%ping 127.0.0.1
I’m alive and kicking asses around Lisbon.
Some random notes about my 4 current life’s (work, work, study, personal):
(Too much work)^2; Too much stress (bad management); Trying to keep breaking the rules rulez; Too much Kilometers in a Flash Gordon pace (13,36Km/h); Rocky Heart results (more on this later); Some new geeks around here; Too much Perl scripting as glue for Oracle, SunCluster, SNMP, Nagios data interchange; I miss Ruby down here; Lot’s of Solaris(SunCluster Rocks) and Dead Rats but also Windows (WTF); Too less conversation but also too less iTunes; Too less blogging; TerminalTabSwitching and Megazoomer are a “must have” SIMBL plugins; Too less “apple time”; Too much coffee but better lunch; (mono) Heavy Metal times; Less HD; 16 at Operational Investigation; %rm -rf /home/<some_lusers_here>; No more Jamendo donwloads (no space available); FreeBSD from CVS to Subversion (no comments on this please :)); 3 Invites to local parties; More “walking in to the company”; 2 laptops 2 flat screen displays; I Saw a kid die 
; 1/4 of gas in my car; iPhone pre-registered; @movies(“Indiana Jones”, “The Forbidden Kingdon”); Back to fucking mess of rpm’s (on legacy Linux’s); Too much clusters to admin; I’m (still) reading “A very short introduction to Intelligence”; Next books are about ethic; Almost Rocky on Solaris SMF; Solving problems with 12 terminals 3 browser tabs and 1 mobile phone last generation; Addicted to MoinX; I knew a super nice and sweet girl 
from Viana do Castelo; I miss my DJ Cabrita Youtube sessions; Fuck mobile phones, fuck Kanguru Internet access; Not in love with Adobe Air apps; Say no to “bad communication”, Still say now to stupid “smart” people; I own things down here; Must see Rage Against the Machine; Twitter, Jaiku, Tarpipe, Ping.fm what’s next?; Moved to Vita Extreme; Preparing a huge scp; Own a blackberry for 75€ and sold it for the same price 2 days later; I have a macbook for sale; Testing Evernote; I’m learning new cool tech stuff; I have become a Mindmap evangelist; Installed Google Desktop, SQLDeveloper, Vistualbox, Solaris 10, Pidgin, and “sun of a” Putty :); More Wiki writings than LaTeX; I won 3 more email accounts with and incoming avegare of ~120 mails/day; Tons of Tomcats, Catalina’s and boring friends on a huge (stressing) uptime machines; Having nightmares with Hash of hashes of arrays; No more t-shirts just “smart casual”(boring dress code); Prolog is bad to your brain; Preparing a Internet switch from ADSL to Cable in my parents home (where my servers lives :)); Insomnia’s related to stress, weather and night noise conditions; I’m reducing animal proteins and my weight is now 72Kg; lot’s of PDF’s queued to read and RSS Feeds to clean; Did like Metallica but not so nice the “comerciality” around the event itself; Ticket to solve, servers to update ,friends to ping; Some IPSEC tunnels are not working well; Time Machine is taking to long performing backups (+16G); No more spare time to read RSS feeds; 63 mails in my gmail inbox; Discovered the Prophylactic restart concept (not good); Too much persons with root privileges, sudo to the rescue or BSD ACL’s ?!; I love my friends even those how don’t speak much as me; …too much raw data to fit this post, see you next moon…
So do you think I need vacations!? No way dude. I have too much energy to handle this and even more stuff 
I just need to feed my veins with Endorphins to ride them all.
“HAPPY TIMES
NOT”, don’t know but lets see next chapter.
Congrats twitter team. I did love this one.
I am a little sick of reading posts about “how would I scale twitter”, but ok this is my bad temper speaking.
“… To those taking the time to blog about our architecture, I encourage you to check out our jobs page. If you want to make Twitter better, there’s no more direct way than getting involved in our engineering efforts. We love kicking around ideas, but code speaks louder than words…”
This is what I call a “Gran finale”
nostalgic BOFH
In a deep digging over some of my backups, I found this foto taken by me with an old webcam when I was 20 years old and started working as UNIX SysAdmin here in Lisbon, great days :)… An young rebel BSD addited to the bones BOFH who loves to remove luser accounts massively ahahah
I still the same person but now I dress some “as they call” “smart casual clothes” and yes I still love to remove those accounts haahah
Today I’m working with some legacy systems and I just remembered when I had my hands on systems like Irix, SCO and Netware…funny days and stressing too :/
Apanhado no prazer (conteúdo impróprio para diabéticos)
ohhh si si, más más… o raio da “pasta” de chocolate acabou durante o post.
Pois é meus caros, mais away não podia estar. Serve o presente post apenas para deixar um ping à lá “I am alive and kicking asses!”
Estas minhas últimas semanas tem sido bastante diferentes! O trabalho é bastante, a pilha de livros de coisas novas é gigante! Parece que querem matar o tipo do BSD com linuxes “do tempo da Maria Caxuxa” e com uma porrada de Solaris à mistura. (Yep, já estou a tratar de criar um plano diabólico para instalar massivamente BSD lá na coisa… eles nem notam! (kidding))
Bem, a verdade é que esta nova experiência de estar “alugado” ao cliente do cliente, tem sido bastante interessante em alguns aspectos e menos noutros. Resta dizer por agora que adoro desafios, adoro quebrar barreiras, mas como tb sou um humanoide, preciso de momentos como este que estavam esquecidos. Um chocolate, um post e 300mil penduranços do Kanguru que me irrita mesmo ao ponto de meter nojo!(já tive perto de o mandar pela sanita abaixo mas não é meu !)
Para além disso devo anotar que para chegar ao office tenho de:
- manhã: descer dois andares e subir um,
- almoçar: subir um, e no fim voltar a descer,
- final do dia: descer um e subir dois.
(ainda falam que os geeks não batem bem! Deviam ver os arquitectos!)
A faculdade está bem mas tb mais exigente!
PS: O branco dos dentes foi editado no Gimp e aproveitei tapei os furos!
PS: As drogas teimam em não sair de casa!
PS: Para os “mouros” , pasta de chocolate é a mesma coisa que tablete de chocolate
Novos livros na pilha:
- Practical Ruby for Systems Administration, (dar em doido :S)
- The Ruby way, (muito bom mesmo)
- Elementos de Cálculo Financeiro (dass),
- Investigação Operacional (gasss-se),
- A very short introduction to Inteligence, (heheeh mesmo burro),
- 5 volumes de Solaris 10 (lindo!),
- (top secret books to conquer the world) (<- verdade)
Que mais coisas posso eu escrever neste posto puramente RAW ahumm, ah ok…
<RAW>Já tenho exame ao coração marcado para dia 26 deste mês; Hoje arrumei as coisas no frigorifico; Fui almoçar com um amigo que se anda a passar da cabeça; Esperei outra vez mais de 20 minutos para me darem acesso ao office (yha tenho root daquela m*rda toda e preciso de ser acompanhado à porta! dass); Não tenho sonhado de noite; Também não tenho comido maçãs durante o dia, alias no office não vejo a luz do dia;Tenho um artigo novo em mente sobre “Modelo Europeu de CV’s”; Tou perto dos 1K mas estou a recuperar do joelho direito; Vou começar em breve a ir de bike para o work; Estou a pensar em reduzir a ingestão de proteínas animais para 1/4; Vou tirar uma formação sobre Propriedade Intelectual; Vou aprender Solaris; bem… off</RAW>
Um post de jeito talvez para a próxima… sorry
The good, the bad and the ‘void’!
Some “nice to record” quotes from an article about Leadership.
“…Leadership at all levels requires getting the whole organization involved in a dialogue…”
“…Those with a leadership mindset are: future-focused, inquisitive, influential and constantly learning. They don’t wait until senior management “names” them a leader. They assume they already are…”
and finaly,
”…Individual leadership development is important, but the real key to success lies in the conversations that shape the leadership culture…”
In “Leadership at All Levels Statrs with a Conversation”,
M World, Winter 2006
“Kiss for Ceci“
twitter for all tastes
For those who don’t understand this, it’s simple. Someone as created a twitter account to “broadcast” a message to all it’s subscribers informing what’s the menu for lunch/dinner in the canteen of “Instituto Superior Técnico“, LOL!
I will not follow this one because … digging my memory, I think I just add lunch there one time and I don’t remember when or why , (ok I remember why, http://3as.ist.utl.pt ).
well, after all I wrote down this post just to say that I really love to see what people can do with this kind of services! Hey, is this web Release Candidate 2.1 stuff ? LOL. People, communities and services! From the complex ones to this kind simplicity.
Sapo codebits - “oh si carinho más, más!!”
É com isto em mente que faço um post sobre o Sapo codebits!!
( http://codebits.blogs.sapo.pt/ ), pois se tivesse de apontar algo a melhorar seria apenas 1 ponto!
- E os vegetarianos o que comem ?
Foi única a experiência de estar no meio de uma amostra dos melhores, foi única a experiência de fazer parte do Júri!
Este ano aprendi imensas coisas, umas técnicas outras sociais. Falei com muitas caras conhecidas e conheci umas tantas novas e isto meus senhores é fantástico!
Deixo aqui uma vez mais os meus Parabéns ao Celso e ao Pedro. Imparáveis!
From FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.0-BETA2 and back to 6.X
…all in one night babe…
heeheh I am laffing very much just for reading this title :), don’t get mad, don’t get impressed. I do love FreeBSD 7.0 and it sugar
What I am talking about it has append last friday night. I was installing a new “big storage server” named IRONMAN <- (wtf!) :D, with FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 and after installing it, building it’s world and kernel, I put it in a gmirror (well just 2 of it 8 hard drives), because the other 6 are(were) for (wana guess?), ZFS… but… at 4am, I got a Kernel PANIC. Me stressed because the situation, and mad because this is not my way to do things, I just did it :). I took the 6.2-RELEASE CD and installed everything from scratch and the peace of mind and spirit came to me again Yes folks its hard as a rock, its stable as a humm (something super stable here), and it’s working as a swiss watch :).
Regarding ZFS well maybe in December I update this server.
gmirror - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror
ZFS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
IRONMAN - http://www.ironman.com/
Kernel PANIC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Panic
3350: 1285/8500, 10km in 46″42′, 4:40
Yes!