Sunday, January 31, 2010

Heat wave


Friday was the worst, no doubt about that... Then, a pre-dawn Saturday shower cooled down things for a while, nevertheless, it looks like until Wednesday we will be totally screwed in Bs As.

I really wish the summer ends, but I have to survive, to the very least, the whole piece of crap of February... But, everybody knows that the real cold does not start until May nowadays.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

The heat went wild

The weather forecast was right, the heat wave simply has no end for the near future... They say that perhaps on Saturday night or Sunday, it might rain a bit, but the temperatures will not drop that much really...

Of course, the power outages are starting to happen, just like that, business as usual, you know... Not to mention the real big ones, the blackouts that take place in other parts of the country, outside Bs As, in the "interior".
You gotta love the summer, baby!

The other day had a business meeting downtown (the horror! the horror! You could actually melt onto the freaking asphalt), but from on of the windows I could take a picture of a really huge A/C machine, dripping condensated (and totally disgusting, foamy) water like mad.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Got me a new baby


And yet another laptop joins the family!!!

A beautiful, slim, powerful, silent, strong & amazing Thinkpad!!!
Installed Karmic (32 bits), from the Alt CD yesterday, it was a breeze, everything works out of the box.
The only problem is that the WiFi does not like to go upwards than WEP... But, well, I settle for that for the moment, anyway, I use a VPN connection practically 24x7 to use the internet nowadays...

Here are the tech specs of the little beast:

viking
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 2012MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.13.8
size: 800MHz
capacity: 800MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts est tm2 cpufreq
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:24 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:b0100000-b01fffff memory:c0000000-c7ffffff(prefetchable)
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:c0000000-c7ffffff(prefetchable) ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b0100000-b010ffff memory:b0120000-b013ffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:25 memory:b0200000-b02fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 11
serial: 00:1a:6b:67:7f:ca
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.99 firmware=5751m-v3.46a latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:16 memory:b0200000-b020ffff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:26 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:b2000000-b3ffffff ioport:c8000000(size=1048576)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:1800(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:1820(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1840(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:1860(size=32)
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 memory:b0000000-b00003ff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: d3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: ioport:5000(size=16384) memory:b4000000-bfffffff ioport:d0000000(size=134217728)
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: RL5c476 II
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 8d
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=128
resources: iomemory:b00d0c0b0-b00d0c0af irq:16 memory:b4000000-b4000fff ioport:5000(size=256) ioport:5400(size=256) memory:d0000000-d3ffffff(prefetchable) memory:b8000000-bbffffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:0b:02.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:16:6f:cc:97:b4
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) ip=10.120.10.8 latency=64 maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b
resources: irq:21 memory:b4001000-b4001fff
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0
resources: irq:22 ioport:1c00(size=256) ioport:1880(size=64) memory:b0000800-b00009ff memory:b0000400-b00004ff
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Modem
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:2400(size=256) ioport:2000(size=128)
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:18c0(size=16)
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:18e0(size=32)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: tap0
serial: f6:5d:48:2b:f4:21
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tun driverversion=1.6 firmware=N/A ip=10.120.13.80 multicast=yes

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Back at home


And as it turns out, during the worst heat wave that has hit Bs As, at least, the worst that I can remember...

Life is good.

And for what it is know so far, the weekend it is actually going to be even worst, how can that be possible?

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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Vacation planning (6)


Well, I'm afraid this will have to wait for a next, far more warm, time...

There is no way on Earth I can endure a minus 16 Celsius temperature, not mention driving a car with chains on the wheels, or stuff like that, I will certainly crash and burn in no time.

Anyways, the Smithsonians are waiting for me, specially the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, which I haven't been able to visit last year.

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