GLP 2006:
- Portugal Telecom screwed us and instead of the 1Gbps that we had last year with 100Mbps reserved for the WCG, we got 200 Mbps with the same 100Mbps reserved for the WCG. So 100Mps / 100 people… that sucked. And no point in mentioning the IP incident - that would’ve been the death of it.
- FREE!!! POPCORN!!! courtesy of Sapo - that kinda makes up for the lack of bandwidth right?
- 4 (I think) XBox 360 for everyone to play.
- The VIP feeling of the stadium’s VIP room - much better than the basement.
So was it better than last year? Well… the lack of bandwidth is a big issue but overall I’d say yes.
FEUP:
Moving on, the start of this semester at FEUP has been a bit of a mess thanks to the the Bologna process. Gotta love chaos.
This semester I’m taking the following courses (some loosely translated):
- Microprocessors and Personal Computers (mostly IA-32 assembly - using MASM)
- Statistics
- Databases (PL/SQL?!? plus MySQL)
- Logic Programming (in prolog. I predict this one is gonna give me a lot of work)
- Operating Systems (yay plus we start with the unix api :D)
Microsoft’s Zune:
It can be accuratelly described with 3 letters: DOA
Nintendo’s Wii:
I’ve been wanting to blog about this one for a while now. The wii has gotten a lot of attention around the blogosphere and in gaming sites/forums. One might mistake this hype for something more substantial and it’s not uncommon to see predictions of the Wii’s “inevitable” success. This is not unlike the attention that Mac OSX gets from the blogosphere and, in fact, from the traditional media itself. A Martian reading the blogosphere would be induced to think that the Mac actually has a significant share of the PC market. But like most of us know, the reality is quite different. The core of the problem is the simple statistical problem of a non-random sample of the population - the population of people who feel the need to be fanboys (this is of course a biased oversimplification). The point is, while the Wii may sell much better than the Gamecube (if simply due to the fact the gamecube was the late arrival in the current/past generation console war), it is unlikely to rival the Xbox 360 or the PS3.
Considering the supposed hardware specs, calling the Wii a next generation console (PS3) is a bit (Xbox360) of a stretch. I’m sure that the fact that I own a PS1 and a PS2 makes me biased but if sony did such a good job with the first 2 generations of the product, why should I (or anyone else for that matter) assume that it won’t do the same again this time? And for the record, I think the Xbox 360 is going to be as big as the PS3.
No Net @ My Room - Crappy Wireing:
Bye Bye tvtel? Hello claranet?
Filesystems:
ZFS will takeover the world. The new fat - a new filesystem we can all (linux, bsds, OSX, Windows via 3rd party software, not like MS would ever do what’s right for their customers) agree to support (and hopefully use by default) - a man can dream. I’m getting tired of having to use fat on my portable HD. FAT’s limitations are well… too limiting in these days - keeping files below 4GB means I have to tar them into multiple archives or split them. But there’s simply no other filesystem that is supported across the different systems. While I wait for ZFS to conquer all, I’ll have to come up with a temporary solution - maybe HFS with a fat partition with HFS software for Windows.
Next on Rei - Through The Wire:
New Toys Part II & III. This past few weeks have been kinda hard and I’ve been very busy and I still have 2 tons of things to do. Hopefully I’ll get the logserver up by the end of the day and still take a look at Statistics or maybe Databases. And god I hate classes at 8am.
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Friendfeed- @sixhat yahoo would be insane to sell at such a low price... it's not a serious offer tbh. MS just wants to bring yahoo further down (via Twitter)
- Family Guy The Matrix Trailer (via YouTube)
- Max Payne Official Movie Trailer (via YouTube)
- @vampaz try last.fm, it's better than twitter for "i'm listening to ..." ;) (via Twitter)
- love apple mail + letterbox (via Twitter)
- @vd "viva la vida" is my favorite song of the album. The lyrics are awesome. Violet Hill, Lovers in Japan and Cemeteries are also very good (via Twitter)
- deleted all the ~Library/ mail app files & dirs. seems to be working now. Glad I can get rid of mozilla thundercrap. (via Twitter)
- I like adobe reader. I prefer the interface over apple's preview. It's true people are making way too much fuss about it. (via Twitter)
- i hate mozilla thunderbird. i need to get apple's mail fixed (via Twitter)
- yeah riiiight. fuck you vodafone. I'm getting my iPhone via ebay :P (via Twitter)
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