Gustavo Rondina's Personal Page
I am Gustavo G. Rondina and this is my piece of web. I was born on
July 16, 1984, at Marila, a very pleasant city located in the
center-western region of the great state of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. On
December, 2005, I obtained a Bachelor degree in Computer Science
from Centro Universitario Euripides de Marilia (UNIVEM). I still had the wish
to understand a lot of stuff, so now I am an undergraduate student
(again!) at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), of the Physics Institute at Sao
Carlos (IFSC), and I am
currently taking the fifth semester of Computational Physics.
I am pretty much a regular geek guy. I enjoy reading, studying,
playing Go, watching animes, reading comics, and, most of all, I
love to learn. I also like tea (green tea). And computers, I love
them. Also, I support the free software
movement because written code is also a form of knowledge, one
which must be studied carefully in order to master it, and I do not
accpet the idea of restricting access to knowledge, be it computer
code or something else.
I am a major fan of John
Ronald Reuel Tolkien. His books, his work and his life have
offered me a world of fantasy where I wish I were part of.
So far I have read The Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion
and Unfinished Tales (some of this books more than once). I believe
he was a great man with a wonderful mind, one who had access to a
tiny slice of our history that very few people have ever had. He
saw how the world was at the start of times, the rise and fall of
the elves, the great battles between good and evil, the rise and
the corruption of the race of men, the elvish bards with their
magic sounds and poems, the splendor and highness of the ancient
cities, but also the simple beauty of the yellow pastures and of
rivers crossing lands inhabitated by innocent and bucolic people.
His contribution to our society was more than a
literary one. He donated us his time and shared with the world all
this beautiful tales and stories he had saw. Now he rests his
blessed soul in the holy house of Mandos. May Iluvatar take care of
his soul, his mind and his genius until the Music of the Ainur
is complete. I'm sure now he is part of the story he loved so
much and to which he devoted his life and his passion. Thank you
Professor, you will always live in our hearts. Your will and
aptitude in the art of story telling continues to move us each and
every day.
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General Topics
- "Mãos Dadas", a poem from the great Carlos Drummond de
Andrade: Portuguese |
English
- "People", by Mother Theresa of Calcutta: English
- "A Alma dos Diferentes" (The Soul of the Different), by former Senator
Artur da Tavola: Portuguese
- Text about learning and life experience: Portuguese | English
- Tolkien Influence in the Blind Guardian Music: Portuguese
- My Geek Code: HTML | ASCII (Official Site, Geekcode Decoder)
- The Geek's Creed (from alt.geek): ASCII
- If you plan to spend your vacations or some time in Brazil, I
ask you to reconsider. This country has no sense of public
security and safety, and you will probably be victim of all sort of
crimes. Do not spend your time and money here, select a more
civilized country.
Computer Related Topics
- I would like to ask you to say
NO to Software Patents!
- The GNU Project (by RMS - Local Document): Portuguese
- The GNU website (Local
Document): Portuguese
- Why Schools Should Use Exclusively Free Software (by RMS - Local Document): Portuguese
- Article published in LinuxGazette #95 (Oct/2003):
Software
Engineering
- A very brief essay about free software and open source, as well
as its relations with society can be found here (Portuguese only).
- I've written a small patch to GTetrinet (an open
source implementation of TetriNet) that can be
used to manually change the delay taken by the blocks to appear in
your field after placing a block (usually referred as the next block
delay). The default delay is 1 second, but it is rather annoying to
play with such high delay, that's why I've written this patch. To
learn how to apply it, just read the README file that is shipped
within the tar file. Be aware that you may be considered a cheater if you use
this trick inadvertedly in public servers. This patch only works
against version 0.7.11 of GTetrinet.
Pictures
- # 01 - Old pic, before a haircut (a
little feral).
- # 02 - Old pic, after that haircut.
- # 03 - Blurry, my friend Ueta (left)
and I.
- # 04 - At ICMC, the Mathematics and Computing
Institute at the University of Sao Paulo.
- # 05 - Face only.
- Sunset
picture taken from my appartment's window (November, 2007).
Go
Go is an incredible board game. It is an ancient tradition
in the eastern countries (particularly in Japan and China). More
than a game it is an art, the Go board reflects the most deeper
thoughts of the humans. Go demands a lot of thinking and hard work
in order to became a good and valuable player. If you want to learn
how to play Go, follow one of the links below.
If you don't have a Go board (Goban), you can play online.
There are several ways to play Go online but the most common are
IGS, KGS and NNGS. I like to play on KGS because there the people
are really helpful and friendly, you can make a lot of friends and
improve your game fast. I am usually at the room Brasil-Portugal
with the nickname gustgr. If you want to join the KGS community
just click here and sign in
(As you probably will notice, the KGS software is not free
software. I tried to talk with the developer to convince him to
turn it into free software but my efforts were in vain. He didn't
like the idea at all and cursed me. Unfortunately it is the only client
available to play on KGS).
If you are Brazilian and want to buy some Go Equipment visit
the E-Goban website. I bought
my Goban there and it is great, very beautiful and well
done. Mr. Osugi (the man who create the gobans) is a very nice
person and does a wonderful job. A piece of art.
Links
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I am a friend of Israel and I support my brethren sons of
Jacob. Let us not allow the anti-semitic and anti-christian mass
media twist the facts and delude society. Let us stay together,
united we stand, for we are the believers, and God loves His children.
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Quotes
"Although no one can come back and make a new start, anyone can
start to make a new end." --Chico Xavier
"Salutations to the Guru who with the collyrium stick of knowledge
has opened the eyes of one blinded by the disease of ignorance."
--Vishwasara Tantra
Contact me
Thanks to SDF for hosting
this site and NetBSD team for
providing flexibility, security and stability. All contents
of this web site that belongs to me (Gustavo) may be distributed
under the GFDL license terms.
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