<p>As you can see on my blog, all <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> images lost the transparent backgrounds, making them f* ugly. At first I thought it was some kind of error on my browser (Debian unstable, you never know..).</p> <p>But then I experienced the same symptoms on other browsers. Google pointed me to <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/03/14/big-changes-afoot/">this blog post</a> that explained everything: they switched from Rails to <span class="caps">PHP</span> and now they can&#8217;t support <span class="caps">PNG</span> with alpha channels (this is actually a joke, read the article for the true reasons).</p> <p>Although there are many comments on the blog entry begging for <span class="caps">PNG</span> to come back, it doesn&#8217;t seem that Gravatar will take this step back. So for me, <a href="http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/people/yousuck.jpg">they now suck</a>.</p> <p>Started to look for alternatives, maybe <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hAvatar">hAvatar</a> as <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/">Alcides</a> recommended?</p> 95 gravatar-just-started-to-suck 2008-03-18T15:09:00-07:00 <p>Woke up, opened <a href="http://liferea.sourceforge.net/">Liferea</a> (Linux Feed Reader), went to the &#8220;OSnews&#8221; feed, and a lot of G suprises!</p> <ul> <li>Gnome 2.22 Released (<a href="http://osnews.com/story/19467/GNOME-2.22-Released-Brings-New-Architectural-Features">link</a>)</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span class="caps">GCC 4</span>.3.0 Released (<a href="http://osnews.com/story/19462/GCC-4.3.0-Released">link</a>)</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span class="caps">GTK 3</span>.0 Getting Serious (<a href="http://osnews.com/story/19464/GTK+-3.0-Getting-Serious">link</a>)</li> </ul> <p>I should wake later in the morning more often :-)</p> 94 lots-of-g-i-news-today 2008-03-13T05:55:00-07:00 <p><a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a> needs no introduction.</p> <p>You probably have heard about how git efficiently stores the contents and the repository history on your hard drive. I decided to put it on a test!</p> <pre> $ svn co https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_svn $ du -csh repo_svn 473 Mb </pre> <p>Now with git-svn:</p> <pre> $ git svn clone https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_git $ cd repo_git $ git gc $ du -csh . 340 Mb </pre> <p><span class="caps">WTF</span>???!!</p> <p>And what&#8217;s the difference? The git repo contains <strong>all</strong> the history since <strong>revision 0</strong> from this repository, <strong>offline</strong>!</p> <p>So <strong>all</strong> the repository history on git is <strong>significantly smaller</strong> than the <strong>HEAD</strong> on svn? I really do love git&#8230;</p> 93 why-i-m-in-love-with-git 2008-03-04T15:51:00-08:00 <p>After one year of applicant work, the <a href="http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/">CeSIUM Free Software Mirror</a> became the official <a href="http://www.gentoo.org">Gentoo</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync">rsync</a> mirror for Portugal, available from rsync.pt.gentoo.org.</p> <p>The CeSIUM Mirror is located in <a href="http://www.uminho.pt">Universidade do Minho</a> at Braga, Portugal and uploads around 20TiB every month!</p> <p>I would like to take this moment to thank Pedro Carvalho (incude) and Filipe Regadas (dude) for working with me on this project for the last 2 years. Our hard work is really paying off. I&#8217;m proud of what we achieved :-)</p> 92 rsync-pt-gentoo-org-cesium 2008-03-04T15:14:00-08:00