pedro@dapper:~$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
based on Gunnar Wolf geeky script. See your shell trends…

Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google, maintains a Netcast at TWiT.TV with Leo Laporte called FLOSS Weekly (Floss as Free Libre Open Source Software). Here’s a list of some of the most interesting ones:
#13: Eben Moglen on GPL 3.0
#12: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf, on origins of PHP, challenges, …
#11: Guido van […]

a call from a friend asking for some help on a Word doc recovery. That’s how it started. On a 300km train travel, working important docs on a laptop makes the journey happen in a twist. But when adding non redimensioned images to it makes Word crash and take away the file, well, things go […]

This is an interesting page on Google Corporate Information website. Fun to see the equipment brief description:
“Equipment - Most Googlers have high powered Linux OS workstations on their desktops. In Google’s earliest days, desks were wooden doors mounted on two sawhorses. Some of these are still in use within the engineering group.”

The Mac Mini’s were also altered on this recent new product presentations. So there is no longer a Mac Mini Core Solo 1.5Ghz. The new line-up is:

Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66 Ghz / 512MB RAM / 60GB HD / Combo
Mac Mini Core Duo 1.83GHz / 512MB RAM / 80GB HD / SuperDrive

The good news is […]

The LEICA M8 is the first classic digital camera “Made in Germany”.
Kodak KAF-10500 sensor: “This was developed specifically for the M8 with offset microlenses to help reduce the effect of vignetting due to severely off-perpendicular light towards the corners of the frame (especially when using wide angle lenses)”

solid metal housing manufactured from a magnesium […]

The new Apple iTunes version 7 is really sweet. Easier and with a very nice interface. The Coverflow tech comes from here:
“We are pleased to announce that all CoverFlow technology and intellectual property was recently sold to Apple. It has been incorporated into the latest version of iTunes. Please visit www.apple.com/itunes“.
Does anybody know the numbers […]

“… we just don’t like it much.” It’s a small post, but very meaningfull by Frederico (Fred) Oliveira from Webreakstuff. I totally subscrive it. It’s about how Goplan does not work well on Internet Explorer 6 because it (IE6) does not respect standards. I wrote severall times about this. Now, Fred, even IE7 is not […]

The Webreakstuff guys are releasing a “beta” version of Goplan, online project management and collaboration tool, in a controlled manner, by invitation. A social scalling thing, in wich each invited gets 5 invites to give away. The theory underneath this social scalling thing is: “i know these fine people. Since i like them, it’s probable […]

It’s about to be presented the Ruby language new site. It is of course made with Ruby and powered by Radiant CMS an open source content management system designed for small teams. Ruby is a interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. Ruby is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL. This […]

As for the black 24″ iMac, here comes another exercise for black Mac Mini’s. I think i really prefer the white ones. More pictures at flickr

… would not it be nice to see it in black ? Well, the Macbook is, so why can’t iMac be ? Because Steve says so. And it’s fine for me. The man is in (good) charge. This was a fast edited image to see the look […]

Leo Laporte is a california tech radio guy. He is podcasting for “ages” and after maintaining about 10 podcasts weekly, he got it right: aggregated them all on a station. TWiT stands for This Week in Tech. I listen to mostly 3 podcasts. FLOSS Weekly is about free open source tech, conducted by Leo and […]

I still get amazed the job these folks are doing. Pandora is a bandwith monster as a streaming radio service. Basically, you indicate the system a music or artist and it generates an internet radio station based on that preference. You can fine tune the radio by indication. It runs on a browser, on a […]

The way is: go ahead. If you feel you have content in your mind ready to be made available to others, in a way it can benefit those, start podcasting. Having a pleasant tone of voice is a plus. I visited Paris last year, Rome the year before. Rome is a truly historical city. History […]

Society is evolving faster than ever, reinventing itself, creating new approaches to our part in the global picture, using a time frame we could not possibly think possible and viable decades ago.
That’s when this anagram becomes true. Our life is being merged and compressed into single files. Our intellect, image, relation to the world is […]

I am now awake for almost 24 hours. Most of the time was spent with my beloved daughter and this laptop. I spent a good portion of my working day updating to a new release of Ubuntu Linux. This one is still in “Beta” phase, but i could not wait more. So I’m typing this […]

As an ancient Opera (http://www.opera.com) user who stopped using it some years ago, i managed to rediscover the wonders of it. it is really an excellent product. I would easily classify it as a superior product to the Mozila suite. when getting to the download area of the site, your operating system is detected and […]

Well, as a Linux/Gaim(IM)/Jabber and Gmail user i verified today an odd thing. When opening my Gmail account, i saw in the new “chat” area my private Gaim conversations archived, since Feb.8.
A few hours ago, when logging again into Gmail I was asked for a chat option to save or not my conversations. Well, what […]

People’s life integration with the web is evolving in an unprecedented way. With the appearance of social web services to manage photos, ideas, news, thoughts, etc, a vast number of people are dedicating more and more of their life to public it on the net. Even companies are seeing these services as a way to […]