Have you got five minutes?

Then don't miss the oportunity of reading Linus on kernel management style (spanish version), a funny 2004 paper written by Linus Torvalds in person. As an example of the serious and academic writting you'll find there:

First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful

People", and NOT read it.  Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture.

     Linus Torvalds

Yet another video, but funny };)

Truth Happens

So, why they do that to me?

When the money isn't the problem...

"One challenge was being able to regularly search through all of the additional content types to find relevant results. After all, you don't know if there might be a minor news story or an obscure book relevant to your query unless you go and check. But Google's massive compute cluster -- and much effort by our infrastructure experts -- gave us a leg up on that one, and we can now search these disparate types of information about as efficiently as we search our massive index of web pages. We may have melted down a data center or two along the way, but then bugs are part of life in this business!"

Google Official Blog, Behind the scenes with universal search

Developer jokes

Today I've faced two nice jokes from two different projects. First, this morning while working with swi-prolog I hit this nice reference to an infinite job:

?- List.
% ... 1,000,000 ............ 10,000,000 years later
%
% >> 42 << (last release gives the question)

Ask Google to know a bit more on it. Then, this evening, while doing my first works with KIO::SlaveBase this message came up:

kio (Slave): slave failed to connect to application pid=2266 protocol=sdp
kio (Slave): Houston, we lost our slave, pid=2266

Hilarious

SoC2007 projects

Somebody made a comprehensive list of the projects accepted for SoC2007.
A good way to see them all at a glance (or two).

Science vs Faith

eXtreme feedback

I must buy a pig...

... to start saving money for one of these (of course it's a ceramics pig)

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window

atributed to Steve «Woz» Wozniak

(from Microsiervos (spanish site))

Choose to sysadmin.

from here

Project OrangeBox

As you may have noticed i'm quite slow posting to this blog, it's been a busy time, but this too nice to not blog about it (Copy&paste follows, I said i'm quite busy ;):

If you thought that project Blackbox is cool and solves datacenter issues with incredible price-performance, eco-responsibility, space requirements, extreme mobility, quick setup, and so on, forget about it. You need to check out project Orangebox, which is the top innovation from Sun.

Project Orangebox is even more eco-responsible, needs less space (unless you give it too much water) and the other factors are also stunning.

The world's first virtualized pumpkin!

I would like to thank to Achut Reddy for prolonging my life with a good laughter this morning.

And I would like to thank Roumen for the same. Back to work

Anything is online

What would you do if a totally stranger walks down to you and asks you to touch his belly?

People do strange things...

How to do what you love

"Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it's rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you'll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you're in the home stretch, and if you know what work you love, you're practically there."

Paul Graham, January 2006

Remember to keep your destination in sight

What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?

Even google knows it ;)

BumpTop, a "natural" desktop

Imagine a desktop where your documents have physic properties to push another documents with their movement, a desktop where you can pile documents and search them in a fashionable and natural way. Take a look at BumTop, a prototype that takes the desktop metaphor one step further :

Dukelele's band

watch hideya kawahara and yuichi sakuraba play the dukelele

Schwartz says the GPL is *on* the table for Java

Mr.Jonathan Schwartz (Sun's CEO) says in his blog that:

"But all in all, a really great week - we're now making serious progress
on open sourcing Java (and despite the cynics, using a GPL license is
very much *on* the table), while focusing the debate on what matters
most: not access to lines of code (that's already widely available), but ensuring compatibility."

Who says Sun is not open?