28-07-2009


Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Acabo de terminar de visionar este magnifico anime de 26 27 episodios y no puedo dejar de recomendarlo a todos, llegando incluso a volver a escribir en este trozo de chatarra blogil solo para comentarlo a los que de alguna forma sigan entrando, sabe Dios el por qué, en este recóndito lugar de la telaraña.

Como iba diciendo, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, recomendación por cierto de Raingna es un anime sencillamente magnifico que coloco a la altura de Berserk y Full Metal Alchemist no por estilo, sino por su capacidad de transmitir mucho más que mera diversión. De hecho, no es casualidad la comparación, ya que como las dos anteriores, hace falta terminarla para apreciarla adecuadamente y parece ser en general incomprendida.

Lo dicho, no dejéis que cualquiera de las apreciaciones sobre cosas de escasa importancia os echen para atrás y disfrutad lo que de verdad importa.¡No os la perdáis!

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6-05-2009


Odio

Odio a las personas. Hay días que más, hay días que menos, pero no puedo evitar sentir un desencanto general en cada momento en que me relaciono con mi entorno con algo más en mente que ser cordial. Y no, no solo es el odio a las características propias del ser humano como ser vivo. Odio más que a nada al nuevo ser humano social: egoísta, malicioso, inconsciente, inocente, cobarde, dependiente…

Odio sus mecanismos de defensa, tan evidentes pero aún con todo tan ignorados, odio su afán por evitar el dolor necesario, odio su insistencia a la hora de sentirse acogidos o sentirse parte de algo más grande aunque sea todo una burda mentira. Odio como creen tener unas necesidades que no tienen en absoluto, su capacidad para dejar que la responsabilidad resbale por sus vidas dejando libre albedrío a las consecuencias.

Odio sus patrones de actuación, sus reglas artificiales e ilógicas que no aportan nada a nadie y su predilección por el camino más fácil independientemente de lo que suponga a su entorno. Odio sus excusas, tristes y poco elaboradas, que demuestran además que por no esforzarse, no se esfuerza ni cuando intenta zafarse de problemas.

Odio lo lamentables que son cuando se preocupan por todo lo que no tiene ningún valor, cuando se dañan unos a otros con brutal eficiencia bajo la máscara de la inconsciencia. Odio su falta de principios definidos, su adherencia inmediata al mayor interés y lo poco consecuentes que son con su propia existencia.

Odio como se unen automáticamente cuando ellos mismos han descuidado su defensa, esperando que así puedan mantener escondidas de la vista las cuerdas que mueven sus extremidades. Odio su corta memoria y su incapacidad para aprender de los errores, sobre todo si sigue existiendo más sujetos cometiendo esos mismos errores. Odio la falta de respeto que le hacen al concepto de inteligencia cada vez que hablan de ella.

Pero sobre todo, lo que más odio es como todos hemos ayudado y ayudamos a que todo esto se mantenga así. Con cada acción, con cada mentira, con cada autoengaño, con cada momento de inconsciencia, con cada acto de egoismo. Te odio a ti. Y a ti. Y a vosotros. Y a ti también. Y aunque me siento totalmente enajenado y hago un gran esfuerzo por alejarme de esta corriente, también me odio; soy humano, como los demás.

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1-02-2009


Advantages of being a GNU/Linux user

This last weekend there was quite a blackout for 2 days where I live, and it seems one of its consequences was internet not working anymore. I hate calling customer support of ISPs. They are prepared to solve some problems sequentially but it is difficult to step right into the real problem when you think you know what happens. Let’s see how the call would have worked in a typical scenario… Based on a similar call I made some time ago.

Customer support: Hello, I am xxxxxxxx. How may I help you?
crimsomshadow: Good morning. Internet has stopped working yesterday, but my router configuration is ok. Could you check if connection reaches here?
Customer support: Could you tell me your router’s color?
crimsomshadow: I think my router is ok. Could you please check if connection reaches here?
Customer support: The only possible problem can be your router. Please tell me your router’s color
crimsomshadow: Black and grey…
Customer support: So it is a “Insert brand name here” ZX4815162342. Can you confirm that?
crimsomshadow: Yeah, it is. I tell you I already checked it
Customer support: Please, go to a computer, click “Start-Run” and type cmd. A black window should appear. You must type “ping 192.168.1.1″. Please tell me what do you see after that
crimsomshadow: (Thinking: My router IP isn’t that one…) It pings back
Customer support: You really did as I told you?
crimsomshadow: I checked before calling
Customer support: Please do it now
crimsomshadow: Ok, it still pings back
Customer support: Then your router is not broken. It must be a configuration problem. Please push the reset button for 10 seconds and check if you can connect to the internet
crimsomshadow: (Thinking: Oh man…) Done. Still not working
Customer support: Wait a moment, sir





Customer support: Sorry for making you wait, sir. It seems there is a connection problem in our side. It will be solved in the following 24/48 hours. Thank you

I know I should just follow what customer service says, but it was worth trying. Let’s see how it fared this last time…

Customer support: Hello, I am xxxxxxxx. How may I help you?
crimsomshadow: Good morning. Internet stopped working this weekend with the blackout and is still doesn’t work
Customer support: Ok, let’s check it… Could you tell me your router’s color?
crimsomshadow: The thing is, my router is not the one you sent me… We bought a different one
Customer support: … I see. Ok, can you click “Start-Run” on a nearby computer…
crimsomshadow: Well, you see, I am a Linux user, but I can follow…
Customer support: Please wait a moment, sir

Customer support: Sorry for making you wait, sir. It seems there is a connection problem in our side. It will be solved in the following 24/48 hours. Thank you.

Funny.

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3-01-2009


A Christmas tale

Once upon a time there was a young man that worked a lot on christmas with his laptop. Of all christmas there was one only that on which he had so much work he just needed to get all done in no time. It could be destiny or just bad luck, but just when those christmas days were beginning, the laptop stopped working and the young man had to send it to costumer service. Even without his laptop, the young man worked as hard as he could.

The laptop was one of a kind. Robust, powerful, beautiful. As the man usually worked with virtual machines he needed a lot of memory, so he bought 4GB RAM when he started working with that laptop. That didn’t work out of the box because of some memory mapping problems with the graphics chip, but there was a official bios update that fixed the problem, so nothing could go better.

When he got his laptop back, the young man was very happy. But happiness usually doesn’t last too much. The memory mapping bug was back, and when he tried to update the bios, he found out the motherboard was different and there weren’t any compatible bios updates. When looking for a solution, he discovered this problem was unsolved since 9 months ago, and the manufacturer remained in silence, ignoring their costumer’s requests. When he read the four character name of the manufacturer he felt hatred. Not only against them, but against all manufacturers in general. It happened with one manufacturer this time, but previously it was with other, and sure it will happen again and again.

And thus this tale ends with a laptop that feels horribly different to how it felt before supposedly getting repaired.

Moral: You cannot trust any manufacturer, it always comes down to this as they grow.

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15-12-2008


Blog news

Lately there has been a lot of things going on inside Divide By 0. When I started this little project I had a lot of things in mind, but let’s say that wasn’t the moment. It’s not like this is the best moment, though! I can barely stop to breathe these days, but I hope what has been done will be for good! Let’s take a tour on what’s new.

The blog, also in english!

English right now is quite a universal language, and one of my intentions with this blog was making its content available to as much people as I could. Thanks to polyglot, now I can accomplish that, and I started by translating previous posts. My english isn’t perfect, you are warned! The blog will automatically use the default language in your browser, and you can change that language session-wide by using the flags in the sidebar or in each individual post header.

Another URL

Now it is possible to visit this web by the old http://divisionentrecero.com URL and by the new http://divisionby0.net

Photo gallery

We’re going into the photography world! I always wanted to make a gallery of my own but hadn’t what I needed to. Now I have, so stay tuned there too!The gallery is powered by Zenphoto.

http://gallery.divisionby0.net

Feeds page

There is a brand new feeds page where you’ll find links to all feeds this page offers, including the new english and gallery feeds. You can access it through the top right link or through here. Please update your feed reader with the new URLs.

XHTML1.0 standard compliant

Just as a side note, I corrected some problems with the HTML code that prevented this web from being XHTML1.0 compliant. Bad luck with the CSS standard, though. The CSS validator doesn’t like one of the wordpress plugins, I’ll try to correct it further on.

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