"64 SHADES OF GEEK"

Anyone who visits the book shop in the nearest mall cannot avoid seeing a counter with three or four dozens of copies of a series of erotic novels whose title reminds, bearing no real relationship, the popular TV show called "Diatomea of Grey" (Actually, to some extent, there is, because the whole story goes about a young couple who want to play doctors and nurses, but with a slight touch of sadomasochism)

Avidly read by a predominantly female audience, these novels that apparently came from a fan-fiction that used the main characters of "Twinlight", tell the story of a girl who follows the game played by that Gray, a young millionaire that the author tells constantly how well smells and how attractive he is. (There is some logic behind that, because no human being would understand that the girl could accept joyfully all the things the boy does to her if he were ugly and bad looking. Having said that, it comes to my mind elections time, when men and women chose people, ugly and bad looking, although well dressed who do them afterwards things that are even worse, but that's another line of thinking completely different of this blog)

Last month, capt4in_h4xtur, an OpenBSD programmer and betatester, found a copy of the first novel in the series that his girlfriend had bought. Quite disciplently, he started reading it and found himself having read the first 300 pages in a weekend The 200 remaining ones were finished before the next Thursday. Shocked by the fact that the main character, filthily rich, gave the girl a MacBook! and after that, in order to dig deeper into disgust gave her not an Android phone with proprietary firmware, but a Blackberry!!, and angry as hell, he decided to write a version of that story able to respect each and every one of the 4 Liberties of Software.

Once finished the book, the author's intention is releasing it as an e-pub (of course without the slightest trace of DRM) under the title of "255 shades of geek". It will honoring and present in a positive way all those altruistic developers who release code thinking in the common good and not just in taking to the bed a silly girl. Reservations of abook, electronic or in celullose, have exceeded the wildest expectations.

GNUDE-LINUX, THE NUDIST CAMPINGS MANAGEMENT DISTRO

The Ampurdanic Nudist Campings Association has left for downloading via FTP the distro Gnude Linux, oriented to the management of such establishments. Based on the already venerable Danish distribution Skagen - X, which used Gnome as window manager and included a template to be used with the spreadsheet program Gnumeric containing a minimal form to score guests, Gnude Linux has followed the highest standards in the development of nudist applications that sets N² (Nudist Network)

This association gathers programmers who focus their work in customers related to nudism and try to meet their demands. Since the nineties, when Helga Kasgessen, owner of a nudist laundry in Roskilde (Denmark) required that the software that was being developed for her for noting and invoicing  to be run in a MS-DOS computer should be programmed too by naked people, a lot of standards has been created in this field.

In order for an application to meet the standard N² - 1, the most basic one, it has to be developed by a person (or a group of persons) wearing underwear as much. In this sense the consideration of bras as underwear has provoked bitter controversies, and in similar way, the possibility that the application could be tested by an outer company with employees wearing clothes raised angry comments about  the bug hunting as a part or not of the software development cycle. Both controversies ended at the International Congress of Nudist Informatics held in Tulku (Finland) in 2003 with the banishment of bras and non-nudists external companies (unlike with the requirement that the software requirement analysis phase was completed too with no clothes, a decision that has been very contested and considered to be imposed by the heavyweights of the nudist software industry, who want to be able to send clothed consultants to customer companies)

The standard N² - 2, more radical, denies the possibility of any clother during the whole software development process, although the version N² - 2-B allows wearing socks (but not stockings or panties) Its final breakthrough, N² - 2 even prohibits setting one's feet on a carpet. Some alternative versions included the requirement, in a challenge to the repression carried out by the patriarchal society on sexuality, of not using  hands to programme, but genitals, but many nudist Windows programmers refused accomplying it because of the impossibility of pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del only with genitals.

Gnude-Linux, although has probably been developed in a 98% by dressed programmers (it's estimated that only 2,35% of the Gnu-Linux code has been written by naked people and just about 6,23% of it with genitals) has been rebuilt from scratch by diplomate engineers who did not wear a gram of cloth on their bodies (one wore glasses, another one lenses and a third  one brackets, which is not considered cloth even in the most Taliban groups of nudism) and even did it stepping on a Terrazzo floor just in a case a purist blogger wrote that stepping on a parquet floor contravenes the spirit of nudist Informatics.