The Vectra’s rise and fall

Hi folks,

A few years ago I wrote about my personal server: An HP Vectra VL5/100, which was running NetBSD in that occasion. If you’re still interested, there’s a portuguese link here with the setup, and here’s a picture taken on the day it arrived:

Its hostname was vectra.timm.net (also vectra.serveblog.net), and it was a great computer. The hostname was chosen due Vectra is also an old car I like, and I really think it’s a cool hostname. 🙂  That said, Vectra was built in 1996, and had been used by a former colleague of mine, who gave me in January 2008 when I was still living in Goiania. I don’t know exactly regarding the original configuration, but when I received it, was already a Pentium 166MHz with 96MB Ram and a 4GB HD drive. This colleague of mine was freeing some space on his house, and knowing I like to play with old computers, he gave me instead of discarding on the nearest garbage can he could find.

Pequenas Sutilezas dos programas Open Source

Se tem uma coisa que eu realmente ADORO nos programas Open Source, ao contrário dos softwares chatos e sem-graça do Windows, são as pequenas sutilezas que determinados desenvolvedores incluem em seus programas. Isso também acontece no Mac OS X. Por exemplo: Hoje é natal, 25 de dezembro de 2009, e olhe com o quê eu fui surpreendido:

Provavelmente aconteceu o mesmo com a versão for Windows. Mas são coisas que não acontecem, por padrão, no SO da Microsoft. 🙂

Em tempo: Segundo o amigo Stomaz, o Kmess também o desejou feliz natal… 🙂

Stay safe,
Lucas Timm.