Monday, April 28, 2003

Ikarus Piccolo Micro RC Helicopter

Piccolo Micro Electric RC Helicopter: This is one cool toy and it's not that pricey
Posted by André Restivo at 17:43:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (1) |

EMI to launch MP3 programme

EMI press release: These are interesting news. Finally a major record label decided to go on the MP3 bandwagon and are going to start selling music from 3000 artists online.
My hopes are that this will:
  • Lower the record prices (a lot).
  • Enable consumers to buy on a music per music base instead of having to buy entire records.
Prices are still to be announced. We can only hope.
Already more than 20 music retail websites from six different European countries are gearing up to start selling EMI’s new downloads and will go live at varying times over the coming weeks. Additional retail partners are expected to join the programme in due course.
Posted by André Restivo at 11:37:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

Spam, Lovely Spam

Spam, Lovely Spam: Seems to be a nice article about the Spam issue. Have to find time to read it tomorrow. Must sleep now ...
Posted by André Restivo at 02:44:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Trackback! What for? Asks Dave.

Dave wants to know what is trackback's purpose. Well, if he had trackback, at least he would know that I'm flaming him.
On a more serious note: I think trackback enables people to comment someone elses post in its own blog. IMHO it's one of the greatest features of the blog universe.
Okay, now that I've implemented 1/2 of Trackback (and I will implement the other half) may I ask "What is it for?" I suppose I'll get flamed for that. But it's a serious question.
Posted by André Restivo at 23:00:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (1) |

Blogo

blogo, logo existo: A nice portuguese blog directory, featuring categories and blog reviews.
Posted by André Restivo at 22:36:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

The World as a Blog

the World as a Blog: Wow, using information from GeoURL, weblogs.com and RSS, this flash animation shows blogs position on the globe as they're updated. It really shows how big the weblog phenomenom is. In one word: ingenious.
Posted by André Restivo at 22:25:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

Seville here we come

Lazio 0 - Porto 0: Porto played a brilliant game and now only one game separates us from the Uefa cup. Too bad Boavista didn't make it as it would be a great all portuguese final.
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Posted by André Restivo at 22:13:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Trusted Debian

The Trusted Debian project: Finally someone decided to attack the Buffer Overflow exploits by going directly to the root of the problem.
From Slashdot :
It features PaX, a kernel patch which does several things. It tries to keep code and data apart, it randomizes stack, code, heap and shared libraries, it does strict mprotect() checking and it also protects the kernel. Trusted Debian also uses the stack protector patch for GCC developed by Hiroaki Etoh at IBM, which adds overflow checks to C/C++ code. It also features FreeS/WAN and RSBAC, an extensive access control framework.
And, also from Slashdot, an interesting comment:
Please note that Gentoo Linux also comes with a propolice enabled GCC and a PaX-enabled kernel. It's up to you to use them or not.
Cool! But, how does it work?
Posted by André Restivo at 16:03:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

ENT enabled RSS

ENT enabled RSS: No idea if its correctly implemented. Maybe a ENT validator is in order.
Update: Some errors corrected. It should be ok now. Thanks Matt!
Posted by André Restivo at 15:29:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (10) |

PHN Developer Toolbar

PHN Developer Toolbar: All those cool bookmarklet neatly organized (Mozilla only).
Posted by André Restivo at 09:53:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |
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