Julio Merino

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

  • VigiPac is now public

    First of all, happy new year! As I said some days ago, a friend of mine and me have been working for a while (a month and a half, more or less) in a computer game as an university task. The deadline for the project was December 19th (so the subject related to it is over), but we decided to continue it as a free software project. So, finally, I can announce that the game, named VigiPac, is now public.

    January 2, 2005 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Got a new DVD recorder

    I've got a BenQ DW1620 (dunno if it's the Pro model or not), that is, a double-layer, dual DVD recorder as a Christmas present. This is the first first-hand recorder I get; I didn't trust the older ones very much, so I'm quite happy ;-) First of all, I was impressed by its price, very low according to all the features included. WRT the packaging, it is nice (got the retail version in a superstore).

    December 29, 2004 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Giving blood

    This week, a medical team from Hospital Clínic has come to our faculty to collect blood from the students (or any other person around) who want to donate. I had never done it before, but due to a suggestion from a friend, I though "Hmm, why not? Let's try it.". So I showed up there this morning. First of all, I had to fill in a form answering some questions about things that may make my blood inappropriate.

    December 15, 2004 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Setting up a bridge

    A bridge is a machine that connects two different physical networks (like a switch). I've just set up my box to act as a bridge between my Mac (connected to the ne0 interface) and my home network (connected to the vr0 interface). It has been easy as hell due to the excellent quality of the NetBSD manual pages ;-) After reading bridge(4), I saw a reference to brconfig(8), which I read too.

    December 13, 2004 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • OpenPAM hits NetBSD

    After a very long time of discussions and waiting, OpenPAM is being merged into NetBSD, as you can see in the src/dist/openpam directory. OpenPAM is a BSD-licensed PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) implementation, which focuses on simplicity, correctness and cleanliness (according to its website). It has the best features of Solaris PAM, XSSO and Linux PAM, plus improvements of its own. This software was originally developed for the FreeBSD operating system, but is portable to other BSDs as well as Linux.

    December 12, 2004 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Windows and CHS

    OMG, what a stressful night. Yesterday evening, I went to a teaching academy to install Linux (Ubuntu was the distribution of choice) on all their 12 boxes. I started by resizing the FAT32 partitions, continuing with the Linux installation. (Stupid me because I did no test in the middle.) After two hours and a half, I had all the machines up and running, and I was surprised to not have had any problem.

    December 12, 2004 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Latest releases and news

    These days, I'm very busy working with a friend in a game which we have to have "finished" by next Friday (it's university work). Basically, it is a three-dimensional Pacman with multi-player support, licensed under the GPL and written in C++. It will be released on Sourceforge.net in a while, so keep tuned ;) Anyway, the purpose of this message is to publish some recent news, as I had no time during the week to do so:

    December 11, 2004 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

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