Month: March 2010

• @bkuhn he even said he dropped the Mac for Ubuntu, so… sometimes a job changes people (for better or for worse)… #
• @bkuhn yeah, trust is a big issue with chamaleons, but still, don’t you believe anyone can fix his ways? #
• William Gibson’s birthday is today! Happy birthday Mr Gibson! @greatdismal 🙂 http://bit.ly/bXTkYO (via @xenijardin) #
• #Microsoft pressured portuguese Government to impeach GNU/Linux in dual boot on Classmates school distribution http://tr.im/Sg2Q portuguese #
• That’s a statement made in an official inquiry at the portuguese Parliament. #
• ♺ @ansol: New blog post: Regionais italianas: mais de 100 candidatos apoiam oficialmente o software livre http://ur1.ca/q85e #
• Oh wow, webkit-efl is sooooooo big…. #
• @hgfernan lê o artigo 🙂 #softwarelivre #italia 🙂 #
• About 1GB of git repo…. #webkit #efl #

• ♺ @gbraad: technology, like real-time web can aid governments. it should not be feared. information becomes transparent #tnparty #
• @gbraad but it can go both ways, and one of them is not really that desired…. #
• Press here to start typing your message… #
• Numpty Physics like game made in EFL http://tr.im/S4dW I’d love a port for the !freerunner hopefully it’ll be easy to bake a recipe. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Time to Learn from #China on Open Standards? http://bit.ly/co73Db the #EU wants to look stupid over patents in open standards #
• Yes, it’s today http://tr.im/S4j1 ♺ @virdbitaly: ♺ ia: Happy birthday, @rms! !gnu 🙂 #
• Nos seminarios Tagus com @oestux @igama @p300 etc… #
• Depois do @p300 e de mim, esta agora a falar o Diogo Rebelo da DRI/ESOP #tagus2010 #
• @jwildeboer we don’t need no stinking open standars continuom either! 🙂 #
• Mario Martins Javali/ESOP vai falar novamente 🙂 #tagus2010 #
• Migracoes de “sistemas legac” nice touch 😉 #tagus2010 #
• Salgado, da Log #tagus2010 #
• E antes dele, o @igama #tagus2010 #
• Luis Passarinho da CapGemini no #tagus2010 #
• oh ceus, que desgraca de intervencao #tagus2010 #
• «Governo assinou contrato do programa e.escolinha antes de criar fundação para geri-lo, acusa PSD» http://is.gd/aKJeu #
• @bkuhn we’ll just wait for ubuntu opencore 😉 #
• @bkuhn it’s why there’s a running joke of ubuntu opencore. but let’s hope he turns around 🙂 #

• @bkuhn 3/14 at 16h? 🙂 (btw, that’s my marriage date-time, 2y now). #
• @gbraad yeah, wedding cake had a π drawn on it, and I played some puredata music based upon π up till a million decimal case 🙂 #
• Neste dia Mundial dos Direitos do Consumidor, aproveitem para exigir a possibilidade de comprar os computadores sem comprar o Windows. #
• Aqui: http://www.consumidor.pt/ #
• No, I’m not your %”$#%&” little toy soldier. If I liked stupid orders, I’d be in the army. #
• My apologies to army people, I should not have compared you as you’re way wiser in your decision in comparison. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Brazil Starts Public Consult On Retaliation Against US IP Rights – http://bit.ly/aTea6i what happened to Antigua? #us #brazil #
• @gbraad I just hate people with drill sargeant mentality. Best. Way. To. Make. Me. Not. Care. 🙂 #
• receitas da edição DVD (taxa cobrada p/IGAC, cuja utilização é desconhecida, e que na última década significou dezenas de milhões de euros) #
• Portuguese cinema people complain about tax on media: unknown use/destination, should be used to finance portuguese cinema art. #
• Check petition on «MANIFESTO PELO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS» http://s3g.me/6ek #
• Amanhã, Seminários IST de 2010 onde participo no debate sobre Software Livre às 11:30 http://tr.im/S0yJ Infelizmente só mesmo nessa hora 😐 #
• Possible killer feature for #status.net: p2p protocol like bittorrent with dht #
• @gbraad would probably be harder to denial of use, no? #

• Today I learnt where to take for dinner friends who enjoy a divine meal. Oh, why do words lack a good description? while(1){divine+=divine;} #
• @webmink way better than La Roue D’Or. Keep that in mind when you next come to Lisbon and give me a heads up! 🙂 #
• ♺ @floschi: “Quality over time in Munich”, or “Why does Munich’s switch take some time?” New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/yeth6jt !LiMux #
• @elmdentica hi there! can you follow @ruiseabra? #
• !elmdentica users will be able to (un)subscribe users mentioned in status. #
• @schestowitz isn’t it mono? #
• ♺ @csarven: RT @lessig My speech at the Italian Parliament: http://bit.ly/bF8FvX #
• Feels like I’m chasing unicorns… is it my code that crashes or some EFL from trunk? …. #
• @jwildeboer a close friend has an archos and he curses it quite a lot. #
• Eu diria que o Chaves está a percorrer o caminho das pedras para a Venezuela ser invadida… #
• Ok, I was really chasing ghosts… http://tr.im/RS33 however this breaks a lot more than desktop files… #
• ♺ @j_zim Signatories of the Written Declaration 12/2010 on #ACTA http://ur1.ca/pqcc Next step: mini-plenary in Brussels March 24/25 #EU #
• chie #

• Huge pitfall of #OSSEC: “ip route add DST/32 via DefaultGW src ServiceIPAddress” is your friend #
• Just watched at some cool pics of tanks. Not a militarist, but I’d love to drive a tank in Portuguese roads, that’s for sure. A Panzer… #
• Going to bed in a really grat mood thanks to @gbraad 😉 #
• s/grat/great/ #
• @stephwer turtles are omnivorous, in a pond or aquarium they will eat all and any fish near them 🙂 #
• Amazed at how Microsoft people believe that inbreed technologies (like Exchange/Outlook) are state of the art for groupware… #
• For those w think I live outside corporate world, I’ll be 10 years old at my current job this year. Portuguese find this company essential. #
• Even if most of them don’t even know its name 🙂 #
• @kanarip moving to Cardiff? Looking for Torchwood, are we? 😉 #
• @phantas that way, they save face: «hey, we did it, it was those guys who made it fail» #
• Não, não queremos que a Net seja como a Rádio e a TV. A Net é bidireccional, somos prosumidores! http://tr.im/RK9n #

• ♺ @hook: #Microsoft – #Slovenian government agreement includes an anti-#FOSS clause! !FSFE #
• Pergunto-me se o mesmo se passou em Portugal… #
• @gbraad interesting. But I can’t monopolize the TV that way 🙂 #
• @gbraad I disagree, !OLPC grayscale reflexive screen mode absolutely rocks for b&w comics like manga, and even color comics looks good. #
• ZOMG #followfriday has been imported into #identica and I was mentioned! (thanks, btw) 🙂 #
• @gbraad well, I don’t like Manga per se, but I do love the few *good* ones I get to read. Oldboy and Lady Snow Blood were my latest. #
• @jwildeboer 20l? Weakling! I get to have a living dino @ home (a red eared californian turtle bigger than a big human palm). 100l 2/5 full #
• @hgfernan thank you for the Free Software port of #followfriday 😉 #
• Entourage is almost certainly not copyleft hardware, but I wonder if Free Software can run in it unhindered… #
• @gbraad hey, I saved a couple of big turtles from being “abandoned” until they had a fight and required being separated. Male got new owner. #
• @gbraad the female has been under my care for quite some years now, neat! #
• @gbraad @jwildeboer hey! All your fish are belong to my dinossaur! #

• insomnia is what you get at 4 am when you realize,waking up suddenly, that you forgot a meeting THIS night. #
• ♺ @davidmackkabuki: New Printing of KABUKI Vol. 1 back in print! In stores today! At your local comic book shop. Just ask. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Obama Reiterates Support For Finishing ACTA – http://bit.ly/bLNChc whoops – out of step again… #obama #acta #eu #
• Never had used/tried before, but finally did now. #OSSEC is really cool and can very well save us hundreds of thousands of Euros. Pitfals? #
• Don’t dare claiming #Thunderbird’s a whole lot better than #Evolution. It isn’t, and I use both of them. They’re both as bad. #
• @oeming did you try Inkscape and GIMP? What did you think of them, could you share that? Even bad critics are good for future improvements. #
• Quando há um ano o site da transparência caiu pelas visitas derivadas d’O Público, teve 200 mil visitas numa manhã. #
• Com 170 mil visitas em dois dias o site do IRS vai abaixo? Mau design… #
• @gbraad comix is very cool. I use it in my #OLPC and on my #SmartQ7 when it worked before loosing touchscreen in a fall. #
• ♺ @mjvalente: What’s the appeal of Game of Thrones? http://drp.ly/A2n73 via BBC #gameofthrones #tv #
• Hoping to have cleared a lot of memory by zapping a whole lotta tabs in Firefox into appropriate bookmarks. #

• ♺ @slashdot: The World’s First Commercially Available Jetpack http://bit.ly/9JqY9A #
• New hardisk !fedora 12 x86_64 installed. Create my build system VM with libcirt => qemu-kvm == instant reboot, qemu non kvm doesn’t work. #
• I meant libvirt, of course… #
• @gbraad well, I must confess that the Red Hat way to handle updates has really gone downstream. It’s a huge hassle to non-internet systems. #
• Agradeço aos Eurodeputados portugueses o seu voto sobre a ACTA. Com excepção de VMoreira AGomes MDavid e PRangel q abstiveram ou ñ votaram. #
• Foi um bom voto. Para os restantes Eurodeputados portugueses: PARABÉNS! #
• @pietercolpaert oh you just like to make me envy you! #orval #needbeer #
• ♺ @rejon: If you using SKYPE, you are a #FLOSSTITUTE #
• @rkj use SIP and it doesn’t matter what client you use as long as it respects SIP. #
• @rkj if I cared about “widely adopted” I’d go with Windows and other such proprietary #crapware. #
• @gbraad will check it out, hope it works well 🙂 #
• @pietercolpaert Don’t let #orval decide for you 😉 now seriously, why? #
• Is Remi’s repo the best way to get Firefox 3.6 for !fedora ? #
• Is !Fedora 13’s Firefox 3.6 only problem the Java plugin if installed in Fedora 12? #
• @lovenemesis for me it’s not a problem (hate java in browser anyways) 🙂 #
• @mostafada I know, thanks, I just wanted to know if there was a very serious issue if I did that… #

• ♺ @BoingBoing: Tribe in India, exploited like Na’vi for mining, appeal to James Cameron http://bit.ly/8YVs4z #
• ♺ @webmink: European Parliament written declaration 12/2010 is now ready for signature – contact your MEP: http://icio.us/mxtsxw #
• ♺ @mind_booster: #ACTA: Não sabem o que escrever aos eurodeputados a respeito deste tratado? inspirarem-se aqui…" http://ff.im/haprN #
• ♺ @mind_booster: Proyecto de Prueba – Cazatura De Arbori http://ff.im/haBcb #
• @Oeming: try the gimp and inkscape. available on gnu/linux (ubuntu, fedora, etc…) and also mac and windows, although not so good there. #
• @Oeming: gimp is better than photoshop light and inkscape is a kickass svg draw tool #
• ♺ @greve: Checking out the new !KDE #PIM planet at http://pim.planetkde.org – powerful stuff going on around the primary #Kolab client. #
• ♺ @blizzard: Fantastic EFF post on Apple iPhone SDK agreement and it’s egregiously one-sided terms. http://bit.ly/dgmJvN (via @johnolilly) #
• ♺ @glynmoody: All Your Apps Are Belong to #Apple: The #iPhone Developer Program License Agreement – http://bit.ly/9D31ZD monopoly joys #
• ChristianEngström Pirate MEP: But today is a day when it feels good to be a Pirate in the European Parliament. 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/yfc3u8u #
• ♺ @zoobab: European Parliament reserves its right to challenge ACTA in front of the European Court of Justice: http://i5.be/aAl #
• @stephwer indeed we have to change that 🙂 #
• ♺ @karsten: Govt contract w/ Microsoft released under Freedom of Information request in Slovenia. Details to follow http://ur1.ca/oyjh !fsfe #
• laptop problems continue, now I lost some email and get lots of disk errors I didn’t have up until yesterday at nine am . #
• @JorgeSeguro: com o Software Livre o Governo poderia poupar muitos milhoes de euros, em vez do criminoso desperdicio actual. @ansol ajuda! #
• #swpat will be norm soon at W3C ♺ @slashdot: Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C http://bit.ly/aNEoBU #
• @timoreilly: if that’s the current best than I think translators have nothing to fear for a few decades more… #
• ♺ @pvilela: Se nos pedem sacrifícios a todos, temos o direito (e o dever) de exigir a eliminação de desperdícios na Administração Pública #
• ♺ @webmink: Joint European Parliament #ACTA Transparency Resolution Tabled, Vote on Wednesday: http://icio.us/eafudn #

• ♺ @xtarwars: !gnu Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down http://ur1.ca/opvt #
• ♺ @timbray: Holy <whatever>, Edward Tufte gets an Obama administration appointment: http://is.gd/9Wrsa There is hope. #
• ♺ @zoobab: European Conservatives resotution to get access to ACTA documents: http://i5.be/azP #
• @jwildeboer but for a long duration flight you’d really appreciate being able to power it off #
• @glynmoody see why #ACTA won’t change EU rules? EU rules will be already in place 😉 #
• @stephwer is there a mailing list for #tnparty? where can I join in? 🙂 #
• Good luck! ♺ @webmink: Today is my Last Day of employment At Sun: (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but.. http://bit.ly/bDRtkM #
• Bleeding continues: @webmink is leaving s/SUN/Oracle/ today. After an excellent work, I can only wish him the best of luck for the future! #
• @webmink good luck on your new ventures, hope our paths meet again 🙂 #
• @stephwer becoming one… #
• Sábia decisão do Governo: TGV só Lisboa-Vigo (pelo menos para já). #
• 9am laptop works just as fine as usual. 1h30min later, doesn’t even power on. fortunately work had a replacement one at hand. #
• Already replaced Windows logo sticker with a sticker with the image in this shirt http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/badvista-shirt #
• Será que o Governo vai reduzir a despesa utilizando mais Software Livre ou vai continuar a “doar” fortunas desnecessárias? #
• @stephwer Soon I”ll be able to order my passport online. #tnparty 🙂 #
• #tnparty is not very friendly to blind citizens (too flashy) #
• ♺@zoobab: IIPA suggested Brazil India Indonesia Philippines Thailand be on USTR watchlist for policies favouring opensource http://i5.be/aAd #