As the Portuguese song goes “Ja chegou direitinha a encomenda, pelo expresso que parou na piedade, pao de trigo e linguica para a merenda, sempre da para enganar a saudade…”

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Rob from HSpherePackages.com just release a nice BFD script, which allows for automatic banning of the attacking IP

The script can work both in Linux and FreeBSD (probably can work on other flavors of BSD as well)

I keep a mirrored copy for download [HERE]

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Initially when I saw it I tough it was a fake .. but towards the end of it you do see scenes from the next movie .. so i guess it’s real
I cant wait for it,, to finally see how Anakin becomes Vader

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Today I drove 140 Miles to Dorchester, Dorset to go pick up my new G5

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21 years ago, on January 24th 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh.

It was recorded and preserved by Scott Knaster, the “legendary Mac hacker”, as Amazon puts it. Scott kept the tape (a NTSC Betamax III longplay) for 21 years since he keeps everything.

here it is

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today I ordered a powermac G5 .. the specs:

- Dual G5 2.5Ghz PowerPC G5
- .5 GB RAM PC3200 (400MHz)
- 160 GB HD Serial ATA; 7200 rpm
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL with 256MB GDDR3 SDRAM

and of course, I need to order

- 1 GB RAM PC3200 (400MHz)

To go with it.

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A few days ago (16th) I decided to get a new Laser mouse, of course the only one on the market right now is the Logitech MX1000

I was very please with it until last night wen it suddenly stopped working .. the indicator lights for the battery just went dark, no response from the mouse at all .. I even try to leave it on the charge overnight .. nothing, still dead.

So I went to PCWORLD this morning to try and exchange it .. just my luck, they ran out of them, but luckily there is another PCWORLD off A48, so i drove a few miles and sure enough, they had 7 of them.

But it was not to be, I got home, plugged it back in, and started to notice the cursor jumped once in a while .. not acceptable
so I returned to the store and got my 3RD MX1000 ..

Let’s hope this one lasts

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About a month ago I decided to drop the Linux Laptop and go for a desktop solution instead.

The initial idea was to build a Athlon 3200+ Linux system, but after thinking about it, I decided it was time for me to give MAC/OSX a try, it had been years sine I owned a MAC (pre-OSX era).

I got a Dual G4 1.4Ghz, 1GB Ram, 120G HD, Ti4600 128B Video, then I put an order for 2 Dell 2005FPW (20.1″).

Today I have received the displays, and the setup is finally complete, and am I ever happy, moving to OSX was a good move, Linux is still my #1 choice for my servers, and nothing else comes close, but for a desktop system, OSX with it’s BSD core has won me over .. I love how everything looks so neat and different programs interact seamlessly together .. and of course having the ability to open a #bash prompt underneath all the gleam and find a *nix core is just great

here is a pic of the complete setup

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Today I found this nifty program called DeliciWeb .. basically it can grab my Library items from Delicious Library and generate the HTML code to put them online.

Unfortunately my DVD collection is still in FL .. I only have a few items here in the UK .. but here is what I got over so far …

DVD Movies
XBOX Games
Books

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Just watched Van Helsing last night.

Bought the DVD from PLAY.COM .. they had a special, so it only cost �7.99 .. not bad.

The movie itself was just great, what a cool story, of a man who is summoned by an order of the Vaticann to go out and destroy mitological monsters.

In a chaotic world like we live today, it is good to just immerse on a good fantasy story that takes one away from the every day struggle, I am sick and tired of movies about the problems people face every day, I know what those problems are, I don’t need to sit down to watch a movie just to be reminded of how much life can suck
I loved the movie, and from the looks of the end, I would bet they will be making a sequel, the graphics on the movie are some o the best I ever saw, the only disappointment [warning, spoiler] is at the end when they burning the girl’s dead body, the cheesy effects of her ascendance to heaven ..

But all and all, this is a movie I am certainly to be watching again in a few months .. highly recommended

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