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This one is almost over… it’s been… interesting. Trying hard to keep up with the news. The only thing interesting I read was the AACS stuff. Who would’ve thought after so much work they wouldn’t even bother encrypting the USB traffic?
Another recent development that I’ve been keeping up to date with is NeACM’s FEUP Blogs. [...]

“Everybody needs a nap” is the beautiful conclusion to this article on the most recent Apple QA fuckup. Instead of admitting this was entirely their fault, Apple decided to also blame MS for it’s mistakes,
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset [...]

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 [...]

This blog was down for the past 24h or so… a scheduled server maintenence turned into a disaster when the database backup got corrupted somehow. Fortunately another backup (made at the same time) was found and the database restored.
All’s well that ends well.
except for my knife - she’s sad cuz she won’t be used today…

F.E.A.R. Multiplayer to be made available for free:
08-08-2006 - Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.
F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer [...]

The Inquirer gets some funny reader letters. Here’s one concerning a Q&A with Nvidia’s director of PR:
> Why do you think ATI went for this? It’s financial status?
GeForce has taken 80% of the performance market. Quadro is over 80% of the workstation market. We are taking share at OEMs. We are taking share in notebook. [...]

Thanks to a group of Americans, Galileo will be open. God job. I’m also happy to find out about this:
Afraid that cracking the code might have been copyright infringement, Psiaki’s group consulted with Cornell’s university counsel. “We were told that cracking the encryption of creative content, like music or a movie, is illegal, but the [...]

Finaly the linux nvidia drivers that support my card have been released. Here’s a review.

Version: 1.0-8756
Release Date: April 07, 2006
Highlights
· Adds support for GeForce 7300, GeForce 7400 Go, GeForce 7600 and GeForce 7900 GPUs.
· Added support for running OpenGL applications while the Composite X extension is enabled; see “The X Composite Extension” appendix for details.
· [...]

GODDAMIT!!!!
THERE IS SOME HIGHER POWER STOPPING ME FROM MAKING THIS POST. FIRST IT’S THE DAMN BACK BUTTON ON THE MOUSE THAN IT’S SOME WEIRD BACK BUTTON ON THE GODDAMN LAPTOP KEYBOARD. ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Sigh, moving on… A few days ago I mentioned changes to this blog, here’s what I’ve done so far:
* The sidebar from the old [...]

I’m changing the WordPress theme of this blog back to the default (kubrick). I’ll edit it to make the layout similar to the layout of the previous theme (wuhan). Also I’ll finally get around to making the Photos section and a new About section. The Photos section will use gallery.

There seems to be some sort of discussion going on in the portuguese blogosphere over an article written by Paulo Querido in a weekly newspaper (yeah actual paper - they still use that in the outstide world which is actually real contrary to what many seem to believe). The only part of the portuguese blogosphere [...]

AH AH AH AH
Relax MSNed me this story from MSFN:
Computer firm Apple may have to pay Microsoft £6 for each iPod it sells after a huge licensing lapse. Lawyers at Bill Gates’ firm filed a patent for technology behind the hugely successful digital music player two months before Apple.
The US Patent Office has ruled that [...]

Some links I got from people today:
A Gamer’s Manifesto - to which i subscribe almost entirelly (i think low ammo in RE is ok but some things in God of War were a bit too hard).
More stuff making fun of WoW.
Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment - How many of us have wished they [...]

Relax just sent me this link:
EU Parliament bins software patent bill
I’m extremelly happy about this but I doubt it will be the end of the struggle to keep Europe a sofware patent free zone.

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 [...]