HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\â¨Functional System\â¨Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\â¨Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. â Read more
I shall not censure
From today on, I shall not censure on this weblog. Any comment left (no spam comments, of course. Who needs those?) will be shown uncensored. I will only mask foul words (just because of my ICRA rating, safe for children), and correct capitalization as needed, but nothing else. I donât remember ever censuring âI donât write enough, really. But now I have taken that idea, if ever was, away from my mind. â Read more
Got a Mac, once again
My first knowledge about Macâs came sorrounded by a mist of legend, legend that has lived until today: Macâs are wonderful, powerful, friendly machines, that boot with a graphic interface and which mouse has only one big button. Ok, that was what I thought 15 years ago or so, but you get the idea.
Eight months ago I bought a dual 1.42 Ghz PowerMac G4, with 2GB RAM, 128 VRAM, 120GB HD, SuperDrive, Bluetooth⌠beautiful machine. Then wife lost her job and some of my most valuable po ⌠â Read more
It is over now, or it isnât
Well, I got my car back today and it seems to be functioning all right. After this experience the only conclusion I can draw is: definitely, âHoller Mitsubishiâ service completely sucks, their Service Manager does not have a slight idea on what customer service is, their mechanics â or, at least, one of them â do not know what the heck they are doing⌠to sum it up: do not take your car there. Trust me. I will wait one or two days, to make sure the car is fine and then I ⌠â Read more