Sometimes too many distros is bad

Oh my God! (pun intended). Where are we heading?

I just read at DistroWatch that there is a GNU/Linux distro for Christians! According to DistroWatch:

Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. Along with the standard Ubuntu applications, Ubuntu Christian Edition includes the best available Christian software. The latest release contains GnomeSword, a top of the line Bible study program for Linux based on the Sword Project.

I might understand that people with different religious beliefs has different needs in terms of software, like the GnomeSword program, for studying the Bible. However… a whole distribution!?

This is getting silly, with people making a fork of Ubuntu “for the left-handed”, “for people with cold feet” or “for people who prefer emacs over vi”. All this is what the friggin’ package manager is for: installing the programs you like!

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The meaning of Vista

From markdbd’s blog, the image says it all:

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Little Miss Sunshine

This wednesday I went to the cinema with my workmate Julen, and we watched “Little Miss Sunshine” (IMDb|FilmAffinity).

It is a hell of a good movie, humble and simple, but with a very good plot, and very good acting. Drama and comedy are intermixed, with the latter being more prominent. One does not spend the whole movie laughing, but when the moments come, one laughs out loud.

I wholeheartedly recommend this film to anyone not feeling that a movie needs lasers and explosions to be any good.

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Aclarado ancestral misterio

Acabo de dar respuesta a la antigua pregunta de:

¿Qué pesa más, un kilo de hierro o un kilo de paja?

La respuesta es clara: un kilo de hierro. No, no estoy de coña. Es así.

Si la pregunta fuera “¿Qué tiene más masa[…]”, obviamente la respuesta es que tienen la misma masa (mil gramos). Ahora bien, nos preguntan por el peso. El peso de un objeto es la fuerza con la que un objeto es atraido hacia el centro de la Tierra (“hacia abajo”). En general, se entiende que esta fuerza corresponde al producto de la masa por la aceleración gravitatoria, y por lo tanto es directamente proporcional a la masa (y por tanto hierro y paja pesarían lo mismo).

Pero no es completamente cierto. Tanto el kilo de paja como el de hierro son objetos inmersos en un fluido: la atmósfera. Dado que el un fluido, el gas atmosférico (el aire) ejerce una fuerza de flotación (por el que un globo de helio asciende, por ejemplo), dado que esta fuerza se contrapone a la de la gravedad, y dado que es proporcional al volumen (el cual es mucho mayor en el caso de la paja), hemos de concluir que el kilo de paja es atraido hacia el centro de la Tierra con una fuerza menor, y por lo tanto pesa menos.

Esto es tan físico y real como pueda serlo cualquier otra cosa: si pones en los dos platos de una balanza simple un kilo de paja y un kilo de hierro, caerá del lado del hierro (si tiene suficiente sensibilidad), una balanza romana suficiente precisa dará el hierro como más pesado, y si cargamos con el kilo de paja por un lodazal, nuestras huellas se hundirán menos en el barro que si lo hacemos con el kilo de hierro. Sea como sea que lo medimos, el kilo de hierro pesa (ligeramente) más.

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Quit Windows, my friend

Bruce Lee, on Windows (based on his Be water, my friend speech):

Empty your hard disk.

Don’t be pointless, hopeless… like Windows.

You put Windows in a bottle… it’s still a bottle,
you put it in a computer… it becomes a teapot!

Windows can crawl, or it can crash

Quit Windows, my friend.

¿Te gusta reiniciar?

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The meaning of Ubuntu

According to this guy:

“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning: “I can’t configure Debian.”

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Dumb and dumber

Cheney
Today I came by train to Donostia, and when crossing the Maria Cristina bridge, out of the station, I met a woman giving away a free gazette called Metro Directo (which I believe is published in many places around the world).

Among the news I read while coming to the faculty by bus, one struck me (well, not really): a survey has been made among 1045 people in the USA (a fairly small sample, I’d say. Still meaningfull, however), to find out who people considered “most stupid person of the USA”.

The Top Five are:

1 – Michael Jackson
2 – Dick Cheney and Paris Hilton (ex aequo)
4 – George W. Bush
5 – Tom Cruise

Bush

Now, how sad is it that both the President and the Vice-President of a country are found by their fellow citizens to be second in stupidity only to Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton?

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