Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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500 Comentários !
Tinha previsto para o fim do ano chegar a 500 comentários no post de Aquecimento Global. Essa marca foi alcançada hoje, 6 meses antes 😀 . A média é +/- 3.3 comentários por dia ou 22.8 por semana. Pena que poucos realmente se salvam. Tinha apontado alguns engraçados, mas outros melhores ainda apareceram: Ah, Dionatan……
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Web 2.0 in Plain English (with subtitles)
The Common Craft Show has made excellent videos to explain Wikis and Feeds to the masses. Select subtitle language in last 2 links.
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Font Technologies on Windows and Mac
Since I started to write the Linux Font HOWTO I am interested in this subject. Personally I believe that good fonts and good renderer are the top contributors to an elegant and comfortable desktop. Joel Spolsky wrote an insightful article comparing font rendering approaches of Microsoft and Apple. And he refered another article by GRC…
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The Web and the Internet :: A Web e a Internet
The Internet is the collection of cables, routers, protocols, servers, IT services and data you can access with a browser or some other networked application. While the Web is a mesh of human relations where knowledge and experiences are being trade. Web 2.0 is the Web that uses the Internet in a more optimized way.…
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Platforms
In an internal account planning meeting: “So what about to offer another architecture option for their SAP with Linux on Intel/AMD ?” — I said. “No no. A customer of this size can’t have such a critical application in Intel/AMD platform. System P [with AIX] is more reliable.” Then I had to explain that Intel/AMD…
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A Better Feed
I can’t sleep, so I configured a better feed for my blog.
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Sun uses ODF
I spent the day in an Office Open XML conference in Brasília with many colleagues from companies in the industry, including Red Hat, Novell, 4Linux, ODF Alliance, IBM and Sun Microsystems. For Sun, I was able to confirm they have ODF as their standard format for all documents, globally. OK, this was pretty much expected,…
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A TAM Não Gosta de Vegetarianos
A TAM é incorrigível, excludente e não se importa com diversidade. Por mais que eu me dê ao trabalho de escrever cartinhas para o presidente observando que eles nunca tem lanchinhos vegetarianos (ou lacto-vegetarianos) em seus vôos, eles continuam tendo só opções carnívoras. As primeiras cartas eles se deram ao trabalho de responder, diplomaticamente, algo…
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Investing on Sun Microsystems
I met a friend that works on an investments bank and gives advises to his customers about companies that are good to invest now. He has Sun Microsystems on his short list. He didn’t make any organic research about this company. He only analyzed the behavior of their graph. Anyway, I told him Sun Microsystems…
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Novell uses ODF
Yesterday, in a meeting on the beutifull Novell office in São Paulo, I was able to confirm that ODF is their document standard. Globally, for all Linux and Windows users. If they need to exchange documents with customers, they send in PDF. I supose Red Hat, a 100% Linux company, is also in this direction.…
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