I’m not going to talk about the way social networks (Twitter, mostly) have gradually killed blogs as personal publishing platforms. Simplicity. Flexibility. Ease of use. Limited formatting. Networking. I’m not going to talk about the fact that it’s by now proven that social networks (Twitter, mostly) often become the first source of breaking news (lacking [...]

(spotted on a HP/Compaq 440716-001 WXGA Laptop LCD Screen)

My first contact with Codebits was on its second edition, when most of the portuguese technology related folks I followed on Twitter were attending it and filling up my timeline with insights, private jokes and reports on the event. I remember watching a few interesting sessions online and missing a few I’d like to see [...]

YMMV Forcing a NIC to negotiate at a certain speed/mode is simple, as long as you have the right tools at hand. After trying 4 different packages in Ubuntu with mixed results, I got a killer combo. root@coiso:~# ethtool -v ethtool version 6 ethtool eth0 ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 autoneg off ethtool -s eth0 [...]

…and I’m having a ball…