Monthly Archives: November 2007
TCP/IP/Hermes
Today President of GPUL Emilio J. (see the photo) and me went to the post office to send the first Hermes Project packet. Content: Debian Etch in 21 CD’s. Destination: Camagüey, Cuba
Current architectures review
“What every programmer should know about memory” is a 114 pages document by the glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat). It’s focused on memory and cache management in traditional and new computer architectures. Via LWN.
Grandpa jumps outside MIT
Multics Operating System released. Never too late Via OSNews.
Free as in free jazz
Last Tuesday Sonia and me attended to the concert that played a living legend: one of the free jazz movement rebels, Ornette Coleman. I always compare free jazz with high purity chocolate: it’s bitter at first taste, but you end … Continue reading
Promenade
Today I lived one of the best days since two years ago at Portiño. The school was in calm. We have a lot of children to work, but we were enough volunteers to dedicate much time to everybody. We learned, … Continue reading
We were younger
Via Emanuele Rocca, a nice backup: Project GNU’s web page until 1997. Ten years, you know, it’s too much time (You can also visit GPUL’s first web page at 1998 )
Three releases to midnight
This week I read about three OS’s releasing. The first one, is not a surprise. OpenBSD jumps to the 4.2 version. OpenBSD releases one stable release every six months. We have new install method (there is a ISO image with … Continue reading
It doesn’t rain, but I’m happy
It seems the OCV’s informative campaign had good results. I delayed two weeks to begin the activities waiting for new volunteers. Last week was the first time we went to Portiño. The group was formed with five new volunteers: Ariana, … Continue reading