Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • Windows 3.1 startup speed

    Out of boredom, I installed MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 on my machine a few days ago — yeah, I was inspired by the Hot Dog Stand comments in this post. Check it out here. Don't be scared, it was just a virtual machine! Anyway, this was fun because it reminded me of something. Back in 1994, my father bought a Pentium 60Mhz. After ordering it, we imagined how fast it could be compared to our older machine, a 386DX 40Mhz.

    January 14, 2009 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Silencing the output of Python's subprocess.Popen

    I'm learning Python these days while writing an script to automate the testing of ATF under multiple virtual machines. I had this code in a shell script, but it is so ugly and clumsy that I don't even dare to add it to the repository. Hopefully, the new version in Python will be more robust and versatile enough to be published. One of the things I've been impressed by is the subprocess module and, in special, its Popen class.

    January 5, 2009 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Hardware (and other stuff) on sale

    I need to get rid of lots of stuff that I haven't used for a long time and that are only taking space here. Most of them will go to the trash but, if you are interested, let me know and make an offer for them! Yes, "for free" is valid on some items ;) Those items that have a price is the ones that I think are most valuable and I will keep them unless someone wants to buy them.

    January 4, 2009 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kernel modules in NetBSD/shark (or other ARMs)

    I reinstalled NetBSD-current recently on my shark (Digital DNARD) and, out of curiosity, I wanted to see if the new-style kernel modules worked fine on this platform. To test that, I attempted to load the puffs module and failed with an error message saying something like "kobj_reloc: unexpected relocation type 1". Similarly, the same error appeared when running the simpler regression tests in /usr/tests/modules. After seeing that error message, I tracked it down in the source code and ended in src/sys/arch/arm/arm32/kobj_machdep.

    January 2, 2009 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Happy new 2009!

    Happy new year to everyone! I know that the blog has been quite dead recently. Let's see if it can revive during 2009 (but not today). I already have a few ideas for future posts so stay tuned!

    January 1, 2009 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Live@NYC: Not any more

    That's it. Two days ago I landed in Barcelona and my stay in NYC finished. I was happy to see family and friends again, but I'm missing NYC and, in special, the people there a lot. I'm actually considering moving to NYC as soon as I find a decent job there and postponing the acquisition of a Ph.D. Many people says I should just do that, but some friends say that my feelings will eventually go away and I'll feel comfortable here again.

    December 17, 2008 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Vacations@SF: 3rd day

    I couldn't keep up with my plans yesterday. I started by walking through the Golden Gate Bridge (both ways) and then, on my way back, I ended up visiting Japantown and the area around the City Hall. I mean, I didn't visit the Golden Gate Park itself... but not a big deal since it seems similar to Central Park according to the maps. At night, I met just one NetBSD developer in the 21st Amendment bar.

    November 26, 2008 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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