Julio Merino

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

  • NetBSD talk at iParty 8

    I've been invited to give a talk about NetBSD on Saturday 22nd at the eighth iParty. iParty is a set of FOSS-related activities hold at Castellón de la Plana, Spain, which includes conferences, workshops and competitions. I'll start with an general introduction to NetBSD to later focus on development issues: how to contribute to the project and what needs to be done; I expect it to be somewhat technical. The reason behind this choice is that Google is preparing the Summer of Code 2006 and it would be really nice to have more students than past year working for NetBSD.

    April 15, 2006 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • tmpfs on FreeBSD

    It has just been brought to my attention that tmpfs is being ported to FreeBSD by Rohit Jalan. These are good news: more eyes looking at the code (even if it has been modified to work on another OS) means that more bugs can be catched.

    April 14, 2006 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • NetBSD/i386 development under OS X

    Mac OS X is the only operating system in my iBook and I have no plans to change this in the near future (installing NetBSD was frustrating and I do not want Linux). However, I want to be able to do NetBSD development on it shall the need arise. And it has to be easy. My idea was to have a disk image with NetBSD/i386 on it and to be able to mount it from OS X to manage its contents (e.

    April 9, 2006 · Continue reading (about 4 minutes) · Comments

  • Apple's customer service

    Two months ago I bought an Apple USB Keyboard directly from my nearest Apple Center, MicroGestió. Unfortunately, the Enter key started to behave incorrectly some days ago; its movement wasn't as smooth as that of other keys and in some cases it simply didn't move. For example, it was really hard to press it when pushed from the up or left sides. In my case, I've noticed that I tend to press the Enter key towards the top, with the force going "

    April 7, 2006 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Mac OS X: Boot Camp

    Apple has just published Boot Camp, a utility to install Windows XP on a Mac. As I understand it, this provides an EFI module for legacy BIOS compatibility, a set of Windows drivers for the Apple hardware and the required tools to ease Windows' installation. In other words: it lets you to flawlessly install Windows XP SP2 (be it the Home or Professional edition) in one of the new Intel-based Macs.

    April 5, 2006 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • GNOME 2.14.0 hits pkgsrc

    After three weeks of intense work, I am pleased to announce that GNOME 2.14 is now available in pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. As happens with all other major GNOME releases, this one provides a set of polishments, cleanups and several new features over the 2.12 series. You can find more information in the official release page (linked above). I am happy to say that this release works fairly well under NetBSD.

    April 2, 2006 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Fixing GNOME's trash under NetBSD

    For a very long long time (probably since forever), the trash icon in GNOME has not worked in NetBSD. You'd drag files onto it and they were appropriately deleted but, unfortunately, the trash did not update its status to reflect the removed files. If you opened the folder, it appeared empty despite ~/.Trash contained the deleted files. As you can image this was very annoying as it made the trash near to useless.

    March 29, 2006 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

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