Luca's meaningless thoughts  

For some unknown reason I had a new album by Cloud Cult (Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)) which I resisted to hear for about 2 years because I thought it was Coldcut! I didn't hear Coldcut very much either to be honest, because the little I heard I didn't like a lot.

Well, it turns out from time to time I like to hear my music collection in random order, and I was impressed by a song by Cloud Cult (and I still thought it was Coldcut until I started writing this post =P).

So I'm hearing the complete album and is plain genius, I'll have to check out their other albums soon.

The band have some very nice curiosities too. From Last.fm:

The band’s founder and singer Craig Minowa has a degree in Environmental Science, and his environmental, political, and social awareness is reflected in much of Cloud Cult’s music.

From Wikipedia:

In 1997, lead singer Craig Minowa formed Earthology Records on his organic farm, powered by geothermal energy and built partially from reclaimed wood and recycled plastic. This nonprofit label uses only recycled materials and donates all profits to environmental charities. The band also tours in a biodiesel van.

I think everyone know the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and The Oracle of Bacon. Well, now we have the same but for music connections!

Meet 6 Degrees of Black Sabbath.

It's easier to find paths with more than 6 degrees ;)

200 years from the Revolución de Mayo, the main parade in charge of Dicky James, creator of De La Guarda and Fuerzabruta.

More (and better) photos here.

Obelisco

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Folclore

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Bandera

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Dragón

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Tango

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Madres

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Dictadura (constitución y justicia en llamas)

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90's

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The CocoRosie sisters are back with a new album, Grey Oceans. After seeing their new video, I guess nobody would wonder why their music is labeled as freak folk.

Weird stuff! =P

It's been some time since I was surprised by a video. It reminds me of videos like Closer, almost any video from Tool, Teardrop, Black Hole Sun and the later Peacebone. One wonders where these people get their imagination (besides hard drugs, of course).

Mural Bicentenario (flash) del canal Encuentro.

Todavía no lo vi en detalle como para formarme una opinión fuerte, pero lo poco que vi se ve bastante bien hecho y con contenidos sensatos.

tomas Lindquist Olsen is back!

And now LDC is updated to work with LLVM 2.7. I hope this is not an isolated event and LDC development becomes as active as it used to be =)

The sources has been moved to Bitbucket too, so if you usually keep up to date you'll have to change the repo URL.

La dama y la muerte

After a couple of days of downtime, TPB sais:

OTOH, one of the creators launched, a couple of months ago, Flattr (from Wikipedia):

Flattr is a project started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson. Users will be able to pay a small monthly amount and then click buttons on sites to share out the money they paid in among those sites, sort of like an Internet tip jar. The minimum users will have to pay is 2 euros. Sunde said, "the money you pay each month will be spread evenly among the buttons you click in a month. We want to encourage people to share money as well as content."

In the beginning of the service Flattr itself will take a 10% of all the users monthly flatrate. It's currently in a closed beta but users can sign up for a beta invite code on their own site.

Let's see how it goes...

Description stolen from Wikipedia:

Romanzo Criminale (Crime Novel) is an Italian-language film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story. The Magliana gang was one of the most powerful Italian criminal associations, dominating Rome's drug, gambling and other kinds of crime activities from the early 1970s to 1992 (death of Enrico De Pedis). The gang's affiliates start their career kidnapping rich people, drug dealing (hashish, cocaine, heroin, etc.) from the 70s they started working with the Italian secret service, fascists, terrorists, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and many more. Some gang members are still alive, as inmates of an Italian prison, or justice collaborators (Massimo Carminati, Maurizio Abbatino).

Highly recommended.

Sr. Tomate! is a great psychotic-rock-folk band from La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can (legally and freely) download all their albums from Mandarina Records website (consider making a donation if you like them ;).

First time I've seen them live. Very nice show, excelente performance, full of energy!

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It turns out GDB 7.0+ can be extended through Python scripts, for instance, to add pretty-printers. And it turns out GCC 4.5 comes with some good pretty-printers for GDB.

Do you want to see the result of that combination?

$ cat -n p.cpp
     1
     2  #include <string>
     3  #include <vector>
     4  #include <map>
     5
     6  int main()
     7  {
     8          std::string s = "hello world";
     9          std::vector<std::string> v;
    10          v.push_back(s);
    11          v.push_back("nice");
    12          std::map<std::string, std::vector<std::string> > m;
    13          m[s] = v;
    14          v.push_back("yeah");
    15          m["lala"] = v;
    16          return 1;
    17  }
    18
$ g++ -g -o p p.cpp
$ gdb -q ./p
(gdb) break 16
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400f86: file p.cpp, line 16.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/p

Breakpoint 1, main () at p.cpp:16
16              return 1;
(gdb) print m
$1 = std::map with 2 elements = {
  ["hello world"] = std::vector of length 2, capacity 2 = {"hello world", "nice"},
  ["lala"] = std::vector of length 3, capacity 3 = {"hello world", "nice", "yeah"}
}
(gdb)

Nice, ugh?

The only missing step is configuration, because most distribution don't do the integration themselves yet (or don't have packages with the scripts).

Here are 3 quick steps to make it all work:

$ mkdir ~/.gdb # can be stored anywhere really
$ svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/libstdc++-v3/python ~/.gdb/python
$ cat << EOT > ~/.gdbinit
python
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/home/$HOME/.gdb/python')
from libstdcxx.v6.printers import register_libstdcxx_printers
register_libstdcxx_printers (None)
end
EOT

That's it!

If like to suffer once in a while you can get the raw values using /r:

(gdb) print /r m
$2 = {_M_t = {
    _M_impl = {<std::allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<std::pair<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> > const, std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >,
std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > > > >> =
{<__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<std::pair<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>
> const, std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >,
std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > > > >> = {<No data fields>}, <No
data fields>},
      _M_key_compare = {<std::binary_function<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >,
std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, bool>> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>},
_M_header = {
        _M_color = std::_S_red, _M_parent = 0x6070b0, _M_left = 0x6070b0,
        _M_right = 0x607190}, _M_node_count = 2}}}

Looks more familiar? I guess you won't miss it! =P

I accidentaly removed a couple of files from a FAT partition, and even when undeleting files from a FAT patition is possible from ancient times, it took me some time to find a tool that worked in Linux and was packaged.

So in case you find yourself with this very same need, search no more: meet TestDisk.

¡Pero costosas!

Por un lado tal vez recuerden mi disco muerto, que finalmente hoy, después de 3 meses, hoy me han cambiado. Por un lado estoy extremadamente agradecido a Western Digital porque me reconoció la garantía de un disco que estaba claramente fuera de los términos, creyendo en mi buena fe. Pero por otro me queda un gustito amargo por lo... no sé como explicarlo, ineficientes tal vez, que han sido manejando las cosas acá (por la empresa ISS).

Si bien siempre fueron muy amables, me hicieron dar cincuenta mil vueltas innecesarias. Diciéndome una y otra vez que el disco estaba fuera de garantía, cuando yo me puse en contacto con ellos unas vez que WD aceptó mi disco, y a pesar de haberles pasado el número de incidente en reiteradas ocasiones. Todo se solucionó cuando me pasaron un teléfono (0-800-444-0839, ténganlo porque les puede ser útil) para hablar directamente con WD y todo lo que tuve que hacer fue pasarle el número de incidente donde lo aprobaban y listo. Pero después de eso ISS me seguía diciendo que no tenían aprobación para recibirlo.

Finalmente me lo terminaron tomando, según ISS de onda. No sé que pasó, si realmente fue un mal manejo de WD (me resulta raro porque siempre que hablé con ellos me dieron el OK en horas) o si los de ISS son unos panchos (me inclino más por esto), pero lo bueno es que ya tengo mi reemplazo en la mano (todavía no lo probé pero al menos no vino golpeado XD).

Por otro lado tal vez recuerden mi sesión de terapia abierta al público rant sobre la casa de azulejos de reposición Cepillo, también luego de tres meses hoy logré que me devuelvan la plata. Sin comentarios sobre esto, ya dije todo en el otro post.

Luciana Tagliapietra and her band (don't pay attention to the drums).

Boring, boring show. I don't mean to be rude, but I don't know know how she got there. Maybe if you are an emo teenager you might enjoy it.

Nice band, nothing special but good live performance.

Parque Centenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Vaqueros Paganos playing...

I like my flickr, but I reached the limit of 200 photos. I have a few options:

1. Pay USD25/year for a pro account.
2. Look for another image hosting.
3. Don't care about old photos not being shown.
4. Start hosting the photos myself.

Since I'm starting to pay a hosting for my home page (and this blog), I'll go with option 4 :)

I'll use this same blog for that, but I will use the pic tag. I've created a new feed in feedburner, so you can use directly that one. The photos will not have a language tag (they will probably be always in english), this way the other feeds (en, es and D) will not get polluted by photos; so if you're reading this post trough one of those and you want to see the photos I'll post, you probably want to switch to the general feed or subscribe to the new feed too.

Failed... Twice!

Ya está disponible el calendario de la edición 2010 de Ciudad Emergente, del 2 al 6 de junio.

La tercera edición de Ciudad Emergente reúne novedad, atractivo y variedad en todas las expresiones de la cultura joven: música, cine, poesía, danza y arte callejeros, arte digital, moda. Durante 5 días, en los cómodos espacios y salas del Centro Cultural Recoleta, se podrá ver un completo panorama de lo nuevo, aquello que merece ser descubierto, el arte es su estado más puro. Y vivo.

Cosas que quiero ir a ver yo:

• Les Mentetes Orchestra
• Inside The Smiths
• Blur: No Distance Left to Run
• Tal vez Intima
• Tal vez Nairobi + Mad Profesor
• Roskilde
• Suspensivos Inflamables
• Morrissey: Who Put the ‘M’ In Manchester
• Los Reyes del Falsete
• Festival de los Viajes
• The T.A.M.I. Show
• Tal vez Fuera de limite crew "Street and urban dance"
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Y veremos que hay en el show sorpresa =P

Enjoy!

I took this picture from Parc Güell at Barcelona.

Take the advice and go to his blog, it has great graffiti artwork.

Hace un tiempo que había dejado de usar el Mapa Interactivo de (la Ciudad de) Buenos Aires porque Google Maps ahora tiene información de las calles de la ciudad y es mucho más rápido. Sin embargo, a Google Maps le faltan muchas cosas que el mapa de la ciudad tiene, como información de líneas de colectivo, etc., aunque acceder a esa información es muy rebuscado y tedioso, por lo que cuando necesitaba saber como ir a algún lado usaba ComoViajo (o la vieja y querída Guía T), a pesar de seguir lejos de lo ideal.

En fin, toda esta introducción es solo para comentar (a los que todavía no lo sepan) que hace un tiempo está disponible en BETA (digno de Web 2.0) el nuevo Mapa Interactivo de Buenos Aires, que es mucho más rápido que el anterior, se puede consultar como llegar de un lugar a otro usando transporte público (colectivos, subtes y trenes) y bastante más información útil.

Enjoy!