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It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It happens every once in a while; looking back through the history of this blog one quickly realizes that, among about a gazillion random notes, there…
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One of the oldest flamewars in the non-Windows world is the one between people who call the operating system based on the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”. A bit of history All the way back in 1983, a certain Richard Stallman started a project he called “GNU” (Gnu is Not Unix). It’s…
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Wikis are cool! I had installed MediaWiki on my server some time ago, but it remained 99% of the time idle because to be honest I had no idea what to do with it. Recently I’ve installed Debian on my desktop and I kept thinking it would be cool to have a written “to-do list”…
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This week I closed down my Facebook account. It was not an easy decision to make. I’d been thinking about it for the last few months, after realizing that the site has become a very different creature than what it was when it all began, over ten years ago. Back then, around 2005, social networks…
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I have a confession to make: I bought a new graphics card. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal. Especially when you check prices for these things on international stores. But with the dolar rampant the prices in Brazil have taken a turn for the worse (as if they weren’t bad enough). I…
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…and in a flash it’s already March. So much has happened in the first two months of the year that it would be pointless to try and recall everything. Let’s just say that some things worked out, some things didn’t. And, from all the trouble we had for the past few months, I hope we…
