AM’s Arena … a brain massage

Estou sendo malvado, reconheço. Mas a muito tempo eu não ria tanto!

Mal passou o casamento do Murillo (qual infelizmente eu não tinha uma camera digital em mãos) e outro camarada, o Glauco (”Nhara”, “Narigudo”, “Nharalho”, “Narigão”) já está casando também, o que me leva mais uma vez a crer que estamos mesmo envelhecendo!. E eu não acho isso ruim, é bacana sentir e ver as fases da vida.

Outra coisa bacana de casamentos é a possibilidade de rever amigos.

  

Bom, é isso aí…

É já que chega a minha vez!

Ok, spent my last 22 minutes creating a simple debianizer for the AT&T rpms (that also ports from RH to Ubuntu). Hope it is useful for somebody.

Please keep in mind that AT&T has nothing to do with this!!! This is totally unofficial (”do-it-yourself” initiative)!!!

Download it here.

And use it:

* Make it executable

  chmod +x ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh

* Install the dependencies

  ./ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh --deps

* Convert the RPMs

  ./ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh rpm-package.rpm

Please drop me a comment if you find an use for this.

[edit] I wrote also an extremely experimental redhat version of this “debianizer”. Check it here [/edit]

I would like to apologize for the unauthorized packages distribution. What I did on last post was debianize the public RPM in order to help Ubuntu/Debian buddies but I didn’t notice that I was redistributing that. Packages removed and sorry for the inconvenience.

Great!!! After sometime without support for AT&T VPN Client on Linux, now there is a Beta version available. The RPMS can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.attglobal.net/pub/client/linux/beta/, and an unofficial DEB (that I made and tested on Gutsy) can be downloaded here.

In the DEB I’ve added a config file (/etc/agnclient/agnclient.conf) which you can use to overwrite some of the variables (in the case of your Service Manager Account is not providing the DNS info).

Last week I bought myself a Nintendo Wii and played that for the first time today. Oh my gosh!! It is such a crazy thing to punch the air and see your character punching something else on the television screen.

I remember the day when the people used to have a lot of fun with the “one button one stick” controllers. I can also imagine what kind of video-games (holograms, who knows?) my children will be playing.

I wish also Nintendo release some kind of SDK where “normal people” could use to develop its own games for Wii. It would be wonderful.

Always complaining about the lack of time (for everything else besides work), I buy myself a new video-game to start having even less time… shame on me!

“Nothing to do” a few days ago made me start to setup a Personal Website.
There is nothing special in there, only a few projects that I worked on and a few musics that I wrote (or played) one day.

Take a peek anytime and please let me know about your impressions.

http://www.afmacedo.com

Tired of searching for a coliseum image to use as background yesterday, I decided to make my own:

… just kidding this is an image created using TSP (stands for “Traveling Salesman Problem”) that I found in here.

Pretty cool huh? Nice penguins!! (where are the pengüinos?)

I was talking with Alosa last week about Python and Evas when he told me something about changing Barbieri’s Virtual Keyboard to understand how does EDC works with Python (and learn more about them both). I took the challenge and here is the first version of a pretty simple Virtual Cellphone Keyboard:

In a first moment I suffered a little bit with the lack of documentation regarding about EDC (mainly when my Python threads started not working with Edje) but after discovering about the first program ever called (signal “load”) and the hints on Enlightenment homepage explaining the file structure and tags, everything turned cool!

Unfortunately I don’t have a n800 to test what I did but I’m pretty excited about start writing useless things to learn more about Evas, EDC, Python, etc.

[edit] The code is in here, it is kinda dirty I confess, in the first moment I was just aiming to make that work. [/edit]

A few weeks ago I suggested to my team the development of an “All Purpose Wizard” that would work as an usual wizard (graphical interface which you go through interacting and going forward or backward by using its control buttons), that would not be static or need to be recompiled every time you want it to do something else, where you could “plug modules in” or build module collections and call it something.

Everybody accepted the idea and we went to a short brainstorm for the first definitions.
After all, the chosen language for the implementation was Python for the base system (that we called API) and GTK for graphical power (GUI).
We also decided to separate things (API/GUI), this way it will be ways better/easier to implement the GUI using another graphical lib by just extending/using/whatever the API.
Our Python Wizard will accept modules through command line and has a lot of nice features.

We just finished the design (Alosa was responsible for it… write that down, fill the gaps with his ideas, etc. Assuming that I was a pain in the neck, I made him re-write that thing a million times, I was always changing something in the design or disagreeing with his ideas. We kinda hate each other now. ).

I hope that we can make the project (design and code) available for everybody as soon as possible.