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Today a new hope begins.

It’s the new of the month: a local  exploit (thanks Emilio J.) that affects both 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernel series. It uses a serious bug in the vmsplice function of the file systems subsystem. It’s as easy as getting the code and runnning it to become the root.

But it only affects to the kernel if it supports this function. As I compile my own kernels, I tested the exploit and it didn’t work.

So, I’m happy to discover spenting hours and hours configuring and recompiling the kelmer is not only funny. It is useful too

O vindeiro domingo día 17 de febreiro terá lugar unha manifestación a prol da construcción sostible do territorio, e en contra das actuais agresións que está a sufrir Galicia especialmente no tocante ó urbanismo e a protección do litoral. A respaldan algunhas organizacións de escala internacional como Greenpeace, e algunhas autonómicas, como a Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural. Pero o impulso principal ven de pequenas agrupacións locais, das xentes do pobo preocupadas polo que cada día ven facer ó asomarse ás súas fiestras, como Fusquenlla, de Pontedeume.

Na Alameda de Santiago de Compostela ás 12:00. Máis información e manifesto para firmar na web da plataforma.

El próximo domingo día 17 de febrero tendrá lugar una manifestación por la construcción sostible del territorio, y en contra de las actuales agresiones que está sufriendo Galicia especialmente en lo tocante al urbanismo y a la protección del litoral. La respaldan algunas organizaciones de escala internacional como Greenpeace, y algunas autonómicas, como la Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural. Pero el impulso principal viene de pequeñas agrupaciones locales, de las gentes del pueblo preocupadas por lo que cada día ven hacer al asomarse a sus ventanas, como Fusquenlla, de Pontedeume.

En la Alameda de Santiago de Compostela a las 12:00. Más información y manifesto para firmar en la web de la plataforma.

Last Friday there was in the city of La Coruña a demostration against the imposition of any language. In Galicia we speak two pretty latin languages, Spanish and Galician. Galician was taking as a minor language, but with the beginning of our current democracy in Spain, there is an effort to revitalize and to impulse its use as a mayor language. And it is good.

What is the problem then? The problem is that the nationalists in the local Parliament are using the Galician language as political weapon. So they try to force to everybody to use it as part of their “one language, one nation”. Of course, the first rejection against it comes from the common people that has been speaking Galician all their life without rules. Languages belong to the people that speak them, they do not belong the parties.

The position of the demonstrators [Mesa por la Libertad Lingüistica, es] defending the freedom to choose speaking and learning in every language -Spanish or Galician- was respectable as the opposite. But some people doesn’t think that. Some extreme nationalist groups raged against the demonstrators. They fighted with the police, then they waited to the end of the meeting. Some of those cowards surrounded two young boys, then they beat them up.

And it happened in the center of the city where nobody is a foreigner…

Updated, Feb. 14th: After a new attack in Santiago against right-wing Maria San Gil in the University of Santiago, tomorrow there will be another gathering in La Coruña for freedom of language. Those extremist are in a mistake if think they can scare to everybody that doesn’t agree with them.

These weeks we can go in the city of La Coruña to a very interesting exhibition about Miguel Fisac, one of the greatest Spanish Architects in the XX Century. Fisac was know because his reinforced, prefabricated beams in buildings with bone forms. In those designs took part civil engineer Ricardo Barredo and Vicente Peiró,

The exhibition is enclosed with some speeches. Next Feb. 8th and 15th will speak civil engineers Luis Albajar and the great, great, great José Calavera.