Tag: lang:en
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Interview with Ulisses Rocha
The website Music from Brazil just published an audio-interview/podcast/MP3 with brazilian acoustic guitar player Ulisses Rocha. Includes stories and full wonderful songs. Available in portuguese, english and spanish.
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Microsoft Does Not Own OOXML
This is a reply to David Nielsen’s “OOXML and Microsoft” post. Since comments are closed there, I am writing here. David, there is nothing wrong in Microsoft opening such an important spec. We should welcome this step. But there are several things that we should take care here: There is already an approved, open, internationally…
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Creating OpenSearch plugins for Browsers
How to create and OpenSearch plugin for any website.
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Zeroconf your Network
I remember the days when I was configuring DNS and DHCP for a small home network with only 2 or 3 computers. This is not needed anymore since the invention of Zeroconf. As Wikipedia says, “is a set of techniques that automatically create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers. This allows inexpert…
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Worshiping Joyce in Rio
Some time ago, my New Yorker cousin came to visit Brazil and I wanted to make sure she was leaving with her iPod full of brazilian specialities. A few weeks later we exchanged this conversation by e-mail. “Im listening to music you sent me while writing (I really like Joyce!…although right now im listening to…
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No Match for Microsoft
According to a note in Slashdot, Google+Firefox+AJAX is a combination not strong enough to fight Microsoft.
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New Laptop
I am sort of away this days because I got a new laptop. Check it out. My previous laptop was a IBM Thinkpad T40, Pentium M, 512MB RAM, 1024×768 screen size, CD-RW, Cisco WiFi/b, no bluetooth. Served me well for 4 years. The new one is a Lenovo Thinkpad T61, Intel Centrino Pro (dual core),…
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Facebook
Avi Alkalay’s Facebook profile Looks like this Facebook-thing is OK.
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Please Encrypt Your BitTorrent Client !
Some evil ISPs implement traffic shaping to specifically limit BitTorrent bandwidth. This brings slower downloads to you and your peer. All modern BitTorrent clients have encryption capabilities but most of them came disabled by default. Please configure your client to encrypt connections. You will have faster downloads even if your ISP does not limit your…
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Mobile Codes for Increased Productivity
Man, this is the coolest thing I discovered this month. Before what I am going to show you now, the only ways to transfer data from your computer to your mobile device was to send an e-mail to yourself and read it in your cell, or through bluetooth, or infrared. There is a new thing…