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	<description>La absurdicia de la maldita finitud</description>
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		<title>Painless upgrade</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2010/06/400/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just upgraded the site to WordPress 3.0. It was totally painless! :-D]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just upgraded the site to WordPress 3.0. It was totally painless! :-D</p>
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		<title>&quot;Camara&quot; digital de 2 píxeles</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2006/01/63/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maldita finitud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pues sí, en esto es en lo que me he entretenido para inaugurar el año ;)Toda una cámara digital con display incorporado de 2 píxeles en menos de 300 cm². Fotos próximamente.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pues sí, en esto es en lo que me he entretenido para inaugurar el año ;)<br />Toda una cámara digital con display incorporado de 2 píxeles en menos de 300 cm². Fotos próximamente.</p>
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		<title>Experimentos en bash y apache</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/12/62/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maldita finitud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He estado configurando ultimamente en el ordenador de la facultad un apache2 para albergar páginas web, y he aprovechado para juguetear con algunos inventos curiosos. En particular, hay uno llamado nanoblogger, que es un programa para crear blogs, pero gestionado desde la línea de comandos. Es muy simple, ya que está escrito en bash, pero [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He estado configurando ultimamente en el ordenador de la facultad un <a href="http://www.apache.org">apache2</a> para albergar páginas web, y he aprovechado para juguetear con algunos inventos curiosos. En particular, hay uno llamado <a href="http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/">nanoblogger</a>, que es un programa para crear blogs, pero  gestionado desde la línea de comandos. Es muy simple, ya que está escrito en <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html">bash</a>, pero para lo que hace, sirve.<br />No voy a dar aquí la dirección por dos motivos: en primer lugar, no está terminado, sólo son pruebas <span style="font-style:italic;">/así que nadie se está perdiendo nada ;)/</span>, y en segundo lugar, ya tengo suficientes intentos de entrar a esa máquina a diario como para hacer su nombre público ;) supongo que debería instalar un firewall, pero claro, ese ordenador <span style="font-style:italic;">no</span> es para juguetear&#8230;<br />Si todo va funcionando, en algún momento saldrá a la luz la página con su blog y <span style="font-style:italic;">quizá</span> galerías de fotos, foros, wikis&#8230; aunque para entonces debería irme planteando comprar un dominio y una placa de esas de <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/">VIA</a> que no hacen ruido y son pequeñitas :)<span class="" style="display:block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Vínculo"></span><span class="" style="display:block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Vínculo"></span><span class="down" style="display:block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Vínculo"></span></p>
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		<title>amd64 testing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/08/59/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maldita finitud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally chose my new computer to be an AMD64 box, after doubting among several options. The initial requirement that it had a small form factor was dropped as I realized it meant paying more for less. And, considering what&#8217;s given for the money in the PowerPC architecture, I realized that I could build any [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I finally chose my new computer to be an AMD64 box, after doubting among several options. The initial requirement that it had a small form factor was dropped as I realized it meant paying more for less. And, considering what&#8217;s given for the money in the PowerPC architecture, I realized that I could build any of these systems for about the same amount of money:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mac mini (ok, that&#8217;s prebuilt) 32bit G4 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Mobility 32 MB, 80 GB IDE HDD, no DVD-RW, prebuilt case.</li>
<li>Pegasus II, 32bit G4 1.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9250 256 MB, 80 GB SATA HDD, DVD-RW, micro-ATX case.</li>
<li>AMD Athlon64 3000+, 64bit 1.8 Ghz 1024 RAM, ATI Radeon X300 256 MB (PCI-X), 160 GB SATA HDD, dual DVD/DVD-RW, premium PSU, beautiful case :))</li>
</ul>
<p>Since one of the things I was eager to do was to finally test a different architecture (I&#8217;ve always compiled my kernels as x86 :)), any of the options gave me this thrill, and as I was already a bit tired of endless compilation times in my previous systems, I decided to go for the best performance :)</p>
<p>I finally bought the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard</li>
<li>AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 939 (1.80 GHz)</li>
<li>Maxima OKE Silent 450 W PSU</li>
<li>Artic Cooling 64 Freezer CPU cooling tower</li>
<li>Two Kingston 512 MB DDR 400 modules in Dual Channel configuration</li>
<li>ATI Radeon X300 GPU with 256 MB RAM (PCI-Express x16)</li>
<li>Seagate 160 GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD</li>
<li>LG DVD-RW + LG DVD</li>
<li>M@trix miditower case, black.</li>
</ul>
<p>Building time was about half day, carefully reading the manuals and testing as many steps as possible. Building a basic Gentoo-amd64 system took about another day, and yet another day was lost to trying to install Solaris 10 (yet without success) and building the GUI and some applications for it. Today is Day 4, and it&#8217;s been spent browsing the web in a perfectly running KDE 3.4 and building (yet) some more apps in the background.</p>
<p>Considerations so far:</p>
<ul>
<li>KDE builds now in a finite amount of time :) builds are much faster than with previous Pentium 4 2.40 GHz laptop box.</li>
<li>The CPU hasn&#8217;t gone over 40 C yet, the fans are quite silent, except for the chipset fan, which came pre-assembled on the MB and is by far the noisiest part of the box. Still, it&#8217;s not too bad.</li>
<li>Driver support appears to be quite good. No problem with the ATI card, as amd64 is supported by them. Some trouble, however, with the Cool &#8216;n Quiet technology, which I haven&#8217;t got working yet.</li>
<li>Flash Media Player is not yet available for linux-amd64, so I&#8217;ll have to wait on that one.</li>
</ul>
<p>Overall, it seems to be an excellent system, although a couple of things still lack proper support. Moreover, I could still do a lot more with this setup, as it comes with Dual Gigabyte Ethernet, on-board RAID controller for up to 4 SATA HDDs, PCI-X available slots, support for double core processors, etc. making it a good candidate for a file- or web-server.</p>
<p>(Pictures coming soon..)</p>
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		<title>vim</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/04/55/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/04/55/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[¿En esto se convertirá nuestro querido vim?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>¿En esto se convertirá nuestro querido <code><a href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~lewk/img/vim.gif">vim</a></code>?</p>
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		<title>DVD Roaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/03/51/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maldita finitud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Las ofertas de la tecnología&#8230; una grabadora externa con todas las cosas con las que vienen hoy en día, que adorna al lado del portátil (aunque la grabadora no lo sea ;)) ahora me siento otra vez informáticamente completo&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Las ofertas de la tecnología&#8230; una grabadora externa con todas las cosas con las que vienen hoy en día, que adorna al lado del portátil (aunque la grabadora no lo sea ;)) ahora me siento otra vez informáticamente completo&#8230;</p>
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		<title>/etc/cron.randomly</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/02/42/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[rm -r /]]></description>
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rm -r /<br />
</code></p>
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		<title>Muchas veces</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/02/45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muchas veces hago notas mentales para posts sobre tal o cual tema, algo que quiero decir acá o allá. Y todas esas notas se pierden irremediablemente en el caos neuronal. Quizá si separas el ruido de mis neuronas puedas obtener correlaciones entre las señales que, debidamente reordenadas, produzcan todas aquellas notas mentales que se van [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Muchas veces hago notas mentales para posts sobre tal o cual tema, algo que quiero decir acá o allá. Y todas esas notas se pierden irremediablemente en el caos neuronal. Quizá si separas el ruido de mis neuronas puedas obtener correlaciones entre las señales que, debidamente reordenadas, produzcan todas aquellas notas mentales que se van perdiendo. Porque la información no puede desaparecer completamente, eso violaría unitariedad.<br />
Quizá en el futuro podamos hacernos notas mentales sin miedo a olvidar lo anotado, porque tendremos un implante que recupera esas correlaciones entre nuestro ruido mental y las traduce a post-it virtuales que aparecen directamente a la hora adecuada sobre el escritorio de nuestro navegador.</p>
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		<title>src/clear.c</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2005/01/41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  #include &#60;mem.h&#62; int clear(void *mem, int size) { int r=0; for(int i=0 ; i&#60;size/10 ; i+=10) { r+=strcpy((mem+i),&#8221;Empty slot&#8221;); } return r; } int main(char *memory) { return clear(memory, INFINITY); }  ]]></description>
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<p>#include &lt;mem.h&gt;</p>
<p>int clear(void *mem, int size)</p>
<p>{</p>
<p>int r=0;</p>
<p>for(int i=0 ; i&lt;size/10 ; i+=10)</p>
<p>{</p>
<p>r+=strcpy((mem+i),&#8221;Empty slot&#8221;);</p>
<p>}</p>
<p>return r;</p>
<p>}</p>
<p>int main(char *memory)</p>
<p>{</p>
<p>return clear(memory, INFINITY);</p>
<p>}</p>
<p> </p>
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		<title>/etc/cron.yearly/newyear</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2004/12/40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#! /bin/sh # New year script for hanging the console (until Ctrl-C is pressed) for (( ; ; )); do echo "Happy new year!"; done ;]]></description>
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#! /bin/sh<br />
# New year script for hanging the console (until Ctrl-C is pressed)<br />
for (( ; ; )); do echo "Happy new year!"; done ;<br />
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		<title>src/hello.c</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2004/12/39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#include &#60;stdio.h&#62; int main(void) { return printf(&#8220;Hello, world!\n&#8221;); }]]></description>
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#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;</code></p>
<p>int main(void)<br />
{<br />
return printf(&#8220;Hello, world!\n&#8221;);<br />
}</p>
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		<title>src/hello.README</title>
		<link>http://blog.absurdicia.com/2004/12/38/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>finitud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This webpage is still BETA stage. Nothing's already set, anything can change at any moment. Compile and run at your own risk.]]></description>
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This webpage is still BETA stage. Nothing's already set, anything can change at any moment. Compile and run at your own risk.<br />
</code></p>
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