Yumex 1.9.0 Pre-Release 2 is out, still I don’t touch my home pc since last Sunday… working 12 hours a day leaves me with no time for my geeky stuff 
Anyway, Yumex has been writen from scratch, hope this speeds it up a little bit!
New stuff :
* Repository View.
o Select what repositories to use.
o Make and use repository profiles.
o Little padlock to show that gpgcheck is enabled for repository.
o new yumex.conf option ‘repo_exclude=’ to filter repositories shown in repo view. Default value is ‘repo_exclude=debug,source’.
Add ‘repo_exclude=’ to /etc/yumex.conf to show source and debug info repositories in repo view.
* Preferences is working again.
* Commandline options is working again. (yumex –help to list options)
Things that are pissing me off lately:
- PSP Media Manager get’s updated to 2.0 and Sony doesn’t announce it to customers who bought ver. 1.0 (like I did) and apparently we get no free update from 1.0a to 2.0.
Way to go Sony, getting better day by day. Update: While browsing my GMail spam folder I noticed a mail from Sony announcing the PSP Media Manager 2.0 and a special price of $9.99 for Media Manager 1.0 registred users. My apologies to Sony, looks like not everything is lost.
- People always bashing the PSP because it doesn’t have a harddrive, because it doesn’t do jumping tricks, because it doesn’t make pankakes… etc. IT’S A FRIGGIN’ CONSOLE AND IT WAS MADE LIKE THAT! BUY IT IF YOU WANT, OTHERWISE STFU! The problem is that this crapy comments and rumors came mainly from the so called “Industry Experts” who claim that not only ONE but TWO new PSP models will arrive spring 07. The Nintendo DS doesn’t have half the features that the PSP has and everybody loves it… or maybe it’s not quite like that (and this leads us to the next topic).
- Nintendo HYPE - All this Nintendo loving is getting sick. IMHO there’s lots of people out there buying a DS not because it’s a great portable but because Nintendo is now hot and trendy. All this hype around the DS and the Wii is getting Nintendo lots of (free) publicity and attention, but I predict it will end in a painful way. Lately there’s no good games coming out for the DS, we’re getting kiddy games all over again, the classic franchises except for Zelda have all been released and there’s nothing “eye opening” on the horizon. The DS browser has been released in Europe and Japan, and the experience you get from it is nothing more than a Opera Mini on steroids. Meanwhile, people continue to show their DSs on Flickr like it’s next big thing.
Found it via Caleblog… I still think this tests are all a bunch of b.s….
One year ago I started this blog. Not being my first blog, it was the first one that lasted this long and that I didn’t shutdown after 2 or 3 months. In one year I got almost 200.000 hits, which I think it’s alot for the crap I write here, nevertheless I’m not quite satisfied. I’m still haven’t found out the purpose of this blog and I know there’s lots of space for improvement. I often lack the time to write here and when there’s time there’s no inspiration or no will to do it. I know it’s a matter of discipline, of being able to keep up a rhythm and some “love” torwards writing, but some times it’s hard. I don’t like to repeat other’s stuff and for God’s sake this is no “Last Minute News” Blog.
For the reader, this blog is “my stuff”, random stuff who might interess you but by all means don’t take any of my posts too seriously, I’m no expert in any topic that I write here, just see this as a nice friendly “chat”, or use it too kill some unproductive time.
Inspiration
Well, my inspiration comes from a part of my life. I’m a very reserved person so you won’t see here many “intimate” stuff lol but besides my life, and the world my inspiration comes from other blogs. One blog that inspired my to create my own blog in this “format” was The Tao of Mac. Although I’m not a technical guru as Rui is, my blog reflects some technical stuff, mainly stuff I use during my days and that you can find it almost anywhere.
The Profit
As you might have noticed, my blog has no ads. I don’t make a single dime with my blog so that’s not the profit I’m talking about. The profit I gained while having this space are the people I’ve met during this year. They’re people who share common interests, who’re enlighted and will innovate our society with more or less impact. And no, I won’t tell who they are because they’ll know.
What now?
Now I’ll keep on writing. Trying to evolve this into something better, maybe dedicating more time to write some quality posts. Discipline. That’s the word for the future.
Thank you all.
I’m a big Google fan. I use Gmail, Gtalk, Picasa, Google Earth / Maps… the works, but as a user, using all this “free” Google software, made me think about the companies and developers who base their work and products on Google platforms like Google Maps and Adsense. These companies and developers are not just a few, actually it’s a growing group each passing day. Tags like “geo” / “map” / “planet” are beginning to crowd the names of applications and websites, all them depending on Google Maps. When surfing the web, the majority of blogs present us with Google Ads, and the so called “pro-blogers” depend ultimately on web site ads, being most of them from Google. Millions of users have a Gmail account and use it as their main email account, I’m one of them and I’ve been deprived of my Gmail account once so I can say it’s not a nice experience.
My question is: what if something bad happens to Google? Or, let’s not be so drastic and more realistic, what if Google starts to charge money for their products? Would Google Maps be so famous and so broadly used if it was a paid product? Would Gmail had so many users even offering 2Gb of mail storage if it was paid? I guess not.
Google dependency is one of the effects of the Web 2.0, a very dangerous dependency not because of Google as a company, but because of the amount of people depending on one single entity.
Sorry post in portuguese only.
Ora bem, cá vamos em bom português. Como começar bem o dia:
- 9:45 - A nossa ligação framerelay (fornecida por um ISP de 3 letras que não vou agora dizer o nome) morre.
- 9:45:05 - Ligamos para o apoio ao cliente para saber o que se passa.
- 10:10 - Ainda me estão a dar música a dizer que a minha chamada está em espera.
- 10:11 - Ligamos para a nossa gestora de conta, que por sorte até se encontra de férias e não atende o telefone. Felizmente conseguimos falar com alguem no departamento comercial que nos diz que a fibra que fornece Setubal foi cortada. Como isto parece prometer pomos os serviços básicos a funcionar com uma linha ADSL que temos por cá.
- 10:30 - A linha ADSL deixa de funcionar. Era uma boa altura para entrar em pânico, mas em vez disso pomos um portatil com uma placa 3G para receber os emails mais criticos.
- 10:40 - A linha ADSL ressuscita e continuamos com o plano original.
Ainda estamos neste ponto. Depois do caos prevê-se um dia calmo, a fibra deve demorar umas boas horas a ser reparada e tão cedo não vamos ter todos os serviços a correr… Thank God is friday…
Update: 13:45 - A situação normalizou, já temos ligação.
After seeing this I feel a strange urge of traveling to Greece…
Oh and by the way, before you buy a ticket to Greece… it’s a fake.
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