http://www.justinosantos.com The digital existence of Justino Santos Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:33:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm taking a while but I must admit I have a masterplan to build my personal Home Cinema system. As you might know, I've in my possession PlayStation 3. Being one great gaming console, it is also a fantastic and credit crunch Blue-Ray Player. A while ago (didn't notice it ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/12/08/home-cinema/ Just found out an interesting project: "Takk Iceland 09". This project consists in uniting the biggest number possible of islandic band Sigur Rós fans (which by the way filled Campo Pequeno where in Lisbon, in a great concert) with one objective: organize a trip to Island to recreate the amazing ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/11/20/takk-iceland-09/ The LUG (Linux User Group) I used to belong is organizing a series of talks about Open Source technologies. The final objective is to aproximate users, developers, professionals, designers, teachers and students making them share experiences related with the open source world.The event will take place in University of Aveiro ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/10/22/glua-tech-sessions/ It seems that I'm a year older. At least it was what people kept telling me yesterday all day. I kept replying that I only feel a day older from yesterday, but people tend to ignore my remark. So now being 28 years old, what do I expect? Learn to do ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/10/11/wishful-thinking/ I've setup a simple and reliable monitoring mechanism on VPS. Basically i'm using: Monit:  as stated in the site, monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/09/30/stats-and-mon/ It seems that haven't been post for a long time now. So here it goes a brief news update. First of all, I have a new job - I'm working as Network Enginner in Sonaecom in Access and Transmission Engineering group. Other good news is that Benfica won against the city rivals ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/09/28/and-time-goes-by/ I was just reading my daily links and I just found out something really unfair. Take a look at this. It seems that OCN, the japanese carrier operated by NTT Communications is imposing daily limits for uploads. Not fair right? Well, not quite like that... It seems they are imposing ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/07/06/unfairness/ I came back to this issue today. While I'm waiting for an "apt-get upgrade" on my ps3 machine I decided to enlighten you how to setup correctly your video resolution. So what you have to do is to play a little bit with ps3videomode command. If you try this ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/04/24/ps3-linux-inside-22/ Well, I can't get a new device without trying to put Linux on it. The same happened to my PS3. And before I forget how I did it, I'm posting here my instructions with all the twists and turns. First of all, lets see the pre-conditions: As we need to reformat PS3 ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/04/08/ps3-linux-inside-12/ My friend Alfredo Matos has redesigned his website (which, by the way, looks very nice) and I noticed that he had a lot better looking permalinks than me. So I decided to investigate what wordpress offered me to beautify my URLs. After googling a little, I got to this page ... http://www.justinosantos.com/2008/03/18/pretty-permalinks/