Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way.

I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu:

%s/saucy/wily/gc

:wq

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on such an aging net-top and such a worm-hole jump, jumping at least 4 releases requires to dive into a console, yes, those DOS like interface that still lives underneath your shiny desktop and hammering some

while (dpkg –reconfigure -a; apt-get -f install)

Some days ago I saw this link on Slashdot : The Barbie commercial you have to see – The Washington Post that caught my attention:

A new ad campaign is finally making Barbie some feminist friends.

I’m father of two daughters, a civil engineer and a long-life programmers and Software Libero user so I was quite curious.

Just my 2¢€: my daughters are not interested in Barbie appearance. They just play with them, conceiving amusing and interesting stories.

By the way, doesn’t the girl in the commercial look like Dottie, the main character of Doc McStuffins?

This is Kano. Let your kids build, learn and create using a computer they make themselves.

Kano – The Computer anyone can make the best gift you can make to your children!

 

 

 

 

Sometimes a little joke on coordinate transformation made using a matrix is needed.

Sorgente: xkcd: Matrix Transform

Yet it’s only a simple rotation. There’s no translation neither skew…

The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors

Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by the almighty 6510 which has a transistor count of around 3,500.

From: AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test