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At least 150 people were reported killed today in an air crash at Madrid. Rest in peace, all of you will be missed.

Some people are born to be a winner, you‘re one of them. Congratulations dude! ;)

NMs, I’ve just realized who’s gonna help you. Her name is Morgan le Fay.

Adria — You will all burn in the fires of eternal DAMnation.
Morgan le Fay — Not if I have anything to do with it!

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (1:29:18)

Although Dato has recently talked about it, it is worth to drop again a few more bits about MyEpisodes.com as a try to increase its popcon among TV shows addicts.

MyEpisodes.com is an easy way to track your activity watching TV shows. Using a fancy interface it is possible, for instance, to tag episodes as acquired/watched, be aware of upcoming premieres and, taking advantage of the provided RSS channels, stay up to date of new episodes without even visiting the website.

Have you ever asked yourself how many hours have you spent in front of your screen watching TV shows? MyEpisodes.com has got the answer.

Cool, isn’t it? ;)

People usually uses Google, among other things, to look for hints about how to do small tasks. Hopefully, you will find the hint you were looking for in somebody’s blog, because he or she had the same problem time ago and decided to talk about it.

Last night, I was a bit bored and started writing a dumb set of files to introduce people how static and dynamic linking work, so trying to put my two cents and add a new hint to the wild wild web, I’m sharing it. The C source files are practically useless, therefore pay attention to the Makefile, the magic is in there.

If you’re downloading it only to compile, execute and see what happens forget about it, the program is completely silly. Otherwise, probably the Makefile is buggy somewhere so bug reports are welcome. For teaching purposes, try, for example, breaking the ABI and see what happens.

Google, index this post please!

Update: This example does not cover autotools/libtool

As you might know, I’ve been sharing a dedicated server with three more guys. Since several months ago, we have been thinking about change the provider because the plans offered by JVDS were very price-outdated compared with other providers. Dreamhost didn’t fit our requirements (no root access and shared databases., WTF?!), so we had to choose between either Linode or Slicehost.

After waiting for about a month in the prospective customer queue, we finally moved to Slicehost. Slicehost is a fast, made-from-geeks-to-geeks and XEN powered virtual dedicated servers provider.

We’re quite happy with the change, we got a new machine with four times more memory for the same price and we also moved from Apache to Lighttpd. All the references from Slicehost we read were good and, at least by now, I second those thoughts.

Skyhusker made an awesome work migrating the stuff and all the services are already moved. Of course, we’re running Etch.

Paying tribute to the girl who pointed me out to this fantastic indie band, I’d recommend listen to Move on Now, crafted by Hard-Fi.

Sweet taste, deep melody.

P.S.) Martin, Gazpacho sounds nice ;)

Sadly, this is the second year I have to say good bye to Debconf, as I wrote time ago, I wasn’t able to attend Debconf in the selected dates. Yeah, I said “*was*” because some plans have changed recently, and, as you are probably thinking, it’s already too late to ask for sponsorship and start planning the trip.

I hope to meet you in the next event and, meanwhile, I’ve a message for all the attendees:

Fly well, fly safe, have fun and drink some beer for me!

Dear Lazyweb,

I’m sorry, I know I’m late but here it is my promised report about DudesConf.

It was simply cool, even though it was my first Debian-related real [0] event everything was in a good, familiar and friendly shape. I’m really happy to had met all the Debian developers who attended, GPUL people and others, pleased to meet you guys!

Talks, BOFs, meals, accommodation, everything was impressive, so my gratitude goes to everyone who helped made DudesConf possible :). If you feel curious, you should be able to watch some pictures in the gallery or read the live (I know, it’s not really live at the moment, my fault) event coverage.

Of course, Ricardo, thank you for take me to A coruña, it was a pleasure for me to share some kilometers (some? all of them!) with you ;)

[0] Real comes from real life, Daniel pointed me out days ago to the actual difference between real an virtual life.

13:55 -!- aba changed the topic of #debian-release to: Done.

Superb guys! Thanks again to everybody who made it possible, release team, translators, bug reporters, Debian CD, ftp team, QA team,… and to everyone who is part of this wonderful project called Debian!

See you next weekend at Dudesconf!

By the way, the #debian-release’s topic change notice was stolen from Steve’s blog.

Congratulations Sam! It’s time to make Debian fun again, best of luck!.

Yes, that’s it, I’m finally Debian developer. I would like to use this post to say thanks to everyone who helped me to achieve this goal since I applied in 2005-10-05, here we go!

Thanks to…

• Ricardo Cárdenes, the man who linked me to Debian development world and, of course, my advocate.
• Moray Allan, my responsible AM.
• The NM Staff (Myon, HE, Ganneff, Elmo…)
• My usual sponsors: Ricardo, Ana, Amaya, Mones, Gunnar….

I hope to write an small report about the NM process with my impressions and opinions soon, so stay tuned. By the way, if you are planning to join Debian and you’re able to meet me, I’m offering GPG key signing since today :)

Finally, thanks to all my #dudes!

This is exactly what OSX developers did with Leopard and Spaces. Isn’t this feature available for ages in lots of GNU/Linux desktops? Are OSX users definitely (re-)discovering how to work natively with virtual-desktops?, let’s see what Apple says in Leopard’s main website:

You do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when all those projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to organize all your windows into groups and banish clutter completely. A Space for everything and everything in its Space. Only with Mac OS X Leopard.

What the fuck? Only with Mac OS X Leopard? AAAAAAAAA!

Yay! Release team reported that Etch (current testing branch) is now frozen, Andreas Barth announced it.

I was approved by Debian NM FrontDesk team today, then, only one step remaining to dispatch my application.

• Step 1: Application
• Step 2: Identification
• Step 3: Philosophy and Procedures
• Step 4: Tasks and Skills
• Step 5: Recommendation
• Step 6: Front Desk Check
• Step 7: Debian Account Manager check and account creation

I hope to be DAM approved soon, go go! :)

By the way, tomorrow I will have a skills test to get a driving license, wish me luck!