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This is my first post after the GigaLanParty 2006 and coincidentally since the start of the semester.
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 [...]

Once again the HP network equipment that was provided fails to perform adequately. Dantas is on his way to FEUP to get a replacement.

The IRC server is up and runing, no services though - no point for a 3 day event… dunno if it’s even going to be used.
Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike Source servers are also runing.
At the moment ethernet cables still don’t reach every table but they will soon, there are a bunch of people working on it.

Relax got the wireless network runing which is what I’m using to make this post (via my laptop). I haven’t setup my own PC… I forgot the power cable for my monitor - one of the hazards of everything being plugged into a UPS, I only took one power cable from the cable drawer. Sigh. [...]

Went home to eat properly and sleep yesterday. Slept for 11 hours… until Relax woke me up with a phonecall. It was time for me to come back so he could go home for a while.
It’s Saturday, Day Three of the GLP. There’s a lot more people here now - you’ll probably notice the difference [...]

It’s tough to speak in terms of days when you don’t sleep and don’t see the sun/moonlight but I can safely say the 1st day of the Giga Lan Party is over. Apart from the network taking around 12h more time to set up than anticipated, I think that everything is something… 2 days with [...]

The Giga Lan Party at Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal, will start on the 29th of September and will last 4 days! It will feature:
- Kickass bandwidth (guess where the giga comes from?)
- Games (including WCG stuff)
- Linux Installation Party
- Other stuff
I’ll be there, that’s for sure.
I’ll be there for sure.

I am now (since Friday) officially a student of LEIC (Informatics and Computing Engineering). I had been a LEEC (Electrical and Computers Engineering) student for the past 3 years. Those who know me well know that I don’t exactly like to publicly admit to making mistakes (which I’ve been known to make on very very [...]

FEUP announced today the release of FEUP Live 2005 (DVD Edition). FEUP Live is a knoppix-based live cd linux distribution made by the student group Chefax R&D for all engineering students at FEUP (which does not preclude it from being used by engineering students elsewhere or for that matter anyone else). It includes applications such [...]

The University of Porto has signed an agreement (in portuguese) with SUN Microsystems Portugal (Press Release). UP purchased 3 clusters with a total of 48 nodes (96 processors) and now, apparently has the first Campus Grid in Portugal.
The three clusters are divided: one is at the Faculty of Engineering (in english), the other at the [...]

I don’t know when this happened but siFEUP now publishes news in RSS and Atom feeds. This might’ve happened a (long) while ago but the site recently changed (for the better in my opinion) and i noticed the RSS and Atom images on the front page.
UPDATE: Apparently, the site was changed just minutes before i [...]

I was ‘offline’ for most of the weekend; I still didn’t have time to look at some of this stuff:Edd Dumbill takes “A Closer Look at iFolder” (I mentioned iFolder in my previous post).For some unknown reason, I haven’t taken a closer look at IronPython which seems to be quite interesting. It certainly has [...]