Entries from July 2006 ↓

Hooray! I’m all excited with my new Dell laptop!

It’s a Dell Latitude 120L, Pentium M 1.73Ghz (Centrino), 512MB DDR2, 40GB HD, DVD-RW, Intel wireless and a 14.1″ wide-screen. It is sooooo cool!

BTW, it surely runs SUSE Linux 10.1!

Ps.: The older laptops are being retired. They’re coming back to their original owners, so I’m going to stay with only this one laptop and the recently upgraded desktop.

Recently AMD (processors) bought ATI (gfx cards) and they will be soon announcing new tech developments that will probably make the GFX market a little more stronger. Think about having a processor tightly integrated with the chipset and the gfx card. That would probably make smaller computers, less power comsumption (thus less heat) and with more processing force. Interesting future we may see ahead.

After I started learning Python, I felt that Perl would die some day, at least to me, since Python delivered much more flexibility and power than Perl, with less code. Well, looks like I’m not the only one who think so…

BTW, I’m not 100% fan of Python, neither Perl, simply because I think both have their use in my every day life, but I’ve got to agree that the above comment makes perfect sense…

–en

It’s been a long time Microsoft doesn’t delivers anything really new, and with Mr. Gates resigning from his CEO job, this is only going to get worse.

I’ve been told that they’ll be releasing a new version of Windows that runs command prompt only for servers.

Hum… I guess I’ve seen that somewhere else…

–pt_BR

Faz tempo que a Microsoft não inova, e com a saída de Mr. Gates do cargo de CEO, isso só tende a piorar.

Fiquei sabendo que vem aí uma versão do Windows que roda somente prompt para servidores.

Hum… Acho que eu já vi isso em algum lugar…

I’ve finally got my first 64 bits system!

After a motherboard crash, I had to decide if I was going to install a regular socket 754 based system and save some money, or spend a little more a go all trough socket 939. But the fact is that I was definetely sure that I wanted a 64 bits system (and, of course, the computer stores near me none had any 32 bits mobo/proc anymore ).

Now I’ve got an ECS RS482-M. I know it’s not the best, and I don’t like ATI graphics chips, but it’s a cheap socket 939 mobo, and it delivers me everything I need (PCI-Express, DDR400 dual channel, SATA, etc). Speaking about PCI-Express, I didn’t buy a graphics card yet, I’ll still stick with the on-board ATI X200 (terrible chip btw, my old FX5200 was much better), but I’m still deciding which NVIDIA card I’m going to buy.

I also got an Athlon64 3000+. It’s a very fast processor, and just my first one on the 939 road (I know, M2 is out, but it’s still expensive). Also, for a better performance, I’ve got two 512MB Samsung DDR 400MHz, that will use the full power of the dual-channel architecture (and yes, DDR2 is also too expensive).

Unfortunately I don’t have much time to play with it now. I’ll be on a business trip for the next two weeks, so I’ll be delaying the fun. Here’s my TODO list: reinstall the system with a 64bits SUSE 10.1, make 3D work on the ATI on-board card, and/or buy a PCI-Express NVIDIA.

BTW, Linux rocks! (of course) I didn’t had to reinstall anything for this motherboard change (the older had a VIA chipset, the new is ATI-based). The only thing I had to do was booting into rescue mode and rebuild the initrd so it would load sata_sil instead of sata_via. Cool as always!

–en

My dear blog readers. I was thinking about writting a little more on this blog, either about my computer/geekie adventures or either about my personal/boring life. But I have a very difficul question surrounding me: what language should I use?

Since the beginning of this blog I have been writing in a mix of english+portuguese, only english, or only portuguese, and it has been very difficult to maintain (long posts are very hard to translate, either en/pt or pt/en). (Yeah, Aurelio, I know you told me that )
Now that I would like to write a little more, I need to know what languages do my blog readrs know, so that I can decide what to do. For that I created a little poll named “What language? Que língua?“.

Please, you that read this blog, and would like to keep reading it, point your oppinion on that poll so I can make up my mind. Thank you very much!

–pt_BR

Caros leitores do meu blog. Eu estava pensando em escrever um pouco mais neste blog, seja sobre minhas aventuras informáticas/nerds ou sobre minha vida pessoal/chata. Mas tenho uma pergunta difícil me cercando: que língua devo usar?

Desde o início deste blog tenho escrito em um mix de inglês+português, só inglês, ou só português, e tem sido bastante difícil de manter (entradas grades são difíceis de traduzir, seja de en/pt ou pt/en). (Sim, Aurelio, você disse isso )

Agora que eu gostaria de escrever um pouco mais, preciso saber que línguas meus leitores conhecem, de forma que eu possa decidir o que fazer. Para isso criei uma pequena enquete chamada “What language? Que língua?“.

Por favor, você que lê esse blog, e quer continuar lendo, vote na sua opinião nessa enquete de forma que eu possa tomar minha decisão. Muito obrigado!

Bad, bad luck…

Yesterday I’ve got two bad mother boards: my home desktop, and the HP laptop I was working with. Neither of them boots anymore…
Fortunately I still have the good old Vaio, so I can work until I decide what to do.

Oh, my…