Ana is not strictly a GPUL member but she’s part of the family since Dudesconf ). We were in a hackmeeting and we had no stress!!!

Finally, you can read a summary abut technical results of the hackmeeting[es] at GNUticias.