May 2008
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Maybe I should post some contact info.
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira, computer scientist extraordinaire, cultivates interests in computers, int’l relations, interesting pictures and internet culture. I can be reached at
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April 2008
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CopyCamp in a nutshell: copyright can be hideously confusing at times, end users and rights holders don’t see eye to eye, lots are getting shafted.
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“If even Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn’t work, use the SAK. Hold down Alt-PrintScreen (this...”
– Paralipsis » Blog Archive » Enabling Xinerama in Ubuntu Oh man, I love Linux and all that, but setting up screens continues to be needlessly byzantine. I mean, that guy’s being hilariously specific, but I can almost understand people bitching about desktop Linux in Slashdot...
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The hardest part about lusting after prosumer point and shoots is that I need one by August and that’s when their product lines refresh.
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"Finished the 2nd disk of "2010". Something... →
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Sardines in motion on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (via)
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Dear ttc: I am actually okay with you guys striking, in principle. Fuck you guys for taking 45 minutes to tell us that there are no buses.
Apr 26th
New favourite political organisation: the MENONNITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. They’re gonna fight the food crisis.
Apr 25th
“Computers, like peopke, try to put off unpleasant events for as long as they can” - Tanenbaum
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Signing off on background, credit, terrorist (wtf!) checks & non disclosure, compete agreements always feels like signing my life away.
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Next Highlight Rate: (via Justin.tv - Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google talks at startup school - HackerTV - Live Streaming Video) Pretty nifty. This is the first video on tech startup topics by someone whom I not only recognise but have also read hundreds of pages they have authored.
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“I knew the only way I was going to beat my son... →
AutoGuitarHero (via bunnie)
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Notes from my notes: “Gomulka says: Khruschev, baby, you got us all wrong! Poland’s nothing but a staunch ally of the USSR!”
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What’s up with folks following 30k ppl on twitter? At 1 post a week, that’s 4k msgs a day, aka impossible to follow. Thanks but no thanks.
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LiveLeak.com - Golden Eagle Throws Goat off Cliff Eagles can fuck you up. (via)
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Desktop linux conversations on /. are impossibly boring. I’ve been doing it for, what, four years now? Wake me when OSX has a package manager.
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“If you’re not an exploit writer, think of it this way: you know that crazy...”
– Matasano Chargen » This New Vulnerability: Dowd’s Inhuman Flash Exploit Holy fuck. But, just to rub it in, or because this stuff just comes natural to you when you are manufactured by a malicious cluster of supercomputers inside SkyNet instead of nurtured by loving human parents, Dowd gives...
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Is it just me or have the credit canada ads turned way more depressing over the years? “Like hell money doesn’t buy happiness”? Wtf.
Apr 21st
Quick aside: I’ve always thought that nondetermism in finite automata was always a bit of a copout. Oh, the machine will just guess for you!
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