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Category Archives: Free Software
I was not resting in peace
I have not too much time to update this blog. Really, I never had time to do it, but now I’m aware of this fact but I’m not going to give up now. Last months were very hard but results … Continue reading
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More pieces for the FEM puzzle
Two interesting libraries that will help you in FEM analysis: libmesh, a FEM framework, and PETSc, the linear/non linear equation parallelized solver. Via DM, materials engineering consultant Adam C. Powel‘s Opennovation.
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How journalists understand Computer Science
“A very serious bug in the Linux OS exposes millions of servers all around the world to the intruders. The Linux people reacted quickly and they warned about what keys were vulnerable” In CNN+ News (Spanish franchise of CNN), about … Continue reading
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Raiders of the DCL Ark
I have already written about my affection for the OpenVMS-VAX/Alpha platform. Via Hacksize I discovered a howto about running OpenVMS on a virtual system running in a PC. I didn’t know about The Computer History Simulation Project before. It seems … Continue reading
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FEM-CAD interoperatibility: Salome
Thanks to… errr… Pensamiento I discovered a very interesting tool based in OpenCascade. This program is called Salome, and it provides a framework to build a pre- and post-processor for numerical analysis. The screenshots are very impressive: The list of … Continue reading
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Echoes of Dudesconf
This week was a time for recover after Dudesconf. Last year I passed four phases: Two months before: To organize a Debian meeting rules Chaos, death and destruction of the previous and the first day: I *never* will be involved … Continue reading
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New OpenSolaris milestone
OpenSolaris 2008.05 is out. You can ask for free CD’s too Thanks to Carlos, via Glynn Foster
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Dudesnight
It’s 2:50 at the gym/hotel at the Dudesconf. Lights off. Some dudes dream sweetly, some dudes try to dream sweetly, some people try to win an audible competition But most of dudes… err… see the photo
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No rest
It’s nine o’clock. Contrary to what half Spaniards that are going four days for holiday, I’m in the UDC Campus of Elviña a bit stressed. I’m having a coffee in the Faculty of Laws, because the coffee of the Faculty … Continue reading
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Wireless advances
These days we had 1.5 good news about wireless & free software: 1.0: There is now WPA/WPA2 support mainstream in OpenBSD. I’ll must wait support for my Atheros minipci card, but it’s a good new indeed 0.5: Luis Rodríguez, ath5k … Continue reading
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Time to go to Washington
I don’t forget I’m trying to get my degree ASAP. But it’s GPUL‘s X anniversary, so I must do the last effort and work hand in hand with my friends to organize the 8th free software conference in Coruña that … Continue reading
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I’m growing (very) old
Ten years are too many years. It’s true, I needed a change. I recently feel confortable being a bit friendly with non-IT people. But I was tired of explaining them the different layers in GNU/Linux systems when they saw my … Continue reading
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e-(Blaise)Pascal
Mike West (Cowboy Programming) released an interesting, two-part article about simulating fluids (visual simulation, not mechanical simulation): Practical Fluid Dynamics. The article was published in Game Developer Magazine (March and April 2007). Via Hackszine.
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It was not a joke…
…it happened. From NoOOXML
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We’ll need eatable DRAMs
The new was released one month ago, but the vulnerability will remain without solution the next months/years. A team of the University of Princeton developed an attack against all the crypto filesystems. The attack exploits a discovery about most DRAMs … Continue reading
HAL’s definitive shutdown
HAL: Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question … Continue reading
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When impossible is not an answer
Recovering deleted files in the ext3fs is a very hard task. It happens because the journal overwrites the block pointers in the inodes with zeroes. Carlo Wood knew it, but he didn’t surrender when he deleted accidentally his home directory. … Continue reading
More released knowledge
Usenix will make freely avaiable their proceedings to everybody Via Matt Blaze’s Exhaustive Search
Real programmers 1 – Real engineers 10
I have been very busy the last month. I made some tests and, the last week I had to finish some works. The most important of them consisted in designing and checking a reinforced concrete aqueduct. Of course, we were … Continue reading
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Jessica Biel is dressed up in my bed
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 … Continue reading