:: Seven Pounds (Sete Vidas) ::

English:

Such a GREAT movie! Amazing performance by all the actors and actresses, but mainly Will Smith and Rosario Dawson.

The story catches your attention since the beginning; it is sometimes tense, and right after that it gets soft, even funny. My wife began to cry by the middle of the movie.

I would like to talk a bit more about it, but I think I would spoil it for those who haven't watched it yet, like... "telling the story". Watch it, I bet you won't regret.

We watched it on last Sunday and my wife said that movie goes to her "watch again" list.

Português:

Um baita filme! Excelente atuação de todos os atores e atrizes, mas principalmente do Will Smith e da Rosario Dawson.

A historia cativa a atenção desde o início; às vezes é tensa pra logo depois ficar leve, até mesmo engraçada. Minha esposa começou a chorar lá pela metade do filme.

Eu até gostaria de falar mais do filme, mas acho que acabaria "entregando o ouro", tirando a surpresa daqueles que ainda não o assistiram. Assitam, aposto que não vão se arrepender.

Assistimos o filme domingo passado e minha esposa disse que ele vai pra lista "assistir de novo" dela.

:: amsn-r11155 ::

Eita, eita! Vida de packager, ou metido a packager, não é fácil hehehehe. Se algum dia alguém me perguntar se eu já fiz serviço voluntário, vou mandar vir olhar aqui no meu blog e nos Changelogs do repositório do Bluewhite64 ehehehee

Ao que interessa... um usuário pediu auxílio no #Bluewhite64-br (irc.freenode.net) porque não estava conseguindo rodar o amsn-0.97.2. Ele havia baixado o pacote direto do nosso repositório, mas faltavam algumas bibliotecas (libraries, ou "libs" para os íntimos). Dei as dicas de quais pacotes baixar e instalar (era bastante óbvio). Porém faltava a tal "tls-1.5". Dei uma vasculhada no repositório e realmente, o cara que fez upload do amsn não foi tão legal a ponto de mandar a tal lib.

Então resolvi caçar a dita cuja e dar jeito no serviço. Baixei a "tls-1.6", compilei, empacotei e fiz upload. Mas claro, burraldinho, o amsn não iria funcionar, visto que ele precisava da versão 1.5. Então baixei o amsn-0.97.2, compilei ele também e mandei um novo pacote. Beleza, funciona!

Porém resolvi testar o suporte a webcam (lembram dos posts anteriores?). OK, funcionar funciona, porém a imagem fica mais escura que aquelas que eu mostrei nas screenshots via kopete (kde-4.2.2). Então conversei com algumas pessoas do #amsn e eles me disseram que esse tipo de "problema" estaria sendo solucionado na nova versão, que ainda não é "stable", mas que eu poderia baixar do SVN e testar. Beleza! Baixei e comecei a catar as dependências. Putz... não é um KDE4 da vida, mas já deu um trabalhinho.

Beleza, compilei tudo, daí compilei o amsn, empacotei toda a tranquera, instalei.... e testei a webcam no amsn do svn (release 11155). Resultado? Imagem escura ainda. Putz! Conversei com os caras do #amsn, que me disseram que então estava faltando eu instalar a libv4l. Realmente, eu não prestei atenção quando o script de configuração do amsn me aviso que o suporte a libv4l estava desabilitado. Então hoje catei a tal biblioteca e instalei. Daí recompilei o amsn. Mais tarde eu testo e dou um retorno (pra galera do #amsn, aqui no blog e no forum do BW64) sobre o resultado.

Por enquanto... era isso ;)

:: Australia ::

Here I am, talking about another movie. This time, Australia. Such a very good movie. OK, the story is a bit predictable, but that doesn't spoil the fun. First note: I thought the movie was about 2 hours long, when it is about 2h45min. That made me and my wife go to sleep quite later than we are used too *LOL*

Very good acting by Hugh Jackman, David Venham and the little boy, Brandon Walters. I point out to the boy, more specially. He is the one telling the story. I don't know if it is because I am not from an English speaking country, but I really enjoyed his accent. hmmm what? Nicole Kidman? Yes, her work on this movie is good indeed. But, in my opinion, nothing THAT wonderful. Perhaps if she wasn't that much retouched (plastic surgery? bottox?)

Oh yes, the movie made my wife cry *grin*. Really good movie, great landscapes, great photography.

I liked it too because it talks about racism, mainly how these things were dealt with in Australia, back in the 1940s. It is quite repulsive that black and "halfcast" people were treated like that.

So, psychicist, one more "review" done ;)

And remember, pay attention to the boy! :D

:: Webcams on Linux - Part 2 ::

OK, dokey! As promissed, here goes my test with that D-Link DSB C-110: It's working! It's working! (Anakin voice)

The ugly face...



On my desktop I am running Bluewhite64-12.2, kernel 2.6.28.7 and KDE-4.2.2 (my packages). The webcam I have already described *LOL*.

Here goes the output of dmesg and lsusb:

dmesg

• usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
• usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
• usb 6-2: SN9C10[12] PC Camera Controller detected (vid:pid 0x0C45:0x600D)
• usb 6-2: PAS106B image sensor detected
• usb 6-2: Initialization succeeded
• usb 6-2: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
• usb 6-2: Optional device control through 'sysfs' interface disabled
• usb 6-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0c45, idProduct=600d
• usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
• usb 6-2: Product: USB camera

lsusb

• Bus 006 Device 004: ID 0c45:600d Microdia TwinkleCam USB camera

So... I did my good deeds for today, haven't I, dougsland? :P

Good night to you all.

:: VirtualBox 2.2.0 ::

Hey... how outdated was I? Today I was talking to psychicist on #bluewhite64 and the talk came to "virtualization". Then I thought "hmmm I should check VirtualBox site just to see if they have any news". And indeed they had. Version 2.2.0 was released one week ago :)

Well, I started the download and at the same time I told my Windows XP VM to get some rest. I then installed the new VBox and fire up that same VM. Holy Yoda! This time Windows XP booted much faster! Plus, I could install the vboxadditions remotely (something that gave me some headache last time), rebooted the system (very fast) and there it is, running again.

Congratulations to the VBox team!

I will let you guys know if I find anything more (be it good or bad)