Entries from February 2006 ↓
February 24th, 2006 — anything
–en
I’m leaving for the weekend hide myself and my wife with some friends on a cool resort. It’s time for the famous Brazilian Carnival, and I don’t like it at all. Although I don’t live in Rio de Janeiro (yuck!), we still need to face Axé music and trio elétrico here in Maceió. I’ll be back in march 02. See you later!
–pt_BR
Vou viajar no fim de semana me esconder com minha esposa e uns amigos em um hotel fazenda maneiro. Eu não gosto de carnaval e apesar de não morar no Tiro de Janeiro (eca!), ainda assim tenho que aturar Axé music e trio elétrico aqui em Maceió. Volto em 02 de março. Até mais!
February 16th, 2006 — anything
–en
That’s an interesting philosophy. Put a Shark in your tank.
–pt_BR
Eis uma filosofia interessante. Coloque tubarões no seu tanque.
February 15th, 2006 — smart, suse
Considering the recent announcements on OpenSUSE-factory mailing list regarding future dropping of YaST2/YOU repos for SUSE in favor of RPMMD/ZenWorks, and considering I am the one who is in charge of developing the YaST2 support, there’s something I need to say.
Our plans of adding YOU repos to Smart has been delayed. We’ll be waiting for the final release of SUSE 10.1 to make a final decision about it. Meanwhile, anyone who is using YaST2 repositories should add the old APT ones for “update” and “security” (which are officialy implemented in YOU).
The YaST2 support on Smart remains maintained, and is planned to be merged on the main code by the next official release.
Thank you. 
February 10th, 2006 — linux
When I first heard of Python, and tried messing with it, I thought it a little bit strange. The way you declare variables, use objects, import modules etc is quite different from Perl (the language I’m used to code for a long time). I felt incomodated specially by not having brackets around my blocks of code.
Besides the natural (forced) code identation from Python (I like, but it’s tricky), I’m falling in love with it. It’s an elegant language (besides the fact that it’s a little confusing to find where a code block ends) and it’s quite easy to learn. The default modules that come with the basich package has been more than enough for my sys admin scripts until now, and I didn’t ever need to fetch any outside packages (CPAN really bothers me).
As always, each language has it’s pros and cons. But as of now Python has given me more pros. I would say that Python strongest features are speed, lesser code, and easy var handling (no need for $), while Perl works better for visual block recognition (because of the brackets) and better ways of handling text, specially with regexes (well, that’s the main focus of Perl).
I think now I can say I serve two masters. 
February 10th, 2006 — smart
February 9th, 2006 — linux
–en
I was on that “doing-nothing-until-working-hours-end” part of the day thinking about how big a Linux distro could be, then I go curious about: “is it possible to have file name collisions?”. Let’s take my own workstation as an example:
~# smart stats
Installed Packages: 907
Total Packages: 9099
Dont’t you think it’s possible that among 9099 available packages I could find at least two packages that have at least one file with the same name each? I think there’s a very high probability in it.
~# rpm -qla | wc -l
181384
If I have 181384 files installed by 907 packages, imagine if I had at least 25% of the amount of available packages. Dam! Why did I miss the statistics classes at school?
Anyway, if any of you ever faced that odd proabability in the real world, please, drop a comment bellow.
–pt_BR
Eu estava naquele momento do dia que chamamos de “não-fazer-nada-até-acabar-o-expediente” pensando em como pode ser grande uma distribuição Linux, então fiquei curioso sobre: “será possível ter colisão de nome de arquivos?”. Vamos ver minha própria máquina como exemplo:
~# smart stats
Pacotes Instalados: 907
Total de Pacotes: 9099
Vocês não acham que seria possível que entre 9099 pacotes disponíveis eu poderia encontrar pelo menos dois pacotes que tenham pelo menos um arquivo com o mesmo nome cada? Eu acho que existe uma probabilidade muito grande.
~# rpm -qla | wc -l
181384
Se eu tenho 181384 arquivos instalados por 907 pacotes, imaginem se eu tiver pelo menos 25% desses instalados. Droga! Por que eu faltei as aulas de estatística na faculdade?
De qualquer forma, se algum de vocês alguma vez já se deparou com esse estranho problema no mundo real, por favor, deixe seu comentário abaixo.
February 5th, 2006 — anything
It’s another sunday when I have nothing interesting to do. During the weekend I watched some videos on Google Videos that were linked to some blogs I read, and I found it was an amazing entertainment site. You can browse many interesting videos, find others related, check the most popular ones, or search for specific topics you’re interested. Of course, for those nerds around, I selected one just to call your attention. Watch an overclocked AMD Duron blowing up. Have fun! (Ps.: Don’t forget to check the “More videos from this user” and/or “Related” to see more videos.)
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