Entries from January 2008 ↓

The new release of KDE, version 4.0, is out! Visual is nice, and people say it uses less memory. Meanwhile, Gnome still thinks we’re in the 80’s… tsc, tsc, tsc…

Hey! Today is the 1st year of me living in Sao Paulo! I’m very happy with everything that happen this year, all went much better than expected. Celebration tonight with pizza and beer.

My friends in USA show me how to pay for parking in Raleigh. The tall one is Jake, and the skinny is Matt. It was me filming, in case you don’t recognize my voice.

See the comments on YouTube.

I heard and read some chats and interviews with the new Red Hat CIO, but this one phrase called my attention:

“I looked at doing further corporate turnaround work. But I’ve found that I have to have a mission to fuel my work. I can’t just work for a paycheck. Just turning around a random company had no interest for me.”

Excerpt from CNet News.com.

RPM 5.0 has been released. Note that this is a fork that is causing a lot of controversy. Nevertheless, it’s a very interesting release.

Halo 3 está à venda no Mercado Livre.

Oh yeah! First rant of the year: Halo 3 sucks (in my personal opinion). I have bought the Halo 3 Limited Edition, and I am very glad that I haven’t spend my money in any of the other “cool” items they sell (like the “Xbox 360 Halo” console).

After trying many times, played online, watching the extras, reading the history behind the saga, and even playing Halo 1, I can’t make a connection to the game. I can’t see anything in the game that interests me. Nope, nothing, not even the weapons (they just feel lame compared to any other FPSes I’ve player before).

So I decided that I’m selling my copy of Halo. Sorry anyone outside Brazil, but it would be a pain to ship to other countries, so I’ll offer to locals first.

And if you’re thinking “what? how could he not like it?”, it’s simple: even the engineers admit, “if we please 90% of the games, that would be enough” (saw that on the extras, when the engineers were talking about the release process). So I’m one of the 10%. Period. Bye bye.