Month: August 2010

• RT @fabsh “Ubuntu aims to be free and open-source software. However, this is not always possible.” http://ur1.ca/11d6n #
• WRT previous status, foot… meet bullet… #
• RT @bkuhn @webmink @fontana, do you think we should propose a #neckbeard #BoF session for #LinuxCon this week? I shaved mine yesterday, … #
• 9 o clock and 35’C … humidity like in Jamaica or similar but without a wonderfull beach, rum or other stuff… too fscking hot! #
• RT @jwildeboer If there is a price for bad design, MSFT is a top favourite. Geez. That compass really is too much. Cant. Stop. LOLling h … #
• Past midnight and past thirty degree C. GOSH! And in a few hours begins one of the most important days of my life if not THE most important. #
• Past midnight and past thirty degree C. In a few hours begins one of the most, if not THE, important days of my life. #
• @meilin: Well, to me your words can only mean endorsement of proprietary sw and how good !ubuntu is for that. I don’t subscribe to that. #
• RT @hound @rysiek: @ruiseabra: or want “freedom” with “clean” go !trisquel or !gnewsense #
• RT @lxoliva @ruiseabra what if we replaced copyright law with positive portability and right-to-fix-and-share laws? http://ur1.ca/11avb … #
• @rbanffy: Anyone knows their own limits, but that doesn’t mean one should endorse/support their usage of proprietary sw. Quite the opposite. #
• @bugabundo: Heal the wound with Vodka! #
• Dear @support, adding a parameter so I can specify retweet prefix would be a welcome extension to the api. RT looks ugly! #
• @bugabundo: Nevertheless, always a nice excuse for it.a I guess I can’t sleep with excitement! #

• A sign they’re bleeding money ♺ @glynmoody: Microsoft and Salesforce.com #swpat Dispute – a Sign of Battles to Come? – http://bit.ly/bUB1z4 #
• When a company starts using it’s #swpat portfolio regularly, it’s a sign they’re not making enough money with their old business. #Microsoft #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Too Many Researchers Are Reluctant to Share Their Data – http://bit.ly/bJDM5C good rebuttal of common, objections #opendata #
• @glynmoody: Hey, that drug article points out one of the few reasons I’m proud to be a Portuguese! 🙂 #
• ♺ @glynmoody: War on #drugs: why the US and Latin America could be ready to end fruitless 40-year struggle http://bit.ly/cw42EY long overdue #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Gingrich Admits to Affair During Clinton Impeachment http://bit.ly/be38yl ‘espousing family values while he carried on affair’ #
• In Family Guy S06E06 there is a pair of *Portuguese* who’re actually speaking with brazillian accent #casting #fail #
• RT @pietercolpaert Introducing the complex boolean: enum ComplexBoolean = {false, untrue, unfalse,true}; #
• RT @elmdentica !elmdentica now supports proper retweet/redent api call. #
• One problem I find with supporting standard api call is that the used account is that from which you received the message. Bad for crossing. #
• Loads of north african brown dust over Lisbon, my recently cleaned car looks like it came from some such land. #
• @zach: oauth is bullshit, it would be smarter to use pgp signing. #
• @pietercolpaert: again, that is only true for webapps. native applications only get code hassle, user has more work, and no added security. #
• @pietercolpaert: more reasons against: wastes more battery with useless code cycles #
• @pietercolpaert: confusing code with protocular problems (latest a couple of weeks ago) #
• @pietercolpaert: worse than useless protocol for native apps. #
• @rysiek: I use !fedora, !ubuntu !centos !openbsd !redhat !openembedded and was recently forced some !suse by some who shouldn’t have done so #

• ♺ @telecomix: New Zealand Law Society says Internet suspension of file sharers is not enough, they want them banned. http://bit.ly/bTnt36 #
• @fabsh: Gwibber always sucked, but I guess it could only get worse 😉 #
• @schestowitz: I find !android security to suck a lot with huge clear examples of false sense of security! #
• @arokk: Welcome to the club! At home we now use !GNU|!android|!openembedded|!busybox/!linux #
• There is some biblical analogy here… ♺ @pietercolpaert: @jonobacon – … dude? What the… http://ur1.ca/10xfs #
• Awesomeness ♺ @rejon: EndlessYouTube Ben Nanonote running Abiword http://ping.fm/ktN1S #
• @fabsh: extremists are people willing to do anything for their beliefs including resorting to violence. No honest person can say so of @rms. #
• @jneves guess who arrived early thinking he was late 🙂 #
• @mlinksva: easy to do that exercise. ‘I want to use free software for my homebanking or the teller gets it’. Extreme enough for you? #
• Argh #needbeer but all they have here is #sagres. #
• Nice security feature of my !freerunner wifi driver is that it won’t connect to WEP networks !SHR unstable current.No problem with WPA2+AES #
• Argh not only no beer, but apparently they think I particularly like soccer putting it louder than the background music #cacophony #
• Moved to the official table where that horrid sound can’t be heard. Much, at least. #
• ♺ @rahulsundaram: !fs dev model involves tradeoff between participation/control. Unilateral copyright assignment workarounds this unfairly. #
• ♺ @slashdot: CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead http://bit.ly/9aDn0J #
• @mlinksva: no copyright means you’re left with contract law. Much, much worse in my humble opinion. #
• partay! #
• ♺ @rejon: Open letter to the media about the misuse of the term "hacker" http://ping.fm/6a6x5 #
• @igama: add to it that it doesn’t have beer, only sagres. #
• ♺ @timoreilly: Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents by @vwadhwa http://tcrn.ch/cmwB7v #
• ♺ @rejon: RMS Speech on The Danger of Software Patents – Beijing, China – August 04, 2010 http://ping.fm/pZ742 #
• @schestowitz: it used to contain interesting stuff but it’s harder nowadays #
• ♺ @mjvalente: RT @WiCnet: HBO: Game of Thrones to premiere spring 2011 http://bit.ly/cj8FeQ #GameofThrones #
• @bkuhn: a new, more intuitive meaning to I ate your Queen! #

• @u1music: you are a #spammer !ubuntu !music #
• ♺ @xenijardin: If DoD thinks Assange+few gigs of classified memos are bad news, waitil hordes of dudes in Guy Fawkes masks order HATE PIZZAS #
• ♺ @xenijardin: I have seen, it is to LOL. Worth revisit. “@gtpodcast: @xenijardin In case you haven’t seen it: http://bit.ly/aS1mQS ” #
• lol, funny… aren’t they? ♺ @slashdot: US Military ‘Banned’ From Viewing Wikileaks http://bit.ly/bm6G4P #
• @bkuhn: Hey, I use busybox/linux too 😉 #
• @carlg: I think it’s a resounding success but sadly too many prefer the bells and whistles of Adobe’s crapware just because they don’t care. #
• ♺ @claytoncubitt: Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There’s No Oil: http://bit.ly/9ARVCJ (you should follow @MacMcClelland ) #
• ♺ @BoingBoing: Massive ice island 4x size of Manhattan separates from Greenland glacier http://bit.ly/9NshLc #

• ♺ @glynmoody: Aussie opposition will scrap firewall – http://bit.ly/cTzcnP handy to know #firewall #australia #censorship #
• #swpat And so is born a #patent #troll ♺ @contrafactos: Facebook Buys $40 Million Worth of Social Networking Patents http://ow.ly/2lzp1 #
• Sure, here’s the url… ♺ @BreakingNews: Pentagon demands that WikiLeaks hands over documents it has not yet publicly released – Reuters #
• @fontana: meh… power over Ethernet isn’t new… a while back I saw a busybox/linux fw which was an Ethernet plug. male, fw, then female… #
• @reality: use gnash , it works for me even though I enable it only from time to time… !fedora #
• ♺ @cdibona: ‘The NYT is … wrong. We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for Google traffic’ http://bit.ly/coVRXK #
• @fontana: he’s not unintelligent, but I found ESR more and more #disturbing as time went on. #
• ♺ @cdibona: NY Times, couldn’t you have considered emailing or calling? It’s not like we don’t reply to you guys. #
• @zach: 529 USD? that’s insanely expensive for an outdated phone! #

• Feeling like kKkKkKkKkKkKkKK…. #
• ♺ @jwildeboer: @webmink after forking OpenSolaris with http://www.illumos.org/ – also thinking of GPL-ing stuff? Or will it stay CDDL? #
• ♺ @webmink: Will Illumos Bring OpenSolaris Back To Life? Today sees the launch of the Illumos Project http://bit.ly/d5vHw3 #
• Diria mais chico-espertismo ♺ @JMF1957: rigidez dos contratos s/termo: Portugal terceiro país Eur c/+ contratos a termo http://bit.ly/cA9aub #
• @wilw: So you want to iPay because you’re just an iConsume kind of guy ? #
• @joaomiranda: Esta mais que demonstrado empiricamente q a ausencia de rigidez nos contratos laborais resulta em q todos sao temporarios #usa #

• ♺ @yoonkit Indonesia has done it! Mandatory use of #ODF for vendor independence http://bit.ly/cwGuSf by end 2011 all govt depts to use OSS #
• @mattfraction: You mean,like comic books ? #
• @fabsh: Mexican Castellan, technically! #
• @bugabundo: hey, we got it. Fortune rocks 🙂 #