Carlos López

I knew Igalia thanks to the best final degree project prize in 2009 and joined the company in February 2010.
Pontevedra (Spain)
I am a passionate person about computing and telecommunications, especially in the field of computer security and operating systems. I think I can talk to machines to make them obey and will not give up until it succeeds, I love to know how things work and explore all the possibilities. Some of my hobbies are penetrating computer systems, playing with my pets, travelling to discover new places and reading books about science topics, specially everything related to quantum physics, astrophysics and psychology.
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Introducing the meta-webkit Yocto layer.
Lately, in my daily work at Igalia, I have been learning to use Yocto / OpenEmbedded to create custom distributions and products targeting different e
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WebKitGTK+ Performance Bot!
Lately I have been working on the WebKitGTK+ build bots that Igalia maintains.
Some of the improvements we achieved include:
A faster machine for the
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How to connect to .onion Tor domains with Firefox on Linux
So you are looking for an easy way of surfing the hidden network of .onion domains?. Many people probably will use some of the proxies available to re
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How to properly activate TRIM for your SSD on Linux: fstrim, lvm and dm-crypt
Unlike hard disk drives (HDDs), NAND flash memory that make SSD cannot overwrite existing data. This means that you first have to delete the old data
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Git: Copy a file or directory from another repository preserving the history
How to copy a file or directory from another GIT repository while preserving its history?
Internet is full of magic formulas each one more complex.
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IKEA Hackers: LackRack
Among the hundreds of hacks from the fantastic website IKEA Hackers, one is particularly interesting.
How to build a rack with an IKEA lack table wort
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Unlocking a LUKS encrypted root partition remotely via SSH
If you are thinking on sending a new server to a remote datacenter for colocation or you have rented one or more servers in the cloud, probably you ha
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OpenRISC: Making the stack 100% free
OpenRISC is the flagship project of the OpenCores community. This project aims to develop a series of general purpose open source RISC CPU architectur
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Don’t eject your USB storage: stop it!
This is probably one of the biggest mistakes I’ve dragged for more time as Linux user, in part for not reading the man pages and in part by assuming t...
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