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Scrum Workshop from CMU and UC.pt

10 Dec

The Carnegie Mellon University Portugal Programme will be organizing a workshop about the Scrum methodology on December 18, 2008.

This workshop will also show the Master in Software Engineering programme which is given in a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra.

If you’d like to participate in this event, and get to know a little more about this Masters programme and the topics that will be taught in it, send and email to: bolsasnovabase@novabase.pt and ask for the invitation.

 
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O que é que a Novabase tem?

10 Dec

Com a bolsa de Lisboa a caminhar para terminar o ano com o pior desempenho de sempre, há uma empresa portuguesa que escapa a este sentimento negativo e acumula uma valorização superior a 34%. A descontinuação da área de mobilidade e o foco no negócio “core”, bem como os bons resultados operacionais apresentados, são alguns dos factores apontados pelos analistas para o bom desempenho da Novabase.

“O título beneficiou de ter atingido um nível demasiado baixo, ainda antes da crise, e da empresa se ter focado no seu negócio ‘core’”, adiantou ao Negócios um analista, que preferiu não ser identificado.

No início do ano, a tecnológica liderada por Rogério Carapuça descontinuou o negócio de mobilidade, uma medida que foi aplaudida pelo mercado. “A área de mobilidade não estava a ter as margens desejadas e estava a empurrar as margens globais para baixo”, realçou o mesmo responsável.

Já outro analista, que também pediu anonimato, realçou que a empresa “tem beneficiado da saída de ‘players’ internacionais do mercado nacional e tem conquistado quota de mercado”, apesar do ambiente macroeconómico difícil. O especialista salienta ainda o balanço “sólido” da companhia e o facto de ser “uma empresa que não tem dívida” como factores que têm impulsionado as acções.

In: http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/index.php?template=SHOWNEWS&id=344468

 
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New Computer

26 Sep

This just in.. I just got my new work computer.. A beautiful DELL Latitude D630C.. amazing machine.. I love it!!!

 
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New Job

11 Sep

Well guys, this year has been quite good for me..

During my last job I got the chance to work at Portugal’s largest mobile operator, TMN, and I was relocated to Marocco for one month, on a Bandwidth Control project.

Although I wasn’t thinking about leaving PTInovação, I recieved a job offer from Lisbon. One of Portugal’s top consultancy firms, which plays head to head with Accenture and Deloitte in both national and international markets, gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and I didn’t.

So here I am, at Novabase ACD, over-looking the Lisbon Casino and the Tejo River from my desk. This is prime real-estate. Simply one of the best places to work in Lisbon.

So here go the perks:

Dell Laptop

Nokia Phone (Calls Paid)

Health Insurance (In Portugal its not that common)

And a pretty decent salary pakage.

See you soon :)

 
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Google Maps API

11 Jun

Well, I started a while back learning how to use the google maps api, although I haven’t had much time, and most of the code is hacked from other users (to quickly see the api’s capabilities), I present to you my latest project: www.mapmyworld.net

It will be changing every day I have a few minutes to spare.

Any ideas on what I could do next? Email me :)

 
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New year, new job!

29 Feb

So as of monday, march 3rd I will be a computer systems analyst at Portugal Telecom Inovação..

And to start off, here is the most recent perk:

Sistema

Processador

 AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK55

Velocidade do Processador

 1.7 GHz

Memória

 2048 MB (1024×2) DDR2 667

 Armazenamento

Discos Duros

 160 GB SATA 5400 rpm

Drive

 DVDRW Supermulti

 Audio e Video

Ecran

 15.4” WXGA Color Shine

Câmara de Vídeo

 Webcam 1.3 MP integrada

Placa Gráfica

 ATI X1250 até 128 MB

 Comunicações

Placa de Rede

 Gigabit LAN 801.11 b/g

 Outros

Sistema Operativo

 Windows Vista Premium

Oferta

 Mala e Rato
 
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Exporting a Serial Console from a VM to a TTY on the server

08 Feb

Many companies nowadays use virtual machines as their servers.

Well what I’m gonna talk about today is how to export the serial console from your kvm-qemu virtual machine to a certain tty on your server.

It’s quite easy:

First thing is to start your vm with the -serial /dev/tty6 (or 7 or 8 or whatever) switch.

Ok so now we’ve got our server listening on the tty we specified for a serial connection. Now lets go to our virtual machine.

On our virtual machine, go to /boot/grub/menu.1st and add the following lines to the top of the file:

serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal --timeout=15 serial console

And change the kopt (in the same file) to:

# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8

Now go to your /etc/inittab and uncomment this line:

T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100

Now we have to update grub:

update-grub

And reboot the virtual machine

Lets go back to our server:

try to enter the tty you specified, and there you go, your virtual machine is now exported to your servers tty.

 
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X Forwarding with 1 hop

31 Jan 
Assuming the X server is running on the local machine as server 0 and
listening for TCP connections.
Please replace 6010 and localhost:10.0 with other values :D 

local machine:
xhost + localhost
ssh -R 6010:localhost:6000 diana.xxx.yyy.zzz -l login

at diana
ssh -R 6010:localhost:6010 remote_host -l login

at remote_host
export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
whatever X command: e.g. xterm, gnome-session, etc...
 
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Trip Day 1-3

28 Oct

So I left friday to come back home to Canada.
I was a llittle hesitant about flying with KLM, but the flight from Lisbon to Amsterdam went great.
We left Lisbon on time and after getting to the cruising altitude we were served with a nice refreshment while waiting for breakfast.
Breakfast served, orange juice, bread, muesli bar, butter, etc etc.
The flight went great the stuardists were very nice, and I sat beside Marco Horacio (Rouxinol Faducho).

Amsterdam Airport – Best Airport i’ve been at in my life, casino, stores, burguer king, kfc, macdonalds, the works. Amazing and Big.

Northwestern Airlines Flight Amsterdam to Detroit – Nice plane, onboard entertainment, watched 3 movies. Cabin crew was the worse i’ve seen in my life. Completly unprofessional. Arriving in Detroit. After passing through passport control, being asked why i’m going to canada and why i’m canadian, (stupid americans!) i had to take off my jacket, everything from my pockets and my shoes! Being told my baggage would go straight to toronto, wasnt expecting having to pick it up in detroit and checking it in again, bloody americans.

Northwestern Detroit – Toronto – Wow, even more unprofessional, they seemed high or something.

I’ll continue later..

 
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SSH Without a Password

11 Jul

On the client run the following commands:

$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa -P ”

This should result in two files, ~/.ssh/id_dsa (private key) and ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (public key).
#

Copy ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to the server.
#

On the server run the following commands:

$ cat id_dsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2
$ chmod 0600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2

 
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