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  • Yawasp Ultimate Anti-Spam Solution

    Spam fighting is a difficult job. Many spammers are too smart for Akismet and I was spending too much time cleaning comment spam. Captcha-based anti-spam methods are ok but they hurt too much the usability and user experience. Then I finally found Yawasp WordPress plugin that implements an innovative anti-spam method. It makes the comment…

  • Compromised Passwords

    I love to see crackers attacking my computers. I even wrote a Linux Magazine article about a successful invasion (portuguese). Since recently, I leave a virtual machine with an easy password ready to be attacked, just to see these crackers’ leftovers, their rootkits and what they’ll do once they brake into my system. Guess what.…

  • Mac OS X as a Virtual Machine

    Pay attention to this screenshot. This is Mac OS running as a VMware virtual machine. Pretty cool as a proof of technology. But let me tell you, this is quite a useless virtual brick. The UI is extremely slow. I had to remove the background to improve it a little bit but couldn’t resize to…

  • Information Worker

    Yesterday I met a colleague at IBM Brazil that moved to a world wide position. He is now living in Manhattan, New York. His everyday routine, as most Information Workers nowadays, is to talk to people, make phone conference calls, e-mails, design and communicate strategies, make some data consolidation and reports, instant messaging, etc. Since…

  • Crossfox Firefox

    The kind of thing you can find circulating in São Paulo, friday at noon.

  • Escher’s Print Gallery Explained

    I was oweing this for the lovers of M. C. Escher works. Last July I visited the wonderful Escher Museum in Den Haag, Holland. One of my preferred works is the Print Gallery where a painting gets mixed with the surrounding real world in a precise geometrical way, as you can see bellow (borrowed from…

  • First Views of Our Baby

    This is the 12 weeks plus 4 days ultrasound result of our baby. We don’t know yet if its a boy or a girl. Stay tuned, it will be revealed in the next one. He is growing fast and we are looking forward for his arrival in february. [flashvideo filename=http://avi.alkalay.net/articlefiles/2008/08/2008-08-15-Ultrasound_Parts-H264_672x464_650kbps-AAC_64kbps.mp4 overstretch=none width=672 height=487 showstop=true autostart=true…

  • A Test with High Definition Video Conferencing

    I just participated in very successful proof of technology with Siemens OpenScape video conferencing products. We made a point-to-point SIP high definition video conference over a local area network. Another test used H.323 protocol. We also included my SIP-enabled Nokia E61i in the conference over the office WiFi network in a direct multipoint call simply…

  • What is this ?

    In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Its weight was close to 1 ton and had a capacity of 5MB. So now please do not complain about the lack of storage in your 2GB pen drive.

  • Web 2.0 Heaven for Brand Owners

    There is this website called Brand Tags that lets people quickly tag brands that pop up in a web 2.0 style. Then you can also browse brand names and see their tag cloud. For example, Linux is associated with “penguin”, “free”, “tux”, “cute”, “free” etc. Windows gets “computer”, “crap”, “crash”, “monopoly”, “sucks” etc. Apple gets…