David's Raging Nexus - Latest Comments

Re: Long time no write ..

David Ramalho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:35:29 -0000

Mr. G :)

Re: Long time no write ..

David Ramalho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:34:54 -0000

Depends on the nature of the "it"

Lovely domain btw

Re: Long time no write ..

Mrg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:32:42 -0000

You like it rough?

Re: On startups, equity and fairness ..

David Ramalho — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:56:30 -0000

What he means is, Ideas by themselves are worthless, and you know where you are, there's more Great Idea (tm) bearing Portuguese than you can throw a stick at, what you don't have a lot of is people actually pursuing and bring the idea to existence.

I'm up to here (points to head) with people who come up, say they have a great idea that they are willing to "give away" in return for hard work from someone else, and still collect 80% of everything (or at least, that's the plan in their idiot - as in filled with ideas - head) :)

Re: On startups, equity and fairness ..

Bruno D. Rodrigues — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:48:01 -0000

Only one thing I don't agree. Albeit I agree each founder shall always get the same share, to avoid conflicts, the sentence that an idea is worthless is bullocks, specially here in Portugal. We have enough technical expertise to solve *any* (and I mean *any*) problem, to create anything we feel motivated to, but having a good idea, a really good one, is really hard to get. I could name a lot of "ideas" in Portugal that had really good implementations, but started with the wrong base. Ideas, good ones are the thing we need.

Re: A recipe for Timelapse Photography

sledgas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:15:19 -0000

Just found this post..thanks. It was a great starting point. I found that gphoto2 wasn't saving the pictures on my Canon 60D AT ALL if I used --capture-image, but downloaded them to the computer just fine with --capture-image-and-download. The other problem I had was with ffmpeg. The version in openSuse 11.3 emitted an error about VOF/VOFW being too small. Had to download ffmpeg 0.6.4, change VOFW in libswscale/swscale_internal.h from 5120 to 20480 (smaller value might have worked?), and rebuild ffmpeg.

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Neves — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:41:08 -0000

:-) Thank you!
I like to think that we were able to share many different projects / examples of citizenship 2.0. Some will inspire some people; other will trigger something in other people. Hopefully everyone will have taken an idea to create something new, to improve an existing project, to participate in the project of others.

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

David Ramalho — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:26:37 -0000

No worries, if you're really going to have an online form, I'll fill it, I'm pretty sure it's better for you to process that than having to look at a piece of paper :D , correct?

As for the discussion, yes, I have at least another post standing by (and quickly, before memory really fades :) ) , you girls did a great job and citizenship is a very VERY hot trendy topic these days :)

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Neves — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:12:00 -0000

David, feedback would be really helpful. As Ana said we will be emailing link to an online feedback form. However, if you prefer to fill in the paper version and email it to us, please send it to
info at knowman dot pt
We will really appreciate it.
Oh, and thank you for documenting your thoughts and sharing them here. This will keep the dialogue going and that is the real purpose of the event

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

David Ramalho — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:42:34 -0000

Send me an address and I can deliver and/or mail it to you :) - OR I can digitize the form ?

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Silva — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:27:05 -0000

I haven't discussed this with Ana & Vitor but I guess we'll do an online version of the form and send it to participants & speakers soon with the usual thank you note and important stuff that we want to communicate :)

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

David Ramalho — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:48:48 -0000

Hi Ana :)

I was hoping for that sort of news regarding the Videos :) , glad to hear it :D . As for the feedback form .. arrgghh I took it home with me, blank, how can I get it over to you?

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Silva — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:40:23 -0000

Good morning David! First of all, thanks for attending Cidadania 2.0. Yes, video recordings will be made available. Stay tuned at the www.cidadania20.com website and at @cidadania20 on Twitter!

PS - have you filled in the feedback form? Feedback is really important to us... :)

Re: To Gnome3 and back

David Ramalho — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:16:36 -0000

Ubuntu 11.10 is almost here, nothing will save you then :) - but thankfully it has come a long way too :)

Re: To Gnome3 and back

Robatte — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:57:45 -0000

Thanks man, the ppa-purge thing saved my day.

Re: The Kitchen Tales #1 – Chickpea, Indian Style (they tell me)

David Ramalho — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:26:51 -0000

:) Loosening up is on the To-do list :) Q1 / 2012 :D

Re: The Kitchen Tales #1 – Chickpea, Indian Style (they tell me)

Pedro — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:16:23 -0000

Holy shit, man, I hope you don't have sex the way you cook, this is scary. I mean, congratulations on starting your cooking career, but loosen up, Your being too... Enginery :-)

Re: Git Branch Deletion – The quick note edition

David Ramalho — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:45:52 -0000

Yes, I only write blog entries on the 22nd :)

Re: To Gnome3 and back

David Ramalho — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:38:39 -0000

Hi!

Don't get me wrong at any level, I wanted to try out Gnome3 and actively ignored all warnings on my one and only personal work computer, so that's how committed I was :) - Second, the deal breaker actually came from the broken (on my computer, with the version I had up to that point) power settings - when you commute for 3h daily having plenty of battery is important as hell - and something on PPA (gnome related or not) made it impossible for me to control both the cpu frequencies or the back-light settings - actively breaking the power management screen on gnome preferences.

Other from that, it's like I said, clearly the desktop trend points to Gnome3 or Unity like solutions and we'll have plenty of those, so the sooner ones gets used to it the better :) . I don't actually agree that Unity looks ugly, but once you go "personal taste" on an opinion, it's beyond discussion.

I'm going to chill for a while and go for stability, so I'm sticking with Unity - and I think I know why I came back from Gnome3 willing to use it, it's experience is a half step from classic gnome to gnome-shell and that's probably why coming back made it fit well with my experience. I'm completely unsure, however, about using either on my office computer, 2x 1080p screens will probably mean I misuse most of what Unity and Gnome-shell propose to do ... I'm really unsure there, in fact I'm using the classic Gnome2 desktop there - thoughts on this?

Anyway, thanks Almehdin for sharing the experience ;)

Re: To Gnome3 and back

Almehdin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:24:41 -0000

Nice review! But i think you are wrong. Me my self started using Natty while it was at Alpha 2 and have thus tested out Unity a long time. I don't know and i can't really put a finger of my feelings about it but i do not like it. It's little bit the opposite of Gnome3 in that it steals a lot of attention. It is ugly. Uses more resources than Gnome-shell and is unfinished.

When Gnome3 became final i decided to try it out. But i didn't trust the PPA and installed Fedora 15 beta instead. And my good what an up swing.. not only resource wise but also the usability. However being a beta and not costume in RPM world i had some thing i needed help with. The Fedora community really sux compared to Ubuntu. Some guys was even impolite. So i guessed i could go back using Ubuntu again.

I installed with the Desktop live cd and used the PPA for Gnome3. And it was considerably much heavier than i had felt in Fedora. So i guessed that some Unity things might be running in the background ruining the performance. As i am a fairly experienced Ubuntu user.. have been using it since 2006 i know what programs i need. So i decided to install using the Ubuntu Minimal image instead. It was a bit hidden but i found it at last. A little more quirky to install not as fast and easy as the Desktop cd buy boy was it worth it.

I am now running Gnome-shell and love it every minute. I installed the gnome-tweak-app to select themes and stuff. And it both looks beautiful and runs awesome!

So if i where you i would give Gnome3 another try after a month or so and use it more than a couple of days. The work flow is a lot better than Unitys but it takes a little while to get accustomed with it. Also the community will have started to apply hacks and other stuff that will make the flow even better.

Re: To Gnome3 and back

David Ramalho — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:31:54 -0000

I was young, I needed the thrills :D

Re: To Gnome3 and back

Rui Carmo — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:32:06 -0000

I still say you're nuts. :)

Re: David Ramalho

David Ramalho — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:51:40 -0000

Oh dude ...

ok, so, I'm David Ramalho (the one from Portugal) and I wrote that (not _someone_ :)) on my "about" page on my blog (this thing right here see ;) ) ... is there a pattern here, should we look for other David Ramalho's and see if they wrote the same quote ? :D

:) life is too random

Re: David Ramalho

Ezalor — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:26:18 -0000

No joke lol. I wrote that in my MSN one day when I got invited to 2 different parties + to play soccer with some friends. But instead I had to stay home and work on some lab reports. So rather frustrated I wrote in my MSN that I wish I could do, everything I wish I could do. In that exact manner. Someone must have taken what I wrote and made this article on it, which i find rather funny? Retarded? I dunno lol.

I am the "David Ramalho" that wrote the first comment, just made an account now, with a random name.

Re: David Ramalho

David Ramalho — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:54:40 -0000

I'm sorry, what?

Consider this your Turing Test :)