A história do Titanic, apesar de trágica, é sobejamente conhecida e já faz parte do mundo do cinema. Menos conhecida é a construção deste barco, que muitos na altura julgavam, com as suas 52.310 toneladas, ser demasiado pesado para flutuar no oceano. O sucesso na construção do navio, com a estrutura em aço, deu uma boa dose de confiança aos responsáveis. A segurança na qualidade de construção do navio era tanta que chegaram a afirmar que era impossível afundar o Titanic. ...

Astrophysicists Szabolcs Marka at Columbia University and Imre Bartos at the University of Florida, have identified a violent collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion years ago as the likely source of some of the most coveted matter on Earth. This single cosmic event, close to our solar system, gave birth to 0.3 percent of the Earth’s heaviest elements, including gold, platinum and uranium, according to a new paper appearing in the May 2 issue of Nature. ...

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Ever since Carlos Silva left a comment on my last post about this repository, I was left wondering if it wouldn’t be better to migrate my current VM to Scaleway. The price/specs seemed better and for the marginal difference of €1 I would get a dual-core virtual machine with 2GB of RAM and 50Gb of disk space. After a couple of weeks of reflection, I bought a “Start1-S” VPS for €3,99/month and I’ve been (successfully) testing aurto to manage the repository updates. Things have been working out so great that I bought the userrepository.eu domain. ...

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Due to my own dumbness (I mistakenly deleted my Ubuntu partition), I installed Manjaro, using the Manjaro Architect release, on my laptop. I’d been thinking about doing it for a while and finally made it because I was too stupid to read the instructions from cfdisk. The shit you create yourself because you’re in a hurry… Anyway, after installing Manjaro, I started reading a bit about this distro packaging and how I could leverage AUR and binary packages. Inspired by the work of Arcan1s, I bought a cheap VPS from OVH [almost €3/month] and built my repository using Arcan1s scripts. It took a bit of fiddling around the config file and the scripts to customize it to the VPS low raw power, but I eventually got it. ...

I’ve patched the next GTK theme for Gnome, for a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The changes include reducing the CSD height, changing the padding on some buttons and decreasing Gnome Terminal tabs height. There are still some bugs with the theme. For example, Eye of Gnome still has a huge CSD height. I’ll hopefully fix this in the near future, if doable via theming. Feel free to clone it or fork it.

https://vimeo.com/312461591 Gary Dourdan, who played Warrick Brown on CSI, gives voice to this short animation, by Raphaël Bluzet, about the hurdles of living in space.

Hoje chegaram os autocolantes que encomendei no Sticker Mule em dezembro, numa promoção em que o pack ficava a €1 e pouco. Com isto, já posso dizer que sou geek e o meu portátil ficou “lit af”. Só tenho pena que o pack não incluísse um autocolante do projeto GNU. Teria sido ouro sobre azul.

Tive que tirar um screenshot para partilhar. Será um daqueles momentos em que a culpa é do(a) estagiário(a)? Bem, pelo menos é bom saber que pagam as contas.