Archive for 2008

Óleos, para motores de automóvel…

Aquando das revisões, a VW põe sempre óleo 505.01 (4.5 Litros de GALP FORMULA 5W-40) no meu carro.
De acordo com esta página:http://www.roelz.be/VAG/vw_oilspecs.htmlesse é o óleo certo para motores “PD”, que são os que têm “unit injectors” – dispositivos que geram altas pressões. Este óleo foi concebido para as altas pressões.
NÃO é um óleo “long life” - [...]

Return to GP Legends, 10 years later (!)

I read this review about the “Power & Glory 1.02” mod for GTR2.
The review mentioned that “F1 1966” for GPL was yet another very interesting game modification, so I decided to try them both, starting with “F1 1966”.
GPL is a 1998 game, that I played with a pair of 3DFX Voodoo cards, back then.
The day [...]

20081216 – URLs

http://www.koders.com/ - vertical search engine for open source code.
http://www.fatwallet.com/ – cash back solutions, discount codes, discount coupons.
https://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/ – support forums for the free CRM solution “SugarCRM”.
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/index.cfm – very good resource for rFactor (PC car racing simulator) news.
Tags: urls, web

Regularização extraordinária de dívidas do Estado

http://www.sgmf.pt/rede/
Tags: egov, portugal

You have an ISO of a Blu-Ray disc, but can’t watch it…

Blu-Ray discs can be dumped to ISO files.
Usually, the main file in the structure will be at \BDMV\STREAM\00001.m2ts, corresponding to a MPEG Transport Stream, holding a AVCHD (Audio Video Compressed High Definition) video – an usual format for SONY’s high definition (HD) consumer cameras and for HD content on the Playstation 3.
Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows will probably [...]

20081215 – Some nice URLs

http://www.fileflash.com/ – keep up with software releases.
http://www.phantombility.com/en/prod/phantomburner/ – a blu-ray drive emulator, worth a try.
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/index.php – nice forum on entertainment, computing and file sharing, that might help save some money.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ – my favorite online dictionary.
http://www.mininova.org/ – for a dose of podcasts, videos and other binaries.
http://www.virtualboximages.com/ – VDI images of pre-installed open source operating systems, like Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc.
http://cran.r-project.org/ – great math/statistics [...]

Race of Champions 2008

offline channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/theraceofchampions
live transmission (2008–12–14, from 14:30 Portuguese/CET time):http://live.freecaster.tv/roc/
This year’s ROC is *not* live on Eurosport… it is live on the Internet!

Tags: race, champions, roc, racing, real

Paranoid Park (2007) – boring

I watched Paranoid Park (2007) on 2008–06–15.
I was looking for a slow paced movie, and I got it, but it failed my expectations regarding its capability to drag me in, out of Lisbon/Portugal to Portland/Canada, for some 90 minutes . It was boring.
Paranoid Park is a skate park, near Portland’s industrial district. The viewer is [...]

(not) one lap at Machwerk, driving 1985 F1 Mclaren Tag Porsche

I spent 90 minutes trying to complete one lap at Machwerk 1967, driving Alain Prost’s 1985 F1 Mclaren Tag Porsche, for rFactor, with a Logitech G25 steering wheel, but I didn’t succeed…
Machwerk’s twisty bumpy road surface, half regular asphalt, half granite cubes, with two railroad crossings (!), isn’t F1 friendly at all – more for rally cars [...]

Dan in Real Life (2007) – unpretentiously funny

I watched Dan in real life (2007) on 2008–06–08.
These days I tend to prefer movies where guns aren’t fired, where people talk without swearing every other minute (Californication), and where everyone isn’t a billionaire with a private jet… Simply put, it is easier to fictionalize starting from an extraordinary context, than to fictionalize with both [...]

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