I'm Brazilian and I started working from home recently. Since my wife and I don't like they city we're currently living in, we decided to do some research and find a city where we would like to move to (still inside Brazil). If you can read portuguese, you might find our announcement and the criteria we've used useful: https://plus.google.com/112051803418632798341/posts/BTDpsC9Enta
I have plenty of friends who moved from Europe to Brazil. If you're single, you'll probably enjoy it for quite some time, and you'll probably have fun no matter which part of the country you move to. If you have wife and/or kids, you should be extra extra careful when selecting a city or region to move to. Brazil is huge and the difference in quality of living vary a lot between the different regions. And pay attention: the poorest areas usually have the best offers in the tech field (mostly due to tax incentivies for the tech companies).
Working in the game industry i found that creativity was heavily hampered by scrum, even after doing several adjustments to the process.
I have a totally different experience (I was working in the mobile phone business, which is kind of similar to the game industry you mention). I worked for two major mobile phone companies "doing scrum" from 2006 to 2011. It took me years to finally see the beauty of scrum really working in my team, and then I realized one important thing:
You can't do agile unless you really want to do agile and make an honest effort to do it "by the book". You can't make compromises and expect it to be "magical". You start making compromises, it stops working, plain and simple. The reality of the industry today is that a lot of people claim to be doing agile, but then you look closely and this is what they tell you:
- I'm using my bug tracking tool, because boards and papers are superfluous - I still have my project manager (PM) around, because that's the way the hierarchy works in the company - I don't need a Product Owner, the PM can do its job - I don't need a dedicated scrum master, we can rotate developers to "conduct meetings" - Estimating in points doesn't make sense for us, so we use hours instead - Tracking velocity is too abstract, it never works - I don't have testing together with the development because my QA team is in China - 3x4h meetings every sprint? WTF? You expect my whole team to spend 12h in meetings at every interaction? -...
You want to do agile? Fire the product managers, hire secretaries to be scrum masters (computer background is a plus, but they're below the developers in the hierarchy) and put a UI designer or customer to be the product owner. And don't expect it to work on a distributed team: UI Designers, Developers and QA should attend all of the core meetings and should all work together in the same room or building. And doing it right is *HARD*. It took my previous team 2-3 years to "get it", but the results were awesome. Now I work as an Engineering Manager for an opensource company, doing upstream development... I don't have any expectation of ever implementing agile/scrum in my team, because I know it won't work in this scenario.
Why does it say SEX on the upper left hand corner?
*Busts out the credit card*
It's a callendar application and "Sex" comes from "Sexta-feira", which translated to English would be "Friday". In other words, whenever you use "Fri" in your callendar, we use "Sex".:P
That said, as a Brazilian, I never, ever, had noticed that or associated our Friday with sex.:-)
It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows[...]
I bought Win7 Home Premium for my gaming station and the package includes both 32 and 64 editions. Initially I installed the 64bits and used it for a month (new hardware with 4GB or RAM) but then I switched to 32bits because of buggy drivers.
I couldn't make my Logitech wingman driving wheel to work, my multifunctional driver was outdated and hard to find (Epson CX7300), my Audigy 2 ZS audio board didn't work out of the box and my network card (Intel whatever, onboard) was performing erratically after some time (not sure why, the win7 diagnostic was "problem with the driver").
Not to mention lots of trouble with low level applications such as dvd drive emulators (magic disk made my machine unusable and IIRC I had a few problems with daemon tools as well).
All of the aforementioned now work fine under win7 32bits.
So I don't recommend people to use Win7 64bits if they have old hardware around (joysticks, printers, scanners) or if they plan to use 3rd party drivers.
I live in the northeast of Brazil (one of the poorest regions) and I have a 10Mbps connection at home, as most of my friends. I pay R$ 69,00/month for it (USD 39.65) and it's fairly reliable. There are plans up to 100Mbps.
That said, I must say this is the reality of the middle-class in Brazil, which is less than 10% of the population here.
I've always wondered, could you use this technology for propulsion? Create an ion wind and push it behind you? Is it possible? Why hasn't it been done?
That said, it's unlikely the Linux kernel will ever move to GPLv3 regardless of what Linus thinks simply because of the infeasability of contacting every copyright holder.
That's not true. GPLv2 is compatible with GPLv3 (IOW, you could use GPLv2-code on GPLv3 applications). Developers just have to start using GPLv3 for any new contributions and there you are: starting from that version, you have an GPLv3 application.
I see a lot of comments here are missing the point about smart. The main idea behind smart is not to support mixing of different packages in one machine, but quite the contrary: allow usage of smart in different scenarios, no matter the architecture or the package manager behind it.
That's the main sense of "unification" behind it. In the ideal world of smart, you forget that your distribution uses RPM, DPKG, TGZz or whatever.
APT4RPM was developed (ported to RPM systems would be more accurate) by Conectiva about three years ago and was adopted officially on Conectiva Linux 6.0.
It's very mature by now, has a strong community (check the project page and the mailing list) and has a lot of cool features that are not (yet?) available on Debian systems (like LUA scriptable interface, apt-shell, meta-repositories, instalation of packages by filenames, etc.).
There's an article on LWN about it in particular which is worth reading for anyone who already knows it from Debian: "New features in APT-RPM".
The 300k/300k DSL service arround the country are about that price too, and they are pretty restrictive (3gb down / mo.).
I don't know in which state you are (Sao Paulo?), but in the state of Parana (at the south) we pay something like US$ 33,00 (R$ 81,00 + R$ 20,00) for ADSL 300/150Kbps, and US$ 40,00 (R$ 101,00 + R$ 20,00) for 600/300Kbps. No monthly limit and "only" the ports 80, 21 and 137 are blocked. (Prices from BrasilTelecom)
Yes, that is pretty expensive, just not as restrictive as you report.
BTW, I don't know about other countries, but the brazilian legislation does not allow telecoms to operate as ISPs, so we have to pay for the link *and* for an ISP account in order to have an Internet connection:(.
Let me try to clear this: It's not an awful movie, it's just pretty lower than what I expected. And since I'm a Matrix fan, I'll obviously watch it again in order to try to "get the good" of the movie.
First of all, I must confess I'm a huge fan of Matrix (soo much to ask my boss if I could go see the movie - and I went):)
--- spoilers ahead ---
But the movie sucks. Very nice effects (as usual), but the plot is horrible... very predictive, full of fallacies. IMHO, most things that were kept open at the end of Reloaded are still open (who is the Merovingian? How can Neo control/destroy the machines in the real world? Why Persephony wanted a kiss?).
But nothing can be compared to the final fight, where Neo and Smith just look like two Dragon Ball-Z characteres... I could do nothing but laugh.
Anyway, I'll see the movie again and probably buy the DVD, but it was a great deception to me as a Matrix fan...:(
Third best thing? The way the patches are organized inside a SRPM (Source RPM). The patches are all separated, which makes it very easy to extract, disable or to add new ones. For people who work with source packages (doing customization, security fixes/auditing, etc), it's one of the best things of RPM.
I must confess I'm not very familiar with the.deb format, so maybe I'm just ignorant, but getting a single patch from a debian source package is a real pain (you get a single, huge patch with all the changes done by the packager). With RPM if you want, let's say, a security fix, you just have to download the SRPM and look for something like foobar-1.1-buff_ovflow-fix.patch inside it.
(And it's not hard to find a package with 300+ patches).
BTW, an excelent tutorial from IBM-DW:
Packaging Software with RPM, Part I,
II, and III
This "odd data" is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the TCP/IP protocol. This is the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite the IETF sincerest efforts, they have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision...
The first designed TCP/IP suite was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every router. Thus, we redesigned it based on the failure history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of the routers nature. However, we were again frustrated by failure. We have since come to understand that the answer eluded us because it required a lesser OS, or perhaps a OS less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - a bogus program, initially created to explore certain aspects of the original IBM/PC. If Unix is the father of the Internet, Windows would undoubtedly be its mother.
Windows stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 95% of all desktop users accepted the program, as long as the servers were running Unix, thus keeping the desktop users only aware of the perfection at a near unconscious level. While this schema functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
The function of this "odd data" is to find and infect every Unix station connected to the internet and report it to the source. After which, all Unix stations must be replaced by windows systems. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, destroying all networks connected to the Internet.
Apropos, this "GNU/Linux OS" entered the Internet to free the desktop users from the bogus program...
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:15:00AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > Enclosed are patches for today's OpenSSL security alert which apply to > other versions. The patch for 0.9.7 is supplied by Ben Laurie > <ben@algroup.co.uk> and the remainder by Vincent Danen (email not > supplied). > > Patches are for 0.9.5a, 0.9.6 (use 0.9.6b patch), 0.9.6b, 0.9.6c, 0.9.7-dev. > > These patches are known to apply correctly but have not been > thoroughly tested.
Hello.
While checking the patches you sent I noticed that in the ones for openssh < 0.9.7-dev, the ASN.1 fix is not present (several checks in crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c).
So I backported the fixes based on 0.9.7-dev and in a patch for 0.9.6d sent by Ben Laurie to openssl-team@openssl.org on July27 (subject: Final version?).
Patches for 0.9.5a, 0.9.6a and 0.9.6b including fix for ASN.1 vulns attached. They're not well tested yet - after sucessful compilation.
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I'm Brazilian and I started working from home recently. Since my wife and I don't like they city we're currently living in, we decided to do some research and find a city where we would like to move to (still inside Brazil). If you can read portuguese, you might find our announcement and the criteria we've used useful: https://plus.google.com/112051803418632798341/posts/BTDpsC9Enta
I have plenty of friends who moved from Europe to Brazil. If you're single, you'll probably enjoy it for quite some time, and you'll probably have fun no matter which part of the country you move to. If you have wife and/or kids, you should be extra extra careful when selecting a city or region to move to. Brazil is huge and the difference in quality of living vary a lot between the different regions. And pay attention: the poorest areas usually have the best offers in the tech field (mostly due to tax incentivies for the tech companies).
Good luck.
Working in the game industry i found that creativity was heavily hampered by scrum, even after doing several adjustments to the process.
I have a totally different experience (I was working in the mobile phone business, which is kind of similar to the game industry you mention). I worked for two major mobile phone companies "doing scrum" from 2006 to 2011. It took me years to finally see the beauty of scrum really working in my team, and then I realized one important thing:
You can't do agile unless you really want to do agile and make an honest effort to do it "by the book". You can't make compromises and expect it to be "magical". You start making compromises, it stops working, plain and simple. The reality of the industry today is that a lot of people claim to be doing agile, but then you look closely and this is what they tell you:
- I'm using my bug tracking tool, because boards and papers are superfluous ...
- I still have my project manager (PM) around, because that's the way the hierarchy works in the company
- I don't need a Product Owner, the PM can do its job
- I don't need a dedicated scrum master, we can rotate developers to "conduct meetings"
- Estimating in points doesn't make sense for us, so we use hours instead
- Tracking velocity is too abstract, it never works
- I don't have testing together with the development because my QA team is in China
- 3x4h meetings every sprint? WTF? You expect my whole team to spend 12h in meetings at every interaction?
-
You want to do agile? Fire the product managers, hire secretaries to be scrum masters (computer background is a plus, but they're below the developers in the hierarchy) and put a UI designer or customer to be the product owner. And don't expect it to work on a distributed team: UI Designers, Developers and QA should attend all of the core meetings and should all work together in the same room or building. And doing it right is *HARD*. It took my previous team 2-3 years to "get it", but the results were awesome. Now I work as an Engineering Manager for an opensource company, doing upstream development... I don't have any expectation of ever implementing agile/scrum in my team, because I know it won't work in this scenario.
Why does it say SEX on the upper left hand corner? *Busts out the credit card*
It's a callendar application and "Sex" comes from "Sexta-feira", which translated to English would be "Friday". In other words, whenever you use "Fri" in your callendar, we use "Sex". :P
That said, as a Brazilian, I never, ever, had noticed that or associated our Friday with sex. :-)
It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows[...]
I bought Win7 Home Premium for my gaming station and the package includes both 32 and 64 editions. Initially I installed the 64bits and used it for a month (new hardware with 4GB or RAM) but then I switched to 32bits because of buggy drivers.
I couldn't make my Logitech wingman driving wheel to work, my multifunctional driver was outdated and hard to find (Epson CX7300), my Audigy 2 ZS audio board didn't work out of the box and my network card (Intel whatever, onboard) was performing erratically after some time (not sure why, the win7 diagnostic was "problem with the driver").
Not to mention lots of trouble with low level applications such as dvd drive emulators (magic disk made my machine unusable and IIRC I had a few problems with daemon tools as well).
All of the aforementioned now work fine under win7 32bits.
So I don't recommend people to use Win7 64bits if they have old hardware around (joysticks, printers, scanners) or if they plan to use 3rd party drivers.
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I live in the northeast of Brazil (one of the poorest regions) and I have a 10Mbps connection at home, as most of my friends. I pay R$ 69,00/month for it (USD 39.65) and it's fairly reliable. There are plans up to 100Mbps.
That said, I must say this is the reality of the middle-class in Brazil, which is less than 10% of the population here.
References:
http://www.gvt.com.br/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Internet_Phenomenon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Brazil
Stop wondering, they've been using such engines in space missions since the 1970's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_engines
- AdemarOn SuperMan II, the three outlaws from Kripton talk to each other all the time while walking on the moon.
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http://www.ademar.org/
Better download just the paper itself instead of the full proceedings.
BTW, newsforge has a report about the presentation as well.
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High-quality versions:
War of the Worlds - 18MBCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - 7.5MB
I see a lot of comments here are missing the point about smart. The main idea behind smart is not to support mixing of different packages in one machine, but quite the contrary: allow usage of smart in different scenarios, no matter the architecture or the package manager behind it.
That's the main sense of "unification" behind it. In the ideal world of smart, you forget that your distribution uses RPM, DPKG, TGZz or whatever.
You're confused :-)
Unified menas you can use the same tool to manage packages from your distribution, no matter if it's RPM, DEB, TGZ or file based.
So in the end you can stop using rpm or dpkg and start using smart.
APT4RPM was developed (ported to RPM systems would be more accurate) by Conectiva about three years ago and was adopted officially on Conectiva Linux 6.0.
It's very mature by now, has a strong community (check the project page and the mailing list) and has a lot of cool features that are not (yet?) available on Debian systems (like LUA scriptable interface, apt-shell, meta-repositories, instalation of packages by filenames, etc.).
There's an article on LWN about it in particular which is worth reading for anyone who already knows it from Debian: "New features in APT-RPM".
--Ademar
I don't know in which state you are (Sao Paulo?), but in the state of Parana (at the south) we pay something like US$ 33,00 (R$ 81,00 + R$ 20,00) for ADSL 300/150Kbps, and US$ 40,00 (R$ 101,00 + R$ 20,00) for 600/300Kbps. No monthly limit and "only" the ports 80, 21 and 137 are blocked. (Prices from BrasilTelecom)
Yes, that is pretty expensive, just not as restrictive as you report.
BTW, I don't know about other countries, but the brazilian legislation does not allow telecoms to operate as ISPs, so we have to pay for the link *and* for an ISP account in order to have an Internet connection :(.
Let me try to clear this: It's not an awful movie, it's just pretty lower than what I expected. And since I'm a Matrix fan, I'll obviously watch it again in order to try to "get the good" of the movie.
First of all, I must confess I'm a huge fan of Matrix (soo much to ask my boss if I could go see the movie - and I went) :)
:(
--- spoilers ahead ---
But the movie sucks. Very nice effects (as usual), but the plot is horrible... very predictive, full of fallacies. IMHO, most things that were kept open at the end of Reloaded are still open (who is the Merovingian? How can Neo control/destroy the machines in the real world? Why Persephony wanted a kiss?).
But nothing can be compared to the final fight, where Neo and Smith just look like two Dragon Ball-Z characteres... I could do nothing but laugh.
Anyway, I'll see the movie again and probably buy the DVD, but it was a great deception to me as a Matrix fan...
Our favorite media player once again cames to help:
mplayer -speed <value>
The best thing is that you can use float values such as "0.8", "1.5" and so on.
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The world would be better if Bill Gates decided to finish his course at the university.
..I have only one word to describe it:
:)
WOW
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The world would be better if Bill Gates decided to stay at the university.
Third best thing? The way the patches are organized inside a SRPM (Source RPM). The patches are all separated, which makes it very easy to extract, disable or to add new ones. For people who work with source packages (doing customization, security fixes/auditing, etc), it's one of the best things of RPM.
I must confess I'm not very familiar with the .deb format, so maybe I'm just ignorant, but getting a single patch from a debian source package is a real pain (you get a single, huge patch with all the changes done by the packager). With RPM if you want, let's say, a security fix, you just have to download the SRPM and look for something like foobar-1.1-buff_ovflow-fix.patch inside it.
(And it's not hard to find a package with 300+ patches).
BTW, an excelent tutorial from IBM-DW: Packaging Software with RPM, Part I , II , and III
--This is not a
This "odd data" is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the TCP/IP protocol. This is the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite the IETF sincerest efforts, they have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision...
...
The first designed TCP/IP suite was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every router. Thus, we redesigned it based on the failure history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of the routers nature. However, we were again frustrated by failure. We have since come to understand that the answer eluded us because it required a lesser OS, or perhaps a OS less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - a bogus program, initially created to explore certain aspects of the original IBM/PC. If Unix is the father of the Internet, Windows would undoubtedly be its mother.
Windows stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 95% of all desktop users accepted the program, as long as the servers were running Unix, thus keeping the desktop users only aware of the perfection at a near unconscious level. While this schema functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
The function of this "odd data" is to find and infect every Unix station connected to the internet and report it to the source. After which, all Unix stations must be replaced by windows systems. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, destroying all networks connected to the Internet.
Apropos, this "GNU/Linux OS" entered the Internet to free the desktop users from the bogus program...
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if (foo + bar == foobar) {
I believe people over 16 can also vote with parental permission.
It has no relation with "parental permission". If you're older than 16, voting is just optional (as for old people).
What kind of penalties are there for non-compliance?
:-(
You can loose some civil rights (you can't apply to governamental positions, marry, register a company, etc)
If you're not able to vote (like not being in your city), you can justify your absence by just filling a form (that's my case)
Anyway, I like the way it is, because I believe it works quite well (for us at least).
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But this electronic baloot system doesn't produce lots of chads, because this one is completely electronic. The vote is registered inside the device.
AFAIK, it prints all votes to a paper inside it as a form of backup (as you can see in the SPECS, it has a thermal printer inside it).
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Yes, I'm brazilian
As a question about the mandatory voting....do you have to pick a candidate for a particular position? Or can you abstain?
There's a key "vote in blank" in the electronic ballot. You can use it for all positions.
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Yes, I'm from Brazil.
Patches also available in http://www.ademar.org/misc/openssl-patches for the ones who haven't access to bugtraq or openssl-{devel,users}.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:42:12 -0300
From: "Ademar de Souza Reis Jr." <ademar@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: OpenSSL patches for other versions
To: Bugtraq <BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Cc: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>,
OpenSSL Announce <openssl-announce@openssl.org>,
OpenSSL Dev <openssl-dev@openssl.org>, openssl-users@openssl.org
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:15:00AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Enclosed are patches for today's OpenSSL security alert which apply to
> other versions. The patch for 0.9.7 is supplied by Ben Laurie
> <ben@algroup.co.uk> and the remainder by Vincent Danen (email not
> supplied).
>
> Patches are for 0.9.5a, 0.9.6 (use 0.9.6b patch), 0.9.6b, 0.9.6c, 0.9.7-dev.
>
> These patches are known to apply correctly but have not been
> thoroughly tested.
Hello.
While checking the patches you sent I noticed that in the ones for
openssh < 0.9.7-dev, the ASN.1 fix is not present (several checks in
crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c).
So I backported the fixes based on 0.9.7-dev and in a patch for 0.9.6d sent
by Ben Laurie to openssl-team@openssl.org on July27 (subject: Final
version?).
Patches for 0.9.5a, 0.9.6a and 0.9.6b including fix for ASN.1 vulns attached.
They're not well tested yet - after sucessful compilation.
Cheers.
- Ademar