The black hole…
I got a PC laptop for work with… Windows. Decided to install a Linux on it, and decided to give a look at current distributions. At the moment I was looking for a non-newbie system but with some basic configuration issues automated. For example, I desesperate when I need to configure a wireless manually. I […]
Last night we had Happy Feet in the public Portuguese television, dubbed in Portuguese. This fact is relevant. Probably I would say different things if I watched the original version, as the dubbing process was not good. Why? The voices were cute, but hard to understand, and most of the musics were not dubbed or […]
I can not imagine how I wasted more than two hours to watch to this movie, with a stupid story, but with three busty girls. Oh. I think I figured it. Probably the busty part is the relevant one. Yeah, kind of busty. More seriously, Bitch Slap is an action and comedy movie, with few […]
I hate stupid software. I really hate it. Specially stupid software that doesn’t have a rollback mechanism for their faults. Installed Papers demo version to try to manage papers. The application seems interesting and is not too expensive. I really thought on buying it. But now I do not intend to. During first use, Papers […]
Was trying to create the typical button to “remove frames” from a site, opening the main iframe content in the full window. While it was easy to make the iframe content to change with a simple HTML link and a target property, it is not easy to make the “remove frames” button to work. I […]
Forza Motorsport 3 has some good simulation decisions, which makes more difficult to handle cars than in other games, like Need For Speed. At the moment I just finished running with a Ford Fiesta Zetec S, like the one in the picture. Accordingly with the web, this darling has 1.6cc and a lot of horse […]
Just found this captcha from the Public Knowledge Project a great idea. It not just removes the necessity to render a image as it works on text browsers like Lynx or Links. I am tempted to start using this kind of Captcha in my sites. Just need to check if there is any patent about […]
The first episode was broadcast today in the Portuguese public television channel (RTP). Knowing “V” to be a recent series, I watched it. Wasn’t expecting much and that was, probably, good. At the moment the plot is nothing extraordinary. But, being it the first episode, I can understand it to be more like a teaser […]
Perl-hackers is now hosting a LaTeX mailing list for help and discussion on LaTeX. You can subscribe sending an email to latex-request@perl-hackers with ‘subscribe’ in the subject.
As I posted before, I am teaching Pascal. I could discuss the relevance on teaching this language in this decade, but that is not my concern. I would like just to point The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I find in Pascal. The Good: Pascal evolved and is a high level language. You have […]