2037 tzdata release notes:↵* introduce UTC-68y timezone to accommodate legacy 32bit timestamp devices (power plants, banks, IoT)

We didn’t lose control – it was stolen ⌘ https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/

Fractals ooze against the windows, notes frolic around the ship. Trip guides in silly shirts offer expensive freshly pressed orange juice.

NixOS 16.09 released
NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

a heavenly melody, but from up close you hear the tiny voices of tortured souls straining against the inside of each note↵don’t be drawn in

Mathematical constellations shift, truth-gazers over their notes and proof assistants see ancient theorems break under their hands and panic

death notes fall under strict gun control laws and, when found by the police, are generally disarmed by writing “this” into them

his suit rustles like bank notes↵his voice is that of a car commercial↵his gaze makes you feel valued, like cattle with a price tag

He plucks notes from light rays pulled taut between the stars and your eyes. Your soul wants to leave with the song but you won’t let it

coffee notes made this morning: an economy based on acausal trade between past and future (along a significant tech gradient)

NixOS 16.03 released
NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Violin lessons
Just as they started, randomly, on a whim, as a child desire to learn to play the violin, the lessons that Kent has been taking for almost two years came to an end two weeks ago. It was hard to tell Julie — his teacher — that he was not to continue, but it was what he wanted.

Kent never intended to play violin professionally, it was no more than an artistic hobby. As such, he can hold the violin and extract out of it some lamenting notes. This entry is for the records. Who knows, maybe one day … ⌘ Read more

experimenters’ note: the catpot is not fond of water at all. apply care when washing.

Note that we employ a great number of door/lock metaphors when talking about our minds. What would be the metaphors of a doorless society?

webs that catch musical notes drifting by↵the spider will eat them to sing in stolen voices↵shake the web and they will all fall out at once

experimentator’s notes: it was black tea I left for a bit too long (nearly cold), and the mug already had a patina from previous teas.

Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.8 released
Nix 1.8
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
 notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
 section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.7 released
Nix 1.7
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of new features. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6.1 released
Nix\
 1.6.1 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release but has some minor new features. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6 released
Nix 1.6
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.3 released
Nix 1.5.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.1 released
Nix 1.5.1
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.4 released
Nix 1.4
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that
addresses a security problem in multi-user mode. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.3 released
Nix 1.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See
the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.2 released
Nix 1.2
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.1 released
Nix 1.1
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.0 released
After almost two years of development, Nix 1.0
has been released. See the release\
 notes for an overview of the most important improvements.
For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.16 released
Nix\
 0.16 has been released, featuring a much faster evaluator
and support for configurable parallelism inside builders. See
the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

It’s decided
It’s decided, my next machine will be an Apple computer. Most likely I will end up buying a Mac Mini, although an iMac is also being considered. Now, who wants a (still under warranty) DELL XPS 630i? It is a Q6600 (quad), with 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, and NVIDIA 9800GT. Comes with Windows 7 Ultimate. Nice machine!

Note: Someone contacted me, but the email went to spam, and got deleted. Try … ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.15 released
Nix\
 0.15 has been released. This is a bug fix release. See the
release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.14 released
Nix\
 0.14 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.13 released
Nix\
 0.13 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release,
although it also adds some new language features. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Glad I am not in North Korea
From the Wall Street Journal:

North Korea said on Monday it would issue new won currency this week that would in effect lop two zeros off the old —requiring 1,000-won bills, for example, to be exchanged for 10-won notes with, theoretically, the same buying power.

It said it would limit the amount of old currency it would accept in exchange, to the equivalent of about $40 worth at unofficial exchange rates.

— [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.c … ⌘ Read more

Use Google Checkout
I was going to write a longer note on Paypal and eBay, but after some time to cool down I do not think it is worth it. Instead I am going to recommend, wholeheartedly, the use of Google Checkout for all your payments and shopping needs. Really, once again Google did not let me down and transformed an otherwise nightmare into a pleasant auctioning/shopping dream.

If you must use eBay, find a way to use Google Checkout with it. Y … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.12 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.12 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. Meanwhile, the Nixpkgs trunk has been
updated
to GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.12 released
Nix\
 0.12 has been released. The most important change is that
Nix no longer needs Berkeley DB to store metadata, but there are
many other improvements. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

MCITP - Enterprise Server Administrator
The last two weeks were very busy ones. I went through a Boot Camp and obtained the Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional certification, as an Enterprise Server 2008 Administrator. Much more to do with the product, but migration is on my close horizon.

As a side note, and totally unrelated, I will change the way this weblog look soon. I will probably start over as well, all the old content gone. Not sure yet about that last part, but … ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.11 released
Nix\
 0.11 has been released. This is a major new release
representing over a year of development. The most important
improvement is secure multi-user support. It also features many
usability enhancements and language extensions, many of them
prompted by NixOS, the purely functional Linux distribution
based on Nix. See the [release\
 notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20140913055323/https://releases.nixos.org … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.11 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.11 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.10 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.10 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.10 released
Nix\
 0.10 has been released. This release has many
improvements and bug fixes; see the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.9 released
Nix 0.9
has been released. This is a new major release that provides
quite a few performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as a
number of new features. Read the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Moved!
I have just moved Collantes.US to the new server. DNS is still running on the old one, but you should be seeing the new pages served on the new server Apache. If you see a note at the top asking not to enter a comment, please do so – that is, do not enter a comment. That server is the old one and it will disappear sooner rather than later.

Expect shaky things around for a brief while. Oh, and I still have Gmail invitations, just in case you might want one. [Get in touch](mailto:david@collantes.us?subject=Gmail In … ⌘ Read more