mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Metaphysics of Quality
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 07 05:38:21 GMT

“And what is good, Phaedrus? And what is not good?
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”

http://www.island-of-freedom.com/PLATO.HTM
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/PLQUOTES.HTM

“What moves the Greek warrior to deeds of heroism is not a sense
of duty as we understand it… duty towards others:
it is rather duty towards himself. He strives after that which
we translate ‘virtue’ but is in Greek arete, ‘excellence’ ”

“Ph

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Cartao de Cidadao
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 07 22:13:21 GMT

Malta, vamos combinar uma coisa, OK? Fica terminantemente proibido
de mandar bocas sobre o Cartao de Cidadao quem:

a) achar que o cartao tem dados guardados no chip e tem la a
assinatura digitalizada; isto so mostra que nao percebe nada
de seguranca e de infraestruturas de chaves publicas (PKI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure

(o sistema de seguranca e publico e universal)

b) achar que o cartao e uma miragem, que esta em testes, piloto,
etc. e nao souber que ja foram emitidos mais de 10 mil cartoes,
tanto nos Acores como no Continente

http://www.mj.gov.pt/sections/informacao-e-eventos/imprensa/3-trimestre-de-2007/simplificacao-de/

(o sistema tem varios componentes, de varios fornecedores, estando
a ser implementado por fases, como mandam as boas praticas de qualquer
projecto de sistemas de informacao)

c) nao tiver ido a um dos workshops de esclarecimento tecnico, gratuitos,
onde e explicado direitinho como tudo funciona e inclusive da para levar
para casa para desenvolver aplicacoes

http://www.ama.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=40
http://www.ucma.gov.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=34&lang=pt

(cheira-me e que deve ser areia demais para muito pseudo-expert que
por ai anda a mandar postas de pescada)

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Britcom: Bottom
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 07 01:50:21 GMT

Ah yes, “Bottom”… Nothing like obvious innuendos and mindless
violence to come up with a classic in British Comedy.

For the “mental” option (this on is the “heavy”), check out
“Fast Show”.

The Best of Bottom – Series 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEhx3ChdPYw

Bottom – Violence compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EiBbL7G-4

Bottom – Guest House Paradiso (The Kitchen Brawl)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr1mJWbY_4

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Lamprophonic Phenakism
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 07 01:50:21 GMT

English is selcouth sometimes: a word like focsle is
a finnimbrun that leaves me utterly flabbergasted.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Weekly Link Harvest
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 07 19:50:21 GMT

10 links bookmarked out of a single week. Not bad…

Learning Japanese
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn%20japanese
(my new pasttime)

Server Side JavaScript and the Universal Scripting Language
http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/server-side-javascript-and-the-universal-scripting-language
(now that Russell Beattie said it, people might take me seriously)

VisualJVM
http://visualvm.dev.java.net/
(usefull for monitoring Java stuff)

Cream a modern configuration of the Vim text editor
http://cream.sourceforge.net/
(real men use vi…)

10 Steps to Beautiful Shell Scripts
http://bashcurescancer.com/10-steps-to-beautiful-shell-scripts.html
(I will now shortly attain “guru” level)
http://groups.google.com/group/net.jokes/browse_thread/thread/60a9444026076c90/c49a0c0849fe8bb6?lnk=raot

To Build Better Software, You Need Fewer People (But Why?)
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/to-build-better-software-you-need-fewer-people/
(you knew it if you read The Mythical Man Month; now you know why)

Three stories about The Tao
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/10/three-stories-about-tao.html
(good reading for all the Windows/Linux/Mac fanboys out there)

AppLogic – grid OS for web applications
http://www.3tera.com/applogic.html
(drag and drop servers… yummy!….)

You agree not to read the HTML source of this page
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/10/you-hereby-agre.html
(brilliant… its up there with the “maybe we could forbid these browsers”)

Political positions of Ron Paul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
(“adheres to the economic philosophy of the Austrian School of economics;
opposes the draft, the federal War on Drugs, socialized health care,
the welfare state, foreign aid, judicial activism, federal death penalties,
and federal regulation of marriage, of education, and of the Internet”)

Where do I vote?

— MV