http://smux.net/blog Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:07:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Ubuntu desktop, on an Asus EEE PC 901: Take a screenshot of your desktop right now, don’t change anything, post it on your blog. http://smux.net/blog/2008/09/25/desktop-meme/ After some tribulations, I'll really be attending the Rage Against The Machine gig in Lisbon, at the Optimus Alive! Festival. I was almost not going, but since I got hold of a couple of free tickets (thank you, Optimus), I'll be there. Eleven years later, in the exact same place where the ... http://smux.net/blog/2008/07/10/rage-against-the-machine/ Seems like Google has finally updated their Gears Firefox extension to work with Firefox 3. Nice. http://smux.net/blog/2008/06/10/google-gears-and-firefox-3/ Lastest campaign by Nokia: Get Out And Play. Looks like it was filmed in Lisbon... http://smux.net/blog/2008/04/23/nokia-get-out-and-play/ «Tired of spam? reCAPTCHA Mailhide helps you protect your inbox by asking people to solve a reCAPTCHA before they can view your email address.» A nice, simple, smart and useful tool from the guys at reCAPTCHA: reCAPTCHA Mailhide. Test it here with my e-mail address: s...@smux.net (click the dots before the @). http://smux.net/blog/2008/04/20/recaptcha-mailhide/ Fedora 9 is looking awsome! I've been trying it for a couple of weeks, and it's getting better by the hour. Two niceties: Encrypted system volume with LUKS, at install time; 3G connections (with my Vodafone 3G card) just works; it just really works; I just clicked "Auto GSM network connection" on NetworkManager and ... http://smux.net/blog/2008/04/19/fedora-9-goodness/ A long time since my lsat post, and back to Portugal, a sad note. Arthur C. Clarke has died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a few hours ago. http://smux.net/blog/2008/03/19/goodbye-arthur-c-clarke/ Here I am in Germany. After a few days in Berlin, where I stayed in an youth hostel, which had no WiFi, I travelled to Bremen, where I will stay during the visit to CeBIT. I finally managed to get online. I was hung over for conectivity... :-) Berlin is wonderful ... http://smux.net/blog/2008/03/04/deutschland-pt-1/ Youtube seems to be down for a while... One may wonder what is happening, but the OpenDNS guys seem to know what really happened. Hah... Update: the whole story... http://smux.net/blog/2008/02/24/youtube-is-down/ This is a test post, being written from my new Nokia E61i. Wordpress could have a "light" post page, but the regular one seems to be working (despite having ~250kb). I'm using WiFi, so I don't know how this would work using GPRS or 3G. By the way, I'll be going to CeBIT ... http://smux.net/blog/2008/02/24/test-mobile-post/