sobre los usos de la pc

Las cosas que leo chateando...

Q: y como que la compu me distrae
Q: creo que la usé tanto para tocarme que ya no la puedo usar para otra cosa :P

(la identidad de Q fue ocultada para preservar mi integridad física)

La base de todo

There's no denying it, C is the basis of everything in computing.

That's funny, when I was getting my computer science degree, we learned that assembly and/or machine code is the basis of all programming. If you ask a computer science professor, they'll probably tell you that mathematics is the basis of everything in computing. If you ask a computer engineering professor, they might tell you that transistors or logic gates are the basis of everything in computing. If you ask an electrical engineering professor, they might tell you that circuits are the basis of everything in computing (or they might tell you that they don't care and to go away). If you ask a physics professor, they could come up with almost anything to tell you is the basis of everything in computing.

Personally, I think it's just turtles all the way down.

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Sobre tecnicismos festivos

*** Mariano Guerra is Online [jojojo feliz anio nuevo!]
<Ariel Kanterewicz> no será "hohoho" ?
<Mariano Guerra> los cordobeces nos reiumos distinto
<Mariano Guerra> y le pegamos a papa noel si no se rie correctamente en nuestros territorios

Sobre las pelotudeces "legales" de Microsoft

UPDATE: Al final resulta que sí puedo poner linux, BSD o lo que se me cante en mi máquina, la restricción no vale, pero como soy el único que no le tiene fobia a la consola en, digamos, toda la empresa, vamos a poner el proxy con windows hasta que les enseñe a los demás...

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Hace un rato estuve al teléfono con mi jefe (laburo en sistemas para una escuela), y me dijo que no podemos usar linux ni para el proxy ni para mi máquina de trabajo porque "el que le vende las licencias le dijo que no se pueden usar sistemas operativos no microsoft". Ahora bien, eso aplica si microsoft dona computadoras, pero no veo ninguna forma legal de que puedan mandar sobre el uso que se le da al hardware...

Comparto con ustedes algo divertido y vagamente relacionado. Para los que puedan escucharlo en inglés, les recomiendo verlo en youtube

I was at Agenda 2000 and, one of the people who was there was Craig Mundie, who is some kind of high mucky muck at Microsoft, I think, vice-president of consumer products or something like that.

And, I hadn’t actually met him. I, bumped in to him in an, in an elevator… And, I looked at his badge and said, “Oh, I see you work for Microsoft.”
And he looked back to me and said, “Oh, yeah and what do you do?”

And I thought he seemed just a sort of a tad dismissiveI mean, here’s the archetypal, you know, guy in a suit looking at a scruffy hacker. And so I gave him the thousand yard stare and said,

“I’m your worst nightmare.”

~ Eric S. Raymond, in Revolution OS (2001)

Sobre computadoras y vegetación

Un|x: bien por usted, yo creo que voy a enterrar mi computadora en el patio y la voy a regar como una planta a ver si crece o algo parecido

Sobre soledad hogareña y frases célebres

Si un hombre camina desnudo en una casa vacía, ¿alguien se ofende?

Para tener en cuenta en el CV

Katcher: che...
Katcher: estaba pensando con un amigo q estudia en la universidad de la matanza
Katcher: te recibis, vas a usa a buscar trabajo
Katcher: pones en el cv: slaughter's university
Katcher: o matanza's university?
Kant: O.o
Katcher: que dira la persona q te va a contratar?
Kant: yo pondría "university of La Matanza"
Katcher: y si te preguntan q significa?
Katcher: le decis: slaughter's university??
Katcher: yo me imagino al flaco...merda nosotros tuvimos problemas con virginia tech, pero estos nos superan
Kant: pobre tipo

Pasa en la web, pasa en la vida, pasa en XKCD

(Kant)
A: Too bad we can't give it a soul
B: Sure we can
>>> import soul
A: Oh, right. Python
(Kant) XKCD es increible =P
(****) si, yo me siento demasiado identificado
(****) hubo una seguidilla de chistes una vez que eran todas cosas que tipo me pasban 5 o 6 horas antes de uqe salga
(Kant) O.o
(****) y con un amigo nos dio miedo de que sea mi segunda personalidad ezquisoide o algo así
(Kant) creepy
(Kant) cuáles eran esos?
(****) sisi, no me acuerdo que parte fue, el único que me acuerdo que estaba por esa época era el que busca en wikipedia foreplay cuando estaba en la cama con una mina
(****) *verguenza*

Cuando los quotes superan a Kant

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
George Bush
41st president of US (1924 - )

fuente: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/759.html

una de las razones por las que no me gusta outlook

(...) Included is my favourite Exchange analogy: If the same method that exchange/outlook uses to store email were used in the real world as a paper filing system: Every document is translated into Greek, and the original is burned. Then they are all glued together into one solid block and stuffed into a magic box with a tiny slot, through which you can talk to a little gnome who somehow gets each message for you as needed. Sometimes the gnome gets confused and it takes hours (sometimes days) for him to sort things out; meanwhile he can't find your documents until he is totally finished becoming unconfused again. As an added bonus the gnome costs several thousand dollars and when he dies every few years you need to buy a new gnome. Oh and if the first box gets (arbitrarily) full you have to buy another special gnomebox, which of course costs $$$

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el amor es...

... curiosidad ilimitada.

... un objeto sólido detrás del cual ocultarse.

... fuego.

... como un trío: en teoría es divertido pero en la práctica es un quilombo.

... una compleja secuencia de reacciones neuroquímicas que te pone idiota.

cortesía de Bunny y QC (yo nomás traduje algunos)

El quote nuestro de cada día

Gracias por todo, bash.org
(click en el título del post para ver todos)

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(Anonymous) Last night, Helen and I were sitting in the living room, and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my beer.
(Anonymous) She's such a bitch.

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(Pad-lock) Hey Shithead! You want a fuckin fight?!?! If so come to #teens4christ That is.. if your not a fuckin PUSSY!!!!

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(namesake) if a girl has sex with a lot of guys, she's a "slut", but if I have sex with a lot of guys, I'm a "fucking faggot"

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(VC-Scar) anyone wanna help a complete freakin idiot
(ffejdogg) do you have tits?
(VC-Scar) i have nipples..

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(Ryou) 360's are great but their hardware quality is pretty lol
(Kuraineko) it's called 360 because of the trip it takes
(Kuraineko) from microsoft, to you, back to microsoft, to you again

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(Soth:) i need something more complex than 2+2
(jadenbane:) Soth: 2+2i ?

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(Kuiper) Well, it rained today, but as a whole it's been warmer than it was last week.
(kikuichimonji) Why does it seem like every time you join this channel, you end up talking about the weather?
(kikuichimonji) Is your life so unimaginably dull that you can't think of any events in your life to describe that might be more interesting than the weather?
(kikuichimonji) Let's think of something for you to talk about other than the weather.
(kikuichimonji) I mean, we barely even know anything about you, other than where you live.
(kikuichimonji) Let's start there. What do you do for a living?
(Kuiper) I'm a meteorologist.

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(Cliff) man, the way I wanna die is as an old man getting a heart attack from the excitement of having two 18-year olds riding me
(Zael) wtf man, might as well go with 14 year olds. you're gunna die anyway!

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(Somebody241) i was playing XBL yesterday
(Somebody241) and i was playing wit my friend
(Somebody241) and im sure hes maried and everything
(Somebody241) And all of a sudden
(Somebody241) His wife comes on the mic and says
(Somebody241) "Can my husband quit the game so we can have sex?"
(Somebody241) and then some lil 9 year old in my team says "Sure just leave the mic on"

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(baubles) found a site on making your own saline solution.. there are lots of typos and random letters. the guy apologizes, said he went blind

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(DonMuttoni_) what do you do when you've fallen in love with your best friends ex after shooting her down, sending him to the hospital with a drug overdose, and then running over her deaf cat.... all two weeks before you leave the continent....?
(KingOfAll) Leave a fortnight early.

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(+Scott) I had my dreams crushed yesterday. It turns out the newspaper headline "Village still looking for paedophile" wasn't a vacancy.

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(balls) that was the funniest thing that's ever happened to me
(balls) im getting ready to build a computer, and my dad comes into my room. he starts talking like hes giving me the talk about abstinence and shit. he says stuff like "son, we want you to be safe, you know that" and just when it seems like he's gonna give me a condom, he holds out his hand, and he gives me a fucking static wrist strap.
(balls) i never laughed so hard in my dad's face.

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(Slimtoad20:) US Airways flight 404 is flying through the Bermuda Triangle today.
(Slimtoad20:) Yeah, that one doesn't stand a chance.

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(@LoungeServ) For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

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(Makenshi) the creator of the qwerty keyboard must have had a fetish
(Makenshi) I don't think it's a coincidence that you can type 'stewardess' with one hand

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cinco años, siempre cinco años!!!

y lo peor es que tiene la posta =(

begin to replace flash memory in three to five years

Five years! It's always Five Years!

By 2012 I expect to have, this super memory technology, solar cells with efficiency above 70% for pennies per watt, flying cars, paper thin televisions the size of my wall, fuel cell powered hybrid cars, batteries replaced by power cells that store more power, cost less, are infinitely rechargeable, and charge/discharge like capacitors -- plus several other things from the last few months of Slashdot.

Also the Mayan calendar will have expired, and the entire West Coast in to the Sierra Nevada mountains will be flooded, so I don't know how useful this all will be to me.

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Preguntontas

Hay veces que no puedo creer las cosas que me preguntan... (nota: maxi estudia ingeniería en sistemas, juega videojuegos, usa un foro... no es extraño a las computadoras)

Maxi: Kant una pregunta cortita
Maxi: Una "tabulacion" en idioma de computacion, es un enter o un espacio?
Kant: tabulación?
Maxi: Se
Kant: "tab"
Kant: indent
Maxi: Pero si me dice
Maxi: El texto se separa por tabulaciones
Kant: la tecla a la izquierda de la "q"
Kant: el "tab"
Maxi: Claro... pero como se separa un texto con un tab?
Maxi: aver
Kant: tab-ulación
Maxi: Ah, son como espacioes
Maxi: mas grande
Kant: texto texto texto
Maxi: Si, ya ahi lo vi :P
Kant: bienvenido al mundo de las tabulaciones

Linus y el soporte de hardware

fuente: Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux (página 2)

APC: Out of curiosity, do you have anything to say to hardware manufacturers who refuse to release datasheets or specifications about the functioning of their hardware so it could operate with the Linux kernel?

LT: Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?

El sentimiento se comparte, créanme.

TV

Otra imagen de JJ Nääs. Esta la voy a dejar para que interpreten, acompañada de una frase que cada día le hace más honor a la verdad:

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

~ Groucho Marx

En español:

Encuentro la televisión muy educativa. Cada vez que alguien la prende, voy a otro cuarto y me pongo a leer un buen libro.

salutti.
~ Ariel // Kant

El gobierno estadounidense ya no es lo que era...

sacado del blog de The Pirate Bay (es del año pasado esto, aviso):

Just some stats... ... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
.. yawn.

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Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

Este es el capítulo tres de la novela Mostly Harmless, espero que les guste.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God, and since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal of explaining to do as it is, and are therefore not available for comment on matters of deep physics at this time.

One encouraging thing the Guide does have to say on the subject of parallel universes is that you don't stand the remotest chance of understanding it. You can therefore say `What?' and `Eh?' and even go cross-eyed and start to blither if you like without any fear of making a fool of yourself.

The first thing to realise about parallel universes, the Guide says, is that they are not parallel.

It is also important to realise that they are not, strictly speaking, universes either, but it is easiest if you try and realise that a little later, after you've realised that everything you've realised up to that moment is not true.

The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not actually a thing as such, but is just a way of looking at what is technically known as the WSOGMM, or Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn't actually exist either, but is just the sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it did.

The reason they are not parallel is the same reason that the sea is not parallel. It doesn't mean anything. You can slice the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash any way you like and you will generally come up with something that someone will call home.

Please feel free to blither now.
The Earth with which we are here concerned, because of its particular orientation in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash, was hit by a neutrino that other Earths were not.

A neutrino is not a big thing to be hit by.

In fact it's hard to think of anything much smaller by which one could reasonably hope to be hit. And it's not as if being hit by neutrinos was in itself a particularly unusual event for something the size of the Earth. Far from it. It would be an unusual nanosecond in which the Earth was not hit by several billion passing neutrinos.

It all depends on what you mean by `hit', of course, seeing as matter consists almost entirely of nothing at all. The chances of a neutrino actually hitting something as it travels through all this howling emptiness are roughly comparable to that of dropping a ball bearing at random from a cruising 747 and hitting, say, an egg sandwich.

Anyway, this neutrino hit something. Nothing terribly important in the scale of things, you might say. But the problem with saying something like that is that you would be talking cross-eyed badger spit. Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up - where `Kevin' is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'.

This neutrino struck an atom.

The atom was part of a molecule. The molecule was part of a nucleic acid. The nucleic acid was part of a gene. The gene was part of a genetic recipe for growing... and so on. The upshot was that a plant ended up growing an extra leaf. In Essex. Or what would, after a lot of palaver and local difficulties of a geological nature, become Essex.

The plant was a clover. It threw its weight, or rather its seed, around extremely effectively and rapidly became the world's dominant type of clover. The precise causal connection between this tiny biological happenstance, and a few other minor variations that exist in that slice of the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash - such as Tricia McMillan failing to leave with Zaphod Beeblebrox, abnormally low sales of pecan-flavoured ice-cream and the fact that the Earth On which all this occurred did not get demolished by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass - is currently sitting at number 4,763,984,132 on the research project priority list at what was once the History Department of the University of MaxiMegalon, and no one currently at the prayer meeting by the poolside appears to feel any sense of urgency about the problem.

impuestos

este es uno de los mejores posts que leí en slashdot en mucho tiempo...

What the hell's wrong with you, the government needs those taxes to be proactive about things.

if not for taxes to pay for public education, our kids would be the dubmest in the free world, wiat..... never mind .... well anyhow
if not for taxes, our social security and medicare programs would be bankrupt. wait ..... never mind ..... ok lets try .....
if not for taxes to fight the war on drugs, we would have drug problems in every inner city, uh ..... scrap that one....
if not for taxes, the government would need to go into debt, .... oops, hold on here I'm working on it .....
if not for taxes our medical and college education costs would be out of reach, ..... shit, scratch that ....
if not for taxes to pay for war, we'd be loosing the war on terror, .....@#@#$#$%%%^

Well, FU! you're just not trying hard enough to see how valuable all these taxs are for everyone. We NEED the government to be "proactive"

ten miedo... ten MUCHO miedo....

click en la imagen para agrandarla

se preguntarán qué puede dejar a alguien en un estado de FUBAR tan serio... bueno, la respuesta es un MUG. No, no una taza. Tampoco un Mug Users Group. Es un... Microsoft Users Group *música dramática*

entren bajo su propio riesgo: www.mug.org.ar

salutti.
~ Kant

p.d.: hay bonus en geek points para el que hace un script para solucionar el problema automáticamente (en bash, obviamente)