Research Demo 1: Medusa

http://cortex.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri/stuff/videos/medusa.mpg

Bottom-line: "Demo or die"

Stolen red schwinn sidewinder bike

I had my bike stolen between tuesday sept 5th and sept 6th. It was parked on 280 Benefit street, Providence, RI, with a coil-type lock wrapped around the frame and front wheel. It was bought on walmart: [Link]

If you have any notices of similar bikes, notices of similar thefts around this area, or any other information to give, please comment this post.

change of email address

My new email is from google: rfabbri(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com.NOSPAM

verso da semana

Sem a loucura o que é o homem Mais que a besta sadia, Cadáver adiado que procria? -- Fernando Pessoa (copiado da pagina do Stolfi)

visita!

E ai pessoal, chego a Sao Paulo dia 17 / Agosto, visito a familia e amigos, e fico ate 04/Set. Liguem pra minha vo ou me mandem um email!

abracos!

suddenly no sound in linux

Card: Intel ICH5 Chip: Analog Devices AD1981B

Today I tried to play a CD rom and I suddenly got no sound in linux; very weird. After some fooling around, the solution was to turn off "Headphone Jack Sense" in alsamixer. Allright, hope someone can benefit from this.

movie

Just watched the movie Frida... a very strong and fulfilling movie, one of my all-time favorites.

Slackware 64bit

My bottomline opinion: stick with 32bit for now; its still fast. Use 2 or 3 partitions to install slamd64 and gentoo and slowly transition to the best one.

Useful post from the newsgroup:

Date: Mon, Mar 13 2006 2:20 pm Email: "Mogens V." <NOSPAMmoge...@vip.cybercity.dk> Groups: alt.os.linux.slackware

Carsten Becher wrote: > what about 64-bit support(*) in Slackware? Anything planned?

Pat's answer to my Q (december 05) about Slack 64bit:

"It's possible that we'll eventually do something about x86-64, but it's not a top priority, and I don't believe that "most of the Slackers" will switch away on account of 32 vs. 64 bit support in the forseeable future, but if they do it's going to be more about an imagined benefit that about any real one. The majority of users really don't have any need for 64 bit processing at this time, but it is cool to be able to say that your AMD64 processor is running in 64-bit mode. (just like it's cool to be able to say that your binaries have all possible processor specific optimizations compiled in, even if there's no measurable performance difference and the system might be less stable overall)."

Bugs!!!

Bugs, bugs, pesky little bugs!!! So much time do I loose with you, but time is all that is necessary to KILL YOU! And when that time comes, oh how sweet it is to SLAY YOU!! DIE, M*, DIE!!!!

CS Rulez

I am beginning to realize that the next major problems in Science will not so much be tractable by neither new theories of Math nor Physics, neither Psychophysics or Neuroscience, but rather by Computer Science. That is because CS tackles directly that level of explanation of things that no other science has ever seriously explored - the level of information processing. (Hmm.... guess I'll take more CS courses now.)

The price of righteousness

Be willing to pay the price of righteousness, the price of doing what you feel is most noble and right. Sacrifice little things for the sake of bigger things in life. Don't be a wuss

Coisitas no ebay

Ai, galera, minha irma ta vendendo umas coisitas na internet:

Little-Brazil Store

se quiser fazer negocio com a gente, eh so dizer que a gente arma os esquema :)

Photos!

Fotos do meu sobrinho / Pics of my nephew!

http://cortex.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri/gallery/

NENEM!!

Papai................ ainda nao hehehehe, mas sim TIOZAO!!!!!

(My brother just got a new baby, called Antonio!)

Sorrindo, ao lado de Deus

Colossians 3:1-2

3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Blessed be my Uncle Fernando Costa Abencoado seja meu Tio, Fernando Costa

Frase de fim de semestre

It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way. -- Proverbs 19:2

Latex direto no Open Office: OOoLatex

Sempre quis editar equacoes complicadas nas minhas apresentacoes e documentos no Open Office. No MS-Word, tem o texpoint, mas no OpenOffice tem coisa melhor (especialmente em Linux):

http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/

Eu uso isso pra colocar simbolos matematicos nas minhas figuras e apresentacoes.

No caso de figuras, eu geralmente desenho esquemas cientificos no OpenOffice, os quais usam simbolos matematicos. Eu exporto o desenho para EPS, que eh o formato util para para incluir em documentos Latex. Alias, o EPS export do OpenOffice eh simplesmente incrivel; nao da pra voltar pro Word.

Presentation

The poster presentation went very well!! Now its time to relax in the conference banquet a little...

-- Ricardo Fabbri

PhD Student in Computer Engineering / Computer Vision LEMS - Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems Brown University, USA

Florida trip

I'm here at Saint Augustine having lots of fun. The city is very pretty, cozy, historical but also with a very clear funny beach mood. The weather is warm (~80 Farenheit), the sky is very clear, this is just awesome! My hotel is half a mile from the conference hotel and from downtown. The latter is full of nice restaurants and artsy/gifts/antiques stores. Nice desert stores are spreaded throughout, for my joy. Now I'll get back to hard work cause my presentation is thursday afternoon.

Aaaahhhhh

Desfrutou, agora vai ter que trabalhar pra pagar Ricardo....