Category: µ-blog

• ♺ @zoobab: Axel Horns on the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS), or European Patent Law outsourced outside of the EU: http://i5.be/auS #
• ♺ @luisvidigal: Num pais de carencia de valores candidaturas como a de Fernando Nobre sao messianicas #

• @jwildeboer mugged? #
• @jwildeboer yeah, disposable laptops for the win 😐 #
• @carlopiana in Portuguese too 🙂 #

• @gouki It’s an EFL based project, so it’s nice to be integrated with E 🙂 #
• Não é só o Sócrates! É a conspiração anti-socialista! *grin* ♺ @JNegocios: Zapatero sob fogo cerrado da oposição http://xl.pt/r/bBWtqB #
• Why do I bother… really… *sigh*. Dumb fucks. #
• @pietercolpaert define regular… 🙂 #
• ♺ @JMF1957: 🙂 🙂 Casa Pia: Absolvidos todos os jornalistas acusados de violação do segredo de justiça http://is.gd/8AVy0 #
• @gbraad sadly, and once again (same with Android and N900) I’m not surprised… #
• ♺ @gbraad: @linuxdotcom posted an article about #meego http://ur1.ca/ml3h Hardware Abstraction Software WTF to allow binary-only drivers. #
• @rejon eliza? what’re you doing wih @rejon’s interface? #
• @gbraad ha ha, you know who LF is, right? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members #
• @gbraad Linux Foundation is “mostly” the hw vendors, so they don’t need no stinkin’ education 😉 #
• @gbraad and without meaning any deteriment to the persons who represent those companies, most of them aren’t really that nice. #
• @gbraad most of those companies don’t care or oppose “open source”, but have some departments that do care and support. #
• @gbraad a common pitfall of not caring about user freedom and just looking at all the shebang as a nice development method. #
• Companies, I mean. The persons who participate in LF are (IMO) the public nice and willing face, but big companies have many hands. #
• @jwildeboer Think Different? 😉 #
• ♺ @joaomiranda: Quando chegou ao gabinete de Rui Pedro Soares a Judiciária já sabia que password usar para entrar nos computadores #
• @gbraad loved it. set it. thanks 🙂 #
• http://passo-a-rezar.net/ tem mp3 mas… TODOS OS DIREITOS RESERVADOS e nenhuma licença (eg. CC By-SA) com ideais católicos de partilha. #
• Ou seja, http://passo-a-rezar.net/ tem MP3 com orações musicais MAS se partilhares com outros crentes estarás a ser um vil “pirata”! #
• Novo artigo no meu blog: “Passo a Rezar, pouco cristã!” http://blog.1407.org/2010/02/17/passo-a-rezar-pouco-crista/ #
• @rejon LOL of the day: cristian initiative in Portugal releases prayers in modern music format in MP3 but with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. #
• @rejon sent them an email suggesting to use CC-By-SA 🙂 #
• @rejon explaining that they were prohibitting the faithfull to share (which is a most important cristian value) 🙂 #
• @jwildeboer yes 🙂 #
• @tonnerre can’t it use stdout ? #
• @tonnerre but it’s Free Software right? Patch? 🙂 #
• @tonnerre but you can propose that patch and have it as an external patch for those who agree with you to do as such if ISC doesn’t like it. #
• @gbraad I feel your pain, rest and get well! 🙂 #
• Raising eyebrows moment of the day: #Google buys #ON2 http://ur1.ca/lh7q #
• @blizzard would you say not supporting #Ogg #Theora in YouTube’s #HTML5 could be related to this On2 deal? Limitation or pressure? #
• #Qi’s #Ben #Nanonote on sale starting tomorrow thanks to our #TuxBrain spanish friends: http://www.tuxbrain.com/oscommerce/products/68 #
• @jstone yah… and Ben Nanonote is probably the most open computer you got, right now (hw too). #

• @stephwer everyone is entitled their minuses, mbp is yours, that’s excellent! #
• rt @stephwer: @ruiseabra You’re right! Nobody should be perfect… =) #
• @jwildeboer you could try to dual boot her mbp with fedroa! *grin* #
• @jwildeboer are you feelingbetter, btw? #
• #meego discourages L/GPL v3 #fail http://meego.com/about/licensing-policy #
• amolther #meego #fail besides discouraging gpl3 is aiming to be proprietary-friendly #
• I mean another. !olpc keyboard is not so easy to type into. #
• so the linnux foundation chose #swpat and #drm support. has to be. only real reason to discourage gpl 3 is that. #
• @pietercolpaert almost same thing but giving them the power to make arbitrary exceptions. #
• @pietercolpaert read #meego licensing policy and it becomes clear it’s oriented toward non-free support. #
• @pietercolpaert #meego developers will be gratis employees of proprietary platforms. #
• @pietercolpaert I don’t care about what control operators want to have over me. #android and #meego want to help them have it. #
• @pietercolpaert #meego will never run on the !freerunner. because it’s oriented towards non-free graphics cards and formats. #
• @pietercolpaert yes, but understand what their mission is: less freedom, not more… #
• @jwildeboer #FSO allows that, too bad one needs good hardware to go with it. #
• @pietercolpaert will be as free as #android or #n900, aka, non-free in practice for 99.9% of the cases #
• @gbraad you’re probably in breach of contract with your operator 🙂 #
• @openuniverse #FSO but more developers are needed, as well as a good hardware platform #
• @openuniverse visit http://freesmartphone.org/ #
• @pietercolpaert have you read their po #
• @pietercolpaert have you read #meego ‘s licnsing policy? because it’s quite clear what they want. #
• @pietercolpaert you understand you’re placing your hope in Intel and Nokia, right? #
• @pietercolpaert while #swpat exist yes, it’s very hard for us to gain momentum. they are a barrier to entry. so don’t support #swpat friends #
• that’s what I do #
• @pietercolpaert there are no dumb phones anymore, only software makes them dumb or not 🙂 #
• @pietercolpaert even that one 🙂 ok, not so powerfull, but dumbness is sw ! #
• @kimus hoje e’ feriado para os trabalhadores bancarios. #
• @kimus feriado #
• joe biden at work… rt @arstechnica: New IP task force brings “stronger and stricter enforcement” – http://arst.ch/eeq #
• @jwildeboer @evan @zach it would be nice if it could be done without js 🙂 also less js for embbed devices #
• ♺ @techdirt: Viacom To Record Labels: If You Want More Money For Music In Video Games, We’ll Find Other Music http://dlvr.it/20Jy #
• @jwildeboer what’s the gist of it? #
• @jwildeboer @rejon if it’s at least as open as the OpenMoko phones it’s already a big win (want one to use #FSO) #
• @rejon minimum I desire is what we currently have on normal computers, the ability to run Free Software with the machine whole usefulness. #
• @rejon but the more free the hardware is, the better. so even if the hardware is semi-hidden, if it can run on Free Software drivers… #
• @rejon … then it’s way better than 99.9% of the mobile phone devices all around 🙂 #
• Neat, 1st external patch for !elmdentica! 🙂 #
• New svn !elmdentica home at: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/elmdentica/ #
• Next in queue, !elmdentica issues and wiki. #
• !elmdentica is moving away from #google’s geographical restrictions to Free Software developers. #
• @gbraad that’swhat I’m hoping for 🙂 #
• blod sausage… #
• At an excellent dinner with bood sausagesand other fumed meat and lots of good cheese and excellent Douro wine! #
• @jwildeboer envy doesn’t suit you well 😉 #
• @jwildeboer it’s not exactly blood sausage, it’s more like chorizo, but I don;t know the english word #
• yum… this sheep cheese from Serra da Estrela really rocks… 😀 #
• And after a delicious home made chocolate mousse, port wine! #
• About to have cofee and pasteis de nata (“portuguese *breakfast*” at some weird place) #
• @pietercolpaert very similar to portuguese SuperBock #
• @schestowitz @glynmoody I believe cell phones provide a real risk, if you talk inhumanly too much. #
• @rejon I’m surely tuned! #

• E pimba, como esperado, a Face Oculta já começa a chegar também ao PSD… 🙂 #
• rt @pietercolpaert: Cool, I got my FSF membership gifts. The USB memory-card is pretty awesome! #
• @pietercolpaert I’m waiting for my FSFE cryptocard! #
• rt @jwildeboer: How very true. http://is.gd/8rIqg #
• Is anyone else working on #lxde on the !olpc !fedora image? much better suited than #gnome for alternate desktop! #
• @gbraad I have an old usb reader, I hope it works. Anyway, thanks for the recomendations in case it doesn’t 🙂 #
• Off to watch “Men who stare at goats”. hope to have as an awesome time as with “Whatever works” #cinema #

• God is gay and a decorator. Valuable lesson from Woody Allen’s hilarious «Whatever Works». 🙂 #
• @glynmoody yes, we are agreeing, just adding wood to the fire! 🙂 #
• @JamesKysonLee: why #saveheroes ? is it being cancelled ? #
• ♺ @slashdot: Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted http://bit.ly/cLB9lI #
• So !elmdentica works with https after all, you can enable “secure” instead of “faster” if you create a /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt #
• So ssl works in !elmdentica you can copy ca-certificates.crt or ca-bundle.crt from your computer into that path. #
• How many Free Software decisions are done at some companies and governmental entities: http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-12-27 #
• Ui… tanto fanboy do PS… até parece que da direita à esquerda nenhum dos últimos Governos portugueses não tentou controlar a com. social. #
• Leiam mas é a constituição portuguesa. Perguntem-se onde é que a liberdade individual de expressão está protegida (não está, tem excepção). #
• E o mesmo se passa para a liberdade de imprensa. #
• Já agora, em Outubro de 2009 foi promulgada pela @presidencia uma lei de censura em portugal, na ratificação do Cibercrime. #
• @evan our picture, not stored (didn’t notice, memory card was full). #
• Neither the table’s pic #
• *hell* #
• @bugabundo yeah, not to mention other nice pics I took in bxl 😐 #
• Phew! I had merely swapped the memory card and no longer remembered having done so… #
• @gbraad haha! #
• I’ve got to fix this #wordpress plugin in order to *not* post on article update. #
• @rejon I do have a lot of russian spam on my blog moderation queue 😉 #
• @gbraad in all fairness, I’d love to know what @rejon’s 3 fingers standing up mean 🙂 #
• @pietercolpaert yeah 🙂 #
• @gbraad I don’t follow facebook and can’t seem to find her posting publicly, you have the url? #
• @gbraad nay 🙂 must be the fact of the picture #
• @webmink you’re right, I don’t know where that q came from! 🙂 #
• @stephwer thanks! #
• ♺ @RuiSeabra: New blog post: So !elmdentica works with https! http://blog.1407.org/2010/02/14/so-elmdentica-works-with-https/ #

• Half way through adding members added to our new #civicrm test install. If all goes well, no longer a test. #
• @jwildeboer #civicrm seems to be very good, I’m still doing my first steps and I know 0 of drupal/joomla either. #
• ♺ @webmink: OpenOffice BACK In Ubuntu Netbook Edition After User Outcry http://bit.ly/c0xy4i (Thank goodness, was losing hope in UNR) #
• One way to optimize manual insert of user data in #civicrm is to create the contact first, then make it a member. #
• Of course you can only do this if you don’t have *a*lot* of members/contacts. #
• @greve careful, you’ll soon need double that! 😉 #
• Dealing with boring administrative work… #
• @glynmoody “what do you do with FU on BAR” is an irrelevant question. “what CAN you do with FU on BAR” is the relevant one. #
• @glynmoody answering to questions of “what can you do” limits discussion to the imagination of both speakers. #
• @glynmoody if storage is not a problem (160G vs 1GB NAND) nor RAM (1GB vs 256MB) nor CPU (varios Ghz vs 800MHz or 450MHz)… why limit users #
• @glynmoody answering to questions of “what DO you do” limits discussion to the imagination of both speakers. (s/can/DO/) #

• ♺ @jzim: EU Council Presidency: Spain pushes for flawed Net policies http://ur1.ca/m632 #IPRenforcement #NetNeutrality #eu10 #
• @jwildeboer you bet! (but I won’t do that right away). #
• @gbraad WHAT? #buzz isn’t really off even when I turned it off? #
• ♺ @JMF1957: Como prometido, o meu texto de hoje: “Não, o que nos está a acontecer não é normal nem tolerável” http://is.gd/8fTgE #
• @lopo huh? #
• ♺ @blizzard: Trying to figure out how to unfuck the damage Buzz did to the google services I use. #
• Either that or I clicked the wrong link. #google #buzz #fail #
• I suspect turning #google #buzz off blocks your gtalk. *sucks*. Biggest #fail yet for me, guys. #
• And now #pidgin can’t login to #gtalk anymore (but talk works from #gmail browser window). #
• Provavelmente tais exemplos são só ingenuidade minha. Talvez… #
• @czorrinho ou o concurso para o novo Magalhães, que dá à Microsoft o poder de escolher quem será o fornecedor… credibilidade onde? #
• E isto é só no meu burgo, informática, que representa uma pequena amostra. Como não será no resto… #
• @luisfcorreia sadly, not working for me 😐 #
• @luisfcorreia not working, not even if I move the certificate away in order to force getting a new one. #
• Accepting all suggestions… #
• @luisfcorreia because of a #google problem? what sense does that make? Isn’t it like Windows? (whole restart thingie)? #
• @lfcorreia besides, the certificate that is being donwloaded is exactly the same as the previous one #
• @lfcorreia I have move along with my pidgin configs for years, from fedora to ubuntu and back. pidgin is very good, actually. #
• And now it works, misteriously. It *had* to be something on #gtalk. #
• Unlike the #empathy crapware. #

• ♺ @jwildeboer: Read this BEFORE you buzz away http://is.gd/88EIm #privacy #fail #
• ♺ @PartidoPirataPT: RT @telecomix Parliament “withholds its consent to the conclusion of the [SWIFT] Agreement” http://bit.ly/9jijk6 #
• @karsten it is indeed much cooler than a plain no 🙂 #
• ♺ @jzim: French Parliament approves Net censorship http://ur1.ca/m2ve #NetFiltering #NetNeutrality #Sarkozy (pls RT!) #
• @jwildeboer slidesnare? bah #
• @carlopiana where you fail at is that VC never let’s you keep control. Sooner or later you’ll have to do what they say. #
• @carlopiana I think that it’s so much harder to do it in a way their lawyers won’t solve than not getting any. #
• ♺@JMF1957: Atenção: parece estar em curso uma tentativa de impedir saída da edição de amanhã dO Sol. Tensão/expectativa à porta da redacção. #
• ♺ @JMF1957: Mais informação: Providência cautelar tenta impedir publicação de mais escutas no semanário “Sol” http://is.gd/89PYD #
• ♺ @slashdot: Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal http://bit.ly/b87cTv #
• Google suddenly finds balls. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: How Can The Music Industry Be Dead When More Music Is Being Produced And More Money Is Being Made? – http://bit.ly/dhxBsW #
• ♺ @kirschner: Valentine’s day for flower industry only? #ilovefs is for !freesoftware #
• Este ET não é o nosso amigo de infância, é mais o It ♺ @slashdot: Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly http://bit.ly/dfzMOZ #
• “Grande C” – pelas entidades que querem ganhar uma fatia dos teus rendimentos obtidos com a tua arte. #
• “Grande C” – pelas entidades que querem que vás preso por partilhares com os teus amigos a música que gostas de escutar. #
• Já imaginaste a tua criatividade exposta para o mundo inteiro, sem intermediários? Se sim, não percas tempo com o “Grande C” #
• Este é um caso onde se impõe desobediência civil ♺ @JNegocios: Pedro Silva Pereira: “Respeito as decisões da Justiça” http://xl.pt/r/aU1Eed #
• #censumanif Quem alinha numa manif contra a censura em Portugal este Sábado às 16h nas praças principais? #
• #censumanif às 16h em todo o país vamos berrar: não à censura (onde quer que estejamos) #
• ♺ @slashdot: European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken http://bit.ly/bdaY8F #
• @zach #Caprica is supposed to be a “Dallas” set in BSG universe, not BSG. #

• ♺ @glynmoody: #ACTA Is Called An ‘Executive Agreement’ To Change The Law With Less Hassle Than A Treaty – http://bit.ly/dawqEx quite #
• @coolgoose you mean !ubuntu hiding the GIMP and OpenOffice.org and moving to Bing as default search has nothing to do with who they employ? #
• @coolgoose no, GIMP is not hard to use. That’s plain BS. And OO.o removal from NBR is just another way to show ubuntu NBR is less than Win7 #
• @coolgoose you totally miss the point. OO.o and GIMP are excellent showcases of the power of Free Software, and are being hidden away. #
• @coolgoose basic stuff is *NOT* hard to do on the GIMP, it’s actually quite trivial. #
• @coolgoose what is hard to do in GIMP is hard because of the nature of what is being done. #
• @coolgoose I’m not a graphics guru or anything similar, my usage is very basic. #
• ♺@doctorow: Copyfighters don’t want the right to build on earlier works b/c info wants to be free, it’s b/c that’s how all creativity starts #
• @coolgoose those are not basic usages. Sorry. #
• @coolgoose Besides, you’re confusing the scope of GIMP vs the scope of photo viewing with pre-defined (and fixed) set of manipulations. #
• @coolgoose One is complementary to the other, but one can do all, and the other quite definitely not. #
• @kimus using Mac? #fail 🙂 #
• @coolgoose select tools, copy & paste #
• @coolgoose choosing a paint tool & colour, drawing something. #
• @coolgoose a 5 y old can do that with gimp. So maybe your users are under 5 years old? #
• Waiting for a friend, for #sushi while talking about interesting stuff. #
• Malta, o @czorrinho vai com o nosso PM e o Sec. Est. Econ. e Inovação ao Conselho de Ministros da UE. Sugiro que lhe digam já: não às #swpat #
• @czorrinho Não queremos redução de empregos nas TIC, que é uma consequência natural das patentes de software. Por favor defenda isso! 🙂 #
• @czorrinho a verdadeira inovação nas TIC vem das PME, e estas são quem mais tem a perder com as #swpat #
• @czorrinho a UPLS/UPLA é fortemente defendida pelo lobby pró-#swpat porque as introduz pela porta do cavalo! #
• @czorrinho as #swpat são uma interferência governamental na livre concorrência, por favor não defenda monopólios artificiais. #
• Tomorrow: meeting at the European Council that will have some focus on “competition” and “innovation” from 2010 to 2020. #
• Ask your government to stop #swpat as it will reduce employment opportunities for innovators. #
• ♺ @webmink: Dell physically preventing use of hard disks not purchased from them on their servers: http://bit.ly/bytmUl #
• Full body scanner. Not an invasion of privacy? Well… http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/4346518306/ #