Entries from February 2008 ↓

Today I received a business proposal with the following disclaimer:

“E-mails are susceptible to corruption, interception and unauthorized amendment, reason for which the sender does not responsible for possible alterations of the original text and their consequences.”

Well, if that is the case, how should I:

a) Take this seriously?
b) Make sure the proposed price will be final?

So, what do I need? A signed paper hand delivered?

I had a problem at home: 2 HDMI devices, 1 HDMI input on my TV. Solution? An HDMI switch.

So, I bought the Terk HDMI-31 . The automatic switch works beautifully. It jumps to the most recently switched on device, and jumps back to the last active device when you turn off the current. It also has a button so that you can manually switch, in case your device does not support manual.

Simple solutions for complicated problems. Better than buying a hole new TV.

Yay! I passed the RH401 exam yesterday (Red Hat Enterprise Deployment, Virtualization and Systems Management). That’s the first step towards a future RHCA.

A maioria dos spams que chegam pra mim em português são relacionados a como ganhar dinheiro fácil ou aumentar sua renda.

Por outro lado, a maioria dos spams em inglês são relacionados a como ter um bilau maior ou ficar ereto a noite inteira.

Será que isso tem algum significado? Alguém topa conjecturar sobre o assunto?

Hoje recebi um scam no mínimo ridículo. Um cara fez um e-mail imitando uma página de download, e espalhou pela internet. O link leva pra onde? Pra um site de um contador mixuruca, provavelmente desesperado por que não consegue arrumar clientes, e que ainda tenta te passar um vírus. Tem gente que é ridícula demais….

I just bought a new DVD player. An LG DV298H. It’s interesting that it’s has been officially released by LG in Australia only, but I could get one fairly cheap in retail stores in Brazil.

Looks good, plays fine, and is my first DVD with HDMI. That will fix the fact that my XBox can’t play region 4 DVDs, neither DivX with subtitles (even though the subtitles in the LG look bad, which will need a firmware update). This is not the best player around, but will do the trick.

More fun.

–en

In the last 4 days that I’ve been out of the office because of the carnaval, what I missed most was the coffee from the machine installed in the office. Am I addicted?

–pt_BR

Nos 4 dias em que fiquei fora do escritório por causa do carnaval, o que mais senti falta foi do café da máquina do escritório. Seria eu um viciado?

The Prerelease Version of Fedora 9 has been made public. If you wanna take a peak on the next version of Fedora, go ahead.

I’ve been working on fixing some ksmarttray annoyances. All committed to latest Smart SVN r910:

• add ksmarttray.desktop xdg menu
• fix desktop icon install location.
• update ksmarttray/admin based on 3.5 SVN (removed CVS version)

After trying a lot of junk to share my music with my XBox 360, I just discovered Coherence, a nice DLNA/UPnP framework. It does the job fine, even though with a few glitches, but the developers are very open minded and willing to help. So far, so good. New project to dig in.

Oh, and let’s not forget about Elisa. Seems promising.

Update: Both Coherence and Elisa are very promising replacements for Windows XP/Vista Media Center, and also can connect to PlayStation 3 consoles. (That comment will make web spiders happier.)