Exausto...

Peço desculpa pela minha ausência neste espaço... ...mas as circunstancias não me permitem despender muito tempo por aqui...

Para os que não sabem, ainda ando a trabalhar na tese de mestrado... ...mas o facto é que o grau de desgaste e exaustão, quer mental quer físico, que sofro actualmente, a quantidade de trabalho a fazer, e a minha inaptidão para expressar ideias, fazem a tarefa um pouco impossível de finalizar, provavelmente dou por acabado o curso, e vou procurar emprego como varredor de ruas ou alguma coisa do genero... ...sempre estava a ganhar algum e a descansar a mente...

Concluindo, doem-me as costas, tenho tonturas quando estou de pé, fico com náuseas de vez em quando, falta de ar a toda hora, os pulsos já viram melhores dias, ando a ver mal como tudo, não consigo seguir uma linha de raciocínio por mais de dez minutos, não tenho uma noite de sono descansada há mais de um mês, não vejo a minha lista de tarefas a diminuir (mas aumenta a cada dia que passa), hoje passei a noite toda a trabalhar e a produtividade foi praticamente nula (escrevi umas 10 linhas de codigo em 6 horas), emagreci mais de 5Kg, por vezes tenho dores musculares intensas nos braços ou nas pernas que me impedem de trabalhar, cada vez que implemento uma coisa descubro ou um erro ou uma falha de design (que aumentam a lista de tarefas), dos resultados obtidos as minhas implementações aparentam ser uma porcaria (quer em desempenho quer em recursos utilizados)... ...resumindo, e perdõem-me a expressão... tou f***** ...

Não vale realmente o esforço... a adicionar a isto tudo, perdi o interesse em programar... e para ajudar não tenho ambições ou desejos que um emprego ou dinheiro possam concretizar... bem ... vou continuar a trabalhar .... não se admirem se virem nas noticias: "Estudante morre de ataque cardíaco derivado a exaustão"... Quando estava a fazer quimioterapia sentia-me muito melhor do que estou agora...

Agradeçam ao corrector ortográfico do google chrome... o texto estava cheio de erros se não fosse ele...

Adeusinho... não sei quando vou voltar a postar aqui ... provavelmente nunca mais ... divirtam-se!

Canon Power features...

I don't own a Canon camera... but for the ones that own one and have that feeling that the camera could gain with some extra customizable options in menus, or just want to try advanced photo technics without have to pay a premium price for such features, CHDK might be what you're looking for... http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Please note that not all cameras are supported by such free 'add-on'... if your camera is on the list .. you're a lucky one... now you have no excuse for don't try HDR exposure bracketing technics, motion detection technics and don't even dare to take over/under exposed photos again (unless playing with exposure technics), multi focus technics and lightning shot tricks are also possible ... this puts canon cameras in quite some weired place... really... now you can even play games on one... or just remote shot via USB... ... but really this kinda makes me buy a Canon camera just for the goodies in firmware... Digic II, III or IV are the possible engines that cameras have... they have a list on that wikia on the link above... have fun!

5800XM v30.0.011

Update! I updated OTA, since OVI Suite didn't detect the new version, now as far as i can tell...
...the goods:

- Snapier on some tasks (web browsing is more stable and fast)
- A few graphical glitches disapeared
- Tab (unable to change tab in settings and in messages) bug disapeared

the neutral:
- fullscreen toggle button (when in fullscreen) in web browser is located on the corner and is transparent
- Max sound volume is a bit lower... not bad since at old max volume the phone vibrated

the bads:

- Slower on some tasks, specially when is the first time (rotate screen for the first time on some places is slower)
- Interface got a little slower in my opinion
- Hue bug is back! ... but now auto-corrects it self after a second or so

With this update i updated Maps to 3.0 as well... please note that Maps requires a huge amount of memory to install!

Now ... when will 5800XM get the interface of 5530XM? ... kinetic (inertial) scroll is welcome as well as a better use of homescreen (landscape on it would be nice as well)

OMFG:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/5800_XpressMusic

Please read CPU speed - They upgraded it from 360Mhz to 434Mhz!

Stuff..

Hello bloggers... i wonder who still reads my blog... well ... today i'll provide something entertaining ... my junk album on picasa account was updated... feel free to visit it...

I also added an Experimental album with something done with 2 photos with diferent exposures... after contrast blend, noise reduction filter and selective saturation enchancement you can see the final result... i was expecting something quite worse...

That's all ... oh! ... Having trouble with input on J2ME for 5800xm due to lack o numerical keypad? search for Virtual Keyboard S60 0.91 or 0.94 (1.01 is buggy - 0.94 is tricky - 0.91 is beta) it will help on some of your needs ... (i wonder why nokia doesn't have something like that for legacy applications - Adobe PDF Reader non-Touch is free ... but LE edition with touch it isn't... lame...)

On a side note... Galaxy on Fire 2 was released .... you can download it for free (be warned that to play it till the end you'll have to pay for it - nice marketing manouver by Fish Labs - Same goes for one of their car racing games), i've mastered GoF (first version) on my old mobile phone, but never finished it ... with more than 45h of gameplay i hadn't visit all the planets >_> ... GoF 2 is also big... and while playing on the first solar system is free, after that you have to connect to internet to check for activation EVERYTIME ... so .. enjoy that one solar system ... it's free XD ... try to get all the stuff from it... is a nice quest ...

Oh... good summer vacations... i won't have them... *goes emo*

Ovi Suite + Nokia Maps 3.0 + Nokia 5800

Hmmm ... i installed Nokia Ovi Suite, that by the looks of it should replace the old Nokia PC Suite, it is still beta, but seems to work well... till i checked for updates there and it told me that i had an update available for my 5800... nokia maps 3.0, i read in engadget that the updated was expected ... so i happilly download it and installed it... to see it completely f*** up my phone ... ... after some bashing i restored my phone hability to ... well... phone... but surprise ... i have a phone with GPS ... without working GPS software, when i try to run nokia maps on phone it tells me that i must update it and requests me to go to nokia maps website and follow instructions... i did ... and ... same thing keeps showing on phone >_>' ... Bad nokia ... bad, really bad... well... i'll bash a little more ...

Edit: Deleting most of memory card contents solved the issues ...

Zapp ... noticias!

Bem ... já há muito queixei-me do facto da Zapp possuir um limite invisivel (no plano ilimitado) de 300Mb por dia (mais coisa menos coisa), no qual findado provocava um abrandamento da velocidade oferecida... algo que estava em violação do contracto em 2 pontos diferentes.

Ao que parece esse limite desapareceu ou foi aumentado (para cima de 500Mb - foi o maximo que fiz até agora)... posso agora fazer update chatos sem preocupação de ficar com a net 'lenta'... provavelmente algum utilizador menos paciente e mais irritado resolveu 'puxar as orelhas' à Zapp e pelo menos para os utilizadores iniciais o limite desapareceu - existe a possibilidade da Zapp ter acrescentado uma clausula nos novos contractos para permitir o limite sem justa causa.

Bem... pelo menos posso ir pro tutubas (que não é p2p - é HTTP - por isso não violo o contrato :p) sem me preocupar muito ... :p

Boa proclastinação...

Line of code of the day #4

Weee... another LOCOTD ... (no ... that doesn't mean Crazy Tower Defence) ... today i present here the following line of code:

solution[i] = solution[j] | (~0)&(1<<z)

The most familiarized with C and pointers will notice that if i is not related in bounds with j value (or vice-versa) something really bad will happen with memory access/write... the lovely usual segmentation fault or worse... the line should have look like this:

solution[j] = solution[j] | (~0)&(1<<z)

Or in a more compact form:

solution[j] |= (~0)&(1<<z)

I lost 3h to find where the error on my code was... you see, when instead of j the i was there i was writing in some area, that area was where a pointer inside a struct was, at first i though the error was in functions that manipulate variables of that struct... when i noticed something very strange when i switch some entries on struct... it looked like something impossible to happen, but after i've done it some stuff worked, so struct control looked fine... only answer would me that i was modifing struct data unknowing it... after a bunch of printf's (like... everywhere) i tracked the error down... cost me a lot of time... and now i 'only' have to finish some algorithmic stuff that is implemented, polish some of the code and optimize some memory accesses...

Well... good coding... i hope you have better luck than me...