<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532</id><updated>2011-12-14T03:54:29.823Z</updated><category term='malta'/><category term='secret'/><category term='technology'/><category term='challenge'/><category term='operating'/><category term='ayrton senna'/><category term='David Allen'/><category term='warez'/><category term='funny'/><category term='documentation'/><category term='edmund burke'/><category term='web'/><category term='multiplayer'/><category term='village'/><category term='free'/><category term='good'/><category term='watch'/><category term='night'/><category term='quote'/><category term='community'/><category term='comic'/><category term='puzzle'/><category term='open source'/><category term='time management'/><category term='how'/><category term='war'/><category term='futebol'/><category term='tranquility'/><category term='think'/><category term='track'/><category term='programmer'/><category term='download'/><category term='python'/><category term='torrent'/><category term='internet'/><category term='video'/><category term='windows'/><category term='peter crouch'/><category term='code'/><category term='evil'/><category term='freelance'/><category term='work'/><category term='hardware'/><category term='wiki idea technology open encyclopedia project'/><category term='story'/><category term='léon'/><category term='gtd'/><category term='system'/><category term='distributed'/><category term='dressed'/><category term='research'/><category term='win'/><category term='world'/><category term='brain'/><category term='euro'/><category term='daylife'/><category term='game'/><category term='dog'/><category term='spain'/><category term='blog'/><category term='learn'/><category term='trip'/><category term='photo'/><category term='julio neves'/><category term='software'/><category term='bookmark'/><category term='coding'/><category term='history'/><category term='rtp'/><category term='geography'/><category term='mathematics'/><category term='network'/><category term='fishermen'/><category term='chess'/><category term='vista'/><category term='screencast'/><category term='problem'/><category term='money'/><title type='text'>sticky scratch</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>102</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-8718522161029602090</id><published>2011-08-09T15:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T15:34:55.980+01:00</updated><title type='text'>One end, One beginning</title><content type='html'>Today after years since my last post, I'm writing a personal message for a change.&lt;br /&gt;Throughout this time I wasn't the most loyal blogger and did never deserve the few readers I ever had and it's time to make official the obvious death of this little blog. &lt;br /&gt;Now this is not an end or giving up. This is the announcement of a second try which I believe it will work where I will apply everything I learned. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goodbye "sticky scratch", hello "Digital Loft". That is my new homepage that you can visit if you which to follow me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalloft.org"&gt;Digital Loft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not really a goodbye!&lt;br /&gt;;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-8718522161029602090?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/8718522161029602090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=8718522161029602090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/8718522161029602090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/8718522161029602090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-end-one-beginning.html' title='One end, One beginning'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4357794180574296821</id><published>2009-02-17T16:16:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-02-17T16:20:27.264Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>History of the Internet</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="339"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x818vr"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x818vr" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="339" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x818vr"&gt;Histoire de l'internet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/yom_"&gt;yom_&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video by Melih Bilgil&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-4357794180574296821?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/4357794180574296821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=4357794180574296821' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4357794180574296821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4357794180574296821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2009/02/history-of-internet.html' title='History of the Internet'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-678429106758305807</id><published>2008-02-05T18:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-05T18:37:04.610Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='code'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coding'/><title type='text'>myFortune: The only valid measurement of code quality</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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It is structured and written to the entry level PC enthusiasts. The primary editorial goal is to address the lack of refined technical information on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our goal is to provide tutorials, news and reviews about computer hardware in very easy to follow language -- hence our motto, "Uncomplicating the Complicated". While other hardware-related websites assume that you have already the technical background to read their contents, we don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hardware Secrets primarily targets the North American audience and our editorial offices are located in multiple high tech centers in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All our team members have more than 10 years of experience each in the computer industry, thus providing a solid background for our contents.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-9219890030027376100?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/9219890030027376100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=9219890030027376100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/9219890030027376100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/9219890030027376100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/08/hardware-secrets-uncomplicating.html' title='Hardware Secrets: Uncomplicating the complicated'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4840309511641339167</id><published>2007-08-12T16:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:19:53.393Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='track'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='euro'/><title type='text'>To Track: EuroBillTracker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.eurobilltracker.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border='0' src="http://www.eurobilltracker.com/banner.php" alt="banner for http://www.eurobilltracker.com"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mission Statement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EuroBillTracker (EBT) is an international non-profit volunteer team dedicated to tracking Euro notes around the world. Each user enters the serial numbers and location information for each note they obtain into EuroBillTracker. From this information, the site extracts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diffusion information: Each Euro country has its own range of note serial numbers and from this information we can generate diffusion graphs that tell us how the notes travel to other countries. See the Diffusion section for more information.&lt;br /&gt;Tracking information: When a note is re-entered, the users who previously entered it are notified via email. These hits can be seen in the statistics section.&lt;br /&gt;Statistics and rankings: Who enters the most notes, which are the best countries? 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As a freelancer you can choose among hundreds of outsourced projects. &lt;a href="http://getafreelancer.com"&gt;Join&lt;/a&gt; free and pay only a small commission.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-6282935144967203577?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/6282935144967203577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=6282935144967203577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/6282935144967203577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/6282935144967203577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/08/to-get-work-done.html' title='To get the work done!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-7199883173692570526</id><published>2007-07-27T19:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:21:55.008Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='warez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='download'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookmark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='torrent'/><title type='text'>To Leech: Torrent Trackers</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torrentz.com"&gt;http://www.torrentz.com&lt;/a&gt; (tracker search engine)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.demonoid.com"&gt;http://www.demonoid.com&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.revolutiontt.net/login.php"&gt;RevolutionTT&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torrentleech.com"&gt;http://www.torrentleech.com&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blackcats-games.net"&gt;http://www.blackcats-games.net&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-G)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pornbits.net"&gt;http://www.pornbits.net&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-P)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.phazeddl.com"&gt;http://www.phazeddl.com&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mininova.org"&gt;http://www.mininova.org&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torrentreactor.net"&gt;http://www.torrentreactor.net&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.isohunt.com"&gt;http://www.isohunt.com&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.snarf-it.org"&gt;http://www.snarf-it.org&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torrentspy.com"&gt;http://www.torrentspy.com&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thepiratebay.org"&gt;http://www.thepiratebay.org&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.revolutiontt.net"&gt;http://www.revolutiontt.net&lt;/a&gt; (PUB-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torrentmatrix.com"&gt;http://www.torrentmatrix.com&lt;/a&gt; (PRV-A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRV - private tracker&lt;br /&gt;PUB - public tracker&lt;br /&gt;A - All types of contents&lt;br /&gt;G - Mostly games&lt;br /&gt;P - Mostly porn&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-7199883173692570526?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/7199883173692570526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=7199883173692570526' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7199883173692570526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7199883173692570526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-leech-torrent-trackers.html' title='To Leech: Torrent Trackers'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-8481281880164377684</id><published>2007-07-27T09:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:29:18.340Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookmark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='python'/><title type='text'>To Read: Python Documentation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://python.org/community/logos/python-logo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://python.org/community/logos/python-logo.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Let's say you want to learn the wonderful Python language. Or else, you want to revive your memory. It's useful to have a bunch of quality references for that porpuse:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Tutorials:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://docs.python.org/tut/"&gt;http://docs.python.org/tut/&lt;/a&gt; - A complete tutorial by Guido Van Rossum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigunix/workshops/crashpython/html/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"&gt;&lt;span id="st" name="st" class="st"&gt;Crash Course&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Crash Course by Stephen Saville and Andrew Lusk (slide based) based on Van Rossum's tutorial (UNIX oriented). Good to learn, great to remember.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diveintopython.org/"&gt;Dive Into Python&lt;/a&gt; - from novice to pro this book is probably the most complete resource of information about Python by Mark Pilgrim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Ematloff/Python/PythonIntro.pdf"&gt;A Quick Painless Tutorial On The Python language&lt;/a&gt; - A tutorial by Norman Matloff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html"&gt;http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html&lt;/a&gt; - a Python course by example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.java2s.com/Code/Python/CatalogPython.htm"&gt;http://www.java2s.com/Code/Python/CatalogPython.htm&lt;/a&gt; - a catalog of python examples by categories which is very well organized, complete. It also includes screenshots of the output of examples with its source code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python"&gt;http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python&lt;/a&gt; - fast course into main python concepts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/"&gt;http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/&lt;/a&gt; - How to think like a computer scientist is another introductory material displayed by topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython"&gt;http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython&lt;/a&gt; - Thinking in Python: a book on more advanced concepts like unit testing, Template Method, Iterators, Factories, Function Objects, Table-Driven Code, Callbacks, Multiple Dispatching, Pattern Refactoring and others. It uses examples and a description useful for Java coders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.python.org/"&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; - Official website of Python&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.python.org/doc/ref/"&gt;Python Reference Manual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html"&gt;Python Library Reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html"&gt;http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html&lt;/a&gt; - Introductory Material in Python. Beyond the less technical introductions take a look at the "Quick References".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special topics:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/"&gt;Regular Expression HOWTO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting"&gt;Sorting mini-HOWTO&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Ematloff/Python/PyIterGen.pdf"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Ematloff/Python/PyIterGen.pdf"&gt;Tutorial on Iterators and Generators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/"&gt;Python for Fun&lt;/a&gt; - Python for fun is a collection of very interesting python programs on games, interation with other programming languages (ProLog, Lisp), GUI development (Tkinter, WXpython), SQL and more by Chris Meyers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.learningpython.com/tutorial-index/"&gt;http://www.learningpython.com/tutorial-index/&lt;/a&gt; - a blog of one man's journey into Python. This post includes a nice tutorial index for python development with GTK and PyGame. Unfortunately, no wxpython...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_1.html"&gt;http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_1.html&lt;/a&gt; - Charming Python: An introduction to XML tools on Python. (check also &lt;a href="http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/"&gt;http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/&lt;/a&gt; for more on text processing in Python)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More - in &lt;a href="http://freecomputerbooks.com/"&gt;http://freecomputerbooks.com/&lt;/a&gt; (search for "python")&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-8481281880164377684?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/8481281880164377684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=8481281880164377684' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/8481281880164377684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/8481281880164377684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-read-python-documentation.html' title='To Read: Python Documentation'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4570349356631058712</id><published>2007-06-07T03:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:26:31.377Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ayrton senna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='win'/><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Winning is like a drug. 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#000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthorne/430712005/"&gt;Village in Tranquility&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackthorne/"&gt;blackthorne&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Village in Tranquility (Malta)&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-7769582291276561799?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/7769582291276561799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=7769582291276561799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookmark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='screencast'/><title type='text'>To Watch and Learn: Screencasts Online!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://screencastsonline.com/"&gt;http://screencastsonline.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;blockquote&gt;this is a weekly video                         podcast of computer based video tutorials.                         The video tutorials cover many different                         topics from week to week but predominantly                         cover mac related subjects together with                         the latest web based services, so there are                         plenty of shows for both mac and windows                         users.                         &lt;br /&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;                          The video tutorials are in the form of                           "&lt;i&gt;screencasts&lt;/i&gt;" which are basically                           a video of a screen capture demonstrating                           a particular application or service, with                           a spoken commentary explaining what is                           happening on screen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since these are also "podcasts" it means that you can not only use your computer to watch them but also a video iPod!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://showmedo.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://showmedo.com/static/images/showmedoNewLogo_test.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://showmedo.com/"&gt;http://showmedo.com&lt;/a&gt; - This is a collection of video tutorials made by kind peers for you to learn new skills. The main subject on these screencasts is open source tools and anyone can submit its videos sharing theirknowledge. An interesting feature of this website is the "video requests" option where people can submit ideas for new videos and vote them to test its interest by the community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bestechvideos.com/"&gt;http://www.bestechvideos.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Another website with the same style that also includes videos about Conferences and Companies. This one also features a nice search engine and definitely diserves a visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many other good website like these appearing and growing. Those are just 3 very good examples of it. Other good places to seek are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/"&gt;http://www.youtube.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/"&gt;http://video.google.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.yahoo.com/"&gt;http://video.yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-4374380983459178699?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/4374380983459178699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=4374380983459178699' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4374380983459178699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4374380983459178699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/to-watch-and-learn-screencasts-online.html' title='To Watch and Learn: Screencasts Online!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4578689667090809583</id><published>2007-04-30T00:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:29:35.289Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookmark'/><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://caradelua.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://caradelua.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Um blog generalista muito divertido e com muita vida e muitas referências a cinema, futebol (em particular, ao S.L.Benfica),  poesia e outras formas de arte . De uma amiga e colega de faculdade este blog inclui ainda muitas curiosidades, ideias polémicas e notícias interessantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.havidaemmarkl.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.havidaemmarkl.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Este é o site pessoal de Nuno Markl que também conta com um blog reflecte muito da sua personalidade e do seu humor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-4578689667090809583?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/4578689667090809583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=4578689667090809583' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4578689667090809583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4578689667090809583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/para-ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-5279595820863716065</id><published>2007-04-28T03:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:30:14.502Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='game'/><title type='text'>To Play</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against     another online player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://geosense.net/"&gt;GeoSense&lt;/a&gt; is an online geographical quiz that runs in your browser and lets you challenge other players.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://geosense.net/"&gt;Geosense &lt;/a&gt;is not only a very fun game with no installation or registration  requirements but also a very enjoyable way to learn more about geography. [&lt;a href="http://geosense.net/"&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See how to play it threw this &lt;a href="http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=gameDevijverGeoSense&amp;amp;fromSeriesID=33"&gt;screencast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-5279595820863716065?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/5279595820863716065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=5279595820863716065' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/5279595820863716065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/5279595820863716065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/to-play_28.html' title='To Play'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-7170368431555546506</id><published>2007-04-27T03:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:31:10.183Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='research'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='distributed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='system'/><title type='text'>To Process: BOINC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/logo/logo_small.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"&gt;Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BOINC is a open-source software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. You can choose a project and contribute with your computing resources or also create a project that anyone can join by contributing with their cpu cycles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This project takes great advantage from the huge computing power given by distributed computing over Internet so that you can easily (and freely) elevate the performance applied to heavy tasks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-7170368431555546506?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/7170368431555546506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=7170368431555546506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7170368431555546506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7170368431555546506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/berkeley-open-infrastructure-for.html' title='To Process: BOINC'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4707488664313215984</id><published>2007-04-23T03:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T17:52:09.309+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wiki idea technology open encyclopedia project'/><title type='text'>Idiki: Wiki of Ideas!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://idiki.dyne.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://idiki.dyne.org/skins/common/images/idiki.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This great project shares the most valuable part of any project which is its idea. Some ideas presented already have projects behind that implement them, sometimes partially others fully. Anyway, the interesting part is the very rich ideas you can find, take part of its related development or even use embrace your own project to implement them. Since this "encyclopedia of ideas" is maintained by a Wiki everyone can contribute with new ideas or simply develop the existing ones by presenting helpful tips to accomplish it or to improve the by applying a perspective which goes further than the original one.&lt;br /&gt;Categories include Culture, Mathematics, People, Science, Society, Technology, Computer_Science and they can be simple sketchs of simple algorithms to advanced models about it. Your mind is the only limit for a good and creative contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://idiki.dyne.org/wiki/Idiki:About"&gt;Read more about it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really appreciate this project by Alpt and &lt;a href="http://www.freaknet.org/"&gt;Freaknet&lt;/a&gt;. My Congratulations to them and all contributors that take part of the project even by just participating on it (like me).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm always looking to this kind of  things... if you  think you know one, know that i would appreciate a lot if you just shared it to me. Thanks in advance!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-4707488664313215984?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/4707488664313215984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=4707488664313215984' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4707488664313215984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4707488664313215984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/idiki-wiki-of-ideas.html' title='Idiki: Wiki of Ideas!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-4912603491948569169</id><published>2007-04-23T03:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:56:14.334Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='multiplayer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='game'/><title type='text'>To Play</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.soldat.pl/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.soldat.pl/images/soldatenter.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Soldat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games      like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action      gameplay with      tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle      arenas using a deadly military arsenal. This is what multiplayer was invented      for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.soldat.pl/"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-4912603491948569169?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/4912603491948569169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=4912603491948569169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4912603491948569169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/4912603491948569169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/to-play.html' title='To Play'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-478807823190266796</id><published>2007-04-23T03:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:56:54.692Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;ol class="commentlist snap_preview"&gt;&lt;li class="" id="comment-256"&gt;       &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earningblog.com/" rel="external nofollow"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;ol class="commentlist snap_preview"&gt;&lt;li class="" id="comment-256"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earningblog.com/" rel="external nofollow"&gt;siong1987&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt; Says:       &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;small class="commentmetadata"&gt;&lt;a href="http://seejay.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/firefox-inside-firefox/#comment-256" title=""&gt;April 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/small&gt;     &lt;p&gt;A very cool feature. But, what can we do with this feature?&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;on &lt;a href="http://seejay.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/firefox-inside-firefox/"&gt;http://seejay.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/firefox-inside-firefox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-478807823190266796?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/478807823190266796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=478807823190266796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/478807823190266796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/478807823190266796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/04/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-390768153199919908</id><published>2007-03-23T17:36:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:57:51.717Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daylife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='léon'/><title type='text'>myPictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthorne/430736896/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/430736896_ab6ded5be7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthorne/430736896/"&gt;DSC03326.JPG&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackthorne/"&gt;blackthorne&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lonely dog in the city (Léon, Spain)&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-390768153199919908?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/390768153199919908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=390768153199919908' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/390768153199919908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/390768153199919908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/03/mypictures.html' title='myPictures'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/430736896_ab6ded5be7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-93929994381247327</id><published>2007-03-07T20:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:58:28.968Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookmark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><title type='text'>To Bookmark</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://del.icio.us"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JzVJT3rVjlQ/Re8joMOCJnI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fhSqzzPwNlc/s320/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039285681432700530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-93929994381247327?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/93929994381247327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=93929994381247327' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/93929994381247327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/93929994381247327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/03/to-bookmark.html' title='To Bookmark'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_JzVJT3rVjlQ/Re8joMOCJnI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fhSqzzPwNlc/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-7941369651448762263</id><published>2007-02-07T03:44:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:58:41.248Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;plainas&gt; i++ doesn't work :(&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-7941369651448762263?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/7941369651448762263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=7941369651448762263' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7941369651448762263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/7941369651448762263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/02/myfortune_07.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-3828464822989817499</id><published>2007-02-07T03:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:58:54.015Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;ironfroggy&gt; did i miss some telepathic part of the conversation there?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-3828464822989817499?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/3828464822989817499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=3828464822989817499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/3828464822989817499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/3828464822989817499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/02/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-2230213546511139053</id><published>2007-02-03T06:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T02:59:46.524Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='problem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='story'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mathematics'/><title type='text'>Para Pensar</title><content type='html'>Eu, Tu e Ele... fomos comer ao restaurante e no final a conta deu 30,00 € Fizemos o seguinte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Cada um deu dez Euros...&lt;br /&gt;Eu: 10,00 € Tu: 10,00 EUR Ele: 10,00 €&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O empregado levou o dinheiro até à caixa e o dono do Restaurante disse:&lt;br /&gt;- Esses três são clientes antigos do restaurante, então vou devolver-lhes 5,00 € e entregou ao empregado cinco moedas de 1,00 €.&lt;br /&gt;O empregado, muito esperto, fez o seguinte: ficou com 2,00 € para ele e deu 1,00 € a cada um de nós. No final ficou assim:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu: 10,00 € (-1,00 EUR que foi devolvido) = eu gastei 9,00 €.&lt;br /&gt;Tu: 10,00 € (-1,00 EUR que foi devolvido) = tu gastaste 9,00 €.&lt;br /&gt;Ele: 10,00 € (-1,00 EUR que foi devolvido) = ele gastou 9,00 €.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Então, se cada um de nós gastou 9,00 EUR, o que nós três gastamos juntos, foi 27,00 EUR. E se o empregado guardou 2,00 € para ele, temos:&lt;br /&gt;Nós: 27,00 €&lt;br /&gt;Empregado: 2,00 €&lt;br /&gt;TOTAL: 29,00 €&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pergunta-se: - Onde foi parar a outra moeda de 1,00 €?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-2230213546511139053?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/2230213546511139053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=2230213546511139053' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/2230213546511139053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/2230213546511139053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/02/para-pensar.html' title='Para Pensar'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-880951278949394784</id><published>2007-02-02T05:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-02T08:05:22.836Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vista'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='windows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='operating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='system'/><title type='text'>Windows Vista Released!</title><content type='html'>Two days ago (30 Jan) Microsoft released their latest operating system: Windows Vista. For many times, this announcement was delayed by technical problems but now it's different. Microsoft Windows Vista was released in 6 versions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, Vista Ultimate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, considering a windows XP end-user, what new can he expect?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, i'm going to talk about the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;features&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;1- a new hardware-based graphical user interface named &lt;i&gt;Windows Aero &lt;/i&gt;that includes new transparencies and provides a more eye-candy look. The Windows Shell has also been improved. The impact, of these things in your produtivity might not have improved that much but your confort certainly did.&lt;br /&gt;2- Vista is bundled with more and better applications for common tasks as "Internet Explorer 7", "Media Player 11", "Mail", "Calendar", "DVD Maker", "Meeting Place", "Media Center", "Photo Gallery", Games,...&lt;br /&gt;In real life, this means you don't need so much 3rd party replacements as you did with previous versions of Windows.&lt;br /&gt;3- Windows Search let's you find things faster using a very simple way. If you are familiar with the "Spotlight" of Mac OS X all you need to know is that on Windows Vista you access this option in the lower left corner of the screen. Your produtivity may benefict a lot with this feature.&lt;br /&gt;4- Windows Sidebar is a new transparent panel in the side of the screen where you can place little applications like clock, calendar, weather reports, ... called "Gadgets". If you are familiar with Widgets on Mac OS and Dashboard you already know what i am talking about.&lt;br /&gt;5-Backup and restore system has been much improved and now easier to use. One thing you can do now is to backup an entire computer as an image and restore it. You also can automatically recreate a machine setup onto new hardware or hard disk in case of any hardware failures.&lt;br /&gt;6-Speech recognition is now fully integrated and supports many languages extending your interface to the computer and can be used for dictation in applications like Wordpad and Microsoft Office.&lt;br /&gt;7-Parental controls have also been improved.&lt;br /&gt;8-Problem Reports and Solutions have been totally redrawed. Now you have a better feedback of problem reports in a new control panel for this effect.&lt;br /&gt;9-System Performance Assessment is a benchmark used by Windows Vista to regulate the system for optimum performance. Games can take advantage of this feature, reading the data produced by this benchmark in order to fine-tune the game details. The benchmark tests CPU, RAM, Graphics acceleration (2D and 3D) and disk access. (source wikipedia)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are some of the most important new features you can find on Vista.&lt;br /&gt;You have a very improved support and intelligent system considering some management options based on usage patterns analysis. Lot's of new technologies and revisions make this system clearly the most advanced of all Microsoft Operating Systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the biggest step in my opinion comes in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Security&lt;/span&gt;. Priviledge restrictions, phishing filters, user account control, Bitlocker Drive Encryption, Windows Defender (anti-spyware), integrity levels (a process with a lower integrity level cannot interact with processes of a higher integrity level), the end of the integration of Internet Explorer with Windows Shell, new and improved Windows Firewall, cryptographic extensions (SSL and TLS), Obfuscation tchniques such as address space layout randomization and Kernel Patch Protection (used to increase the amount of effort required by malware to infiltrate a system) and a new set of security arquitectures and politics make a huge difference on this matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Criticism:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1- Many people criticize Windows Vista for leak of innovation and to rip a lot of thing from its Apple rival. I think this procedure doesn't show leak of creativity of Microsoft minds but a great vision and capacity to recognize what is good on other systems and take advantage from it to build a better system. And that's what they done.&lt;br /&gt;2- Hardware requirements of Windows Vista also catch up with its new features. Not everyone today can run Windows Vista. This might be true but is reasonable to expect that a new generation of Operatings Systems requires a new generation of hardware. The delay of the release of Windows Vista surely was helpful on this matter and today the situation is not that bad.&lt;br /&gt;3- Windows Vista is too expensive. If we consider the price of the previous version of Windows and the differences in technology that have been archieved, the price is not so high. However if we consider Mac OS and its bundled software, Vista is way more expensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bottom line:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for those who can (speaking of hardware and money) Windows Vista appears as a great option which i recommend in all aspects. But, if you are considering a migration i suggest you to check the competitors like Apple Mac OS X. Soon Apple will release Leopard (their new operating system) which won't make things any easy to Microsoft.&lt;br /&gt;There are also free and good alternatives like GNU/Linux with Ubuntu and Novell/SuSE. Lately, this system has archieved great improvements towards the interface with the end-user.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final choice becomes each day less a technical issue and more a matter of personal taste (specialy related to the GUI - Graphical User Interface), a reason why i advice you to test the systems above first.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-880951278949394784?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/880951278949394784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=880951278949394784' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/880951278949394784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/880951278949394784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/02/windows-vista-released.html' title='Windows Vista Released!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-9105218935220632323</id><published>2007-01-31T14:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-25T03:00:45.653Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='problem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gtd'/><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -- R. Buckminster Fuller &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-9105218935220632323?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/9105218935220632323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=9105218935220632323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/9105218935220632323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/9105218935220632323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2007/01/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-115683771462017785</id><published>2006-08-29T08:48:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T08:51:53.543+01:00</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>The day we didn't smile, is lost forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; (Chamfort)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-115683771462017785?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/115683771462017785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=115683771462017785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/115683771462017785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/115683771462017785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/08/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-114711525746344506</id><published>2006-05-08T16:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-17T01:45:52.616+01:00</updated><title type='text'>To Play</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/The%20Chamber_tn59.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/The%20Chamber_tn59.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://experimentalgameplay.com"&gt;http://experimentalgameplay.com&lt;/a&gt; - this project aims to give a chance for creative programmers expose their innovative games and share them with others. Very good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://minijuegos.com/"&gt;http://minijuegos.com/&lt;/a&gt; - find entertainment which a wide variety of games (flash technology) you can find on this portal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-114711525746344506?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/114711525746344506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=114711525746344506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114711525746344506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114711525746344506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/05/to-play_08.html' title='To Play'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-114248841345508474</id><published>2006-03-16T05:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-16T05:53:33.466Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>O Dr. X (vamos manter o anonimato na medida do possível), do Dep. de Física da Universidade de Aveiro é conhecido por fazer perguntas do tipo: Porque é que os aviões voam?". A sua única questão na prova final de Maio de 1997 para a turma da cadeira de "Transmissão de Momento, Massa e Calor II" foi: "O INFERNO é EXOTÉRMICO OU ENDOTÈRMICO?" Justifique a sua resposta." (ou seja, pretendia saber se o Inferno é um sistema que liberta calor ou se recebe calor).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vários alunos justificaram as suas opiniões baseadas na Lei de Boyle ou em alguma variante da mesma, mas houve um aluno, Y, que respondeu o seguinte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Primeiramente, postulamos que, se as almas existem, então devem ter alguma massa. Se tiverem, então uma mol de almas também tem massa. Então, em que percentagem é que as almas estão a entrar e a sair do inferno? Eu acho que podemos assumir seguramente que uma vez que uma alma entra no inferno nunca mais sai. Por isso, não há almas a sair. Para as almas que entram no inferno, vamos Dar uma olhadela às diferentes religiões que existem no mundo hoje em dia. Algumas dessas religiões pregam que, se não pertenceres a ela, então vais para o inferno. Como há mais de uma religião desse tipo e as pessoas não possuem duas religiões, podemos projectar que todas as pessoas e almas vão para o inferno. Com as taxas de natalidade e mortalidade da maneira que estão, podemos esperar um crescimento exponencial das almas no inferno. Agora vamos olhar para a taxa de mudança de volume no inferno. A Lei de Boyle diz que para a temperatura e a pressão no inferno serem constantes, a relação entre a massa das almas e o volume do Inferno também deve ser constante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Existem então duas opções:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Se o inferno se expandir numa taxa menor do que a taxa com que as almas entram, então a temperatura e a pressão no inferno vão aumentar até ele explodir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Se o inferno se estiver a expandir numa taxa maior do que a de entrada de almas, então a temperatura e a pressão irão baixar até que o inferno se congele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Então, qual das duas opções é a correcta? Se nós aceitarmos o que me disse a Teresa, minha colega do primeiro ano: "Haverá uma noite fria no inferno antes de eu ir para a cama contigo" e levando em conta que ainda NÃO obtive sucesso na tentativa de fazer amor com ela, então a opção 2 não é verdadeira. OU SEJA, O INFERNO é EXOTÉRMICO.»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O aluno Y tirou o único "20" na turma. E na minha opinião, merecia ir para a cama com a Teresa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-114248841345508474?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/114248841345508474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=114248841345508474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114248841345508474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114248841345508474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/03/myfortune_16.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-114178910529498112</id><published>2006-03-08T03:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-09T18:07:17.366Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>All i wanna do is have a little fun before i die...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-114178910529498112?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/114178910529498112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=114178910529498112' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114178910529498112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114178910529498112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/03/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-114159549654705651</id><published>2006-03-05T21:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-05T21:51:36.653Z</updated><title type='text'>To Read</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.oopweb.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.oopweb.com/Global/Graphics/logo.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Object Oriented Programming Web is another nice resource of free documentation about Programming Technologies and Computer Science. It doesn't feature a big quantity of documents but it has very interesting subjects specially about algorithms and Object Oriented Design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techeblog.com/"&gt;http://www.techeblog.com/&lt;/a&gt; - this is a very rich source of information about the latest technologies and gadgets. Updated very often it's a very interesting blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-114159549654705651?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/114159549654705651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=114159549654705651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114159549654705651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114159549654705651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/03/to-read.html' title='To Read'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-114126820328737658</id><published>2006-03-02T02:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-24T01:07:07.125+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='puzzle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='game'/><title type='text'>To Think: BYCA Chess Puzzles</title><content type='html'>Puzzle name: Jupiter&lt;br /&gt;Target: White to play and Mate in two moves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.byca.supanet.com/puzzles/twomoves/jupiter.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px;" src="http://www.byca.supanet.com/puzzles/twomoves/jupiter.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find more chess puzzles like this and enjoy yourself solving them while you learn to be more "effective".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.byca.supanet.com/"&gt;BYCA Chess Puzzles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-114126820328737658?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/114126820328737658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=114126820328737658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114126820328737658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/114126820328737658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/03/byca-chess-puzzles.html' title='To Think: BYCA Chess Puzzles'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113987993213604246</id><published>2006-02-14T01:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-04-29T23:48:19.777+01:00</updated><title type='text'>To touch: Multi-Touch Interaction Research</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirtouch/still01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px;" src="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirtouch/still01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirtouch/index.html"&gt;See more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirtouch/multitouchreel.mpg"&gt;Demo MPEG-1 example (17 mb)&lt;/a&gt; (awesome)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113987993213604246?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113987993213604246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113987993213604246' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113987993213604246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113987993213604246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/02/multi-touch-interaction-research.html' title='To touch: Multi-Touch Interaction Research'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113898714121740046</id><published>2006-02-03T17:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-03T17:20:39.093Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/windows205.0.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/windows205.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;- &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Microsoft Windows 2.05, 1987&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113898714121740046?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113898714121740046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113898714121740046' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113898714121740046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113898714121740046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/02/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113846816639644162</id><published>2006-01-28T17:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-28T17:09:26.413Z</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;A vitória tangencial de Cavaco Silva à primeira volta&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helena Pinto - deputada do Bloco de Esquerda&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113846816639644162?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113846816639644162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113846816639644162' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113846816639644162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113846816639644162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the Day'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113788493164385967</id><published>2006-01-21T23:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-21T23:10:12.643Z</updated><title type='text'>CSS Zen Garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.csszengarden.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px;" src="http://www.csszengarden.com/001/h1.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Road to Enlightenment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Littering a dark and dreary road lay the past relics of browser-specific tags, incompatible DOMs, and broken CSS support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, we must clear the mind of past practices. Web enlightenment has been achieved thanks to the tireless efforts of folk like the W3C, WaSP and the major browser creators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The css Zen Garden invites you to relax and meditate on the important lessons of the masters. Begin to see with clarity. Learn to use the (yet to be) time-honored techniques in new and invigorating fashion. Become one with the web.&lt;br /&gt;So What is This About?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file. Yes, really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document. The only way this can be illustrated in a way that gets people excited is by demonstrating what it can truly be, once the reins are placed in the hands of those able to create beauty from structure. To date, most examples of neat tricks and hacks have been demonstrated by structurists and coders. Designers have yet to make their mark. This needs to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/"&gt;CSS Zen Garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113788493164385967?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113788493164385967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113788493164385967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113788493164385967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113788493164385967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/css-zen-garden.html' title='CSS Zen Garden'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113695257380259098</id><published>2006-01-11T04:05:00.002Z</published><updated>2006-03-09T18:06:41.766Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Now we'll finally be able to combine the security and ease of use of Windows with the flexibility and low cost of Apple hardware!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;somewhere in &lt;a href="http://www.slashdot.org"&gt;Slashdot's&lt;/a&gt; comments&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113695257380259098?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113695257380259098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113695257380259098' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113695257380259098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113695257380259098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/myfortune_113695257380259098.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113695214683567537</id><published>2006-01-11T02:02:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-15T17:45:03.103Z</updated><title type='text'>Mac x86 arrived!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.apple.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px;" src="http://www.scenta.co.uk/_db/_images/apple_intel140.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not a rumor or a thought, or any kind of small talk, it's a fact. It has been announced by Steve Jobs and you can buy them on &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com"&gt;Apple's official website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A new iMac and a new laptop with Intel processors have arrived. This is a very important day for computer production world but that's not all... when you buy one of these computers you won't get one but two core processors. That's right, Apple adopted Intel Core Duo to get "up to four times the horsepower of PowerBook G4" (from Apple website).&lt;br /&gt;Many interesting new features also arrived with these new computers as the stunning graphic card (ATI X1600 128 or 256 mb) specially on the laptops (now know as MacBooks). Design was also improved (MacBooks are now 1" thin) and special features like Power Adapter with MagSafe connector, iSight and Apple Remote were also included.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all the huge party of the most revolutionary notebook in Mac history, i would point some things which are not so bright or clear. &lt;br /&gt;1) First, it is not yet clear if MacBook's Pro and iMac with Intel processors do make possible to run any x86 software natively like Windows XP and FreeBSD. There is no technical information that makes this a problem but some say it is not going to be possible to make support cheaper and the image of Apple cleaner since many people would throw stones against Apple for problem with Windows OS and so on...&lt;br /&gt;Truth is, there is no clear answer to this question which is really important for many people (like me) that want to buy a new computer.&lt;br /&gt;2) Well, though current prices are excepted to decrease with time, still they are high to many pockets. Not so high if we consider its features and the trademark "Apple".&lt;br /&gt;3) There is no pcmcia slot. Allthough you can find a expresscard/34 slot, still pcmcia is very used on laptops like in 3G cards.&lt;br /&gt;4) There is no dial-up modem. Here you have alternative using, for example, Apple USB modem (which may expect a good selling period) but that has a price.&lt;br /&gt;5) Firewire is not 800 but 400. Not a problem, but certainly not an advantage.&lt;br /&gt;6) Superdrive (dvd burner) is not dual-layer. That should be already mandatory.&lt;br /&gt;7) No S-video connection. You have DVI instead but you still lose a lot of freedom to easily connect your computer to a TV. Here you also have an alternative by using a DVI to S-video adapter, however there is an extra cost for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am almost sure that is only a matter of time until become possible to run Windows on MacBook Pro. At least, Windows Vista should not offer much problems since it is supposed to support EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) which is pointed to be one of the most strong reasons for these releases not to run Windows XP. I'm also very confident that some of the other topics refered above will going to be improved on future releases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The release took place few hours ago, so it's early to take more conclusions than this, however in overall these machines have an huge potential (specially on performance matters) and definitely represent a big threat to competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: this article has been updated 1 time.&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com"&gt;Apple official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/01/10/1829252.shtml"&gt;Slashdot article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113695214683567537?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113695214683567537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113695214683567537' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113695214683567537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113695214683567537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/mac-x86-arrived.html' title='Mac x86 arrived!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113692435094878518</id><published>2006-01-10T19:34:00.001Z</published><updated>2006-01-10T20:21:20.470Z</updated><title type='text'>XE.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.xe.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;" src="http://www.xe.com/gen/illegal2copy.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;We at &lt;a href="http://www.xe.com"&gt;XE.com&lt;/a&gt; have a simple mission: to facilitate global commerce. Since 1993, we have grown to become the world's most popular currency site by developing the powerful and efficient currency services that the new global economy demands. In 2002, we launched XEtrade, our discount on-line foreign exchange payment system.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113692435094878518?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113692435094878518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113692435094878518' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113692435094878518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113692435094878518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/xecom_10.html' title='XE.com'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113686095173361603</id><published>2006-01-10T02:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-10T02:47:02.460Z</updated><title type='text'>Projecto Ockham</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.projetoockham.org"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.projetoockham.org/figuras/banner_ockham2.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Este &lt;a href="http://www.projetoockham.org"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; dedica-se a divulgar e discutir evidências científicas disponíveis sobre vários fenômenos supostamente "paranormais" ou "sobrenaturais" e fatos erroneamente divulgados como científicos. Nossa intenção é estimular a análise racional ao invés da crença cega em informações de origem duvidosa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113686095173361603?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113686095173361603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113686095173361603' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113686095173361603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113686095173361603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/projecto-ockham.html' title='Projecto Ockham'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113661287646747987</id><published>2006-01-07T05:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-07T05:49:05.756Z</updated><title type='text'>Making a Web Browser in 5 minutes using Mono and Glade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mysterion.org/~danw/blog/2005/03/steticzilla.html"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://mysterion.org/~danw/blog/2005/03/steticzilla.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See for your self, it is not the future but the present. Stetic is a project still getting born but with a great potential. This GUI designer for GNOME is being written in C# by Dan Winship and really hits an important flaw of the development tools of GNU/Linux.&lt;br /&gt;On this presentation you can see a little demonstration of the power of tools like Mono and Glade combined. With the approach of Windows Vista it is necessary to work on this kind of tools to make the life easier to the Open Source Community. I am sure that this is an example of a new Programming Generation where huge projects become child's play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For full details visit his own &lt;a href="http://mysterion.org/~danw/blog/2005/03/stetic"&gt;webpage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113661287646747987?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113661287646747987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113661287646747987' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113661287646747987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113661287646747987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/making-web-browser-in-5-minutes-using.html' title='Making a Web Browser in 5 minutes using Mono and Glade'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113649520948325837</id><published>2006-01-05T20:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-05T21:06:49.506Z</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shoutwire.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/shoutwire.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shoutwire.com/"&gt;http://www.shoutwire.com&lt;/a&gt; - Este blog é para mim uma grande fonte de informação, não só pelo interesse da maioria das suas entradas mas pela sua extrema actualização que se torna até, difícil de acompanhar. Apesar de ser generalista tem uma grande vertente científica e tecnológica o que faz dele um sítio para conhecer as últimas novidades e inventos.&lt;br /&gt;É ainda possível, filtrar os principais temas de interesse de modo a personalizar o blog ao gosto do utilizador.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113649520948325837?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113649520948325837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113649520948325837' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113649520948325837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113649520948325837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/ler_05.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113649427299689866</id><published>2006-01-05T20:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-05T20:54:57.580Z</updated><title type='text'>Earth as seen from Space</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2005-05-31/earth_b449b1-250-1000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2005-05-31/earth_b449b1-250-1000.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Earth as Seen from Mars&lt;br /&gt;5/31/05&lt;br /&gt;On its 449th martian day, or sol (April 29, 2005), NASA's Mars rover Opportunity woke up approximately an hour after sunset and took this picture of the fading twilight as the stars began to come out. Set against the fading red glow of the sky, the pale dot near the center of the picture is not a star, but a planet -- Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earth appears elongated because it moved slightly during the 15-second exposures. The faintly blue light from the Earth combines with the reddish sky glow to give the pale white appearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The images were taken with Odyssey's panoramic camera, using 440-nanometer, 530-nanometer, and 750-nanometer color filters. In processing on the ground, the images were shifted slightly to compensate for Earth's motion between one image and the next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&amp;M &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1685"&gt;http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1685&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113649427299689866?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113649427299689866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113649427299689866' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113649427299689866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113649427299689866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/earth-as-seen-from-space.html' title='Earth as seen from Space'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113648492160561997</id><published>2006-01-05T17:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-05T18:15:21.656Z</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://psantos.zi-yu.com/wiki.aspx?topic=PRE.SobreMim"&gt;Pedro Santos&lt;/a&gt; é um jovem que, tal como eu, se interessa muito por computadores e informática em geral. Penso que, sem fugir muito à verdade, tem como principal interesse a programação, em particular o desenvolvimento de jogos. Recentemente, lançou um projecto denominado "&lt;a href="http://orionsbelt.zi-yu.com"&gt;Orion's Belt&lt;/a&gt;", um jogo que utiliza a web como plataforma onde qualquer pessoa pode entrar e participar.&lt;br /&gt;Neste momento, tenho grandes expectativas quanto ao seu trabalho no projecto "&lt;a href="http://midgard.zi-yu.com/"&gt;Midgard&lt;/a&gt;" que se trata de uma ferramenta RAD para suporte ao desenvolvimento de aplicações Web e é o seu projecto de final de curso.&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, deixo aqui a referência ao seu &lt;a href="http://psantos.zi-yu.com"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;, que além de muito interessante e completo é também frequentemente actualizado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113648492160561997?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113648492160561997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113648492160561997' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113648492160561997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113648492160561997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2006/01/ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113605609947476907</id><published>2005-12-31T18:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-31T19:08:19.563Z</updated><title type='text'>Adeus 2005, Olá 2006!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/clock.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/clock.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A poucas horas de comemorar a passagem de mais um ano, deixo os melhores desejos de um feliz ano novo 2006 cheio de felicidade.&lt;br /&gt;Nesta fase do ano, o melhor e o pior deve ser relembrado. Aqui está uma cronologia com os principais acontecimentos que marcaram 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Lembrar:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;2005: Cronologia de acontecimentos internacionais&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lisboa, 22 Dez (Lusa) - Cronologia dos principais acontecimentos que marca ram o mundo em 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janeiro 06 Jan: Dirigentes asiáticos, representantes da ONU, dos Estados Unidos e União Europeia (UE) reúnem-se em Jacarta para coordenar a ajuda aos países ating idos pelo tsunami de 26 de Dezembro de 2004 (mais de 217.000 mortos e desapareci dos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09 Jan: O poder e os rebeldes do Exército Popular de Libertação do Sudão ( SPLA) assinam um acordo de paz no sul do Sudão, pondo fim a 21 anos de guerra. 10 Jan: Cuba decide normalizar as relações com todos os países da União Eu ropeia. A 31 Jan, a UE, que tinha imposto sanções políticas em 2003, suspende-as por um período de seis meses que será renovado em Junho por mais um ano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Jan: Mahmud Abbas, eleito a 09 Jan, toma posse como novo presidente da Autoridade Palestiniana, sucedendo a Yasser Arafat (morto em Novembro). Abbas re conduz Ahmad Qorei como primeiro-ministro e afirma querer alcançar uma paz negoc iada com Israel. 15 Jan: O soldado norte-americano Charles Graner, considerado culpado de m aus-tratos a detidos na prisão iraquiana de Abu Ghraib, é condenado a 10 anos de prisão. A 27 Set, a soldado Lynndie England, conhecida depois de ter sido divul gada uma fotografia em que surge a sorrir ao pé de um prisioneiro nu e com uma t rela, é condenada a três anos de cadeia. Nove militares foram julgados e condena dos após a revelação dos primeiros casos de sevícias em Abu Ghraib, em 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Jan: O Presidente norte-americano, George W. Bush, reeleito em Novembro de 2004 por quatro anos, toma posse para o segundo mandato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 Jan: Na sequência da "Revolução Laranja", o novo Presidente ucraniano, Viktor Iuchtchenko, nomeia, um dia depois de tomar posse, Iulia Timochenko como primeira-ministra interina. A 08 Set, Iuchtchenko demite o governo Timochenko, d evido a acusações de corrupção e lutas entre elementos da equipa executiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 Jan: Primeiras eleições multipartidárias em mais de 50 anos no Iraque, boicotadas pelos sunitas. A lista xiita obtém a maioria absoluta no Parlamento, contra os curdos. Os sunitas conseguem apenas alguns mandatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fevereiro 08 Fev: Cimeira israelo-palestiniana em Charm el-Cheikh (Egipto), a primei ra a esse nível desde 2000. Mahmud Abbas e Ariel Sharon proclamam o fim de mais de quatro anos de violência e Israel compromete-se a transferir para os palestin ianos o controlo de cinco cidades da Cisjordânia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 Fev: A Coreia do Norte declara ter-se dotado da bomba atómica para se p roteger dos Estados Unidos, que acusa de quererem derrubar o seu regime. 14 Fev: O ex-primeiro-ministro libanês Rafic Hariri é assassinado em Beiru te, num atentado que faz 20 mortos e 220 feridos. A oposição acusa os poderes li banês e sírio e multiplicam-se as manifestações contra a tutela de Damasco. A 20 Out, um relatório da comissão de inquérito da ONU aponta responsabilidades aos serviços secretos sírios e libaneses, bem como elementos próximos do Presidente sírio, Bachar al-Assad. 28 Fev: No Iraque, 118 pessoas morrem em Hilla (centro), no atentado mais mortífero desde a queda de Saddam Hussein, reivindicado pelo grupo do líder da A l-Qaida no Iraque, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Março 04 Mar: A morte de um agente dos serviços secretos italianos, Nicola Calip ari, por disparos norte-americanos durante a libertação da jornalista italiana G iuliana Sgrena, após um mês de cativeiro, provoca grande polémica em Itália sobr e a presença dos cerca de 3.000 soldados italianos estacionados no Iraque. Roma inicia em Agosto uma retirada progressiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;08 Mar: O líder independentista tchetcheno Aslan Maskhadov, considerado um moderado, é morto pelas forças especiais russas após cinco anos de perseguição.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Mar: Um sismo de magnitude 8,7 na escala de Richter abala a ilha indoné sia de Nias, ao largo de Samatra, matando mais de 900 pessoas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 Mar: O norte-americano Paul Wolfowitz, "número dois" do Pentágono e um dos principais artífices da guerra no Iraque, torna-se o 10/o presidente do Banc o Mundial, sucedendo a James Wolfensohn. A sua nomeação provoca uma onda de crít icas, particularmente na Europa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 Mar: O partido do Presidente do Zimbabué, Robert Mugabe, a União Nacion al Africana do Zimbabué-Frente Patriótica (Zanu-PF), vence as eleições legislati vas. A oposição denuncia fraudes maciças.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 Mar: A cidadã norte-americana Terry Schiavo, em coma há mais de 15 anos , morre de desidratação 13 dias depois de ter sido privada de alimentação por vi a artificial. O caso Schiavo, inicialmente uma disputa familiar, assume contorno s de debate nacional sobre a eutanásia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abril 02 Abr: Morte do Papa João Paulo II, aos 84 anos, após 26 anos como chefe da Igreja Católica. É sepultado a 08 Abr numa cripta da basílica de São Pedro, n o final de grandiosas cerimónias fúnebres. A 19 Abr, o cardeal conservador Josep h Ratzinger torna-se o 265/o Papa e o primeiro Papa alemão em 482 anos, sob o no me de Bento XVI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;06 Abr: Eleição de Jalal Talabani para a presidência do Iraque. É a primei ra vez na história do país que um curdo acede a tal cargo. No dia seguinte, o xi ita Ibrahim al-Jaafari é nomeado primeiro-ministro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;06 Abr: O príncipe Rainier III do Mónaco morre aos 81 anos, após mais de 5 5 anos de reinado. A 12 Jul, o seu filho, o príncipe Alberto, sucede-lhe, como A lberto II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;07 Abr: Índia e Paquistão iniciam a primeira ligação de autocarro entre as partes indiana e paquistanesa de Caxemira em quase 60 anos, um gesto histórico que simboliza uma aproximação entre as duas potências nucleares rivais, que cons ideram "irreversível" o processo de paz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 Abr: A ONU adopta uma Convenção Internacional para a Repressão do Terro rismo Nuclear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 Abr: Início, em Madrid, do maior julgamento da Al-Qaida alguma vez real izado na Europa, com a presença de 24 homens acusados de terem constituído uma c élula terrorista activa em Espanha e, alguns deles, de terem colaborado na organ ização dos atentados de 11 de Setembro de 2001 nos Estados Unidos. 25 Abr: A Roménia e a Bulgária assinam, no Luxemburgo, o tratado de adesão à União Europeia, que os dois países deverão integrar a 01 de Janeiro de 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 Abr: A partida dos últimos soldados sírios representa o fim oficial da presença de Damasco no Líbano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27-28 Abr: O Presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, é o primeiro dirigente do K remlin a deslocar-se a Israel desde a sua criação, em 1948. Maio 05 Mai: O Partido Trabalhista do primeiro-ministro britânico, Tony Blair, obtém a maioria absoluta nas eleições legislativas antecipadas. É o seu terceiro mandato consecutivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12-13 Mai: No Uzbequistão, um grupo armado toma de assalto uma prisão da c idade de Andijan, desencadeando combates com o exército. A repressão de milhares de manifestantes que apoiavam os insurgentes faz, segundo testemunhas e ONG, en tre 500 e 1.000 mortos. Tachkent admite apenas 187 vítimas, nega ter aberto fogo sobre os manifestantes e rejeita qualquer inquérito independente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 Mai: No Kuwait, as mulheres obtêm pela primeira vez o direito de voto e de elegibilidade, após uma alteração pelo Parlamento da lei eleitoral. Em Junho , o governo nomeia duas mulheres para o único conselho municipal do país. A xiit a Maasuma al-Mubarak torna-se a primeira mulher nomeada ministra (do Planeamento e secretária de Estado do Desenvolvimento Administrativo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 Mai: Os franceses rejeitam em referendo (54,67 por cento de "não") a Co nstituição Europeia, abrindo uma grave crise na Europa e infligindo uma derrota aos seus dirigentes, sobretudo ao Presidente, Jacques Chirac. A França é o prime iro país da UE a rejeitar o tratado constitucional, seguida, a 01 Jun, pela Hola nda, onde o "não" obtém 61,6 por cento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 Mai: O multimilionário russo e ex-proprietário do gigante petrolífero I ukos, Mikhail Khodorkovski, considerado culpado de fraude fiscal em grande escal a, é condenado a nove anos de prisão (pena reduzida para oito anos em Setembro).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Iukos foi praticamente desmantelada em Dezembro de 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junho 06 Jun: No Brasil, o deputado Roberto Jefferson, aliado do governo, acusa o Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), no poder, de ter montado um amplo sistema de c ompra de votos de deputados por intermédio de financiamentos ilícitos, desencade ando uma crise política. O escândalo, conhecido como "mensalão", fez com que Jos é Dirceu, o principal ministro do Presidente brasileiro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Sil va, envolvido neste caso, se demitisse a 16 Jun. 10 Jun: A União Europeia e a China concluem um acordo que permitirá limita r as importações de têxteis chineses na Europa até ao final de 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 Jun: A jornalista francesa Florence Aubenas e o seu guia iraquiano, Hus sein Hanun, são libertados após 157 dias de cativeiro no Iraque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Jun: A União Europeia mergulha numa das mais graves crises da sua histó ria, depois de não ter conseguido, no Conselho Europeu do final da presidência l uxemburguesa, chegar a acordo sobre as Perspectivas Financeiras 2007-2013.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Jun: A visita do primeiro-ministro vietnamita, Phan Van Khai, à Casa Br anca representa a normalização das relações entre Washington e Hanoi, 30 anos ap ós o fim da guerra do Vietname.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 Jun: O ultraconservador Mahmud Ahmadinejad vence as eleições presidenci ais do Irão, por uma larga margem em relação ao seu adversário, o moderado Hache mi Rafsandjani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Jun: Dezasseis militares norte-americanos morrem na queda do helicópter o em que seguiam atingido por fogo inimigo no leste do Afeganistão. O ano de 200 5 foi o pior ano para o exército norte-americano em termos de mortes desde a sua chegada ao Afeganistão, no final de 2001.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julho 06 Jul: Uma jornalista do New York Times, Judith Miller, é detida durante 85 dias por recusar-se a revelar as suas fontes no inquérito sobre a fuga de inf ormação para os "media" do nome de uma agente da CIA (serviços secretos externos norte-americanos), Valerie Plame. O marido de Plame, o ex-embaixador Joseph Wil son, tinha questionado publicamente os "falsos pretextos" invocados pela adminis tração Bush para invadir o Iraque em 2003. A jornalista acabará por testemunhar depois de a sua fonte, Lewis Libby, chefe de gabinete do vice-presidente, Dick C heney, autorizar. Libby será acusado, a 28 Out, de perjúrio, falsos testemunhos e entrave à justiça. O conselheiro presidencial Karl Rove foi também citado nest e caso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;07 Jul: Em Londres, três atentados suicidas no metro e um quarto num autoc arro fazem 52 mortos e mais de 700 feridos. Os autores dos atentados, reivindica dos pela Al-Qaida, são jovens islamitas britânicos. A 21 Jul é tentada uma nova série de explosões, mas os detonadores não funcionam e a 22 de Julho, a Scotland Yard mata por engano um cidadão brasileiro de 27 anos, Jean Charles de Menezes, com oito tiros na cabeça numa estação do Metro. 17 Jul: O governo indonésio e os rebeldes de Aceh chegam a um acordo para restaurar a paz na província indonésia, após três décadas de um conflito que fez perto de 15.000 mortos. 23 Jul: Uma série de atentados na estância balnear egípcia de Charm el-Che ikh faz 68 mortos, entre os quais 20 estrangeiros. Três grupos reivindicam os at aques, dois deles dizendo-se ligados à Al-Qaida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 Jul: O candidato independente e ex-presidente João Bernardo "Nino" Viei ra é eleito Presidente da Guiné-Bissau, contra o candidato do partido no poder, que contesta os resultados do escrutínio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Jul: A nave espacial norte-americana Discovery atraca na Estação Espaci al Internacional (ISS). Trata-se da primeira missão desde o acidente da nave Col umbia em 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Jul: O Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA) renuncia oficialmente a 35 a nos de luta armada e compromete-se a continuar por meios democráticos o seu obje ctivo de reunificação da Irlanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agosto 01 Ago: O rei saudita Fahd ben Abdel Aziz morre aos 84 anos, após uma doen ça prolongada e 23 anos de reinado. Sucede-lhe o meio-irmão, o príncipe herdeiro Abdallah ben Abdel Aziz, de 82 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;08 Ago: O Irão desafia a comunidade internacional ao anunciar a retomada das actividades nucleares em Ispahan (centro), suspensas desde Novembro de 2004, na sequência de um acordo com a União Europeia. A 24 Set, a Agência Internacion al da Energia Atómica (AIEA) adopta uma resolução europeia que permite o posteri or envio do "dossier" iraniano para o Conselho de Segurança da ONU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 Ago: O Paquistão procede ao seu primeiro ensaio de disparo de um míssil de cruzeiro com capacidade nuclear, juntando-se ao clube das nações com capacid ade para produzir esse tipo de mísseis com controlo remoto com precisão cirúrgic a.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Ago: Um Boeing 737 cipriota despenha-se com 121 pessoas a bordo, perto de Atenas. Dois dias depois, um avião colombiano transportando 152 passageiros, todos franceses da Martinica, e oito tripulantes, despenha-se no noroeste da Ven ezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15-23 Ago: Nos termos do plano Sharon, os colonos israelitas abandonam os 21 colonatos judeus da Faixa de Gaza e quatro colonatos isolados no norte da Cis jordânia. A 12 Set, as tropas israelitas retiram igualmente daquele território p alestiniano, após 38 anos de ocupação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 Ago: Início de uma vaga de emigrantes da África negra que tentam entrar nos enclaves espanhóis de Ceuta e Melilla, no norte de Marrocos. Catorze africa nos são mortos, alguns a tiro. Mais de 5.000 emigrantes subsaarianos serão repat riados por avião.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 Ago: O furacão Katrina atinge o sul dos Estados Unidos, fazendo mais de 1.200 mortos e provocando fortes danos materiais ao longo da costa e rupturas d e diques em Nova Orleães (Luisiana), inundada a 80 por cento durante vários dias . Dezenas de milhares de pessoas fogem das zonas sinistradas. A 05 Out, a tempes tade tropical Stan faz mais de 2.000 mortos no México, El Salvador e Guatemala. Em 2005, a temporada ciclónica foi a mais intensa alguma vez registada no Atlânt ico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 Ago: Um gigantesco movimento de pânico numa ponte de Bagdad faz perto d e 1.000 mortos entre peregrinos xiitas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setembro 07 Set: No poder no Egipto há 24 anos, o Presidente Hosni Mubarak vence (c om 88,6 por cento) as primeiras eleições presidenciais pluralistas por sufrágio universal. 14-16 Set: A maior cimeira da história da ONU assinala o seu 60/o aniversá rio e termina com um compromisso sobre uma reforma da organização.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Set: No Iraque, pelo menos 128 pessoas morrem numa série de atentados e m Bagdad, reivindicados pela Al-Qaida, em resposta a uma operação norte-american a e iraquiana contra os rebeldes em Tall Afar (fronteira síria). 18 Set: Primeiras eleições parlamentares no Afeganistão desde 1969, última etapa da transição democrática iniciada no final de 2001. A principal inovação é a atribuição de 25 por cento dos lugares às mulheres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Set: Morre, aos 96 anos, Simon Wiesenthal, o judeu austríaco "caçador d e nazis" que ajudou a levar a tribunal mais de 1.100 criminosos de guerra nazis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 Set: A ONU escolhe para coordenador da luta contra a gripe das aves, Da vid Nabarro, um britânico considerado um dos principais especialistas em matéria de saúde pública da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS). Outubro 03 Out: A procuradora do Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI) para a ex-Jugo slávia, Carla del Ponte, permite à União Europeia lançar as negociações de adesã o com a Croácia, ao afirmar que Zagreb "está a cooperar totalmente" com o TPI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;07 Out: O prémio Nobel da Paz é atribuído à Agência Internacional da Energ ia Atómica (AIEA) e ao seu director, Mohamed ElBaradei, pelo seu trabalho contra a proliferação nuclear, quando a questão das armas de destruição maciça se mant ém actual na Coreia do Norte e no Irão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;08 Out: Um sismo de magnitude 7,6 na escala de Richter abalou Caxemira e o norte do Paquistão, fazendo 74.300 mortos, 82.000 feridos e mais de três milhõe s de desalojados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 Out: Início oficial em Belgrado das negociações com vista a integrar a Sérvia e Montenegro na União Europeia, um objectivo longínquo que permanece depe ndente da captura dos fugitivos dirigentes Radovan Karadzic e Ratko Mladic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Out: O projecto de Constituição iraquiana, rejeitado pelos sunitas, que temem uma divisão do Iraque a prazo, é adoptado por referendo (78 por cento de "sim").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 Out: Inicia-se em Bagdad o julgamento de Saddam Hussein, pelo massacre de Dujail (143 xiitas mortos em 1982). O presidente iraquiano deposto e sete col aboradores também acusados declaram-se inocentes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 Out: Com a morte de dois soldados, o balanço das baixas norte-americana s no Iraque atinge os 2.000 mortos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 Out: Em França, a morte acidental de dois jovens que estariam a ser per seguidos pela polícia, em Clichy-sous-Bois (subúrbios de Paris), desencadeia uma onda de violência urbana nocturna que vai estender-se a todo o país. De 27 Out a 17 Nov, mais de 9.000 veículos foram incendiados, 3.000 presumíveis delinquent es foram detidos e 126 polícias ficaram feridos. A 08 Nov, o governo instaurou o estado de emergência, prolongado por três meses, a 16 do mesmo mês.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Novembro 09 Nov: Na Jordânia, 60 pessoas, 16 das quais estrangeiras, morrem num tri plo atentado suicida contra hotéis de luxo em Amã. Os atentados, os mais graves que alguma vez atingiram a Jordânia, são reivindicados pelo extremista Abu Mussa b al-Zarqawi, líder da Al-Qaida no Iraque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Nov: A série de sequestros no Iraque é retomada, com o rapto de uma cid adã alemã e do seu motorista iraquiano no norte do país. No dia seguinte, duas c anadianas, um britânico e um norte-americanos são sequestrados em Bagdad. A 05 D ez, um francês é também raptado. Neste momento, há cerca de 40 estrangeiros em c ativeiro ou dados como desaparecidos no Iraque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 Nov: A conservadora alemã Angela Merkel é eleita chanceler pela Câmara dos Deputados, tornando-se, aos 51 anos, a primeira mulher a dirigir a Alemanha e a mais jovem chefe de governo na história do pós-guerra do maior país da União Europeia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 Nov: Nova ordem de prisão para o ex-ditador chileno Augusto Pinochet (1 973-1990), colocado em prisão domiciliária. É acusado de fraude fiscal e de viol ações dos direitos humanos, no âmbito do inquérito sobre o assassínio de oposito res em 1975, durante a "Operação Condor", um plano de concertação das ditaduras sul-americanas na década de 70 para exterminar os opositores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 Nov: Shimon Peres, figura histórica do Partido Trabalhista israelita, d errotado nas primárias pelo chefe da central sindical Histadrut, Amir Peretz, an uncia que abandona a sua formação e que adere ao Kadima, o novo partido de Ariel Sharon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dezembro 02 Dez: Os Estados Unidos ultrapassam o limiar dos 1.000 executados, desde a reinstauração da pena de morte, em 1976, com a execução de Kenneth Boyd, por duplo assassínio, na prisão central de Raleigh (Carolina do Norte).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;05-09 Dez: Périplo europeu da secretária de Estado norte-americana, Condol eezza Rice, quando na Europa estala a polémica em torno de informações sobre a a legada utilização de aeroportos europeus pela CIA para o transporte de prisionei ros islâmicos para prisões secretas na Europa de leste. Rice tranquiliza os parc eiros europeus quanto à utilização dos seus aeroportos, mas não responde às perg untas sobre as prisões secretas, dizendo apenas que os Estados Unidos não utiliz am a tortura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;08 Dez: O general croata Ante Gotovina, acusado pelo Tribunal Penal Intern acional (TPI) para a ex-Jugoslávia de crimes de guerra e crimes contra a humanid ade, é capturado em Espanha e transferido para a sede do tribunal, em Haia. A 12 Dez, declara-se inocente na primeira audiência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Dez: Vinte e Cinco Estados membros da União Europeia conseguem, no Cons elho Europeu de Bruxelas, chegar a acordo sobre as Perspectivas Financeiras para o período 2007-2013, no final da presidência britânica semestral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANC.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fonte: &lt;a href="http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/"&gt;UOL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a ref.: href="http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/lusa/2005/12/22/ult611u69511.jhtm"&gt;http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/lusa/2005/12/22/ult611u69511.jhtm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113605609947476907?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113605609947476907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113605609947476907' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113605609947476907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113605609947476907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/12/adeus-2005-ol-2006.html' title='Adeus 2005, Olá 2006!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113599592212092070</id><published>2005-12-31T02:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-31T04:07:01.570Z</updated><title type='text'>Putfile.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://putfile.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/putfile.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://putfile.com"&gt;Putfile&lt;/a&gt; is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service. Here you can upload videos and images to the internet for free. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;a href="http://putfile.com"&gt;Putfile.com&lt;/a&gt; you also be able to find videos ready to be downloaded of any kind of subject. Check out the browse option to get videos list arranjed by categories.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113599592212092070?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113599592212092070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113599592212092070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113599592212092070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113599592212092070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/12/putfilecom.html' title='Putfile.com'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113587665056266736</id><published>2005-12-29T17:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-29T17:17:30.630Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>Ubuntu is an ancient african word meaning I can't configure slackware and gentoo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113587665056266736?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113587665056266736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113587665056266736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113587665056266736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113587665056266736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/12/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113436086294556531</id><published>2005-12-12T04:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-12T04:14:22.956Z</updated><title type='text'>King's Quest IX has been saved!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/kq9save14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/kq9save14.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hi, this is Matt Compton of the Save King's Quest IX campaign.  Forgive the mass email, but I wanted to be sure to let you know the good news, in case you hadn't already heard.  Our campaign has been successful!  Vivendi has agreed to grant a "fan license" to the makers of King's Quest IX, so it is going to be released as originally planned, with a name change to "The Silver Lining."  WE DID IT!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For more information, you can visit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kqix.com"&gt;http://www.kqix.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thank you for your support!  The campaign would not have been successful without you!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Matt Compton&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113436086294556531?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113436086294556531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113436086294556531' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113436086294556531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113436086294556531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/12/kings-quest-ix-has-been-saved.html' title='King&apos;s Quest IX has been saved!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113426178900820624</id><published>2005-12-11T00:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-11T00:43:09.016Z</updated><title type='text'>Feliz Natal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/Nightmare%20Before%20Christmas%204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/Nightmare%20Before%20Christmas%204.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faz hoje, precisamente um ano desde que escrevi um post sobre o Natal. Nele citava o espírito natalício (ou a falta dele). &lt;br /&gt;Desta vez, deixo apenas uma mensagem de Feliz Natal e Bom Ano Novo aos eventuais acompanhantes deste blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113426178900820624?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113426178900820624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113426178900820624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113426178900820624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113426178900820624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/12/feliz-natal.html' title='Feliz Natal'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113202099463129943</id><published>2005-11-15T02:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-15T02:17:53.206Z</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com"&gt;http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; - Um site como há muito não encontrava. Um blog de grande interesse e utilidade onde se encontra muita informação muito objectiva sobre o "mundo linux". É não só útil para quem está a aprender mas também para quem já aprendeu mas cuja memória não "está sempre lá". Este blog contém também algumas opiniões muito próprias de enorme interesse em particular para quem se interessa por informática.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galeriadeinventores.web.pt/"&gt;http://www.galeriadeinventores.web.pt/&lt;/a&gt; - um tema que me interessa muito e que justifica por si só um blog é os casos de sucesso de portugueses no estrangeiro. Muitos são os portugueses que mereciam muito mais protagonismo do que lhes é atribuído (em grande contraste com o que é dado a muita gente pela comunicação social) e, nos passam, infelizmente despercebidos. Este blog teve a feliz ideia de reunir alguns deles e expôr a sua obra de modo a contrariar essa tendência.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113202099463129943?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113202099463129943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113202099463129943' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113202099463129943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113202099463129943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/11/ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113197145948988834</id><published>2005-11-14T12:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-14T12:35:58.533Z</updated><title type='text'>Save King's Quest IX</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/kq9save3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/kq9save3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you familiar with the King's Quest fan game that has been in the works since 2002?  Over 40 people have worked on it.  Programmers, writers, artists, animators, actors -- all because they loved King's Quest.  When finished, the game was going to be made available to anyone who wanted it, for free, via their website (&lt;a href="www.kqix.com"&gt;www.kqix.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It was due to be released this December, but just a few weeks ago, Vivendi Universal Games (who now owns Sierra, and thus the rights to King's Quest) issued a cease &amp; desist letter to the fans making the game.  They were forced to shut down.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Some King's Quest fans have joined forces in an effort to save the game.  They just recently launched a website.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.savekqix.org"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.savekqix.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They are asking everyone to send an email to Vivendi, and made it very easy to do so via their website.  There's an email link there -- you click it, and up pops a new email all ready to go.  All you have to do is hit send.  It literally only takes 10 seconds.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What we really need right now is to get the word out about our efforts.  Would you pass along this info to any other King's Quest fans that you know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal here is simple: the release of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;King's Quest IX&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113197145948988834?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113197145948988834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113197145948988834' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113197145948988834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113158705544508690?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113158705544508690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113158705544508690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113158705544508690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113158705544508690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/11/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the Day'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-113125548022904153</id><published>2005-11-06T05:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-04T00:16:11.763Z</updated><title type='text'>Onde Comprar sem sair de Portugal</title><content type='html'>Estes são talvez os melhores sítios que encontrei para comprar material informático a partir de Portugal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pixmania.com"&gt;Pixmania&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nomatica.pt"&gt;Nomatica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.andorrafreemarket.com"&gt;AndorraFreeMarket&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chip7.pt"&gt;Chip7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stopocasiao.com"&gt;StopOcasiao&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globaldata.pt"&gt;Globaldata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mbit.pt"&gt;Mbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microcaos.pt"&gt;Microcaos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ruadanet.com"&gt;RuaDaNet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.miau.pt"&gt;Miau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fnac.pt"&gt;Fnac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vobis.pt"&gt;Vobis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worten.pt"&gt;Worten&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chipsite.pt"&gt;Chipsite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chiptec.net"&gt;Chiptec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.loja.biz"&gt;Loja.biz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aquapc.pt"&gt;AquaPC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pckado.pt"&gt;PCkado&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dimofel.pt"&gt;Dimofel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.niposom.com"&gt;Niposom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.macloja.pt"&gt;Macloja&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inforlandia.pt"&gt;Inforlandia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como auxílio para a comparação de preços pode usar:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kuantokusta.com"&gt;kuantokusta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.izideal.pt"&gt;izideal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itcomponents.net"&gt;itcomponents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-113125548022904153?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/113125548022904153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=113125548022904153' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113125548022904153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/113125548022904153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/11/onde-comprar-sem-sair-de-portugal.html' title='Onde Comprar sem sair de Portugal'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-112640348592574249</id><published>2005-09-11T02:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T01:48:05.540+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De regresso à rotina...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/dsc01707.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/dsc01707.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depois de umas férias bastante intensas, nas quais viajei pela Eslovénia, Norte de Portugal, Espanha, Fig. da Foz, e ainda, Malta é bom regressar a casa e encontrar um pouco da minha rotina. Agora penso em algumas das experiências que mais me marcaram durante estas férias e vou interrompendo o meu pensamento já com os problemas do dia-a-dia. &lt;br /&gt;Apesar de estar completamente esgotado sinto que o meu cansaço foi um grande investimento pelo prazer dos momentos que vivi mas também pelo aprender que as viagens e os intercâmbios com outras culturas me proporcionaram em tão pouco tempo.&lt;br /&gt;Tudo começou na Eslovénia onde encontrei um grupo divertidíssimo formado por Italianos, Eslovacos, Eslovenos, Checos, Polacos e claro, portugueses. Aí, conheci um sítio muito bem tratado, bastante desenvolvido e muito agradável. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/dsc01957.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/dsc01957.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tive a oportunidade de ver Ljubljana, Koper, Piran, Vilaroz, entre outros locais e nadar no mar Adriático onde pude sentir uma água salgada sem as ondas do costume. Além disso, assisti a 2 concertos um dos quais com a banda mais famosa da Eslovénia e a outro por parte de uma banda local. No último dia, tive ainda sorte de ir a um restaurante de luxo onde passamos um belo serão e como se não bastasse ainda ganhei em 5 ou 6 slot machines no casino. Uma noite a não esquecer...&lt;br /&gt;Depois de ter estado novamente com a família no Norte de Portugal e Espanha onde também passei bons momentos, fui a Malta onde estive até agora. Aí encontrei um país totalmente diferente de tudo o que tinha visto antes.&lt;br /&gt; As casas eram de estilo árabe e havia um grande choque de culturas que fazia de Malta uma grande mistura de àrabes com Italianos, Ingleses, Franceses, Australianas, ...&lt;br /&gt;A língua apesar de ser mais parecida com árabe tinha grande influência italiana e algumas palavras em inglês. Aí tive oportunidade de ver locais como Valetta, Mdina, Marsaxlokk, Zurrieq entre outros de grande beleza e importância histórica.&lt;br /&gt;Neste intercâmbio o grupo era formado por Jordanos, Egípcios, Gregos, Italianos, um Palestiano, Maltases e claro, sem volta a dar, portugueses.&lt;br /&gt;A não esquecer o calor húmido terrível que se fazia sentir em Malta todo o dia e noite que me mantinha constantemente a suar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/1600/dsc01892.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3624/623/320/dsc01892.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Experiências diferentes que eu não quero esquecer...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-112640348592574249?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/112640348592574249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=112640348592574249' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112640348592574249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112640348592574249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/09/de-regresso-rotina.html' title='De regresso à rotina...'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-112269033108181472</id><published>2005-07-30T03:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-30T03:25:31.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Programming Resources</title><content type='html'>As the title says, this &lt;a href="http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; provides you free programming resources. Very well organized and good resource variety is what you will find there on a very simple and clear design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just found it out but seems already very interesting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-112269033108181472?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/112269033108181472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=112269033108181472' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112269033108181472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112269033108181472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/07/free-programming-resources.html' title='Free Programming Resources'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-112248290329396491</id><published>2005-07-27T17:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T17:53:52.890+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Rockstar Classics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/images/title.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now you can have tons of fun with free computer game classics.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From now on, i'm going to make reference to the some of the best classics i find freely available to download.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To a big start i show you GTA and GTA2 for free. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/"&gt;And remember, respect is everything!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-112248290329396491?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/112248290329396491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=112248290329396491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112248290329396491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/112248290329396491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/07/free-rockstar-classics.html' title='Free Rockstar Classics'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111990226502641208</id><published>2005-06-27T20:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-27T20:57:45.033+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://pls.mrnet.pt/index.php"&gt;http://pls.mrnet.pt/index.php&lt;/a&gt; - esta é a página pessoal do Paulo Laureano. É na minha opinião uma das pessoas que mais directamente tem contribuido para a informática em Portugal (e não só!). Um exemplo disso é o conhecido operador esoterica onde trabalhou, bem como, a sua empresa Mr. Net que faz sites para entidades da maior importância. A isto tudo alia uma atitude de simplicidade e de "amor à camisola" para com a informática que merece destaque. Apesar da sua respeitável carreira a sua humildade e abertura, permitem-me e obrigam-me que lhe trate assim, como grande bacano que é. De outro modo ele não ia gostar ;D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://satyr.acaro.org/~corro/blog/"&gt;satyr.acaro.org/~corro/blog/&lt;/a&gt; -  Este é o blog de um amigo da faculdade (o Ricardo) dedicado à sua vida, curiosidades e tecnologia. O que seria de esperar de outro informático? Um dos principais aspectos focados é o Mundo "Apple". Apesar de ainda estar numa fase inicial, estou certo que vai ter mais conteúdos com interesse que justifiquem a sua visita. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111990226502641208?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111990226502641208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111990226502641208' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111990226502641208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111990226502641208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/06/ler_27.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111990011806897941</id><published>2005-06-27T20:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-27T20:21:58.090+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Shoe kick-starts active lifestyle</title><content type='html'>Consiste num sapato que mede o exercicío praticado por uma criança e calcula o tempo adequado para esta poder ver televisão. &lt;br /&gt;Para isto "conta" o número de passos dados pela criança e quando a criança expirar o tempo de televisão cujo exercício físico lhe "concedeu", esta automaticamente se apagará através de um transmissor inserido na sola desde sapato.&lt;br /&gt;O objectivo é alertar para o estilo de vida sedentário que as pessoas tendem a levar nos dias de hoje, um dos factores que mais tem contribuído para o crescendo de problemas de obesidade por todo o Mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ver mais em &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4555989.stm"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111990011806897941?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111990011806897941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111990011806897941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111990011806897941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111990011806897941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/06/shoe-kick-starts-active-lifestyle.html' title='Shoe kick-starts active lifestyle'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111973039703732430</id><published>2005-06-25T21:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-25T21:13:17.043+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;Peseiro mantém estratégia de silêncio.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;telejornal da TVI&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111973039703732430?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111973039703732430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111973039703732430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111973039703732430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111973039703732430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/06/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the Day'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111972138368965309</id><published>2005-06-25T18:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-25T18:43:04.903+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Earth Station 9</title><content type='html'>If you don't find what your looking for by searching, browse it using categories on &lt;a href="http://www.earthstation9.com"&gt;Earth Station 9&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This &lt;a href="http://www.earthstation9.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; uses a "library style" method of filing. If you pick a category from the left and go from there, you may find things quicker.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111972138368965309?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111972138368965309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111972138368965309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111972138368965309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111972138368965309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/06/earth-station-9.html' title='Earth Station 9'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111765166179138944</id><published>2005-06-01T19:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-03T18:52:50.686+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.jcraveiro.com/"&gt;http://www.jcraveiro.com&lt;/a&gt; é um blog de carácter idêntico a este, com pensamentos, críticas, notícias e curiosidades de todo o tipo. Actualizado com frequência, é um blog muito agradável na minha opinião que vale a pena ler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em &lt;a href="http://pwp.netcabo.pt/fahrenheit/"&gt;http://pwp.netcabo.pt/fahrenheit/&lt;/a&gt; encontra já uma página pessoal de um amigo meu da escola básica com referências interessantes especialmente para quem partilha dos seus interesses (principalmente, anime e design). Este site contém também um blog com posts bonitos entre outras coisas que valem a pena mesmo para quem não conhece anime da maneira que o meu ex-colega. Miguel, se me tás a ler, continua!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111765166179138944?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111765166179138944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111765166179138944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111765166179138944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111765166179138944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/06/ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111586071609296322</id><published>2005-05-12T02:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T02:18:36.163+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Koders - Source Code Search Engine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.koders.com"&gt;Koders.com&lt;/a&gt; is a search engine for open source code. Its optimized search engine provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111586071609296322?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111586071609296322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111586071609296322' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111586071609296322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111586071609296322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/koders-source-code-search-engine.html' title='Koders - Source Code Search Engine'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111584554711946321</id><published>2005-05-11T22:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-11T22:05:47.120+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)</title><content type='html'>Recently, i found this wonderful project where you are challenged to solve interesting problems in C, C++, Pascal, JAVA, Perl, Python, Ada, Smalltalk, Fortran, Assembler, Icon, Ruby, Pike, Haskell, Ocaml, Prolog, CLIPS, Whitespace, Intercal, Brainf**k.&lt;br /&gt;There your code will be tested against, for instance, speed and you will be rated in an online contest with other world-wide programmers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The system is developed at the Gdańsk University of Technology, ETI Faculty and draws &lt;br /&gt;on a prototype created by Jacek Dąbrowski, MSc. Thesis (2003).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spoj.sphere.pl/"&gt;http://spoj.sphere.pl/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sphere.pl/?id=66"&gt;http://sphere.pl/?id=66&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111584554711946321?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111584554711946321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111584554711946321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111584554711946321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111584554711946321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/sphere-online-judge-spoj.html' title='Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111568434532739896</id><published>2005-05-10T01:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-10T01:20:26.013+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Linux vs. Windows: Why Linux will win</title><content type='html'>"One of the oft-mentioned weaknesses of Linux, fragmentation, is also one of its greatest strengths. Choice is, in immature markets, a good thing. Now, surely, choice comes at a cost. For example, there's no standard way to do certain tasks and development resources are sometimes split among two or more projects. However, these are weaknesses only in the short term. One could similarly argue that evolution of species suffers the same 'weakness' of fragmentation. However, in the long term, the survival and consolidation of the best traits result in an improved breed. Eventually, one of the many approaches to some desktop task will rise to dominance and show the market the right way to do it, and, at the same time, reduce the fragmentation problem."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;-Ray, May 8, 2005&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://librenix.com/?inode=6565"&gt;Click here to see the full article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111568434532739896?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111568434532739896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111568434532739896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111568434532739896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111568434532739896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/linux-vs-windows-why-linux-will-win_10.html' title='Linux vs. Windows: Why Linux will win'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111540439491035971</id><published>2005-05-06T19:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-09T04:53:36.223+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pure Hacking Sense</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page"&gt;iPodLinux project&lt;/a&gt; is an open source venture into porting &lt;a href="http://www.linux.org/"&gt;Linux &lt;/a&gt;onto the &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/"&gt;iPod &lt;/a&gt;. Most of these kind of hacks have great stories to tell and this is no exception. Remember that iPod wasn't designed to run Linux and its hardware architecture is closed.&lt;br /&gt;See how to extract the bootloader from the 4G iPod by sounding out ticks with the iPod's squeaky piezo. With some tweaking and a makeshift recording studio, he was able to dump the 64 kb file at 5 bytes/sec.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to see more about Piezo's hack.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111540439491035971?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111540439491035971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111540439491035971' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111540439491035971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111540439491035971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/pure-hacking-sense.html' title='Pure Hacking Sense'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111525375706996836</id><published>2005-05-05T01:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-08T21:18:47.446+01:00</updated><title type='text'>No more excuses to keep MS Windows!</title><content type='html'>In systems like GNU/Linux, Mac OS it's possible to run most of MS Windows applications without even using emulation. Cedega, (Wine fork) allows you to run not only 2d apps but even 3d accelerated like most of the recent games. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft Office, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshope, Doom III, Half-life 2, Warcraft III are just some of the many examples of the supported softwares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links Related:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.transgaming.com/"&gt;http://www.transgaming.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Cedega &amp; Point2Play home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.winehq.com/"&gt;http://www.winehq.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Wine home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~fcarson/3s6sVtXmxJblp7FYDjEZHdpFDDPY6m/pC7i3Pq1dikAmk/0bc1eff9e4d4489d54817ccfdbd79e49/TransGaming_downloads.html "&gt;http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~fcarson/.../&lt;/a&gt; - place where you can get cedega packed version for free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/"&gt;http://www.codeweavers.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Point2Play"&gt;http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Point2Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lickwid.ath.cx/~tlp/cedega/"&gt;http://lickwid.ath.cx/~tlp/cedega/&lt;/a&gt; - Cedega on FreeBSD&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111525375706996836?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111525375706996836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111525375706996836' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111525375706996836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111525375706996836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/no-more-excuses-to-keep-ms-windows.html' title='No more excuses to keep MS Windows!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111525081223024435</id><published>2005-05-05T00:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-05T00:53:32.236+01:00</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>Q - Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas? &lt;br /&gt;A - Because OCT 31 equals DEC 25.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111525081223024435?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111525081223024435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111525081223024435' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111525081223024435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111525081223024435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/05/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111483385151500016</id><published>2005-04-30T05:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T05:04:11.516+01:00</updated><title type='text'>momento Zen: A redenção</title><content type='html'>A noite era a mesma, procuravamos o caminho para casa no carro depois de uma saída à noite sem nada demais para contar, até que Ricardo Rito iria redimir-se com um momento ímpar. Pára o carro em plena estrada numa avenida escura e sinuosa onde só se via praticamente o céu escura, encontra perdido por um canto um homem já com os seus 40's 50's e completamente alcoolizado com uma guitarra na mão e começa a debitar as notas da célebre "knocking on heavens door" a qual é acompanhada pelo homem (mais dó menos ré) e cantada por todos nós, ainda dentro do carro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era a coisa mais normal do Mundo estar-se ali com aquele desconhecido, sem mais nem menos, às 4 e meia da manhã, a cantar aos céus Guns N Roses mas tava-se bem e por isso o "Ricky" continuou a divagar chegando até a cantar a letra do "atirei o pau ao gato" usando a mesma melodia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por fim, como pessoa bem educada que é despede-se com "aquele braço" e parte no seu carro.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111483385151500016?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111483385151500016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111483385151500016' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111483385151500016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111483385151500016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/04/momento-zen-redeno.html' title='momento Zen: A redenção'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111245205260462948</id><published>2005-04-02T15:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-02T15:37:51.923+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Porquê GNU/Linux quando se pode ter Windows?</title><content type='html'>Por mais do que uma vez, foi-me feita esta pergunta à qual eu não me senti capaz de responder de um modo convincente. Depois de reflectir mais um pouco percebi porquê. O problema não está em conseguir a resposta mas sim em desvirtuar quem executa a pergunta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora, vejamos as perguntas:&lt;br /&gt;1) Porquê GNU/Linux quando se pode ter Windows?&lt;br /&gt;2) O que é que se faz em GNU/Linux que não se possa fazer em Windows?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estas perguntas só podem ser feitas por alguém a quem a Microsoft infelizmente conseguiu fechar os olhos e estampar um código de barras na testa. Vejamos, porquê...&lt;br /&gt;Ambas partem do princípio que se pode ter Windows e que este deve ser visto de modo preferencial face a qualquer outro. Não há nada na realidade que faça uma destas duas coisas ser verdade, bem pelo contrário. Porque não perguntar:&lt;br /&gt;1) Porquê Windows quanso se pode ter GNU/Linux?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aqui sim, pode-se partir do facto de se poder ter GNU/Linux pois este é gratuito e ninguém pode questionar o meu direito a utiliza-lo seja onde fôr sem ter de prestar declarações a ninguém. &lt;br /&gt;E Não... a "pirataria" não serve como argumento para se poder dizer que se pode ter o Windows gratuitamente. Apenas serve como desculpa pois como acabei de provar não há absolutamente necessidade de o fazer. Quem entrar por aí terá de responder a uma pergunta mais bicuda que é:&lt;br /&gt;Porquê ter um sistema "pirateado" quando existem sistemas capazes de cumprir a tarefa gratuita e legalmente? &lt;br /&gt;Agravando esta situação não esquecer que o sistema GNU/Linux é muito mais completo e traz consigo em distribuições como SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora compilações de software de capacidades inesgotáveis e valor elevadíssimo para quem quiser ter alternativas para esses programas em Windows. Na ordem dos vários milhares de euros. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar de considerar a 2ª questão menos relevante dado que também o Windows é capaz de fazer a maior parte das tarefas que um utilizador doméstico possa desejar as coisas deixam de ser verdade quando se parte para o mundo das redes, sistemas onde a segurança e a performance são argumentos a ter em conta, bem como sistemas onde a escalabilidade e versatibilidade são necessários. &lt;br /&gt;Não é por acaso que sistemas como o Google, YaHoo, Amazon, shell providers não utilizam Windows. Excusado é,  falar da importância e requisitos desses sistemas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas para que não sejam argumentos categóricos a mostrar porquê é o GNU/Linux tem todas as vantagens que referi passo a explicar o que está na origem disso mesmo citando um excerto de uma entrevista com o icone Richard M Stallman, fundador da Comunidade GNU:&lt;br /&gt;"Permitam-me fazer uma analogia entre os programas informáticos e receitas de cozinha. Existem muitos pontos em comum entre um programa e uma receita, com uma lista de etapas e regras que determinam quando acabamos ou como retroceder... No fim, obtém-se um certo resultado. Se gostam de cozinhar provavelmente trocam as receitas com os amigos e, provavelmente, modificam-nas. Se modificaram a receita e se o resultado lhes agrada e se os amigos se deliciam é possível que lhes dêem a nova versão dessa receita.&lt;br /&gt;Imaginem um mundo no qual não poderiam mudar a receita porque alguém tinha decretado que era impossível modificá-la. E imaginem que, se mesmo que partilhassem essa receita com os seus amigos, seriam tratados de piratas e tudo seria feito para serem presos durante uns anos."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta liberdade para trocar "receitas" e modificá-las está na origem de um desenvolvimento mais rápido e de melhor qualidade só é possível num sistema aberto como o GNU/Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não tenho a liberdade para fazer tal coisa em Windows, simplesmente não posso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perante isto, desafio alguém para me responder:&lt;br /&gt;O que é que posso fazer em Windows que não posso fazer em GNU/Linux?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111245205260462948?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111245205260462948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111245205260462948' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111245205260462948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111245205260462948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/04/porqu-gnulinux-quando-se-pode-ter.html' title='Porquê GNU/Linux quando se pode ter Windows?'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-111241359185967898</id><published>2005-04-02T04:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-02T04:46:31.860+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Final Package System for Slackware</title><content type='html'>Intro:&lt;br /&gt;I'm almost sure this idea is not new but when i look to other distros&lt;br /&gt;(not slackware) i really believe it's becoming urgent.&lt;br /&gt;I'm talking about creating a Wrapper/frontend for any slackware package&lt;br /&gt;manager. Yes, i mean "any". This happens because the native Slackware&lt;br /&gt;package manager is very limited specially when we compare it with other&lt;br /&gt;major distros. Developing another package manager featuring all of them&lt;br /&gt;together would be another option but it would take much more work and&lt;br /&gt;maintenance (which could lead into less quality and speed of&lt;br /&gt;development).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concept:&lt;br /&gt;The idea is to create a user friendly system (GTK/ncurses) with its own&lt;br /&gt;API to extend its functionality to any already existing package manager.&lt;br /&gt;Then, for each package manager used (emerde, swaret, slackpkg,&lt;br /&gt;slapt-get, whatever,...) we would create its own template for the main&lt;br /&gt;operations (install pkg, upgrade pkg, list available pkg, ...). This&lt;br /&gt;way, the system would just use the correct syntax according each package&lt;br /&gt;manager and show its results in a nice gui in an higher layer where the&lt;br /&gt;user doesn't need to know how things are installed, or how the system&lt;br /&gt;works. I am considering on giving Advanced Options to advanced users&lt;br /&gt;make that possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Features:&lt;br /&gt;I will just list here some of the main goals of this project:&lt;br /&gt;- simple GUI to simple users.&lt;br /&gt;- advanced options to advanced users.&lt;br /&gt;- option to build packages (using checkinstall)&lt;br /&gt;- option to use deps (*)&lt;br /&gt;- option to list installed packages&lt;br /&gt;- option to install and remove packages&lt;br /&gt;- option to get information about packages which can be installed or not&lt;br /&gt;(i am considering using SPI project for that)&lt;br /&gt;- Search option, including regex and wildcards...&lt;br /&gt;- option to upgrade the entire system or single package(s) to newer&lt;br /&gt;versions(*)&lt;br /&gt;- option to load more package managers very easily (simple python&lt;br /&gt;classes or XML). I'm even considering on making a system to create those&lt;br /&gt;template files easily from scratch.&lt;br /&gt;- Categorization of packages (*2)&lt;br /&gt;- text mode usage (ncurses and command-line) (*2)&lt;br /&gt;- option to update the package system (this requires the update of&lt;br /&gt;one/all package managers used)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(*) - if there is any package manager loaded with support for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(*2) - Not a priority for technical reasons but still very important to&lt;br /&gt;my porpuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Implementation:&lt;br /&gt;My idea is to use something OO like Python with GTK, ncurses and&lt;br /&gt;command-line. Simplicity, versability, power and transparency are some&lt;br /&gt;of my&lt;br /&gt;key words on this project. It's appearance and features will have many&lt;br /&gt;things in common with y2pkg from SuSE:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.suse.de/~sh/YaST2-Package-Manager/screen-shots.html&lt;br /&gt;The original idea os to make this to Slackware since its KISS philosophy&lt;br /&gt;makes the work much easier for me than any other distro but its support&lt;br /&gt;could be available to other systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ideas, support, contributions, would be very appreciated...&lt;br /&gt;Please don't hesitate with questions and comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-111241359185967898?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/111241359185967898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=111241359185967898' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111241359185967898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/111241359185967898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/04/final-package-system-for-slackware.html' title='The Final Package System for Slackware'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110627552650440851</id><published>2005-01-21T02:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-21T02:53:59.110Z</updated><title type='text'>Hymn to Red October (lyric)</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;                        HYMN TO RED OCTOBER&lt;br /&gt;                Words and Music by Basil Poledouris&lt;br /&gt;                Russian Translation by Herman Sinitzen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Holodna hmoora.  &lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt; Cold, hard, empty.&lt;br /&gt;Eemruchnoh v'doosheh&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Light that has left me,&lt;br /&gt;Kak mohg znat ya shtoh tee oomriosh?&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;How could I know that you would die?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do svidonia, byehreg rodnoy&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Farewell again, our dear land.&lt;br /&gt;Kak nam troodnag pridstahvit shtoh eto nyeh sohn.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;So hard for us to imagine that it's real, and not a dream.&lt;br /&gt;Rodina, dom radnoy,&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Motherland, native home,&lt;br /&gt;Do svidonia Rodina.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Farewell, our Motherland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ay. Avepakhod, avepakhod, nass val nahmarskaya zhdyot nyehdazh dyotsyah.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Let's go; the sea is waiting for us.&lt;br /&gt;Nass zah vootmarskaya dah, ee preeboy!&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;The vastness of the sea is calling to us, and the tides!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salute otsam ee nashem dedum&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Hail to our fathers and forefathers.&lt;br /&gt;Zahvietum eekh fsigdah vierney.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;We are faithful to the covenant made with the past.&lt;br /&gt;Tepierre nichtoh, nee astanoivit,&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Now nothing can stop&lt;br /&gt;Pabiedney shark, radnoy straney.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Our Motherland's victorious march.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiy pliyvee, pliyvee bestrashna,&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Sail on fearlessly, &lt;br /&gt;Gordest say viernykh marieye.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Pride of the Northern Seas.&lt;br /&gt;Revoluytziye nadezhdah sgoostk vierif sekh luydeye.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the last two stanzas repeat a couple of times, then...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V'oktyabreh, v'oktyabreh, &lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt; In October, in October, &lt;br /&gt;Rahpar tu ium miy nashe pabiediy.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;We report our victories to you, our Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;V'oktyabreh, v'oktyabreh, &lt;br /&gt;Novie meeir fahli numnashy dehidiy.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;And to the heritage left by you for us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110627552650440851?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110627552650440851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110627552650440851' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110627552650440851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110627552650440851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/hymn-to-red-october-lyric.html' title='Hymn to Red October (lyric)'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110525187341035324</id><published>2005-01-09T06:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-09T06:24:33.410Z</updated><title type='text'>The Lion King</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthorne/3132649/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.flickr.com/3132649_2c082b9466_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthorne/3132649/"&gt;dsc00800&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackthorne/"&gt;blackthorne&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Esta foto foi tirada numa aldeia chamada "Castro de Avelas" (perto de Braganca) sem utilizar compressao numa resolucao de 2048x1536. Esta versao sofreu, no entanto, uma compressao para 1024x768.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110525187341035324?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110525187341035324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110525187341035324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110525187341035324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110525187341035324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/lion-king_110525187341035324.html' title='The Lion King'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110525128384667065</id><published>2005-01-09T04:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-09T06:27:13.903Z</updated><title type='text'>DSC-W1</title><content type='html'>Pois é, durante mais de um ano pesquisei sobre câmaras fotográficas digitais (enquanto juntava o dinheiro necessário) até que, finalmente, comprei! &lt;br /&gt;Há cerca de um mês recebi a minha camâra por correio e desde aí que tenho andado tão ansioso por fotografar "tudo" o que me aparece à frente que só agora escrevo um post sobre ela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para os que se interessam mais pelo assunto, trata-se de uma camâra digital Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W1 (Digital Still Camera) que é capaz de processar 5.1 milhões de pixeis efectivos, Zoom óptico 3x, lentes Vario-Tessar (Carl Zeiss), com 7 modos automáticos de fotografia para todas as cirscuntâncias (bem como, modo manual), possibilidade de gravação video com sistema MPEG movie VX (incluindo som), e possui um ecran LCD 2.5" que permite ter uma ideia muito precisa de como vai ficar a fotografia e dos efeitos que cada modo automático/manual tem sobre (particularmente útil à noite). O seu shutter lag varia entre 0.10s e 0.20s conforme a imagem já esteja ou não focada no momento do disparo. A camâra usa pilhas o que na minha opinião é muito benéfico por estas serem muito mais acessíveis no mercado face às baterias. Finalmente, comprei a camera pela Internet, numa loja chamada &lt;a href="http://www.nomatica.pt"&gt;Nomatica&lt;/a&gt; (em França).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quem quiser, saber mais sobre este modelo, recomendo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html"&gt;http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html&lt;/a&gt; - análise completa e detalhada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php"&gt;http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; - DSC-W1 em Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110525128384667065?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110525128384667065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110525128384667065' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110525128384667065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110525128384667065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/dsc-w1.html' title='DSC-W1'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110503319317793696</id><published>2005-01-06T17:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-06T17:56:41.773Z</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://hackaday.com/"&gt;http://hackaday.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Trata-se de um blog temático para quem se interessa pelo modo como funcionam as coisas (nomeadamente dispositivos electrónicos). Aqui é possível ver outras utilizações que certos dispositivos podem ter apenas com "pequenas" transformações as quais preenchem-se de muita imaginação e piada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://entertheblogix.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://entertheblogix.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; - A vida de Cão é mais um blog pessoal, não muito diferente deste, cheio de curiosidades de um colega meu universitário. Por ainda ser recente, não posso dizer muito mais mas parece interessante!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110503319317793696?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110503319317793696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110503319317793696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110503319317793696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110503319317793696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110468747626364495</id><published>2005-01-02T17:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-02T17:37:56.263Z</updated><title type='text'>Mario Mosaic</title><content type='html'>"272 sticky notes later, almost a roll of scotch magic tape too, and 6 hours of work inbetween, I finish up with a mosaic, an awesome one."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=7366"&gt;http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=7366&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110468747626364495?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110468747626364495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110468747626364495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110468747626364495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110468747626364495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/mario-mosaic.html' title='Mario Mosaic'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110464106879672622</id><published>2005-01-02T04:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-01-02T04:44:28.796Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110464106879672622?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110464106879672622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110464106879672622' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110464106879672622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110464106879672622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2005/01/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110382557137461524</id><published>2004-12-23T18:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-23T18:14:18.493Z</updated><title type='text'>Bom Natal!</title><content type='html'>Sendo esta a última oportunidade que tenho para escrever neste blog até ao dia 25 deste mês, resta-me desejar-vos um Bom Natal!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110382557137461524?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110382557137461524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110382557137461524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110382557137461524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110382557137461524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/bom-natal.html' title='Bom Natal!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110356660582907154</id><published>2004-12-20T18:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-20T18:19:34.290Z</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the day</title><content type='html'>"Warning:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  If you fail to read all of this document and ask questions that are&lt;br /&gt;  already answered, I reserve the right to verbally abuse you."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; README file of mysql-python-0.9.2 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110356660582907154?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110356660582907154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110356660582907154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110356660582907154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110356660582907154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the day'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110275958720359075</id><published>2004-12-11T10:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-11T10:06:27.203Z</updated><title type='text'>20Q</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://y.20q.net"&gt;20Q.net&lt;/a&gt; is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. &lt;a href="http://y.20q.net"&gt;20Q.net&lt;/a&gt; is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information - &lt;a href="http://www.20q.net"&gt;www.20q.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110275958720359075?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110275958720359075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110275958720359075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110275958720359075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110275958720359075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/20q.html' title='20Q'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110275929835676464</id><published>2004-12-11T10:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-11T10:01:38.356Z</updated><title type='text'>A Ler</title><content type='html'>o &lt;a href="http://abrupto.blogspot.com"&gt;Abrupto&lt;/a&gt; é um blog generalista de carácter não só informativo mas também crítico e até artístico onde se encontra de tudo, escrito por alguém que sabe...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110275929835676464?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110275929835676464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110275929835676464' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110275929835676464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110275929835676464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/ler.html' title='A Ler'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110265572846605379</id><published>2004-12-10T05:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-10T05:21:29.746Z</updated><title type='text'>A Árvore de Natal</title><content type='html'>A Árvore de Natal é um dos principais símbolos senão mesmo, O símbolo de Natal... Ainda me recordo dos meus tempos de infância enquanto tinha de dobrar o meu pescoço para cima para poder ver a árvore cheia de luzinhas a piscar!&lt;br /&gt;Fazia questão de participar nos enfeites da árvore e no presépio. O entusiasmo era grande!&lt;br /&gt;Nessa altura ainda não era Dezembro e já contava os dias que faltava para o dia 25, ou melhor... para o momento de abrir os embrulhos que envolviam as prendas "fixes" que os "grandes" ofereciam (sim, porque acreditem ou não eu não vou muito nessa história do Pai Natal!).&lt;br /&gt;Quando o Natal terminava ficava muito contente e ansioso para que o próximo chegasse com mais embrulhos para rasgar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje, a história é outra... são mais de duas dezenas de Natais vividos e já olho as Àrvores de Natal de cima para baixo. Já são as luzes na rua que me têm de lembrar do que se passa e já pouco ou nada tem graça. E quando a minha mãe me lembrou que se tinha de montar a árvore de Natal e o presépio apeteceu-me logo trabalhar (em Sistemas Distribuídos!).&lt;br /&gt;Não sei se é da minha "velhice", se é sinal de tristeza, se é da sociedade em que se vive, se é por estar com muito trabalho ou mesmo se se trata de um pouco destas razões todas em conjunto mas a verdade é que nada é igual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vocês, leitores também sentem o mesmo?&lt;br /&gt;Se sim, do que é vocês acham que se trata?&lt;br /&gt;Já agora, vocês existem?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110265572846605379?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110265572846605379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110265572846605379' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110265572846605379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110265572846605379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/rvore-de-natal.html' title='A Árvore de Natal'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110222990033804765</id><published>2004-12-05T06:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-05T06:58:20.336Z</updated><title type='text'>Cebola e Xeque-Mate!</title><content type='html'>Estima-se que o xadrez seja detentor de mais livros sobre ele próprio do que todos os restantes jogos juntos!&lt;br /&gt;É incrível o que se pode encontrar sobre esta ciência, arte, entretenimento, o que lhe queiram chamar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar disso, nas minhas pesquisas obscuras pela Internet encontrei uma técnica infalível para vencer facilmente qualquer jogador de xadrez. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.academicchess.com/learn/tourneymindgames.shtml"&gt;palavras para quê?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110222990033804765?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110222990033804765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110222990033804765' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110222990033804765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110222990033804765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/12/cebola-e-xeque-mate.html' title='Cebola e Xeque-Mate!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110143771918833082</id><published>2004-11-26T02:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-26T02:56:12.956Z</updated><title type='text'>Parabéns a Você!</title><content type='html'>Pois é, este blog faz hoje um mês desde que nasceu com o primeiro post onde "alguém" cumprimentava o Mundo com o famoso "Hello, World!" numa Segunda Feira, dia 25 de Outubro de 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nada de muito importante mas o facto do dia de hoje coincidir com o aniversário de alguém muito especial justifica por si só este post...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cintia, se me estás a ler muitos parabéns e muitos anos de vida, sua Kota!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110143771918833082?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110143771918833082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110143771918833082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110143771918833082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110143771918833082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/parabns-voc.html' title='Parabéns a Você!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110133082097396605</id><published>2004-11-24T21:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-24T21:18:59.750Z</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>" Sorry Nelly, my English is very pakistanesse... "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pablo&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110133082097396605?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110133082097396605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110133082097396605' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110133082097396605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110133082097396605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the Day'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110108141665035762</id><published>2004-11-21T23:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-24T21:18:25.256Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=""&gt;" Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than '&lt;b&gt;Microsoft&lt;/b&gt;,' don't you? "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Patrick Volkerding&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110108141665035762?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110108141665035762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110108141665035762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110108141665035762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110108141665035762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/myfortune_21.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110106813871908671</id><published>2004-11-21T19:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-21T20:21:58.513Z</updated><title type='text'>Be a wizard!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Consider all realities and choose one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lose and Find yourself in yours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Be a magician and an explorer...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Create, Invent, Change and Evolute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Seek the why's that matter most&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Find its answers and ignore everything else...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Do Chemistry with Mathematics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sociology with Physics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Predict the Unpredictable...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;No flags will ever make this World fully explored!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110106813871908671?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110106813871908671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110106813871908671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110106813871908671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110106813871908671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/be-wizard.html' title='Be a wizard!'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110074980152852439</id><published>2004-11-18T03:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-12-20T17:08:22.843Z</updated><title type='text'>Classic Computer Games</title><content type='html'>Afterburner&lt;br /&gt;Arkanoid&lt;br /&gt;Asteroids&lt;br /&gt;ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters&lt;br /&gt;Ballistix&lt;br /&gt;Battle Arena: Toshiden&lt;br /&gt;Battle Chess&lt;br /&gt;Beneath a Steel Sky&lt;br /&gt;Big Red Racing&lt;br /&gt;Blackthorne&lt;br /&gt;Bubble Bobble&lt;br /&gt;Budokan&lt;br /&gt;BZFlag&lt;br /&gt;Caesar&lt;br /&gt;California Games&lt;br /&gt;Cannon Fodder&lt;br /&gt;Carmageddon&lt;br /&gt;Centurion: Defender of Rome&lt;br /&gt;Championship Manager&lt;br /&gt;Chromium B.S.U.&lt;br /&gt;Civilization&lt;br /&gt;Colonization&lt;br /&gt;Command &amp;amp; Conquer&lt;br /&gt;Death Rally&lt;br /&gt;Destruction Derby&lt;br /&gt;Dizzy&lt;br /&gt;Doom&lt;br /&gt;Double Dragon&lt;br /&gt;Duke Nukem&lt;br /&gt;Dune&lt;br /&gt;Elastomania&lt;br /&gt;European Championship 1992&lt;br /&gt;Faceoff&lt;br /&gt;Fade to Black&lt;br /&gt;Flashback&lt;br /&gt;F1 Manager&lt;br /&gt;F-22 Lightning II&lt;br /&gt;Gravitation&lt;br /&gt;Goblins&lt;br /&gt;Golden Axe&lt;br /&gt;Gold Rush&lt;br /&gt;Grand Prix&lt;br /&gt;Grand Prix 500&lt;br /&gt;Gremlins&lt;br /&gt;Gunboat&lt;br /&gt;Home Alone&lt;br /&gt;Hot Road&lt;br /&gt;Humans&lt;br /&gt;Incredible Machine&lt;br /&gt;Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade&lt;br /&gt;Internation Tennis Open&lt;br /&gt;Italia 90&lt;br /&gt;King's Quest&lt;br /&gt;Kings of the Beach&lt;br /&gt;Lemmings&lt;br /&gt;Larry&lt;br /&gt;Liero&lt;br /&gt;Lion King&lt;br /&gt;Lost Vikings&lt;br /&gt;Lunar Lander&lt;br /&gt;Lotus III&lt;br /&gt;Maelstrom&lt;br /&gt;MahJong&lt;br /&gt;Mario&lt;br /&gt;Mario is Missing&lt;br /&gt;Mario Kart&lt;br /&gt;Mechwarrior&lt;br /&gt;Megaman&lt;br /&gt;Micro Machines&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft Flight Simulator&lt;br /&gt;Monthy Python&lt;br /&gt;Myth&lt;br /&gt;*** UNFINISHED POST ***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mario is Missing&lt;br /&gt;Sonic&lt;br /&gt;Super Mario&lt;br /&gt;Titus the Fox&lt;br /&gt;Tomb Raider&lt;br /&gt;Worms&lt;br /&gt;Z&lt;br /&gt;Zelda&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110074980152852439?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110074980152852439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110074980152852439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110074980152852439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110074980152852439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/classic-computer-games.html' title='Classic Computer Games'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110065899551631519</id><published>2004-11-17T01:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-19T12:33:59.513Z</updated><title type='text'>Patrick Volkerding: "The Man"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Conhecido como "The Man", &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding"&gt;Patrick Volkerding&lt;/a&gt; é o criador da distribuição de &lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/"&gt;GNU&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.linux.org/"&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; de nome &lt;a href="http://www.slackware.org/"&gt;Slackware&lt;/a&gt;. Esta distribuição distingue-se não só pela sua estabilidade e qualidade, mas também pelo facto de ser a mais antiga ainda existente e também a 1ª a surgir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar de não ser uma distribuição de utilização tão acessível como o &lt;a href="http://www.suse.com/us/"&gt;SuSE&lt;/a&gt; ou o &lt;a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/"&gt;Fedora&lt;/a&gt; e de não trazer de origem um gestor de pacotes tão poderoso, consegue ser, mesmo com a sua idade, a 6ª distribuição mais utilizada no Mundo (fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/"&gt;distrowatch&lt;/a&gt;) e mantém, como nenhuma outra, a sua qualidade habitual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infelizmente, segundo uma mensagem publicada dia 16 do presente mês, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding"&gt;Pat. Volkerding&lt;/a&gt; expõe o seu frágil estado de saúde onde refere os sintomas, os médicos e toda a situação que tem vivido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde Maio de 2001 que uma doença "misteriosa" lhe tem causado uma grande dor no seu ombro. Desde aí, consultou vários médicos os quais não lhe conseguiram resolver o problema. Ainda no mês de Setembro do presente ano (isto é, passados mais de 3 anos), os sintomas não só se haviam agravado como a patologia continuava por desvendar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Até que, uma pesquisa rápida protagonizada pelo próprio &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding"&gt;Patrick V.&lt;/a&gt;, no poderoso motor de busca "&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;" onde apenas digitou os seus sintomas, conseguiu dar a resposta que todos os exames e análises executadas por diferentes médicos com anos e anos de experiência não conseguiram dar.O seu problema de saúde não se encontra ainda resolvido mas a identificação da patologia é, indiscutivelmente, um grande ponto de partida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O objectivo deste texto não é de ferir o orgulho dos médicos nem de pôr em causa o tremendo papel que desempenham na sociedade. De resto, o meu irmão está prestes a formar-se como médico e ninguém mais do que eu respeita os médicos e a Medicina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com este texto apenas pretendo mostrar um grande exemplo de auto-determinação e de coragem deste grande "líder" informático, bem como, da grande utilidade que o poderoso motor de busca "&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;" (e não só) pode ter quando aplicado ao serviço de matérias como é o caso da Medicina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;História completa em / Full story in English:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt"&gt;http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110065899551631519?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110065899551631519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110065899551631519' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110065899551631519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110065899551631519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/patrick-volkerding-man.html' title='Patrick Volkerding: &quot;The Man&quot;'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110045968566125813</id><published>2004-11-14T19:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-14T19:21:04.516Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>Q: What is the only mammal able to fly?&lt;br /&gt;A: "The penguin."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Weakest Link finalist&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110045968566125813?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110045968566125813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110045968566125813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110045968566125813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110045968566125813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/myfortune_14.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110032296446637539</id><published>2004-11-13T04:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-14T05:11:35.393Z</updated><title type='text'>O Metropolitano de Lisboa, Portugal...</title><content type='html'>Há muito que a maioria dos países desenvolvidos nomeadamente na Europa, compreendeu que um sistema de cobrança de bilhetes baseado na honestidade das pessoas não resulta, ou pelo menos, é mto ineficaz. De facto, tendo em conta que a probabilidade de se encontrar um fiscal no metro e de este aplicar uma coima sobre essa pessoa por não possuir bilhete é tão reduzida, torna-se do ponto de vista monetário compensatório viajar sem pagar bilhete. Mesmo que alguma dia a pessoa se veja obrigada a pagar uma multa, a médio-longo prazo esse valor é compensado com o dinheiro que pode ser poupado ao fim de meses a fio a viajar no metro sem pagar por isso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há não muito tempo, o metropolitano de Lisboa investiu uma grande quantia de dinheiro no sentido de corrigir essa situação através de uma conversão altamente embaraçosa para o quotidiano das pessoas que utilizam o metro, que consistia em substituir os interfaces de validação dos bilhetes por sistemas de portas cuja entrada para o metro só se torna possível (em teoria) se a condição do bilhete estar validado for satisfeita. Após todo o sacríficio necessário o sistema entrou em funcionamento mas depressa surgiram problemas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ou é porque há um interface que está avariado (e que em vez de ser fechado, mantém-se permanentemente aberto), ou é porque está tudo em manutenção, ou é por incompetência total mas a verdade é que não há dia em que seja qual for a estação de metro, não haja pelo menos um interface que dê livre acesso. O resultado é o mesmo que não existir nenhum interface de todo pois toda a gente termina por poder passar sem ter de pagar bilhete ou qualquer tipo de ginástica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta situação já dura desde a criação do novo sistema (cerca de 4 anos) e além de não se ver nada que aponte para uma resolução do problema, tudo parece conformado com a situação actual...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto trabalho... Tanto dinheiro... Tanta Tecnologia... Tanto sacríficio... para quê?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110032296446637539?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110032296446637539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110032296446637539' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110032296446637539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110032296446637539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/o-metropolitano-de-lisboa-portugal.html' title='O Metropolitano de Lisboa, Portugal...'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110023191919971832</id><published>2004-11-12T03:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-12T04:31:01.990Z</updated><title type='text'>O que é o amor?</title><content type='html'>Esta foi a pergunta feita a um grupo de crianças de 4 a 9 anos, durante uma pesquisa feita por profissionais de educação e psicologia.&lt;br /&gt;Eis as respostas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando alguém te magoa, e tu, mesmo muito magoado, não gritas, porque sabes que isso fere os sentimentos da outra pessoa.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mathew, 6 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Quando minha avó ficou com artrite, e deixou de poder dobrar-se para pintar as unhas dos pés, o meu avô passou a pintar as unhas dela, apesar de ele também ter muita artrite.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Rebecca, 8 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando uma menina põe perfume e o menino põe loção pós-barba, depois saem juntos e se cheiram um ao outro.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Karl, 5 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Eu sei que minha irmã mais velha me ama porque ela dá-me todas as roupas velhas e tem que sair para comprar outras.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Lauren, 4 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é como uma velhinha e um velhinho que ainda são muito amigos, apesar de se conhecerem há muito tempo.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Tommy, 6 anos&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Quando alguém te ama, a forma de dizer o teu nome é diferente...&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Billy, 4 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando tu sais para comer e ofereces as tuas batatinhas fritas sem esperar que a outra pessoa te ofereça as batatinhas dela.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Chrissy, 6 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando minha mãe faz café para o meu pai e toma um gole antes, para ter certeza que está ao gosto dele.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Danny, 6 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Se queres aprender a amar melhor, deves começar com um amigo de quem não gostas.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nikka, 6 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Quando contas a alguém alguma coisa feia sobre ti próprio, e ficas com medo que essa pessoa por causa disso deixe de gostar de ti, ai ficas mesmo surpreendido, quando descobres que não só te continuam amando, como ainda te amam mais!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Samantha, 7 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Há dois tipos de amor: o nosso amor e o amor de Deus. Mas o amor de Deus consegue juntar os dois.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Jenny, 4 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando a nossa mãe vê o nosso papai chegar suado e mal cheiroso, e ainda diz que ele é mais bonito que o Robert Redford!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Chris, 8 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "Quando amas alguém, os teus olhos sobem e descem, e pequenas estrelas saem de ti!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Karen, 7 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amor é quando o teu cão te lambe a cara, mesmo depois de o teres deixado sózinho o dia inteiro.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mary Ann , 4 anos.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110023191919971832?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110023191919971832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110023191919971832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110023191919971832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110023191919971832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/o-que-o-amor.html' title='O que é o amor?'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110022403529271316</id><published>2004-11-12T01:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-12T04:32:44.976Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Hello everybody out there using minix - i'm doing a (free) operating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;386(486) AT clones.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Linus Torvalds, August 1991 on newsgroup comp.os.minix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110022403529271316?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110022403529271316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110022403529271316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110022403529271316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110022403529271316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/myfortune_12.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110014590639619288</id><published>2004-11-11T03:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-12T02:43:23.253Z</updated><title type='text'>Música e Pirataria Informática - Crime ou Direito?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A reprodução não autorizada de títulos originais é um crime previsto por lei. Apesar disso, a mesma não deixa de ser abundantemente praticada e é, para muitos, a causa de uma perda significativa dos lucros das editoras que comercializam estes titulos originais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Este assunto já de si, é discutível pois se é verdade que muita gente passou a adquirir cópias ilegais deixando de comprar esses títulos nas lojas, também é verdade que os meios de partilha de música (nomeadamente os "peer-to-peer") tornaram-se uma grande fonte (talvez a maior) de publicidade gratuita desses mesmos títulos, tornando os seus nomes mais conhecidos e reconhecidos e por consequência comprados por muita gente que de outro modo provavelmente não conheceria a música em causa ou não teria a certeza de que essa é de facto a música que procura (motivo muitas vezes suficiente para não comprar).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A estrela pop, El Bono questionada sobre essa matéria diz que este tipo de partilha de música só traz justiça ao Mundo pois as Estrelas já são excessivamente pagas e esta é uma boa maneira de os que menos têm poderem ter um melhor acesso à grande forma de entertenimento que é a Música. Se bem, que nem todos os músicos são Estrelas, verdade seja dita, o prejuízo causado pela cópia ilegal tende a ser maior quanto maior for a fama e sucesso do artista o que também se aplica de modo inversamente proporcional aos artistas que menos sucesso têm e mais precisam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;No entanto, mesmo concordando com a maneira de ver essa situação de El Bono, a cópia não autorizada não deixa de ser crime. Afinal, os músicos como qualquer outro trabalhador honesto têm o direito de ser remunerados pelo trabalho que fazem e se o seu trabalho é furtado, utilizado indevidamente ou alterado, estes devem ter todo o direito de exigir justiça. Concordo que algo seja feito para pelo menos "estabilizar" a pirataria de modo a impedir que esta acabe com as Estrelas que afinal, são a fonte da música que está na essência de todo este problema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Muito se tem inventado para tentar combater a pirataria informática em particular no mundo da Música. Desde ameaças legais por toda a parte sobre quem violar os direitos de cópia, passando pelo desmantelamento de grupos que se dedicam exclusivamente ao chamado "ripping" das músicas originais para formatos que utilizam algoritmos avançados de compressão quefacilmente podem ser facilmente partilhados pela Internet (como o "mp3") até à perseguição principalmente nos E.U.A. a utilizadores domésticos que são detectados a partilhar títulos originais sem autorização na Internet em programas como o "KaZaA".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;É importante que se saiba que está cientificamente provado que a disponibilidade de uma música em meios "peer-to-peer" tem um grau altamente exponencial o que significa que desde que a música é posta a circular na Internet até ficar disponivel para alguém em qualquer canto do Mundo, a sua propagação é extremamente rápida nestes meios. Estudos em sistamas distribuídos demonstram que mesmo que houvesse apenas uma fonte no Mundo inteiro com o título partilhado as probabilidades mostram que em muito pouco tempo qualquer pessoa em qualquer parte do Mundo facilmente conseguiria aceder a uma cópia desse ficheiro. Resumindo, isto significa que as medidas acima referecidas não passam do que se costuma chamar "tentativa de tapar o vento com as mãos" tanto que a realidade tem mostrado que não têm tido qualquer resultado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Recentemente, foi aprovada e implementada uma medida que passa por introduzir uma taxa em consumiveis próprios para armazenamento de dados como os cd's e dvd's virgens (os quais são necessários aquando a execução de cópias ilegais) no sentido de compensar ou minimizar os prejuízos causados por estes às editoras. Ora, se estes consumiveis são vendidos com própositos legais, estes não deviam ser responsabilizados pela sua má utilização por parte dos utilizadores. Quem quer que se tenha lembrado desta medida, parte do pressuposto que quem compra um cd ou um dvd virgem fa-lo com o propósito de "piratear" e por isso tem de ajudar a compensar o dano causado às editoras. Sendo assim, faz sentido perguntar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;O que é que tem a pessoa que compra um destes consumiveis para uma utilização legal, como é a utilização dos mesmos para salvaguarda de informação vital, e pode nunca ter cometido nenhum crime deste género a ver com os que utilizam estes consumiveis para esses propósitos?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Além disso, se eu (como comprador) tenho de pagar mais na compra destes consumiveis para compensar os prejuízos causados pela pirataria às editoras, porque não hei eu ganhar o direito de os utilizar para os piratear? Vistas bem as coisas eu estou a ser responsabilizado no momento em que compro um cd ainda num estado virgem pela pirataria existente ao ter de pagar mais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Talvez a solução passasse pela própria origem do problema onde as editoras vendem a títulos a preços muitas vezes exclusivos onde só compra quem pode, o que restringe não só o número de vendas, como um acesso mais livre à Música. Uma redução destes preços aumentaria as suas vendas não só por compradores indecisos mas também por aqueles que têm menos escrúpulos em fazer cópias ilegais pois assim têm o seu trabalho já feito e podem ainda beneficiar de uma qualidade superior.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Em todo o caso, medidas destas não contribuem minimamente para a resolução do problema e o pior de tudo é fazerem os inocentes pagar pelos crimes dos outros ao mesmo tempo que aqueles que os praticam ganham agora alguma legitimidade para continuar a sua actividade ilegal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;          -- Francisco Gama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110014590639619288?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-110005417844397481</id><published>2004-11-10T02:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-12T01:50:34.766Z</updated><title type='text'>myFortune</title><content type='html'>Q: why is 6 afraid of 7 ?&lt;br /&gt;A: because 7 8 9.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          -- Dexter's lab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-110005417844397481?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/110005417844397481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=110005417844397481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110005417844397481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/110005417844397481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/11/myfortune.html' title='myFortune'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-109925189873834160</id><published>2004-10-31T19:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2004-11-18T03:52:09.260Z</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the day</title><content type='html'>Então já usas o emacs?&lt;br /&gt;Não pah, uso o webmail e tá andar...&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;br /&gt;Ah é aquela coisa tipo notepad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         -- Dioguinho&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div 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height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8875532.post-109917953666113823</id><published>2004-10-30T23:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2004-11-11T21:42:33.506Z</updated><title type='text'>Best movies ever</title><content type='html'>- Snatch&lt;br /&gt;- Matrix series&lt;br /&gt;- 6th Sense&lt;br /&gt;- The Village&lt;br /&gt;- The Good, the bad and the ugly&lt;br /&gt;- Mad Max series&lt;br /&gt;- Star wars series&lt;br /&gt;- The Terminator I &amp;amp; II&lt;br /&gt;- Lord of the Rings series&lt;br /&gt;- Indiana Jones Series&lt;br /&gt;- Batman Series&lt;br /&gt;- Alien series&lt;br /&gt;- Predator series&lt;br /&gt;- Seven&lt;br /&gt;- The Ring&lt;br /&gt;- Resident Evil&lt;br /&gt;- Pulp Fiction&lt;br /&gt;- Trainspotting&lt;br /&gt;- Untouchables&lt;br /&gt;- 51th State&lt;br /&gt;- Brave heart&lt;br /&gt;- Nightmare before Christmas&lt;br /&gt;- American 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type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Emacs tips (using keyboard)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;======================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;BEFORE USE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This tips are labeled based on the most known conventions which doesn't mean they are the chosen ones by emacs developers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;It's important to know that this are just some of the default most useful bindings for me. Emacs is much more than that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;NOTATION (taken from 2.3.1 Command Keys (Meta, Esc, Control, and Alt) in http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=359):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;As you'll soon learn, Emacs makes heavy use of multi-key combinations. Because it is not a modal editor like vi, you don't have to think about being in ``command mode'' or ``editing mode'' before you can try to move the cursor or execute a command. Instead, you just press the right combination of keys and Emacs does as told (usually).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The keys that Emacs makes the most use of are usually abbreviated in the documentation as C (for Control or Ctrl) and M for (Meta). While most modern PC keyboards have one or more keys labeled Ctrl few have one labeled Meta. You'll want to mentally substitute either Esc or Alt for the Meta key. In most standard configurations, both Esc and Alt do essentially the same thing. So when you see a reference in any Emacs related documentation to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; it means ``press control-x and then f.'' And if you see a reference to something like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x&lt;/span&gt; shell is means ``press alt-x and type the word shell''.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Running emacs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;bash $ emacs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Running emacs with opened file:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;bash $ emacs filename&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Inside emacs....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Opening file (aka Find File):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Saving buffer (file):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Saving buffer as (file as):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;List buffers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Switch buffer:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Quit buffer:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-k&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Quit emacs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Show menu:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;F10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Execute Emacs function (explicitly):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x function&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Describe Emacs function:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Describe Emacs variable:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Describe Emacs bindings:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Describe Emacs key:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h k&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Get Emacs tutorial:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Get Info:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Get Help:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Get Detailed Help:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-h ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Dismiss current operation (when emacs hangs):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Select Region (cursor position defines its end):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-@   or   C-SPC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Select all:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch selected Region:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to line:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x goto-line&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to end of the current line:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to the beginning of the current line:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to the beginning of the buffer (file):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Go to the end of the buffer (file):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Indent line:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;TAB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indent Region:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-M-\    or    M-x indent-region&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut from current cursor position until end of line:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-k&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut from current cursor position until end of sequence (including possible newlines):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-k&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut region:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paste (aka Yank):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incremental Search forward (repeat command for next match):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incremental Search backward (repeat command for next match):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unconditional Replace String:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x replace-string &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; STRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unconditional Replace Regular Expression:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x replace-regexp &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; REGEXP &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Query Replace String:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-% STRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;    or&lt;br /&gt;M-x query-replace &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; STRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Query Replace Regular Expression:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-M-% REGEXP &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x query-replace-regexp &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; REGEXP &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt; NEWSTRING &amp;lt;ret&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Undo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x u    or    C-_&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Split Windows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delete other windows except current one:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Close current Window:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x-0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Switch between Windows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compile:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x compile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for erros do: &lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x `&lt;/span&gt; (reverse quote)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debug:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x debug&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shell mode:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x shell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the differences between two files:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x ediff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debug emacs itself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-x toggle-debug-on-error&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defining Macros:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x ( MACRO C-x )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;replace MACRO with the combination of commands you wish to execute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Run the last keyboard macro defined:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-x e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the .emacs file (taken from http://www.haifux.org/lectures/64/emacslec.html):&lt;br /&gt;the .emacs file contains lisp code which is executed every time&lt;br /&gt;you run emacs, on startup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the .emacs file we will put macro definitions,&lt;br /&gt;variable customizations, key bindings, adding hooks&lt;br /&gt;and actually any lisp code you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bind keys:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;(global-set-key "\COMMAND" 'function)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;unbind keys:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;(global-unset-key "\COMMAND" 'function)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;using etags:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;To use etags you have you to run in the first place:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="content" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;bash $ etags files&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;(to generate TAGS file)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See definition of any global symbol of interest (&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="content" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;C-u M-.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;to find next match):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;M-.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;spc style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KNOW MORE (other tools and projects):&lt;br /&gt;Emacs power remains mainly on its versatibility. You can easily plug in other tools and make it provide all those features you need since mail client until tetris (yes, the game!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of those tools is "speedbar". Speedbar is an Emacs Lisp program which allows you to create a special skinny frame with a specialized directory listing in it. This listing will have both directories and filtered files in it. You can then load files into your emacs frame, or expand the files to display all the tags that are in them and jump to those tags. You can also expand multiple directories into your speedbar frame (taken from http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you code in Java other useful tool is JDE.&lt;br /&gt;The Java Development Environment for Emacs is a software package that interfaces Emacs to command-line Java development tools (for example, JavaSoft's JDK) (taken from http://jdee.sunsite.dk/).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/spc&gt;&lt;spc style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other project is XEmacs which is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system with modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To know more about other tools read the info that comes with emacs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REFERENCES:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html"&gt;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emacs.org"&gt;http://www.emacs.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/"&gt;http://www.emacswiki.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html"&gt;http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=359"&gt;http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=359&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haifux.org/lectures/64/emacslec.html"&gt;http://www.haifux.org/lectures/64/emacslec.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml"&gt;http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jdee.sunsite.dk/"&gt;http://jdee.sunsite.dk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/spc&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dotemacs.de/"&gt;http://www.dotemacs.de/&lt;/a&gt;  (unofficial .emacs home)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;spc style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;ret&gt;&lt;a href="http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/emacs/node24.html"&gt;http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/emacs/node24.html&lt;/a&gt; (example .emacs file)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0153"&gt;http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0153&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xemacs.org"&gt;http://www.xemacs.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT:&lt;br /&gt;this is a scratch written by Francisco Gama using many quotes from the references that gathers what i consider of most interest using what i consider the most powerful editor tool. This little guide is not finished since i intend to update it regularly with my new knowledge about this great tool. I plan on improving information about macros,debug and .emacs files.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Good work!&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/ret&gt;&lt;/spc&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8875532-109884600185195787?l=sscratch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/feeds/109884600185195787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8875532&amp;postID=109884600185195787' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/109884600185195787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8875532/posts/default/109884600185195787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sscratch.blogspot.com/2004/10/emacs-guide.html' title='emacs guide'/><author><name>blackthorne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
