Free Electronics Forum (portuguese)

I’m here today to invite you (if you speak portuguese) to join the new “Free Electronics Forum” (Fórum de Eletrônica Livre), where we are trying to gather together all brazilian communities and makers.

The forum went live yesterday, so it is still in the beginning, but with a bright future. So I invite you to join the forum today at:
http://www.eletronicalivre.com.br

Brazilian voting machines running under linux

Last weekend I worked in the Brazilian Municipal Elections that happened on 5th October. My job was to transmit all votes from the city I was, to the main data center in the capital. While doinig my things, there was people testing all the machines, and I realised that there was a pinguim on the booting screen. So I made some research, and discovered that the voting machines have its own distro, running on kernel 2.6.16.57 and using some open libraries like SDL, zlib, boost, jpeg, freetype and others.

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OpenOffice 3D

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.

Campus Party Brasil 2008

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.

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New Theme for Ubuntu 8.04 Deferred

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.

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Funny Story: User don’t believe Linux can run without Windows

“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.

You can read what he says HERE at the forum.

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Some ideas on how Ubuntu 8.04 will look like

While Ubuntu 7.10 is still quite new, you can already take a look on some ideas about how the next version of this amazing OS will look like. I can’t wait until the next release, I believe this time it will come with so many new things, and surprises!

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Gmail > 4Gb Storage!

Went to check my email and just now I realized that it have now more then 4GB of storage, it rocks!
Take a look!

Say hello to Gutsy Gibbon

Today is the day many people were waiting for. Ubuntu 7.10 codename Gutsy Gibbon was released, with several improvements. Ubuntu for those who don’t already know it, it’s a Linux Distro for Humans, which means that even you who don’t know much about computers can use it. It’s totally free and runs on Pcs and Mac. So if you are up to the challenge, you can Download the .ISO file from here, request by mail or just upgrade.
If you’re interested, I’ve selected some links for you:

- A Look at Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” RC1
- Ubuntu’s Power Consumption Tested
- UbuntuSwitch.com
- 13 Things to after installing Ubuntu

Heroes in “Got Milk” Commercials

The American campaign “Got Milk?” was created to incentive milk consume between Americans, and got known by showing famous faces like singers and actors with milk mustache.

The new campaign have stars like Hiro and Claire, from Heroes. Here you can see other examples of TV/Movie characters, like from the Fantastic Four and Superman.

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