UM layer ou UMA layer?? Essa pergunta sempre aparece por aí. Tenho amigos que dizem “uma”, outros usam “um”.
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Twitter and email acronyms
This is just FYI, but if you’re lost in the middle of all the acronyms going around, this might be useful. maybe you find yourself LOL with the list, and some are NSFW. In the end, it might be TMI anyway. The list was compiled from this post and its...
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Fixing problems with USB Garmin GPS on Ubuntu - Corrigindo problemas com GPS Garmin USB no Ubuntu
[EN] After my last caving expedition, I had some problems to download my GPS data with QGIS/Gpsbabel. I found out that it was a problem with Ubuntu udev rules. Here’s how to fix that.
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AGU Fall Meeting - wrapping up
[EN] Well, after five days in San Francisco, I’m on a plane to New York, for a bit of tourism in New York before leaving the US (and the cold) back to the Brazilian summer. This was on big meeting, by far the largest I’ve been. As usual, conferences are...
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AGU Fall Meeting - second update
[EN] Tuesday wasn’t so productive for me. I went to the posters in the morning but in the afternoon, I went shopping some sports gear, so in the end of the day I was really tired and on top of that, I had to practice my presentation, so I went...
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AGU Fall Meeting - first update
[EN] First updates on AGU 2010 Fall Meeting, in San Francisco, CA. This is for sure the biggest meeting I’ve been. A bazillion people, thousands of posters per day, tens of interesting talks. It’s hard to decide what to attend.
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Some thoughts on a fresh install of gvSIG
I just did a fresh install of the just-released gvSIG 1.10. This is a nice Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) GIS that is written in java, so it runs pretty much anywhere, even from a flash drive. So I downloaded the installer, set up the execution permission (I’m on...
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Nature by numbers
[EN] - A beautiful video about how math and geometry relate to some aspects of nature. In the author’s site, there is also a nice page with the mathematical background of the concepts shown in the video, like the Fibonacci sequence and Voronoi tessellation.
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Caps locks
Remember, you should NOT write emails in all caps.
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Science vs. Faith
Science wins, always
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