Julio Merino

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

  • SoC: Map and results

    Quoting Google Code news: As the remaining awards are being distributed and the t-shirts are being prepped to ship out, we thought we'd give you an idea of the both the global scope and the hard work done by the students and mentors during the Summer of Code. We've put together a map and a list of projects for your examination. Please note that not all of the projects are listed quite yet, but we wanted to share some info with the people who follow this site.

    October 26, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Remembering Freedows OS

    Yesterday's MINIX post made me remember the Freedows OS project; I talked about it with a friend recently, who didn't know about its existence, so hence this post. Freedows was an operating system that aimed at providing multi-platform emulation. It was born in 1996 and was based on a microkernel architecture. It had to have servers for different popular operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and DOS (IIRC), allowing the user to run applications from each of these seamlessly.

    October 25, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • MINIX 3 published

    As seen in the MINIX news site, the 3rd major release of this operating system has been released today. As seen in the new web site: MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable and secure. It is based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally different in many key ways. MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.

    October 24, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • SoC: Payment received

    Being part of Planet SoC, I think it is a good idea to post this: I've just received Google's cheque for my Summer of Code 2005 tmpfs project! I'm happy :-) Unfortunately, due to some tax issues, Google has withhold a 30% of the original payment. I hope to be able to ask for a refund the next year...

    October 24, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Sending mail from the command line with Mutt

    During the migration to Blogger, I used the post-by-mail service to ease the move of all posts. I downloaded all the old ones into my computer and then automatically sent a mail for each of them to the appropriate posting address. However, this was not easy. As all the posts were in HTML format, I needed to tell the mailer to send a multipart message with a text/html part. After many attempts, NetBSD's mail(1) command proved to be insufficient so I had to look for another mailing utility to do the same thing.

    October 23, 2005 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Blog migrated to Blogger; welcome!

    As I outlined a week ago, I was considering the migration of my blog (jmmv's weblog) from Livejournal to Blogger... and I finally did it. Therefore, welcome to the new site! Before continuing, update your subscriptions! You can find the link to the new Atom feed in the Basics section on the sidebar (don't know how to do RSS yet). And forget about the older site; it will no longer be updated (though the contents will remain there for a long time).

    October 22, 2005 · Continue reading (about 3 minutes) · Comments

  • About The Julipedia

    The Julipedia is Julio M. Merino Vidal's personal blog; this was born on June 22nd, 2004, and was previously known as jmmv's weblog. On October 22nd, 2005, jmmv's weblog was officially migrated from Livejournal to Blogger due to multiple reasons (beeing the ability to control visits the most important one). The transition was an ideal moment to rename the blog to give it an identity of its own, and hence The Julipedia was born.

    October 22, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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