LaTeX discussion list (in Portuguese)
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Pascal: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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 […]
Forza Motorsport 3
I bought a new xbox 360 and, instead of buying the vanilla edition or just the Elite version, I bought the Elite version with a game, Forza Motorsport 3 included. There was another option, but I can not recall what game it was. But this game is more on my style. I like racing games. […]
The House Bunny – 2008
The House Bunny is just another comedy with dreams coming true, everything working out, and a pink end. The story is too old, there is are no news on the way the story is told. So, is this movie worth seeing? Hey, why not? You can smile (well, after all it is a comedy) and […]
Linux gives too many choices…
Every time I touch a Linux not installed by myself I got to the same feeling. Linux gives too much choices when installing a new operating system and the default options are good just if the only user of the machine is the administrator. If the guy installing the Linux does not have knowledge on […]
Gran Torino – 2008
Gran Torino is not, finally, a common Hollywood movie. And great I did not know it before watching it. This way it was easier to watch and enjoy it. I will not talk more about it or it will be a big spoiler. Clint Eastwood is great on this movie. Of course, great as director, […]
Moblin 2.1, last impressions
Last time I used Moblin 2.1 it suggested me to update the operating system. About 200MB of downloads. After about half an hour of downloads and updates (the SSD is quite slow) I turned the machine down. Today I turned the machine on and… the operating system crashed with a message that a component failed, […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Another Marvel-based movie, with known super-hero. This leads to be watching the movie knowing that the main character will survive. But then, that is the usual thing with Hollywood movies (in this one there is something different, but not that different…). So, no big news. Now, back to the movie: I am not an X-Men […]
Pascal is not dead
Probably you know that I was a teacher at the Computer Science Department at Universidade do Minho. There I was a C and Perl teacher, as well as other classes that are not relevant for this post. Now, I am working at Instituto Politécnico do Porto, in the Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de […]
Moblin 2.1 – First Impressions
After some disasters with Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One (it just stopped working, X crashing and other problems) I tried moblin again. Installed version 2.1 beta and my first impression is that it is more stable than 2.0 at the moment. The browser seems more stable, loading pages faster. Unfortunately the flash plugin is […]