Education

In a time when Portugal is facing a severe recession, with several country men moving abroad to greener pastures link, I decided to endeavor myself on the pros and cons of living abroad even thought for a very brief period of time. Under …

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For long I’ve been an evangelist of OSS in the University of Aveiro. First through my involvement in the foundation of GLUA and more recently through CodeUA. In the last 7 years I’ve participated in several EU projects in which …

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Há 2 anos publicava sobre as médias de entrada no ensino superior. De lá para cá as coisas evoluíram (não necessariamente para melhor, pois o nível de preparação dos caloiros é cada vez mais baixo). A Univ. Aveiro continua com excelentes …

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I would like to use this post to public congratulate the University of Aveiro Teams involved in last weeks “Festival Nacional de Robótica” held at IPCB. After winning last years Robocup, CAMBADA just revalidated the national …

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Just to let everyone know that MSIN (Master of Science in Information Networking) program by Univ. Aveiro and Carnegie Mellon University, is accepting applications. Please note that although the program is very expensive there are …

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Flame: ON E se deixássemos de falar da avaliação dos professores e começássemos a falar sobre avaliação dos alunos?

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O dia de hoje fica marcado pela publicação das colocações no Ensino Superior no concurso de 2008. Se bem que os media se centrem nos cursos socialmente mais interessantes como Medicina, Arquitectura e Direito; o meu post pretende antes …

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Today I was shopping in an unnamed large electronics store when I inadvertedly overeard a talk between the clerk and a costumer trying to buy a network solution for his house. The clerk pointed out a linksys N router as a way for the …

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The University of Aveiro - Portugal in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University - USA is teaming up to offer a Professional Master in Information Networking (MSIN) in Portugal. The Aveiro MSIN program builds upon students technical …

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My life in the past weeks… check out other great comics Microsoft 70-443 and 70-453 exams for designing a Database Server Infrastructure by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft 70-298 and 70-351 security servers with …

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This semester I’ll be teaching “Network Architectures” to 3rd and 4th year students (big mess thanks to the bologne process). This means that I’ve students sharing the same class with very different backgrounds and …

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This week my ARA (Advanced Networks class) lab students got the chance to work with some recent equipment acquired by the department. The equipment consists of several enterprise grade CISCO networks wireless units (Access Points and …

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Any now and then, one ends up needing to provide a Curriculum Vitae AKA Résumé (CV). Either for applying for a job or just to be used to assert your credentials (for example while running for project fundings), you always end up needing an …

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I’ve recently reach a position in DETI as a Teaching Assistant. It will amongst other things be my first actual “job”, with pension plans and social security and an actual pay check instead of the schoolarship I used to …

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When considering a project involving a large number of source files, compilation time is always an issue. DistCC is in these cases a very good solution. From DistCC site: distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or …

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After spending some time searching, I realized that this might help someone else. Not being able to properly replace MS Visio in neither a Linux or OS X environment, I’ve been stuck with MS Office and a Virtual Machine for this sole …

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Well, I haven’t been posting here lately, mostly because I’m too busy working and teaching (I’m currently teaching Java programming to EGI).

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