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My Ecological Footprint
I decided to take the test to see how much the planet gets stressed with me. This is the result: I have a lot to improve. Specially in goods (which was a weak test) and transportation.
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How to Make High Quality DVD Rips
After a long study of months I found this method to be the best way to rip/encode or backup my DVDs. The resulting digital file uses the best standards and technologies (as H.264, MP4, Matroska, AC3 etc), looks practically lossless to human eyes and has reasonable good file size (about 1 to 1.4GB per movie).
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Google Supports ODF and Defeats OOXML as Unnecessary
A few days ago I saw a post in Google Blog with Google’s position regarding the document format war. Google supports OpenDocument Format. The post also provides some short documents with Google’s findings (2 pages) and sample of technical issues unresolved in OOXML (4 pages). This is a fast reading for who wants to understand…
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Linux on Dell IdeaStorm
I found Dell’s Digg-like IdeaStorm site today while having a look on Doc Searl’s January 2008 LJ Index. This is a great example of Web 2.0 in action, together with similar sites as IBM’s Innovation Jam. It shows how Linux is highly rated by everybody, as a top request amongst these ideas. Check Linux rank…
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ODF in the State of Paraná
The state of Paraná, here in Brazil, is the first to have laws that specifically promotes the use of OpenDocument Format. This is a free translation of such law: All public companies and institutions under the state of Paraná administration will adopt, preferably, open formats for creation, storage and public availability of digital documents. We…
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Web 2.0 Party
Web 2.0 is about people. Its a global party where human beings exchange knowledge, experiences, information and even emotions. Yesterday I saw the Xanadu movie again with ELO’s All Over the World, a good-vibe song from the 80’s that still has very current lyrics that explain what people are doing in our 2008’s Web 2.0.…
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Tired of Feeding the Machine?
What a cute movie about $$ spent with office suites.
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Software Security from a Specialist: Gary McGraw
I just listened to an excellent interview with Gary McGraw, a security guru, in the Software Engineering Radio, and I suggest software developers to hear it too. Some points he touched: Software security is about how to approach computer security if you are a developer or a software architect. Security problems come from 2 points:…
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Anarchy at ISO
How the OOXML process at ISO is messing up stardization (for all industries) as we know.
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Eliminating Blog SPAM
Thanks to the Trackback Validator WordPress plugin I completely eliminated the increased SPAM (and specially trackback SPAM) in my blog.