http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog (formerly known as umask 077) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always loved sports. I didn't played a lot because I was too bad and I had no teacher who drived me right. Like most of Spanish boys, I loved football, and I soon began to suffer with the curse on the Spanish national team (and enjoyed with the evolution ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/21/citius-altius-fortius-bloodious/ Some books of XIX Century poetry (Espronceda, Baudelaire, Whitman, Poe). Some poems written by us. A 15 years old Johnny Walker bottle. Do dead poets need something else in a rainy night at the mountain? http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/18/we-went-to-the-woods/ I'm always grateful to God for every year we can work at Portiño trying to help to our children to go steps forward in their life. In the previous years this work was difficult because the lack of volunteers, so we maintanied the project in precarious conditions. But luckily this year ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/18/it-never-rains-forever/ I'm getting old. I'm very happy with a gadget that joins cell phone (GSM and UTMS), GPS, digital camera, mp3 player, wireless conectivity. Its name is N95 by Nokia. It goes against Unix philosophy, but I was tired because my full pockets with gadgets, batteries and their chargers. And, even when ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/18/the-gadget/ Visperas and Benji got married in June. They celebrated the marriage in Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid. Alcalá was the first planned university in the world by Cardinal Cisneros in the XV Century. Everywhere in the  city you can find cared buildings of stone and brick that evoke the Golden ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/18/geeks-as-we-are/ 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 where positive: I passed more exams than ever, and, ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/08/18/i-was-not-resting-in-peace/ 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. http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/06/21/more-pieces-for-the-fem-puzzle/ "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 the OpenSSL bug in Debian. "Google was founded by two students ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/06/11/how-journalists-understand-computer-science/ 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 a very necessary project nowadays. Of course it's better to have ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/06/03/raiders-of-the-dcl-ark/ Around 410 Spanish credits (not ECTS) and many, many years, today I received my last class in the School. Civil engineer Álvaro Vázquez Herrero from Exconsa Ltd. talk us about foundations, project management and the life. Of course, today I remembered my first lesson and the professor who taught ... http://tsao.enelparaiso.org/weblog/index.php/2008/05/31/always-a-lot-of-concrete/