a subversive act of playful cleverness

Sun, 28 Nov 2004

As some people organized a BSP this weekend in order to kill those RC bugs that impedes Sarge to be released and also our users to have a reason to organize some parties to celebrate a new Debian release, and as the world shouldn't face such situations, we need to keep the balance, so bunch of people were/is trying to help on such matters/bugs.

I was quite lazy to do some Debian related and BSP-specific work, but when I came back home after having a wonderful time with someone very special (I just want to thank you again for being so wonderful) I decided to help a bit. So I spotted out into the RC bugs for main and picked a couple of packages, you know those who look easy-going, so I wouldn't have to mess with bunch of code and programs that I first need to learn what they do and how they do it, and of course download tons of bytes. Well, one of them is a sort of insane configuration program in C to have dynamic network setup and named: divine (heh).

I've come with a little patch for it which I need to test somewhere, since this program is real "funny" (something to not saying: how in the world a human being can implement such thing!) but hey I'm trying to help so..., however I don't want to mess my system and render it unusable or who knows what... The other is smptd a sort of MTA proxy for firewalls, it does have packaging issues which I just spot where they are located and what I need to do to fix them, but I'm a bit tired now, so I'll continue after sleeping. I also did some update to torcs and fixed some silly harcoded paths and autoconf issues that upstream had and I didn't properly checked (yes, kick my head I deserve it!). btw, if you experiment #281901, please install torcs-data-cars-extra as a workaround until I upload the new revision, thanks. Anyway, now that I'm unemployed I have plenty of time to do some more progress :D

On Updates: I'm updating my two machines at home to the latest versions of software in unstable, just as a prevision to the uncertain future, since if things don't get better I'll have to downgrade my ADSL service or probably cut it at all. So far they are nearly 300MB each, seems I need to update more often :)

Debian local event: Our event plans seems going well, I'll have to thank people who is contributing to make it happen and I hope we can meet there to rule our country domination and sign some keys too ;), see you next saturday!

Fri, 26 Nov 2004

Y esta es para el centro angelical donde todo empieza ... and it's you when i look in the mirror...
U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own

Tue, 23 Nov 2004

Señoras y señores nosotros tenemos más control sobre sus hijos que tu tiene, pero los queremos... creado y rodado en Lima - Perú ... Día Debian.

Con mucha alegría debo anunciar que el tan esperado evento de año será este 4 de diciembre en la Universidad Tecnologica del Peru que gracias a la gestión de Crhistian aka Binario nos ha cedido su auditorio para realizar el evento, el cual empezará a las 3pm hasta las últimas ... perdón hasta las 8pm aproximadamente, seguidamente están todos invitados a los salones ... digo al bar más cercano para efectuar el correspondiente apt-get install cerveza en los sistemas de los asistentes.

Estamos discutiendo en la lista Debian Peru el programa y los detalles menores del evento, así que si alguno desea apoyar o enterarse un poco más no dude en escribir. Los esperamos a todos, se recomienda altamente la propagación de este mensaje. Estaremos poniendo todos los detalles del evento en el sitio web del grupo www.debianperu.org , gentilmente donado por nuestro amigo Anibal Monsalve.

Country domination in progress...

This is the first time i wrote in spanish in this section, but its worthwhile since is a very important day for Debian in my country (Perú) yay!.

En mi últimas incursiones por la música me he encontrado con algunos grupos interesantes. El primero de ellos es My Bloody Valentine, un grupo Británico - Irlandes de mediados de los 80 e inicios de los 90. Sus ritmos van entre el punk, justo en esa época ya estaba pasando la era del punk, y nuevos experimentos en el rock. Según la crítica el grupo tenia bastante potencial, pero inesperada y repentinamente desapareció. Felizmente existe material de ellos y todavía podemos apreciar la calidad de su gran trabajo. Algunos integrantes de grupos conocidos en la actualidad gustan de su música. Conoci el grupo por un documental sobre bandas irlandesas en algún canal de cable europeo.
Algunas de sus letras dicen cosas como:

Show me all your favorite things
Show you all mine too
Make a wish
I'll give it all to you

De Blown A Wish, albúm Loveless.

Otro grupo que reencontre es Clannad, un grupo Irlandés que mezcla música típica con sonidos vocales que no llegan a ser palabras, sino son construcciones sonoras. Un grupo recomendable para los hermanos paganos. Recomiendo la melodía llamada: «Celtic Myst»

Por último divagando por casualidad llegue a toparme con mangosteen banda experimental de Junichi Uekawa un hacker de Debian a quien conoci en la DebConf4 y quien es creador de pbuilder, una herramienta de la cual somos fanáticos la gran mayoría de los que mantenemos paquetes Debian. Junichi no me habia comentado que tenia un grupo musical o algo, a menos que yo recuerde. El estilo musical gira en torno a rasgos electrónicos y algunas mezclas con sonidos de peliculas y orientales, recomendable como «geek music». Puedo recomendar la que más me gusta cuyo nombre es: «fly me to the moon».

Resumiendo: Clannad para meditación, My Bloody Valentine para entrar en conexión y Mangosteen para hackear. Seguire reportando desde el espacio lunar...

Now Playing: My Bloody Valentine - Soon

Sat, 13 Nov 2004

Y los días en el cielo son asi...

whenever she's feeling empty
whenever she's feeling insecure
whenever her face is frozen
unable to fake it anymore
her shadow is always with her
her shadow will always keep her small
so frighten that he wont lover her
she builds up a wall

oh no, she knows where to hide in the dark
oh no, she's nowhere to hide in the dark

She's a star


she's been in disguise forever
she's tried to disguise her stellar views
much brighter than all this static
now she's coming through


oh no, she knows where to hide in the dark
oh no, she's nowhere to hide in the dark


She's a star


Don't tell her to turn down,
Put on your shades if you can't see,
Don't tell her to turn down,
Turn up the flame.
She's a star


it's a long road
it's a great cause
it's a long road
its a good call
you got it,
you got it,

I don’t care if monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s friday I’m in love


Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s friday I’m in love


Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...


I don’t care if monday’s black
Tuesday wednesday heart attack
Thursday never looking back
It’s friday I’m in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday wednesday stay in bed
Or thursday watch the walls instead
It’s friday I’m in love


Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...


Dressed up to the eyes
It’s a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It’s such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It’s friday
I’m in love

The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

It all make sense, when you are near... it all make sense

Fri, 05 Nov 2004

You could be the devil in my bed
You could be the angel in my head
You could be the voices that I hear
I'm singing along because it sounds just like you're near
Cause you're so beautiful
You're beautiful today
You're so beautiful
Beautiful in every little way
Cause when you're coming around
I'm off the ground
I've got to say
You're so beautiful
You're beautiful today

I could be the drug you can't resist
I could be the antidote you missed
I could be the love you hate to fear
You're filling the hole inside your heart with feeling near to me

Cause you're so beautiful
You're beautiful today
You're so beautiful
Beautiful in every little way
Cause when you're coming around
I'm off the ground
I've got to say
You're so beautiful
You're beautiful today

Can we make it through
Together we got to fly
Don't you know I got to fly
Cause when you're coming around I got to fly
Don't you know I want to fly

And I know
And I feel
That I could learn to hate just like you
And I know
And I feel
That you could learn to love just like me

Can we make it through together
I've got to fly

Flickerstick - Beautiful

Wed, 03 Nov 2004

Parece que últimamente el nivel de los eventos ha decaido notablemente, tanto así que me invitan como ponente y no contentos con eso me vuelven a invitar después. Estas semanas daré algunas charlas en San Marcos, hablaré sobre Debian, charla especialmente recomendable para cierto ser celestial, la cual ha sido denominada «la charla de la verdad», también hablaré de GPG, básicamente lo que hice en IRC (perdí el enlace) hace algunos días.

En este evento también me reencontraré con viejos amigos como Rodolfo Pilas y Federico Heinz, así que parece que seran unos días interesantes mientras disfruto de mis vacaciones en htu.

Olvidaba, tengo que agradecer a los amigos que me invitaron al evento de Ilo, quienes se portaron excelente con nosotros y nos dieron la oportunidad de llevar el tema de software libre y nuevas ideas a uno de los públicos más importantes, fue interesante también encontrar mucha participación femenina, ¡que bueno!.

La siguiente semana voy a visitar Trujillo nuevamente, para hacer una ponencia sobre software libre en redes inalambricas y luego nose, aunque siguen llegando invitaciones y yo sigo recapacitando. Y así ya me olvide de que iba escribir, mejor me voy a meditar como dice Bob turn your lights down low...

Playing: Cateano Veloso - Você Linda Posted at: 03 Nov 2004 05:45 - [/FreeSoftware] permanent link

Posted at: 03 Nov 2004 05:21 - [/life] permanent link

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