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.

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.

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

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?

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.