a subversive act of playful cleverness

Wed, 29 Sep 2004

Por algún tiempo estuve usando el codificado ISO-8859-1 y el UTF-8 en mi sistema, ya que en algunas cosas y proyectos todavía usamos ISO. Pero el día de hoy decidi dar un paso al futuro asi que mi cliente de correo ya no escribirá mas correos codificados como ISO sino como UTF. Este es parte de la migración progresiva de mis cosas a esta codificación.

Existen herramientas como iconv o recode para ayudar al proceso de convertir los documentos codificados de uno a otro formato. Asi que UTF ya está → aquí ←. Como cosa anecdótica, recien he podido leer algunos textos en UTF en algunos correos y firmas GPG heh.

geek comment de la semana:
Para los usuarios de Debian muchas veces se hace un poco tedioso o incluso "complicado" el elegir el servidor de replica que mejor le convenga en términos de velocidad de conexión y disponibilidad. Para ayudarnos con esto nacio apt-spy, que es un programa que descarga la relación de todos los servidores réplica de Debian, se conecta a cada uno de éstos y establece una categorización de los mismos de acuerdo al tiempo de respuesta en la descarga, seguidamente genera las entradas adecuadas para el fichero /etc/apt/sources.list con aquellos que obtuvieron una mejor respuesta.

Esta es la salida para la órden apt-spy -d sid, que indica que queremos que pruebe todos los servidores réplica para la versión sid o «unstable». apt-spy también permite indicar la zona que uno desea probar, por ejemplo solo los servidores réplica que se encuentran ubicados geográficamente en Europa o America del norte y algunas otras cosas interesantes, les animo a probarlo.

SERVER: ftp.funet.fi
Benchmarking FTP...
                Error: Connection time-out
Benchmarking HTTP...
                Downloaded 280472 bytes in 15.33 seconds
                Download speed: 17.86 kB/sec

SERVER: ftp.jyu.fi
Benchmarking FTP...
                Error: This doesn't seem like a nice ftp-server response
Benchmarking HTTP...
                Downloaded 315378 bytes in 15.56 seconds
                Download speed: 19.79 kB/sec

SERVER: ftp.fr.debian.org
Benchmarking FTP...
                Downloaded 398200 bytes in 24.49 seconds
                Download speed: 15.88 kB/sec
Benchmarking HTTP...
                Downloaded 384096 bytes in 15.56 seconds
                Download speed: 24.11 kB/sec

SERVER: ftp2.fr.debian.org
Benchmarking FTP...
                Error: Connection time-out
Benchmarking HTTP...
                Downloaded 397128 bytes in 23.88 seconds
                Download speed: 16.24 kB/sec

nota de la semana: los problemas dejelos en casa, aca se viene a chichear.

...The stars that shine in the open sky will say Everything will flow... miau~

Mon, 27 Sep 2004

Los que usamos emacs, tenemos la suerte de poder recurrir r�pidamente (Mx, meta x), a la ayuda del psiquiatra en caso de urgencia.

Aqui una de mis consultas... beware

Thu, 23 Sep 2004

y retomando esto, estamos de vuelta y con varias cosas pendientes. En la parte interesante, fui al Tattoo Expo Lima que estuvo muy bueno, espero hagan otro el a�o pr�ximo, y termino con el espect�culo de kamichaos, realmente impresionante. Lo malo: no me hice el tatuaje de Debian, ni el otro, tampoco me puse un nuevo piercing, pero ya habr� oportunidad, de hecho tengo que cambiar el que tengo en cuanto pueda.

Secci�n novedades: M�s proyectos anti-facismo inform�tico, m�s software libre para las masas purrrfect!.
Condorux 0.3 a la vista! hoy doy una charla en la UIGV sobre software libre y precisamente hablare de eso, espero terminar a tiempo para ir a la premiaci�n del concurso de software libre, lamentablemente ambos son a la misma hora :/ Tambi�n tengo un proyecto personal con la boa, (lease cuestiones de compatibilidad con el proyecto base), y muchas cosas mas...

Finalmente el pensamiento del d�a... y la nueva moneda de planetchicha amen

Y ahora sigo toneando con protonradio tune in! Gracias Kati por el dato ;) bravazo! meow...
<o\ <o/ <o> _o/ <o_ \o/

one star, one moon, i love the one we are...

Tue, 07 Sep 2004

Sat, 04 Sep 2004

I guess most of people that knows me already knows I'm vegetarian, well this week I had a couple of funny experiences about it. So here I go.
The good: I was introduced to the lady who serves the food and they told her that I'm vegetarian, and she said: "how cute!" heh that's was cool and she said it without any kind of sacarsm, it was real, that's why is cool.
The bad (for society): We were talking at lunch and one asked me: "Rudy, when you are hungry, what do you think of?, I mean when I'm hungry I think of beef and roasted chicken, do you think about carrots, a fresh tomato, a home grown hughe lettuce, that kind of things?" I just laughed and think inside "geez and we allow them to breathe" }:> hahaha.

This also has to do with people who live in a "lego world", once there's one piece that doesn't fit or there's something broken, their world collapses they feel helpless and they don't know what to do. Such things happens at different levels of our society, for instance suits working at corps, couples, some religious, people who does what they don't like and are always complaining about it but never try to do something about it "because that's how it works", etc. They can't think of there's a plenty open doors and they just know the one most people goes into. I just can think of them and feel for them, I hope one day we can have people like our ancestors who went their own way and who ruled their own world and did what they liked to do. Hopefully there are there are people who lives that way, blesses to them, that's why this world keeps surviving.

update: Just found this interesting link on Debian planet of a Paul Graham's article about Nerds being unpopular but it talks about esential aspects of our "modern" society, good reading, I encourage you to read it.
I wonder why i didn't went to the sociology school :)

* Note that I don't use the term "veggan" or "half vegetarian", to discriminate people that have different "levels" of vegetarianism, since I don't think one can be half-something in such things, I mean one can't be half-alcoholic or half-smoker, or half-gay (I don't have anything against them), since they are options one chooses and it happens that people have levels of practicing their options but they already *have* choosen such option. So when I have to name a vegetarian who also eats eggs and fish I said that way, for me vegetarian is non-animal products on my food, there could be of course people who are vegatarians *but also* eat some animal-origin food and that's fine, that doesn't makes them less or more vegetarians. Of course one can argue that if most of those people's meals are made of animal products, there's no vegetarianism at all, and I could agree about it.

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