Posted on June 20th, 2008 by giovani
Obviamente o título é uma piada. Como foi certamente uma frase do gerente regional da Microsoft Brasil, Adriano Della Coletta, em entrevista ao Diário Catarinense.
O trecho em discussão é a sua resposta a pergunta “Como vocês lidam com softwares abertos, como o Linux?“. Ele disse ao final da sua resposta:
“Reconhecemos que existem, sim, empresas que não têm o porquê de usar uma plataforma “proprietária” de software ou mesmo de banco de dados. Que é muito mais vantajoso, em termos de custos e de operação, que esta empresa use software livre. Não temos a pretensão de ser donos de 100% de mercado porque entendemos as suas particularidades.”
Bom, assim, porque sabemos que não existe algum motivo valido pra uma empresa usar MS Office - a pagamento - ao invés de OpenOffice (que tem formato ISO); ou Internet Explorer ao invés de Firefox (mais veloz e mais seguro); ou Outlook no lugar de Thunderbird… a estratégia melhor e mais logica para Microsoft seria retirar do mercado esses programas “inúteis” como acabou definindo - “sem querer querendo” - o próprio gerente regional.
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by giovani
I have recently updated the BIOS on my Packard Bell IMax (quad-core), running Windows Vista SP1. I have used the pbupdator application provided with the desktop PC.
The first issue was with the wireless keyboard and mouse, which refused to work after booting the generated CD to update the BIOS. I have then connected a wired keyboard and went successfully through all the bios upgrade process.
On restart, windows vista had no audio. I first tried entering the BIOS setup, loading the default settings, save and exit. Still no audio.
So then I figured out inside the Control Panel -> Audio settings that the default audio output was set to High Definition speakers (which I don’t have — yet :-)… So I just made the normal speakers the default option (right-click) and it was done.
Don’t ask me how the BIOS changed my audio default settings within Windows Vista… weird O.S…
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by giovani
In the beginning there were only positive reviews about the Philips Voip841 phone. A perfect choice for those - like me - live abroad and want to be in touch with the family while not having the PC on all the time.
But a few days ago I discovered a lot of bad reviews about it… Whenever I tried to call using the voip841 phone or whenever someone called me, the call was active but both ends were silent. Looking around (also here) I quickly discovered it is a widespread problem with the phone’s firmware.
Well, Bruce Marriott’s post convinced me to try the firmware upgrade.
Yes, I know the firmware upgrade on philips voip841 must not be interrupted, but what to do if the page reloads automatically and suddenly shows up:
“The connection has timed out
The server at 192.168.1.3 is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.”
???
Well… the phone freezed and trying to access via web interface wasn’t working anymore. So I managed to recover the corrupted firmware doing this:
- Removed the batteries from the handset
- Unplugged the base from the power line
- Replaced batteries in the handset and waited until the phone displayed the message saying it is “out of range, check base”
- Plugged the base back into the power line
- Went to handset settings/options and reset to default settings (not keeping network settings)
I am not sure all the steps above are needed, or should be done in this order to work. Anyway, I got skype running again and the web interface accessible. So I tried once again to do the firmware, and it now works fine! Hope this helps other people out there with the same problem.
Despite all the problems until now and perhaps those that may come in the future… it still remains a good choice to be connected to skype and your landline at the same time while having the PC off.
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by giovani
Esse é um dos projetos que estamos trabalhando, juntamente com a empresa CivicActions dos EUA. Uma web TV que sera totalmente controlada pelos seus espectadores, do conteudo ao aspecto de interface do site, passando pela aprovaçao democratica dos comerciais, anunciantes, redaçao, editores, etc…
Uma versao alpha em italiano é ja publica em www.popolobue.tv.
Deixe seu comentario com dicas de webTV, projetos semelhantes, criticas, sugestoes…
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by giovani
Hello again… It’s been quite a while I’m using a new web hosting to this blog and to my Personal Website, after suffering for some time with my last hosting in Brazil, where I got my website cracked twice in less than 6 months. By the way, for your safety: my old hosting was BigHost (around $7 per month) and it has the worst technical support I’ve ever been in contact with! To make things worse, when I needed to expand my storage with a few more megabytes beyond the already ridiculous quote of 300mb (yes, believe me, those plans still exist), their commercial department wanted to charge me another $7 PER MONTH!
So I switched to a Lunarpages.com Basic Plan. Well, at least they call it “basic”, but compared to my 300mb old hosting it is a “Super Plan”. And guess what? I am paying almost the same!
Ok, the goodies are (at least my favorites):
- They offer 1,5 TERABYTE HOSTING
- 15 terabyte bandwidth per month
- Unlimited subdomains, ftp accounts, emails, MySQL databases…
- One FREE domain name while you are registered with them, but registered to you, so if you leave you can take your domain with you at no cost (and new domains cost onlt $7 per year)
- UNLIMITED ADD-ON DOMAINS, which means you can put as much websites online as you can…
- Support for Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP (if you need PHP5 ask them on registration)
- $6.95 per month for 24-month plan or $7.95 per month for a 12-month plan
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Also, they have an incredible Affiliate Program, where they give you $65 for each new customer you bring. That’s a good opportunity to recover your investment really, really fast.
Well, if you’re still not convinced to try it out, look at their website and read more about their offers, or Google them to read the reviews. I did it extensively when looking for a new place and do not regret about my choice.
But if you read this post and decide to try out Lunarpages Hosting, please be honest and tell them that I recommended it to you, by entering my Affiliate ID on registration time: tvgio3
Thank you for reading and I hope that this review helps you on getting a cheap and reliable hosting like we all deserve!
Cheers!
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