Monthly Archives: May 2007

Got my Ubuntu 7.04 CDs

By admin | Published: May 31, 2007
Today I got a nice surprise when I got home, my Ubuntu 7.04 CDs requested from Canonical using the Shipit service where in the mail Why does this deserve a post? because I like to measure the time things spend in the twiligth zone before arriving at my…
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Google Gears

By admin | Published: May 31, 2007
Recently a trend about enabling web apps to be used offline started to emerge and a few companies announced their solutions: Dojo Offline Toolkit, Joyent Slingshot, Zimbra desktop and even Firefox 3. Today Google released the beta of Google Gears. A…
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Le vomitron

By admin | Published: May 26, 2007
Wow, I want to try this, the only concern is how to avoid a broken neck. Link to video in youtube
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My top 10 linux commands

By admin | Published: May 23, 2007
I found this meme in 120% Linux Basically this is to see which commands are used most by Linux users This is my top 10: 112 cd
96 ls
48 sudo
43 ssh
21 ping
16 scp
16 mkdir
13 nano
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Interesting links

By admin | Published: May 17, 2007
Just a couple of links I found interesting: When to start a Start-up – Article comparing the age of the founders of different web companies when they started. How to measure a blog network – In quantity of blogs or the quality of the blogs?
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Clickclickclick

By admin | Published: May 11, 2007
I read on Kirai about this competition for clicks from diferent countries. I found a few surprises in the ranking and obviously the last places are the less developed countries.
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VR Defender y3k

By admin | Published: May 6, 2007
Looking for a way to spend 10 minutes before leaving the office I found on Digg this game called VR Defender Y3k, which is a variation of the Tower defense game type. You are a sysadmin with low resources and have to defend your servers against attacks, for…
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Learn to use Floats in CSS

By admin | Published: May 2, 2007
Smashing Magazine has another of their interesting articles, this time is about CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know Besides this article, you can find in that site font recommendations, designs galleries, guides and tutorials of many techniques (tabs, grids, etc…), logos and icons galleries usefull…
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Data visualisation of a social network

By admin | Published: May 1, 2007
Analizing statistical data to get trends, projections, relations, etc… is interesting and most of the time is better to see a visual representation to comprehend the relationships and get relevant data. In Visualcomplexity.com I found this image from a study called Data visualisation of a social…
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More of Heroes

By admin | Published: May 1, 2007
As I commented in this first post about Heroes, I’ve followed this TV show from the first episode and I can’t stop recommending it to whoever hasn’t seen it (every day are less). I see that this week episode named “Five Years Gone” looks like one…
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