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26
dez 08

How can someone trust IEEE?

“Check out the paper Towards the Simulation of E-commerce by Herbert Schlangemann, which is available in the IEEEXplor database (full article available only to IEEE members). This generated paper has been accepted with review by the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE). According to the organizers, ‘CSSE is one of the important conferences sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, which serves as a forum for scientists and engineers in the latest development of artificial intelligence, grid computing, computer graphics, database technology, and software engineering.’ Even better, fake author Herbert Schlangemann has been selected as session chair (PDF) for that conference. (The name Schlangemann was chosen based on the short film Der Schlangemann by Andreas Hansson and Björn Renberg.)”

Quality is not important anymore, money is talking louder then anything, this amazing piece of software showed us, not how advanced artificial intelligence is reaching, but how stupid we are for accepting a fragile revision and acceptance system of the scientific community.

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7
dez 08

VexBox 3G – The movie

This is an unofficial movie of the VexBox 3G, shows various pictures including pilots and also some television shows where it appeared:

Imagem de Amostra do You Tube
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1
dez 08

Time Machine error

Suddenly my Time Capsule started screaming, Time Machine was only able to mount the backup drive in read-only mode, apparently it got corrupted. I tried Disk Utility, but it didn’t work, formatting was the way to go, the only bad thing is that I’ll have to wait another day or so to copy everything again.

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14
nov 08

All you need to know about Conectiva

Yesterday in TickTack we chatted with founders and employees of Conectiva, that was acquired by Mandrake and is now Mandriva, along with me, participated in this episode, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Rodrigo Stulzer, Aurélio Marinho Jargas and Elvis Pfützenreuter.

Extremely interesting content, must listen! Just remember it’s in Portuguese…

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22
out 08

For or While?

Denio raised this question:

“What is faster, this while or this for?”

He wrote this in the blackboard:

        for (;;) {                
        }
        while (1) {
        }

The answer in assembly is:

For:

	.text
.globl _main
_main:
	pushl	%ebp
	movl	%esp, %ebp
	subl	$8, %esp
L2:
	jmp	L2
	.subsections_via_symbols

While:

	.text
.globl _main
_main:
	pushl	%ebp
	movl	%esp, %ebp
	subl	$8, %esp
L2:
	jmp	L2
	.subsections_via_symbols