Advogato blog for lsdrocha

14 Oct 2003

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:34:17 GMT

After almost a year, I finally made some money. Today I got paid for the first job me and my partner did.

And not just that. We managed to get a new client, and to secure a maintenance contract with our previous client.

Looks like our business is starting of.

2 Sep 2003

Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:30:18 GMT

Today I decided to install and run FreeBSD. I had some CD-RW my friend lend me with the 4.8 release.

I stole almost half of the disk space dedicated to my family Windows. 4.5G to be precise. They won't need and sure is a waste give 4.5G to Windows to use as swap.

Anyway, I liked it. First, I think the installation was easier than I expected.

Despite my winmodem, everything went smooth. I think I'll have a hard time to find drivers to the modem, but that's OK. Everything else is working.

In general, I liked it. The only bad thing is, after a while using mainly Red Hat, you get used to their spoils, like service among other things, which makes other UNIX systems a little harder... :)

30 Aug 2003

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:06:40 GMT

This is a very interesting change of attitude.

Is SCO in a mid-life crisis?

27 Aug 2003

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:02:32 GMT

Today I finish my first job with Wiseminds. I must say I'm a little proud.

Ok, who am I kidding, right? I'm very proud. I think it is too soon to cheers, I mean, only one job, but I hope this works out.

It was too much fun work with a friend, with opensource solutions, Linux and etcetera and being the boss. It was nice to be able to convince people to choose the opensource/free software way...

19 Aug 2003

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:47:15 GMT

Just wanted to thanks pphaneuf and jasonc for answering me.

Thanks guys.

19 Aug 2003

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:49:17 GMT

Does anyone remember who compared proprietary software with a car with the hood wield-shut?

11 Aug 2003

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:36:56 GMT

After a while looking for a job, I decided to take matters to my own two hands. I'm openning my own business.

With a (RHCE) friend, we'll do independent consulting under the Wiseminds service mark.

We will work only with OS/FS software.

Of course, this will drain me a lot, especially in the beggining, but well...

23 Jun 2003

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:05:07 GMT

The recent announcement, brazillian gov't madea big switch to Free Software. According to a good news site, the migration will hit 80% of installed computers.

This news pleases and displeases me in very different levels.

The adoption of free software solutions will cut some expenses from the federal gov't budget, which is definetly good. This will allow the current gov't to increase their effords/investments to reduce social problems, which is their main goal.

On the other hand, I fear that this choice was based only in economical factors. While I approve this as a citizen, my evangelist side points that this could mean trouble.

This migration will affect (as far as I know) not only back-end solutions, but office solutions too. Without proper care, most users will lost themselves using Linux/OpenOffice and whatever other softwares they get their hands on.

And not just that. There might be some proprietary solutions that still technically better than the open source ones.

Pessimist aside, I hope that this thing goes smoothly and the switch proves to be a well-suited choice and regional government do the same.

10 May 2003

Sat, 10 May 2003 16:12:57 GMT

Job Search

May be finally come to an end. I hope so. Been unemployed for 4 months pretty much sucks. I was so down that I couldn't even use all the free time I had for studying and programming.

Of course, nothing is perfect, I'll most likely have to program in Fortran...

31 Mar 2003

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:32:34 GMT

This is absolutely ridiculous.

So, the war is just to "get rid of Saddam Hussein"? Really? Despite the fact that I'd really love to see this monster gone, this war is obviously more than that.

And to boycott comerce with other nations would be like shooting your own foot. Everybody knows that, in the present situation, USA is importing more than exporting. A boycott would only make things worse for this country.

Of course, if that happen, Bush would probably invade France, Germany and others to protect USA "way of life".

I hope that to be an isolated case, not something happening all over the country. It would kill any faith or hope let in me that USA could, someday, be a part of the world, not the spoiled kid who thinks he own the whole thing.