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About Me
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I’m just a simple man who graduated in Telecommunication Engineering and like to write about technology, specially FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and GNU/Linux.
My first contact with GNU/Linux was at work by the age of 19, my company used GNU/Linux as network servers (FTP, Web, Proxy, DHCP and DNS). After that, I had some college assignments which involved GNU/Linux. By the end of my graduation (beginning of 2006) achieved totally freedom with Debian in my personal Computer. It took me some time to get used to it but it wasn’t so hard as I thought.
My first contact with software development for Linux was my graduation thesis. I was trying to aggregate basic network services (DHCP, static routing, dynamic routing and firewall) in a Linux box. My software (develop in C/C++) was composed by a server – responsible to provide a centralized way to configure all these services – and a client – a simple GUI witch helped the client to configure the Linux box.
My projects
In 2008 I started studying Python and get amazed with that language. In less then a month I gave my first steps with pyGTK and created a simple plugin for Exaile Music Player called CoverSync. It was my first FOSS contribution.
How I look when I can't do something
Later I started a new project, created to solve a problem I was facing: rename an USB flash drive. I called it USBManager. I can’t say it’s a great success, but at least it’s being used :).
Nowadays, I spend my spare time developing my new project, a multi-tab remote connection manager called Beholder. It’s under hard development and isn’t available yet.
All my projects and FOSS, license with LGPL and hosted at launchpad, except for ConverSync which is at GoogleCode. My launchpad profile is available here.
Other things
I’m also an amateur Mangá drawer and a musician. maybe in future I’ll post some of my drawings. About my music… Well, I play a 4 string Bass, Cort GB-74. I don’t think I’ll ever post something related with it but you can see some references to it at my profile.
há 7 meses atrás
Very nice blog, favorited in all ways. I'm thinking of including a link for it at my blog enroll section :)
Btw, I'm Debian and I used to play a bass guitar (4 string, 24 positions :) in the past (plan on resume some day in a near future).
há 7 meses atrás
Hey Cristian, thanks for the compliments! I'll be grateful to put a link back to your blog too. If you have a logo, I can put as a banner in the right side. A while ago I started following your blog too through RSS and Twitter. You always write in English but you're Brazilian, aren't you?
I'm a long time Debian user, but I've recently switched to Arch, and I'm very happy! It's always a pleasure to meet another bassist!
há 6 meses atrás
Ah, I'm a musician too xD although I'm a lead singer in a metal band and can't really play any instrument (other than my voice)
Anyways, estava a pensar numa parceria – não tenho nenhum logotipo ainda mas se aceitares, basta dizeres o tamanho que eu faço um banner tendo em conta que também sou designer (por experiência e não por formação)… ^^
Estava a pensar em experimentar o Debian actually X'D É muito diferente do Arch? Em que maneiras dirias que é melhor/ pior?
há 6 meses atrás
Funny fact, only musicians reply to this page :). Singer?! Nice, I enjoy singing, even knowing that I don't have a good voice, but when I sing I feel like my soul is clean (and it's much more expressive then any other instrument). Does it make any sense?! Metal band? Do your band have any record?
Parcerias são sempre bem vindas :). O logotipo não é empecilho, podemos podemos trocar links (caso realmente esteja sem tempo pro logo)! Designer? Eu gosto muito de arte gráfica mas não tenho muita vocação :(.
O Debian é muito bom (considerando a versão estável), mas você vai sentir muita diferença em relação ao Arch. Ele não tem os programas mais recentes e seus repositórios às vezes são um pouco limitados. A comunidade de usuários do Arch também é mais ativa, o que torna muito fácil encontrar programas ou guias de instalação de aplicativos para o Arch. Uma boa recomendação é testar ele em uma máquina virtual. Qualquer dúvida é só entrar em contato!
há 3 meses atrás
Vou postar então só pra falar que não toco nenhum instrumento! hahaha
Vim parar aqui pelo grupo Arch Linux do facebook =P
há 2 meses atrás
Haha, mesmo os não "não-músicos" são bem vindos :).
Seja bem vindo, espero que goste do site.
há 3 meses atrás
Gostei do Blog amigo!
Abraços.
há 2 meses atrás
Grande Gustavo, quanto tempo hein?! Seja bem vindo de volta!