O problema reside entre a cadeira e o teclado ...

Wallet TMN

2012-05-21T11:51:00.002+01:00

Relativamente a Mobilidade, a TMN está sempre uns passos à frente.

Agora já com pagamentos por NFC, SMS, USSD e QR Code.

Mais aqui

HP since 1956

2012-05-21T08:25:00.004+01:00

Samsung SIII ROM Leaks

2012-05-20T21:31:00.000+01:00

, bem como todas as apps internas.

Para os curiosos pelo S-Voice, podem fazer o download e exprimentar (nota: os servidores da Samsung filtram por equipamento, "portantos" tem que usar Samsung também)

link

Folder	Size	Description
/app	435.5mB	Application folder, biggest of them all. The biggest percentage is [2] indeed TouchWiz Apps , with top 30 out of 187 APKs taking up 283MB.
/lib	206.4mB	Proprietary drivers, codecs, thing you won't want to remove.
/hdic	147.6mB	Localisation for about 24 languages, you could shrink this dramatically.
/framework	57.7mB	Android framework, nothing you could shrink here.
/tts	58.8mB	Text-to-speech libraries, again, shrinkable.
/media	27.0mB	Ringtones, alarms, animations
/vendor	25.8mB	More drivers
/etc	12.0mB
/usr	10.0mB
/bin	6.8mB
/fonts	9.0mB
/preloaddata	7.3mB
/vsc	3.6mB
/voicebargeindata	2.3mB
/wakeupdata	1.5mB
/cameradata	720kB
/xbin	64kB

Total 1031mB, and another 200mB for the CSC, Modem and Kernel.

"Um Corpo Estranho"

2012-05-16T22:31:00.000+01:00

, em repeat !

Para acompanhar:

Google Drive lives (kinda ...)

2012-04-24T21:25:00.000+01:00

Google ToS: "When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

SkyDrive ToS: "Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service."

Dropbox ToS: "By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff"). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don't claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."

via Reddit.

Howto - Links simbólicos em Windows

2012-04-10T15:37:00.000+01:00

Para uma criação de links simbólicos em Windows, permitindo deste modo, igualar os links a directórios como em "Unix/Linux" podemos usar o comando MKLINK.

Sintaxe:

Segue-se exemplo:

Com a execução de:

Com o comando "mklink /D workspace C:\Users\dfc\Desktop\Dropbox\workspace", criamos um link simbólico em D:\tmp\workspace para uma directoria existente noutra partição. Isto funciona como um "shortcut" mas imita na totalidade a directoria.
Com o comando "rmdir workspace", assumindo o posicionamento na drive/directoria, removemos o link, já que uma remoção normal (via command line ou Windows Explorer) iria remover os conteúdos.

Nota 1: Este truque poderá ser usado em casos que a partição C está com falta de espaço, sendo que via command line de administração (com boot para Safe Mode with Command Prompt) para movermos a pasta "Program Files" de partição, e depois criar o link simbólico "Program Files" na partição original.

Nota 2: "Symbolic links are different from hard links. Hard links do not normally point to directories, and they cannot link paths on different volumes or file systems. Symbolic links may point to any file or directory irrespective of the volumes on which the source and destination reside. Whereas hard links always refer to an existing file, symbolic links may contain an arbitrary path that doesn't point to anything."

Stop SQL Server Management Studio from scripting SPs using sp_executesql

2011-10-19T15:02:00.001+01:00

Turn off the "Include IF NOT EXISTS" option.

It's at Tools..Options, then click "Scripting" on the explorer pane of the dialog that pops-up. the "IF NOT EXISTS" option is in the second group from the top (Object Scripting options).

      EXEC dbo.sp_executesql @statement = N'-- =============================================
      -- Author:          Me
    -- =============================================
    CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[MyProc]
        -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
        @StartDate datetime
    AS
      BEGIN

BlackBerry blackout, free apps

2011-10-17T12:13:00.000+01:00

Research In Motion (RIM) announced today that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions. The apps will be made available to customers over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World and will continue to be available until December 31 2011.

The selections over this period will include the following :
SIMS 3 – Electronic ArtsBejeweled – Electronic Arts
N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
Texas Hold'em Poker 2 – Gameloft

Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
DriveSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex

Shazam Encore – Shazam
Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo

link

/start funny rant

/stop funny rant

iOs 5.0

2011-10-13T21:39:00.003+01:00

"one giant leap for iOs .... One small step for Android"

Google+

2011-10-13T10:03:00.000+01:00

Recomendo a leitura https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX sobre o "produto" Google+, escrito por Steve Yegge (um elemento Google), no que supostamente era para ser um post interno, e não público.

tl;dr;

"That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't "get" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on."

"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it."

"The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call."

"Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone."

"The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them...

You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't."

"And also don't get me wrong about Google+. They're far from the only offenders. This is a cultural thing. What we have going on internally is basically a war, with the underdog minority Platformers fighting a more or less losing battle against the Mighty Funded Confident Producters."

"It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us."

"I'm not saying it's too late for us, but the longer we wait, the closer we get to being Too Late."

TIL - Dark Side of the Rainbow

2011-08-08T13:27:00.004+01:00

Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd) refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd music album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other.

...

Band members and others involved in the making of the album state that any relationship between the two works of art is merely a coincidence.

Link para video

Link para wikipedia

2011-07-22T09:20:00.004+01:00

Já existe um novo market para o Android.

Destaca-se a navegação horizontal, e layout completamente novo.

Para os ansiosos, visto por agora apenas estar dísponivel para DEVs, é só fazer o download do apk aqui.

enjoy !

piracy @ dropbox

2011-05-01T16:40:00.002+01:00

http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/

tl:dr

"Somewhere on a Dropbox server is a file that you want. Normally the file's owner would have to share that file with you in order for it to appear in your Dropbox. But if you know the hash of file you can trick Dropbox into thinking you already have the file and are just adding it to your Dropbox. Apparently Dropbox notices they already have that file, and instead of you uploading it they just make it appear in your account. Then you can download it."

Dropbox's CTO and cofounder, Arash Ferdowsi, did not like Dropship .... contacted him soon after and requested "in a really civil way" that he take the project off of github.

more here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478567

The Setup

2011-04-17T21:38:00.002+01:00

A bunch of nerdy interviews. What do people use to get stuff done?

Alguns nomes:

Rasmus Andersson
Colin Percival
David Heinemeier Hansson
Guy Kawasaki

link

Depeche Mode & Coding

2011-04-17T21:25:00.002+01:00

It's funny 'cause it's true

Blogger - Dynamic Views

2011-04-03T19:38:00.000+01:00

Blogger sempre á frente.

Para quem usa o Blogger como plataforma, ou simplesmente o seu blog de eleição esteja nesta plataforma, convém saber que existem cinco novos modos de visualização.

Mais aqui : All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger Help

Linux kernel swear counts ..

2011-03-27T19:00:00.002+01:00

... boys, be nice !

Fistful Of Mercy & Mazgani, enjoy !

2011-02-05T21:54:00.001+01:00

Enjoy

link1
link2

, e para terminar : Mazgani

It's R-Evolution baby !

2011-02-04T23:03:00.002+01:00

Flickr - "ups !"

2011-02-04T22:58:00.000+01:00

Flickr has almost nearly restored all of user Mirco Wilhelm's paid account after a snafu caused more than 3,400 of his photos to be deleted.

Additionally, the company has extended his Pro membership until 2036, for free.

"almost nearly restored" , então e backups ?
"Supostamente", o cloud storage deveria apresentar-nos garantias de fiabilidade e segurança dos dados.

Wrestling's fake ?

2011-02-03T00:21:00.002+01:00

WTF !!!

Red Gate .Net Reflector

2011-02-03T00:20:00.000+01:00

2008:

“Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool that will continue to benefit the community while seeking input from users on ways to make .NET Reflector even more valuable.”

2011:
“We provided .NET Reflector without charge for two-and-a-half years, but unfortunately could not make the free model work for us as a commercial company. Charging this nominal amount – about the price of a tank of gas in the U.S. – will enable us to dedicate a team of developers to make sure that Reflector remains a valuable, up-to-date tool over the long term.”

... $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March.

RIP AppBrain

2011-02-02T23:49:00.002+01:00

http://market.android.com/

Como lidar com a pirataria !

2011-01-26T00:05:00.000+01:00

Geohot, responsável pelo jailbreak do iPhone, e pelo failoverflow da PS3, tem tido problemas juridicos com Apple e Sony.
Na sequência destes problemas, Geohot decidiu ter "calma".

"I'm going out to buy a Windows 7 phone".

Resposta quase imediata:

... marketing ou não, fica-lhes bem !

What if Visual Studio had achievements ?

2011-01-25T23:49:00.000+01:00

Falling Down – Created a new SharePoint project
Job Security – Written a LINQ query with over 30 lines of code
The Sword Fighter – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with zero code changes
Shotgun Debugging – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with a single character change
The Mathematician – Defined 15 local variables with a single character name
The Academic – Written 1000 lines of F#
Spaghetti Monster – Written a single line with more than 300 characters
Wild One – Mixed tabs and spaces for indentation more than 5 times in a single line
The Organizer – Created a Solution with more than 50 projects
The Portal – Created a circular project dependency
The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time
The Code Keeper – Uninstalled Resharper because it made you redundant
Pasta Chef – Created a class with more than 100 fields, properties or methods
Procedural Programmer – Created a method with more than 10 out parameters
Steam Powered – Added Visual Studio as a Steam game
The Poet – Written a source file with more than 10,000 lines
The Enterprise – Build Solution took more than 10 minutes
Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service
The Explainer – Written a comment with more than 100 words
TPS Reports – Created a Crystal Reports Project
Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix
Ooooh Shiny – Written 100 extensions methods
Look Ma – Written an infinite Fibonacci generator using yield
The Engineer – Killed a zombie with The Wrench
The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project
The Right Way – Test method is longer than the tested method
The Defender – Checked every argument for null exceptions
Pokemon Programming – Caught all the exceptions
Black Magic – Implemented a RealProxy
Gimme back my ASM – Used ILGenerator
I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project
The SEO Expert – ASP.NET MVC Routing table with more than 100 routes
The Matrix – Windows Forms with more than 100 controls
The Daredevil – UpdatePanels nested more than 3 layers deep
Just a Test – Nested multiline C-style comments that caused a compilation error
Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service
Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects
The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines
The Dependency – Referenced more than 30 projects
Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
First Hit – Included a Codeproject.com library into your project and it actually compiled
Paula – Define a firstname field with value Brillant
Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values

My Favs :
Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
Inception - attach the VS debugger to another instance of VS debugging a project.