Here comes the sun.

I know it took a while until I could place the solar panels in the right location but I've been busy all summer long.

I bought four solar panels at the end of July and they arrived at the beginning of August. First, I made a provisional installation to see if they worked correctly and they did, but they could not take advantage of direct sunlight all day long.

I started building the frame to hold eight big solar panels and I did all the work to put it on the roof of the house. Today I have finally "uploaded" the four initial solar panels and connected the cables. They have been producing good electricity all the afternoon. "Good" as in both "environmental friendly" and " for free", or "gratis".

If the results are good, I'm gonna get four more for Christmas. They are really cheap now so it is the right time to do it.

Here are some pics:

GNU 30th anniversary

Always the sun

I'm double enjoying this nice sunny weather ;)

Debian GNU/Hurd successfully installed

I have successfully installed the 2013 version of the debian GNU/Hurd port. So far it is only inside a virtual machine but I may install it in a partition once I get more used to how it works.

A default installation does not include a lot of software. That's where the power of debian comes in handy. You know the drill apt-get install...

(Credits go to MrFrood for finding the gnu ascii art below, and showing me how to include it.)

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 /             \ 
((__-^^-,-^^-__)) 
 `-_---' `---_-' 
  `--|o` 'o|--' 
     \  `  / 
      ): :( 
      :o_o: 
       "-" 

Debian GNU/Hurd

The Debian GNU/Hurd team announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013.

I downloaded the image last night. I need to remember to login as root without a password. This is a screenshot of the OS in action.

Reality check

Yes, high time to make a reality check :)

debian 7.0 wheezy released

This weekend the debian team has released its 7.0 version codenamed wheezy (Now the new testing suite is jessie). It was officially published yesterday May 4th, 2013 but still today the debian-www, debian-publicity teams among others are still working at full speed finishing many remaining details.

Only two things to mention about this release:

First, the bug hunt continues, now with more strength, as new bugs will arise after the release.

Second, wheezy comes with 37,000 software packages whereas squeeze had 29,000. Impressive!!!

Congratulations to everybody who made it possible. Thanks!!!