Friday, May 15, 2009

Mass Effect 2 - Prelude to E3

One of the best games I played in my life, Mass Effect, will have soon a sequel. I loved any minute playing the first game, from the beggining until the end. It's one of the few REAL nextgen games that appeared for PC and X360!

Here's the trailer for its sequel from www.gametrailers.com

I can't wait for this amazing game to appear!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

The world's most dangerous drug - Meth

Yesterday I had the pleasure to watch a National Geographic's documental about the world's most dangerous drug, the meta amphetamine; also known just as Meth.

This documental talks about the Meth in 74 minutes; luckily it's not very common in Spain, but unfortunately it is in Asia and USA. The video shows you some real cases with its effects and post-effects at long place; I've been very surprised in how the drugaddicts have been degraded physically after a while taking the drug.

Here's an official short intro about it, from the National Geographic channel in youtube. Watch it, and think about it if someone offers or recommends you this drug anytime!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

First Sara Romero's videos!

Here are the videos that I captured today of my second daughter Sara. She's pretty just like her daddy, heh. Enjoy!





Compared to the video that I made for Leyre back in 2006, they aren't so different!

The Gathering - Mandylion

This is an album that I've heard a bunch of times, one of the bests ever. I discovered this band back in 1999, when a friend of mine was a fan of them. One of my previous computers (now dead) was named Mandylion due to this album, RIP.

You won't be dissapointed, you'll love it.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Testing out OpenRC - An Universal init system


Talking yesterday with Roy Marples, the author of dhcpcd (among other things) he told me that perhaps I'd be insterested in another of his projects: OpenRC.

OpenRC provides a portable way to start, stop and keep track of services at boot/shutdown, just like the SystemV or BSD style init scripts.

I have to say that I'm very happy with the result after probing it, and definitly I'll use it for my distro. I only needed some tweaks and created some scripts for udev and others. I made a video showing up how the boot process looks like now.



Comparing with previous init scripts that I used (by using RC scripts from Arch and NetBSD's rc.d) doesn't seem to change much, just a few seconds faster.

Kudos for Roy for such great stuff, I'd be nice if I had knew about OpenRC before!