There's no Place Like ::1

Ok, this movie is old. But it was recommended by so many friends that I had to stop and watch it. And it was a well spent time! Equilibrium is a good movie and it reminds me a little of the Matrix saga.

It tells you a story about a society in the near future were all emotions are controlled by a drug that people are obliged to take every day, with the objective of finally getting universal peace. Then someone stops taking the pills.. :-)

The concept is good, and if this movie is based on a book, I probably want to read it in the near future.

Following this post about cool wallpapers, I found this website where I finally can get cool dual monitor wallpapers for free!

(yes yes, my workstation is a dual 19’’ wide TFTs :))

Following this post where Pedro talks about how he receives notifications about background jobs I decided to clone his script to a Linux version using libnotify daemon.

#!/bin/bash

"$@" 
status=$?
notify-send  "Background script notification" "Completed $*" 
exit $status

Now if you simple alias n="your_script" you can do pretty things like Melo

n scp user@machine:pr0n /tmp

And get notified when the transfer ends :) Pretty handy! Thank you Melo for this tip!

Following a personal project I’m doing involving processes running over weeks, I stumbled upon some code that allows you to run a block of code in a separate thread in Ruby, every n seconds.

This works great, as expected, and Ruby made my day :-)

Yesterday I change my blog engine.. AGAIN!

This time I’m using the great and powerful Perl based Movable Type blog engine. One of the things that attracted me the most is that MT4 generates your blog in a static way, so almost all the blog frontend is served directly by my HTTP server.

This now means I can resist a little bit more to a slashdot attack :)

For those who read my blog through RSS, I’ve instructed my HTTP server to redirect the old feed URL to the new one, so it should work without making any changes. Wish me luck :)