Archive for July, 2004

End of School

Today it was my last day of my 4 week german classes in SpracheSchool. I was not happy with the last 3 weeks and I wasn’t pleased at all when after paying more than 700Eur at the “certification” you receive is a paper stating that you spent 4 weeks there having classes 4 hours/day, no [...]


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Georg and Andrea and Paella

Today I finnaly met one of the persons that helped me while researching how things work around here and introduce me to some business contacts through Open Business Club. We had been emailing for the last month I was in Portugal and he’s my “life-safer” around here along with Rita from the relocation Agency. [...]


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Pen-pals and Interviews

Today I skipped classses. freakin’ fever is still here. But at 2p, i have to go to school to interview one guy for a web programmer position. let’s see if it’s in german or english :D

on the other hand i’ve got myself a very nice pen-pal, a girl about my [...]


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Japanese?

arrrghhhhhhhhhhhh

today we’ve got a new colleague at classes, and she’s…….japanese! only speaks japanese and bad german ;)
I now know 3 sentences and japanese, no bad word yet though :D

and no Bruno, i’m not gonna do a japanese version the texts :D [...]


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Litux Iteraction II

Lilo boot
Got XFree working again :) and I have now KDM login window working:


Update: ;)


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Languages meltingpot

“taking advantage” of my current multi-cultural experience and the language meltingpot on my head, Bruno is setting up here the language plugin, also as a way of “forcing” me to start to write in german ;) . But the question is: when will he start as well?
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Language Plugin Test

en


Testing of Language Picker Plugin.

pt


Teste do plugin de escolha de língua.

de


Sprache plugin ausschlussen Test.

es


Prueba de plugin de elección de la lengua.

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Litux Iteraction I

As I said, we got our DSL connection and I don’t need to use Windows on my Toshiba laptop anymore.
I’ve been using Windows to be easier for Lígia to reboot it ;) and restart its 3G connection. I was using a SonyEricsson Z1010 via Bluetooth, Toshiba’s Centrino Wi-Fi, and we [...]


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Linksys Access Point with Linux

Yesterday I also bought one Linksys WRT54G Access Point. This is one good example on how to mix OpenSource with a commercial product - it’s a Linux system inside and they release their code also as GPL (well, they have to when then accepted the licence).

Here’s my WiKi page about Linksys WRT54G notes.


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Your daily tabloid

Yesterday in Königsalle, one of the main streets where the so called fashionable designer shops are, just outside Sevens (where Saturn - the 3 floors geek store - is :) ) we’ve found this:

24 horas

be still my heart :D:D:D Tv Guia is sold at the airport , [...]


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