~Nacho/blog

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several months ago, we have been thinking about change the provider because the plans offered by JVDS were very price-outdated compared with other providers.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.

Interesante, Telecinco felicita a Sun por su buen hacer. Es raro ver estas cosas en televisión sin fines publicitarios, aunque quien sabe.

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 ;)

This morning finally arrived the Penguin Mints I ordered last week.

Carlos, please be moderated with these pills, some people recommends sleep at least eight hours a day ;)

I’ve just submitted my song number 10,000 to last.fm!.

I’ve just seen Steve’s keynote and I feel like I have to highlight the following, said with regard to the next operating system Apple will release.

We’ve got a basic version, which is going to cost $129. We’ve got a premium version, which is gonna cost $129. We’ve got a business version, $129. We’ve got an enterprise version, $129. And we’ve got the ultimate version – we’re throwing everything into it: It’s $129. We think most people will buy the ultimate version.

That made me laugh for a while, didn’t you?

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!

Hello? Is there anyone out there able to help us?

Just funny.

Hoy he ido al Alcampo a hacer unas compras con un colega, y, teniendo en mi mano una tarrina de diez DVDs, me acerco a un dependiente y le digo:

Nacho – Hola, ¿es usted el encargado de la sección de informática?
Dependiente – Sí, dígame.
Nacho – ¿podría usted decirme lo que me está robando la SGAE si me compro este producto?
Dependiente – ¿cómo dice?
Nacho – Me refiero a que quería saber el porcentaje de canon que se le aplica a estos DVDs.
Dependiente – Ese es un dato que no se si podré facilitarle, espere un momento.
[...]
Dependiente – No, mire, lo siento, pero no es posible saberlo.

Increíble, encima de que me roban, no puedo saber ni cuanto.

I’ve got something to talk about…

For years shunned by society
Outcasts, condemned for our beliefs
Our legions grew in secrecy

And now, the time is here
I see the Templars everywhere
The Freedom Call is drawing near

We hold our rebel banners up with pride
The colour’s crimson and the Hammer is the sign

Hearts On Fire, Hearts On Fire
Burning, burning with desire
Hearts On Fire, Hearts On Fire
Burning, burning with desire
Hearts On Fire, Hearts On Fire
Burning, burning with desire
Burning for the steel

Hearts On Fire

Hammerfall – Hearts On Fire

Youtube – Goear

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.

Voy a aprovechar mi blog para poner aquí lo que, según fuentes bastante fiables, dijo un profesor de Ingeniería del Software a sus alumnos hace escasos días.

Obviamente no digo ni nombre, ni curso, ni titulación, ni incluso Universidad (aunque me imagino que supongais bien) ya que es lo que menos importa. También advierto que la cita no es literal, pero creo que para entendernos servirá:

No os aconsejo utilizar sistemas de SCM porque os van a complicar la vida, no vais a desarrollar bien, no seais tecnócratas.

Aún no puedo salir de mi asombro, que un profesor de Ingeniería del Software diga eso, sobre todo que “os van a complicar la vida” cuando el asunto es precisamente al revés. En mi opinión, ya me parece indispensable usarlos incluso desarrollando una persona sola, pero me parece un suicidio no utilizarlo cuando las personas en el grupo de trabajo son más de dos (como es el caso). Y no sólo lo pienso yo, lo piensa Debian, Google, Kernel.org, Lufthansa, NASA, CERN, CSC (¡Cualquier empresa con un equipo un poco decente lo usa todos los días!)… y no sólo empresas grandes, sino cualquier grupo de personas que intenten desarrollar algo juntos (sí, esa empresa en la que estás pensando también lo usa).

Sinceramente, me siento avergonzado de que se digan estas cosas en la Universidad. Sigan formando así Ingenieros, por algo seguimos en la cola de Europa.

Y tú, ¿todavía te pasas un .zip con tus compañeros?

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!.