Hace un par de días, y tras adquirir en un bazar chino un poco de udon (un tipo de tallarines originarios de China usados también en la cocina japonesa) me animé a intentar una recetilla, cuyo aspecto final queda plasmado en la foto que aquií se ve:
Como acompañamiento, el sopicaldo incluye champiñones, gambas, zanahoria rallada, pimiento, un poco de puerro y el indispensable chorrito de salsa de soja. Es harto probable que no se parezca en nada a ninguna de las formas en que se cocina este tipo de tallarín en el lejano oriente; pero sin duda el resultado no fue malo… no me atrevo a decir que fue bueno porque no había probado udon con anterioridad; pero sin duda estaba rico.
Es una pena que no hagan este tipo de platos en los restaurantes orientaloides de las inmediaciones… 
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Tags: cuisine, reallife
Ahoy, ye maties!
So it is September the 19th aboard, meaning yer should be talkin’ like pirates… because yer truly FSM mandates so. For those of yer who would wavin’ yer cutlasses for new Monkey Island stuff, some folks have smartly made readily available a free copy of Tales of Monkey Island for yer surfin’ buccaneers!
Some bad news: yer will be needin’ Windows. Dunno what that’s mean, folk, but sound like no good, arrrrr!
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Si el ruído hablase…
Tuve ya en ocasiones anteriores la estomagante experiencia de asistir a un par de conciertos en el recinto de Expocoruña, con lo que no repetiré mis acertados comentarios sobre sus graves deficiencias acústicas una vez más. Este nuevo episodio, que bien podría titularse «Tratado sobre el maltrato a los conductos auditivos», tenía como protagonista al descompositor francés Yann Tiersen. A la mala calidad del sonido (que no es culpa del artista, sino de la acústica del lugar) se unió el ¿mal? gusto del artista por los sonidos estridentes, ruidosos y parcialmente desagradables al oído humano. Y es que el evento se caracterizó por la asistencia de los siguientes tipos de fauna:
- Conocedores despistados de la banda sonora de Le Fabuleux Destin D’Amélie Poulain y algún otro también consciente de que Tiersen es el artífice de la banda sonora de Good Bye Lenin!. Este sin duda era mi grupo.
- Novios aburridos de chicuelas pertenecientes al grupo anteriormente citado.
- Protogeeks gafapasta que nunca irían a un concierto de KMFDM, porque aún siendo realmente alternativos no podrían soportar el tener sueños lúbricos con Lucía y probablemente acabrían convirtiéndose en emos después de un intento fallido de cortarse las venas de forma transversal.
- Punkis perroflauta despistados que les importa un comino quien toque, siempre y cuando su colga «el panas» asista y puedan pasarse lo que dure el concierto en una nebulosa de polen.
Mientras que los integrantes de los dos últimos grupos sin duda volvieron a casa contentos unos, y contentos los otros, los demás aguantamos el tedio con mayor o menor éxito, mientras Tiersen y su banda se dedicaban a hacernos creer que las canciones que esperábamos serían tocadas más adelante. Mes y medio después, sigo esperando por Le valse D’Amélie… Pero parece que algunos artistas se empecinan en renegar de aquéllo que les ha dado la fama, con lo que además de conviertirse en ídolos del gafapastismo, consiguen echar para atrás a los que vamos a los conciertos de los artistas que no nos son muy conocidos con ganas de escuchar «lo de siempre y alguna cosa más, a ver qué tal». Si quiere hacerse el Dylan, primero que demuestre su valía con una extensa discografía y una impecable técnica a los instrumentos (o en caso de que la tenga, haga gala de ella).
Resumiendo: un concierto prescindible, que se salva de la quema de brujas por el hecho de haber ido bien acompañado y no ser muy cara la entrada.
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Tags: art, concert, critique, review
Squeeze release goals
It is a shame that large file support (LFS) is still a release goal for Debian. Hey folks, we are in 2009… support for lage files landed in the kernel a lot of time ago, and (probably) 99% of applications already support that. I have always had LFS support in Gentoo without needing to do nothing. There is IPv6 on the listo, too… Please do not make me talk about my opinion on the “great” release cycle of two years. You must be kidding, guys.
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Los blogs no hablan
Iba a pedir dos minutos de silencio, pero me he dado cuenta de que un blog no puede hablar…
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La movida de los suicidios
Recibo un correo de la gente de una compañía de «hosting» en la que tengo contratada una máquina virtual. El mensaje reza:
Subject: Important: Future of use of HyperVM
As many of you may know, the owner of HyperVM (LxLabs) has committed suicide [...]
Como me resultaba extraña la cosa, me he puesto a investigar un poquito… la cosa va más o menos así, ordenada temporalmente:
- Unos 100.000 websites hosteados por VA-Serv son borrados de la faz de la tierra (no os perdáis los reports de estado en su página), aparentemente por algún problema con HyperVM, un panel de control para máquinas virtuales.
- LxLabs (los autores de HyperVM) anuncia que pagará a quien demuestre haber encontrado problemas de seguridad en sus productos. En resumen: que lanzan un órdago a ver quien es más chulo. Hay que ser un Dan J. Bernstein de la vida para estar seguro de hacer una cosa, no es algo que haga pueda hacer una persona cualquiera…
- Un grupo de barbudos descubre al menos 24 vulnerabilidades critiquísimas que potencialmente podrían haber sido usadas para trincar unas cuantas centenas de máquinas virtuales.
- (Conjetura mía) La gerencia de VA-Serv empieza a presionar a LxLabs para que les indemnicen o algo así, pues seguramente LxLabs vende la moto de que da un «muy buen soporte» al producto.
- El dueño de LxLabs se cuelga de un árbol. Debe ser una antigua tradición familiar, pues tiempo ha algunos de sus allegados habían hecho lo mismo.
- Las otras compañías de hosting (por suerte la mía incluída) se empiezan a cagar de miedo y (como es lógico y sanamente recomendable) desactivan sus instalaciones de HyperVM y empiezan a pensar seriamente en cambiarse a la competencia.
- (Predicción mía) LxLabs se va al garete. Mientras tanto otra compañía saca tajada vendiendo un software para manejo de VMs igual de cutre que HyperVM hecho en PHP, pero que visualmente es más bonito y sus comerciales son más convincentes a la hora de vender la moto de que es más seguro que Fort Knox, oiga.
Resumiendo, al final, nada como guisarte tú mismo la administración de tus propias máquinas: No hay nada que sustituya a un buen cliente de SSH y toquetear todo en línea de comandos.
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Jarre in a Rush
Siguiendo el ya habitual ritmo de artículo por mes, procedo por la presente a dar fe de lo que viene siendo un fin de semana en Londres, con motivo de hacer acto de presencia en el concierto de Jean-Michel Jarre que tuvo lugar en el Wembley Arena. Para ir abriendo boca antes del resto de la crónica —narrada en impecable inglés por un escritor que prefiere permanecer en el anonimato—, nada como una fotina:
It was about to attend a Jarre concert in London, but it ended being more than that. Some months ago my colleague Diego discovered that he was about to start a new tour, and that the capital of the United Kingdom was chosen as one of the destinations. The point is that the company where I work has rented flat in London. Coincidence? Probably. The net result of this is that we checked whether it would be possible to stay there for a weekend, and then we bought tickets both for the concert and for a Porto-London flight. And it was very nice to share this trip with Diego, which told me loads of interesting things about eastern countries, as he lived in Hong Kong and visited some other near countries.
We headed to Porto where we met two great friends of mine who are there in their Erasmus year. The deal was to have dinner we all four, and then rest in their place until it was time to head to the airport. After having dinner we experimented one of the greatests pieces of chocolate cake in a cafeteria in Porto (sorry, I do not remember the name). But —as always— the most important thing for me was having the opoprtunity of being together one more time, as we had lots of things to talk about.
The next day we woke up early, and tried the shiny new tram system at Porto in order to reach to the airport. It does Just Work™, as expected, and is a very convenient way of avoiding picking a bus or your car to go there. The airport was remodelled since the last time I was there, and now it has a modern design and a clean layout. Diego told me about the funny story with the name Francisco de Sá Carneiro was prime minister of Portugal which died in a plane accident, so it is very contradictory to use his name for an airport…
We arrived at the Stansted airport and my first interesting sight was that all the floor of the building is covered by fitted carpet. About an hour and a half later we arrived at the flat, after picking up a pair of tube lines and getting past Baker Street. We did not search for number 221B, though. After leaving our luggage, we went back to Baker St. and tried to find a pub to have lunch, which we definitely. While walking we saw an odd book shop which has books in shelves ordered by country name. After tasting some British food, I must say that it was not as horrible as I was told. I am convinced that is an urban legen here in Spain, probably due to the fact that there was a peculiar mixture of sauces in our dishes. We reached the Wembley Arena somewhat soon, so we entered a supermarket and we bought some soft drinks and chocolate. As I am a caffeine addict, I tried a soft drink made of coffee which I have never seen in Spain. I found it to be interesting.
While entering the Arena, Waiting for Cousteau was sounding through the speakers, like it was in the 2008 Oxygène concert I attended. We were worried about the smoke clouds which were below the roof, but in the end they were neccessary to see the laser harp and most of the lightning effects 
. The first track was Industrial Revolution, like in the Gdansk concert, which is great for starting concerts and it sounds powerful live. The songs I liked most were Chronology II and Magnetic Fields I because they sound epic on stage. I could not avoid remembering about my friend Javier when they finally played Chronology VI and Équinoxe IV. The concert was all very emotive: Jarre’s sons were attending the concert and Jarre had some words to dedicate a song to his father. The concert lasted near two hours, which were two hours of joy for us. I bought a mug in the shop before leaving.
After leaving the Arena we went back to Piccadilly to have a walk by Chinatown, and we had soba (そば ) and udon (うどん) at the Tokyo Dinner restaurant. Interestingly enough they do not have dinner sets, so the name is not very appropriate. Unfortunately they did not have ramen (ラーメン) which ultimately was the reason why we wanted to go there.
On Saturday we visited Camden Town and we bought a pair of funny T-shirts. Mine says: “No, I’m not un f*!#ing Facebook”. We also had the occasion to be present at a mod meeting, and saw their stylish Vespa and Lambretta bikes. Diego did not know about the mod movement, and we had an interesting chat about it and some related topics, including The Who’s Tommy film. We also had a quick walk around the floodgate and then headed to the Royal Academy of Arts, where we wanted to go because of an exposition of ukiyo-e (浮世絵) prints by Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳). We had lunch at a japanese tavern whose name remains unknown for me, but in which there were oriental people having lunch, so it looked like the business was run by japanese people thus being a good place to find what we were looking for the day before. We finally had ramen, and a I had onigiris (おにぎり), too. The food was delicious 
In the afternoon we had a walk by Trafalgar Square, and then by the nearbies of the Westminster Abbey and the Houses of the Parliament, where the Big Ben is located. The London Eye, the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge are all located in that area which we visited mostly by walking. In the London Bridge we were asked by a half-french girl to take a photograph of her and her friend, which we did. We had a quick chat and it could have been great but it was a pity not to ask them to have a beer all together. So we went back to our apartment and had a shower before trying to have some fun in the night. Then we had a dreadful luck with the nightly buses: we reached Notting Hill okay, but we were not able to pick up line N7! We waited for hours, and the only interesting thing we saw was… a fox! We have seen a fox crossing the street from one garden to another. After that we decided that it would be wise to go back home and have a rest.
We spent most of the Sunday traveling back from London to Stansted, then Porto and finally back home. What I liked a lot about this day was buying a bottle of Cherry Coke at the airport before leaving the UK.
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Ezmlm lists and the From header
If you have used the fine ezmlm mailing list manager (which is a perfect complement for the qmail MTA) you may have found that when hitting the “Reply” button in your mail client, the recipient will be the author of the message instead of the list address. There is a quick workaround by passing the list address to the -3 to ezmlm-make, but that will screw up the “From” MIME header in messages, and it will look like all messages were send by the mailing list!
Fortunately, there is a solution thanks to the infinite tuneability of ezmlm. As you should already know, for each list a directory with some files is created for each mailing list, and most of the behaviour of the mailing list can be tuned by editing those files. There are two files which affect MIME headers which will be of interest:
- headerremove defines a list of headers which will be stripped off messages when they arrive.
- heeaderadd defines a list of headers (and their values) which will be added by ezmlm when processing messages.
What we want to do is that the “Reply” button of mail clients makes them use the list address as recipient. For this we can add a “Reply-To” header, and a “X-Mailing-List” one (the latter is not standard, but honored by a number of clients):
echo 'Reply-To: yourlist@yourdomain.com' >> headeradd echo 'X-Mailing-List: <yourlist@yourdomain.com>' >> headeradd
The we must ensure that the original “From” header is preserved, by not listing it in headerremove:
sed -i -e '/^[Ff]rom$/d' headerremove
Now you will see the correct “From” value in messages, and replying to them will send the message to the list by default. Also, if you want to filter list messages, you can now use the “X-Mailing-List” header, which is the default action of some clients when classifying messages per mailing list.
Isn’t ezmlm nice?
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Pues servidor ha decidido jubilar a la que ha sido su fiel compañera china durante los últimos dos años, sacarse el permiso «A», y lanzarse a nuevas y excitantes aventuras…
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Tags: moto, ontheroad, reallife
El abogado especializado en propiedad intelectual David Bravo será entrevistado por los chicuelos del programa PDF en la emisora universitaria libre Cuac FM el próximo 15 de Abril de 2009. El programa se emite los miércoles de 17:00, y además de sintonizar la emisora en el 103.4 se puede escuchar a través de Internet.
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