Murillo Fernandes Bernardes

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"And if, by chance, you are a boss interested in motivating your smart programmers, perhaps there’s a lesson here, too. High salaries are nice. So are bean bag chairs. So are dual monitors and offices with closable doors. These things are ephemeral, though. If you don’t have him working on the core functionality of your product, with tons of users, and an endless supply of difficult problems, all of the games of ping pong in the world won’t help.So next time you want to try to emulate Google’s environment, ask yourself what really is the environment? Is it really the techno-colored bean bag chairs?"

Fato Interessante

Pra começar um fato interessante: Se você liga pra NET pra reclamar de velocidade eles mandam você fazer um teste baixando um zip do site deles. O engraçado é que no Virtua 4M de casa baixo o maldito zip a 450kB/s, já num speedy 4M (em outra cidade!) eu consigo baixar a 470kB/s! A diferença é pouca, mas convenhamos...

Propaganda (enganosa?)

No site do Virtua eles alguns exemplos interessantes de usos de "tanta velocidade":

• games online - só se for pra jogar sudoku ou paciencia online, porque pra jogos de verdade o pessoal só reclama do Virtua.
• assistir filmes - só youtube? Porque qualquer coisa que não seja HTTP eles fazem traffic shaping.
• videos de alta qualidade em tempo real - eles chamam youtube de alta qualidade? Mesmo que chamassem, no meu Virtua 4M nem youtube vai em tempo real
• Ninguém navega mais rápido no Brasil - isso já era. Speedy já tem 8M também.

Traffic shaping

Eles juram que não fazem, por mais descarado que isso seja.

Há pouco mais de um ano postei a
Saga do DNS no Virtua (parte 1). Infelizmente nos últimos dias os servidores DNS da Intelig pararam de responder fora da rede da Intelig e os servidores DNS do Virtua (ao menos em Campinas) continuam um lixo.

Aí tive que correr atrás de outros servidores que prestassem. Descobri então os servidores DNS da optigloble: 200.185.6.131 e 200.185.6.163. Eles tem se mostrado estáveis e tem um bom tempo de resposta. Fica a dica.

When you're working on web stuff you certainly will face problems with some browsers rendering your website in a different way than all others in the world. That sucks, but it does happen.

I used to use this interesting site/service IENetRenderer (http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/) to see how my sites where rendered on Internet Explorer, as I only have linux boxes.

But today I found an even more interesting (really a lot more!) site/service: http://browsershots.org/. It can give you screenshots from several browsers in several operating systems. That is really awesome!

Muito bom ver a UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) como a segunda Universidade em número de inscritos e terceira em número de propostas aceitas!

"... By popular demand, this week we're showcasing data about which schools our Summer of Coders are attending."

Fonte: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-top-10s-universities-for.html

Why many MCSEs won’t learn Linux by ZDNet's Paul Murphy -- The Windows worldview cultivates the expectation that learning to use an OS means memorizing specific command sequences and fill-ins - and when that attitude meets the Unix expectation that sysadmins should understand basic principles first and then apply them, chaos and frustration usually follow.

Mês passado a NET me ligou dizendo que eu tinha ultrapassado meu plano mensal de uso (20GB) e que eu poderia comprar mais 20GB por R$39,90 ou minha conexão iria cair pra 200kbps.

Eu já estava instatisfeito com o traffic shaping e com esse limite mensal e estava com planos de mudar pro Speedy (que não tem limite mensal!). Com isso simplesmente decidi de vez a mudar.

Eu sabia que existia um site do Virtua que mostrava o seu consumo, mas nunca tinha achado o endereço. Resolvi procurar um pouco e achei: http://consumo.virtua.com.br/consumo.php

I just moved my official feed to FeedBurner. The regular link now redirects to the "burned feed". Now I'll be able to have a better idea of people reading the content using the rss feed.

I hope nothing breaks :)

As last week INdT released the first open source plugin for canola, I decided to check it out and write something based on that. It was too complex to start, but with Morpheuz help I could do it.

I have a n800, and I like to listen FM radio sometimes, so I decided to write a plugin for that. Later I figured out that the other devices (770 and n810) don't have FM receiver, so it will be n800 only. Anyway, it's being fun and useful for me, and that's why I'm doing it.

It's still very basic on features, but use to work :) and It was very good to learn how to develop a canola plugin.

I'll release the code soon and that may help others to write their own plugins.

For now check the video:

Interesting article with the owner of donotreply.com:

They Told You Not To Reply - Security Fix

Well, people.... do not expect them to do what is expected.