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Some days ago I was talking with a friend and he told me I should read a book that talked about the subject we were talking about. I had to answer I have too many books in my queue waiting at home for me to find some time to read them. Maybe if I put them together in a list I'll realize that the list is growing too long and I start finding (or making) time to read them... Read More

It's been a long time since I blogged for the last time, so to compensate I'll post a few blog entries today :) First, it seems this year I'll be giving some more KDE talks than last year. For a start, there's the OSWC (Open Source World Conference), from the 15th to the 17th of February. I'll be meeting Till Adams, Alexander Dymo, Andras Mantia and Josef Spillner there from the KDE team, all signs are saying that the OSWC will be a good meeting point for long time not seen friends from other projects too, so it seems we'll have a good time there. Read More

If I was a nethack monster, I would be: ......| ..%d+.| ......| a little dog: Loyal. Friendly. Housebroken. Nice doggie. Which NetHack Monster Are You?

|)?!)%+ +.@%/]? |!?[?[% If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a mimic. I can be whatever I think you need me to be - it might look like I'm here to help you, but really you're here to help me.

The 3 wise men (thanks Seele for the translation :) ) were wise and kind enough this year as to bring me a new camera that will replace my old (and broken since a friend of mine sliped it to the floor) Canon Powershot A70 that so many good moments has shared with me. After looking at many other cameras, I found that there were not many that matched the features I wanted and still were in the price range I could afford, and finally I chosed the Canon A620. Read More

Since I havn't posted in a while, a quick QOTD: kawakokappa (10:55:29 AM): could you imagine reproducing a series of steps with half of them missing? seele varcuzzo (10:56:15 AM): no, and youre going to make me core dump if you make me Read More

Ruby is rolling. It's amazing how much enthusiasm it accumulates. There seems to be a broad movement of people exploring Ruby, using it and getting addicted. Especially because there is Rails. If there ever was a killer application for a programming language, here it is. Three examples for amazing Ruby adoption: Read More

Wow, I'm happy today. The story starts some years ago (around 2001, if I'm not wrong), when I bought a trackball (a Trackman Marble FX from Logitech). This model has 4 buttons, the three usual ones on all mice, and a 4th button that (in Windows) was used to emulate a wheel (pressing that button and moving the ball, allows to have a mouse wheel that can pan freely, horizontally and vertically on documents, which, btw, is really cool when working with images). After some time, I grew tired of having that useless button there and added support for it in XFree86 and Qt. I sent patches everywhere, but the XFree86 patch was sent when they were in a freeze and somehow they lost the patch. Anyway it was working for me so I didn't care much and just waited until I found that they added a patch to support wheel emulation done by another person that I never heard of (credits go to Henry T. So.) His patch was definitely his work since it was different from mine, not worse, not better, but different so I didn't have any problem with that (except for thinking about how many other patches were probably lost like mine). The only problem is that that patch didn't work, so I submitted a small fix and finally linux had working support for wheel emulation. Read More

Proof that finding useful stuff on the internet is much harder than it should be. This was found as a side link with a google search for "stroke matching"... |%..... |./U... +.....[ If I were a NetHack monster, I would be an umber hulk. I know where I'm going and will work through anything to get there, even if my methods sometimes appear confusing.Which NetHack Monster Are You? Read More

Today I published an article pointing to a KlamAV tutorial. I'm not sure how useful klamav is since e-mail viruses don't affect gun/linux but I think the claims that we do not get viruses are wrong. The other day I found my machine going sluggish and noticed that today my router had decided to forward incoming connections on port 22 to my laptop (I'd asked it to ages ago and it never worked at the time). I had an account on my laptop with username test and password also test that I had used at some point to check out what a first time user sees of Kubuntu. Some computer had ssh'ed into my laptop, checking for various common usernames and presumably accounts where the password is the same as the username and having succeeded to get into my computer it copied a program rootkit over to try and get root access meanwhile using my computer to portscan various IP ranges for other vulnerable computers running ssh. Self copying code doing malitious things, sounds like a virus to me.