At least I almost finished a new home to LDP-BR site.

http://trac.watter.net/ldpbr will be probably the new site.

From now on I have to manage permissions to give people rights to contribute and some other fine tunnings.

Well, It still too long time that I’ve been planning this new home.

Next steps?
I was thinking about a plugin to trac to translate po files. I’ll start a work on this as soon as I can.

Well, How to buy a train tiket in Germany?

Simple: go to http://www.bahn.de/

Easy_install is a very handfull tool to install some macros and plugins on a trac site.

Cool to have tested it before doing it by hand.

Finnally I’ve got trac installed at my dreamhost server!

Good, Now It’s time to configure it and change the css to make it looks better

After looking how to do a simple sprintf (I was trying to convert an array of bytes to a string) I found a java class that implements something like the sprintf function that every C programmer knows.

Well, here is the link: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/sprintf
And a snippet of code:

if (buffer[i+8] == saturno_balanca_liberada) {
String x = new String();
for (int k=i+1; k<(i+7);k++){
x += new PrintfFormat(”%d”).sprintf(buffer[k]);
}
// System.out.println(”v->[" + x + "]“);
pesoEstavel = x; //pega o peso estavel e balanca bloqueada
proto_ok=1;
break; // para a execucao uma vez que ja pegou o peso estavel
}


Well, after some time looking for an error at my code, I realized that the cable could be the problem.

I’ve ordered a null cable (giving the spec) to the guys at my company. Well, I thought that they, at least, have read the spec, butt, no! They simply took a serial extension cable and gave me.

Blame on them.

The Cocktail a través de Open movilforum organiza el segundo concurso de mashups y movilidad.

• 1er Premio: 6.000€
• 2º Premio: 2.000€
• 3er Premio: 2.000€

Puedes presentar al concurso un proyecto que ya tengas hecho, o liarte la manta a la cabeza y programar esa idea que lleva demasiado tiempo siendo sólo idea. ¡Qué mejor ocasión!

Más informaciones –> http://open.movilforum.com/concurso/2

Quando à beira da morte, Alexandre convoca seus generais e seu escriba e
relata a estes seus 3 últimos desejos:

1 - que seu caixão seja transportado pelas mãos dos mais reputados médicos
da época;
2 - que seja espalhado no caminho até seu túmulo, seus tesouros
conquistados (prata, ouro, pedras preciosas…); e
3 - que suas duas mãos sejam deixadas balançando no ar, fora do caixão, a
vista de todos.

Um dos seus generais, admirado com esses desejos insólitos, pergunta a
Alexandre a razão destes. Alexandre explica:

1 - Quero que os mais iminentes médicos carreguem meu caixão, para mostrar
aos presentes que estes NÃO têm poder de cura nenhuma perante a morte;
2 - Quero que o chão seja coberto pelos meus tesouros para que as pessoas
possam ver que os bens materiais aqui conquistados, aqui permanecem;
3 - Quero que minhas mãos balancem ao vento, para que as pessoas vejam que
de mãos vazias viemos e de mãos vazias partimos.

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Today I’m very Happy!

I received a 2nd place in a photography conquest at my company.

It was amazing. The winner have his mp3 player and I got a trip to a river to do rafting and  abseiling(rappeling). Very Nice.

Sooner or later I’ll publish the picture here.

After some troubles with lots of e-mails with .ppt/.pps attachments I decided to separate them into another mailbox. The first question was: How?

As I use Linux and procmail (www.procmail.org), I searched at google trying to find someone with the same problem and probably with a solution. Many pages after, I found this page (http://hypermail.linklord.com/procmail.old/2001/Sep/0065.html) which has a similar problem and a more radical decision.

Changing just a bit the solution used I got this code that must be inserted in the  .procmailrc file:

:0B # slow regexp there's no other way
* ^Content-(Type|Disposition):(.|$[ ])*\.(pps|ppt|mpeg|wmv)
.entrada.ppt/

Which I use to redirect all mail with powerpoint and some movies to a special mailbox that I check only when I have time.

I hope this helps other people to do the same and get a better time reading important mail.