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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Drills and Smoke Bombs
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 07 17:22:21 GMT
Real men do it using drills or smoke bombs…
Mr. Big – Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsP4qAB4sUs
Ace Frehley Guitar Solo Tokyo Japan 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsvtJ2npPiA
Kids, do not try this at home.
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Software Livre no Parlamento
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 07 21:27:21 GMT
Fui la ver…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLxVupn6oKo
Nao vou fazer comentarios. So constatar um facto: num
hemiciclo cheio de deputados, havia apenas 2 computadores
portateis, um dos quais desligado. Estamos conversados.
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: L’Aventure C’est L’Aventure
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 07 20:58:21 GMT
I like movies, but I dont like going *to* the movies.
I dont like any type of movie, I’m fed up with the standard
fare comedy/romance/drama. I specifically dont like pseudo
intellectual movies. This includes french movies. I’m more of
a cult/weird movie fan.
“L’Aventure C’est L’Aventure” is an exception in my life. I
went 4 or 5 times to see it *at* the movies. Its a French
movie directed by pseudo-intellectual Claude Lelouch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066798/
Sure enough, if I had to like any French movie, directed by
a pseudo-intellectual, it would have to be a cult one.
Here are some of the memorable scenes. I know most of them
by heart…
“Je suis belge. Je m’ocupe de terre est de betes”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMMPAMcQVk
“Vous etes un tigre de papier”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daR71fOIZIo
“Je marche toujours comme ca pour les filles”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CamqDJ4qs
I didnt find the “imagine Stalin with a Ferrari” scene but
the DVD will be on its way soon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/aventure-Cest-Laventure-REGION-NTSC/dp/B0000A0WH9/
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: There is Hope
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 07 00:14:21 GMT
The impossible has happened. Fish has played a gig with Marillion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwy2nFSyASU
There is still hope; we might just see a reunion tour…
Meanwhile: found the video for my favourite Marillion song and
found out that we have another dose of Fish in December
Marillion – Assassing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULngjhKnZ0o
Fish: Clutching At Stars Tour 2007
December 5th – Aula Magna: Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.the-company.com/gigs.htm
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Operating Systems in 10 Years
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 07 21:49:21 GMT
PlanetGeek’s theme of the month is the future of operating
systems and I havent read a single coeherent post that threw
in some original and forward thinking insights.
As such, not having too much time to write an extensive post
(maybe later someday), here are some admitedly “original” and
“forward thinking” topics regarding the issue.
– what does an OS do? It manages resources, namely CPU, memory
and disk (plus numerous other devices)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
– what will a future OS have to do? It will have to manage
resources. The big difference is that it will have to assume
that the “usual” resources are: networked, shared, wireless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
– a future OS will have to be able to deal with wireless CPUs,
wireless memory, wireless disk, wireless LCD, wireless graphic
card. A friend will be able to come over with his wireless CPU
in his pocket and my machine will have to recognize it and add
that resource at once to its overall CPU power. If my friend
brings over his wireless disk I should be able to rip a DVD on
my (wireless) DVD player and save the .iso in his disk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB
– a future OS will have to be able to deal with networked CPUs,
networked memory, networked storage, etc. I should be able to
publish my local CPU, storage or memory resources (or others)
into the global pool (grid) of resources and also to be able to
share from those resources. One should be able to issue a shell
command of ‘find /mnt/world -name CVmvalente.txt -print’ and
get back as result ‘/mnt/world/pt/asterisco/mv/Files/CVmvalente.txt’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_file_system
http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/
– a future OS will have to leave the desktop/folder/file metaphor,
because it just doesnt scale beyond the desktop scale. We need
a “library of Alexandria” metaphor where everything is stored and
is searchable. Every “information block” should be automatically
versioned on a second by second basis, with no need to issue Save
commands or to backup stuff. I should be able to slide back and forth
in time and see what was the specific state of an “information block”
in any point in time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
– a future OS will have to do away with the WIMP model (for all you
youngsters out there it means Windows/Icon/Menu/Pointer). Once
again it doesnt scale above desktop level. I want my whole desk to
be the display and also the input device, Minority Report style.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/21/1540256&mode=thread&tid=137
– a future OS will have to interact with the user in a less intrusive
way than the current window/menu/popup scheme. Admitedly that could be
solved with voice input and output, although I am not a believer in
that style of interaction. Its just too noisy. I believe that current
reality is pointing us toward an event driven, interrupt style type of
interface that a future OS will have to deal with and provide tools for
its management. A future OS will interact with me through a repetitive
cycle of request/response similar to twitter/SMS/IM interactions that
can be managed in terms of priority, visibility, etc and that can also
be chanelled through different media (SMS, twitter, IM, whatever). It
will be the return of the command line, also a current trend.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/im_and_the_command_line.html
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
— MV
