Avi Alkalay » best:tech

A Media Center at Home

Avi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:39:38 +0000

Since we got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV almost a year ago as a gift from relatives, I knew it was time to attach to it a dedicated computer and have a full digital media experience in the living room. I’ll tell you here my experiences building and running this thing that makes all my [...]

Compromised Passwords

Avi — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:00:11 +0000

I love to see crackers attacking my computers. I even wrote a Linux Magazine article about a successful invasion (portuguese).

Since recently, I leave a virtual machine with an easy password ready to be attacked, just to see these crackers’ leftovers, their rootkits and what they’ll do once they brake into my system.

Guess what. [...]

A Blogosfera

Avi — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:47:14 +0000

O que é um blog, a blogosfera, seus impactos na sociedade, e a sociedade da informação. [...]

OOXML é Incompatível com Formatos Anteriores

Avi — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:28:03 +0000

É importante enfatizar que a Microsoft anda dizendo que o OOXML é bom e necessário porque garante compatibilidade com o formato anterior (.doc etc).

Isso é uma imprecisão grosseira que cai bem nos ouvidos de quem não é técnico ou quem não pára pra pensar o que isso significa.

Explico: O .doc e companhia são [...]

Anarchy at ISO

Avi — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:36:07 +0000

How the OOXML process at ISO is messing up stardization (for all industries) as we know. [...]

Creating OpenSearch plugins for Browsers

Avi — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:12:48 +0000

How to create and OpenSearch plugin for any website. [...]

Linux por todo lado

Avi — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:29:13 +0000

Linux expande seu uso como plataforma crítica para hospitais e comércio. [...]

ODF versus CDF

Avi — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:14:41 +0000

There are some news popping on the web about ODF to be substituted by W3C’s Compound Document Formats.

Read them carefully, read other sources too and try to understand first before making judgements.

Entities like OpenDocument Foundation are switching opinions in a quest for some sort of Universal Format, that still doesn’t exist, promoting [...]

Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2008

Avi — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:01:46 +0000

The following is a copy-paste from an e-mail circulating internaly. The content is probably some place on the web, just don’t know where.

Green IT This one is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a [...]

Linux Pin-ups and Anime

Avi — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:04:40 +0000

Have you seen this? Juzo-kun has created beautiful girls to represent Linux distributions. They were later labeled by Wayne Richardson.

Full version of this graphics, separated by distro, are here.

Cross-culture things like that are cool. Now lets just wait for a Pin-up version.