Hello everyone, this is just a quick post! I’m here to say, if you speak portuguese, I’m releasing my Brazilian Portuguese version Blog, I won’t forget this blog, but I think it would be nice to share some words in my own language. So if you are curious, or speak portuguese, I invite you to go to www.danielandrade.net/br There isn’t much yet, and I’m REALLY without time because university, damn, I’m studying like hell. That’s the only bad thing about studying some engineering, specially electric.
Surfing on a Brazilian website called misterwp I’ve found this huge list of websites where you can find themes for your wordpress. As the website is in Portuguese, I’m sharing this here. So if you are looking for a new design for your blog, maybe here is a good place to start!
I’ve built my HTPC like one year ago, don’t know why I have never written about it on this website. Well, for today, I will be presenting the place I spend many hours of my life, my Home Theater PC, my Media/File/Gaming/BackUp Server. The idea came many years ago, but without $, it was not possible. Fist my main computer was near the tv, so I used to connect to my old tv using a S-Video Cable and a P2 to a RCA Cable, and as a Tube Tv, the quality wasn’t that good, and I couldn’t almost read any text on the screen, just big texts like subtitles.
It looks PowerPoint will have a great competitor now. People will start thinking twice before paying for Microsoft’s Office. Programmer Shane M. Mathews made great slideshow effects using 3D-OpenGL’s library.
You can take a look of how it looks:
This feature will be available for everyone on the next OpenOffice.org 2.4.
Want to know what happens if you type “sudo rm -rf /” on the terminal? Beware to don’t type this on your computer, it will erase all system root folders.
Right now on São Paulo is happening the Campus Party Brasil, it’s the biggest entertainment event that started back in 1997. During seven days, millions of people come with it’s own computer from everywhere and willing to exchange curiosity, share knowledge and do everything related to computers, community and tech things.
It seems that the totally new default theme for ubuntu that was going to be released in the Hardy Heron version has been deferred to the next release (8.10) that will be out on Cctober.
Surfing one the web, I found this great web 2.0 style project called WETPAINT, it’s a new free wiki hosting service where you can build you own wiki, similar to wikipedia, without needing to deal with hard mysql, php and server stuff. Within three simple steps you can have your wiki working, build your community, and start sharing some knowledge.
“You are kidding arent you ?”
Some really clever windows user, made a funny but sad post on ZDNET’s forum saying that Linux can’t run on any computer without Windows underneath it.