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My friend José Gaspar will be teaching an Advanced Administration Course (Curso Administração Avançada de Servidores Linux)
Some highlights/keywords:

Servers: WWW, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, E-Mail
Samba (with quotas)
Security
XEN

Location: Rua da Boavista, Porto Portugal (link)
Date: From April 22 to June 3.
Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 19h-23h (4h)
Duration: 72h
Price: 300 euros
More information (in portuguese):
http://moodle.libhertz.com
http://www.solutionsout.com/cursos.htm

The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds
For those who don’t have the patience/time to watch SJ promote Apple’s latest crap for 90 freakin minutes but still want to watch it.

In case you haven’t heard, Google Reader went Social.
Summary: Add people to your gmail chat/gtalk and you’ll be able to see their Reader’s shared items and they’ll be able to see yours. It’s a great way to not miss interesting blog posts (specially “niche posts” that don’t hit the digg frontpage) and to make [...]

* HTML5
* JS2

The Talks/Workshops
* Amazon WebServices Architecture by Mike Culver - I learned more about S3 and I knew nothing about EC2 which is actually very interesting.
* IronPython and Dynamic Languages on .NET by Mahesh Prakriya - I missed it but a lot of people said it was brilliant.
* Building platforms by Fred Oliveira - I got [...]

If you’re like me and don’t like having to install all that stuff in every PC you use than this virtual appliance is for you.
Or
If you want to start learning PHP/Ruby on Rails/Django _now_ instead of having to install/configure stuff.
Or
If you’re going to something like Sapo Codebits and want to take the server with you [...]

After reading this BBC article about genetically modified mice running faster for longer periods of time, the concept of “viagra gene” popped into my mind.

I found Netbvibes UWA yesterday via Lifehacker.
UWA is the new Netvibes API. Through it, your Netvibes widgets will be available on every widget platforms or blog systems: Netvibes of course, but also Google IG, Apple Dashboard and many more…
I haven’t looked at it in detail but this sounds really cool.

Good to see Jobs infamous distortion field is still intact - I was afraid it was no longer active now that Apple is treated as a serious company as opposed to the industry joke it had been up until the ipod and the move to intel processors.
To boldly claim what no one in his right [...]

I’m keeping an eye on the gizmodo live coverage of Apple’s WWDC07.

The Internet is a funny place indeed. It’s filled with trolls and self righteous idiots who like to argue with each other pointlessly. Both of each often delusional to the point of thinking themselves important people…
Today on slashdot: Bloggers Propose Code of Conduct. Did I mention these people have a lot of free time [...]

FEUP Tags is a bookmark sharing service (like del.icio.us) made available by NEACM to students, teachers and employees of the faculty.
During the past semester’s exam season, having found several links to useful information and software on the Internet (like JFLAP) I began to wonder what would be the best way to share them with my [...]

After spending the past 5h30min working for my “Compilers” class project, I’ll have to take some care not to use regular expressions writing this post.
Codeplay makes autoparallelising compiler - I had no doubt this was coming.
Google: Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices - corporations taking steps to protect their customers privacy is always [...]

Quoting from the article:
A lawsuit filed by RegisterFly’s parent company, Unified Names, blames the meltdown on misuse of company funds by President and CEO Kevin Medina, who was fired by the company’s board. The suit alleges that Medina spent company funds on liposuction surgery and escort services.
(my emphasis)