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 Avi Alkalay is an Information Architect, Enterprise 2.0, Open Standards and Open Source do-it-all hacker at IBM Brazil. hCard/vCard
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This is my reaction to The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? that appeared on the Flash Blog. I’m not an Apple fan but I tend to disagree with that campaign of Flash support. Clearly, this is another platform war. The Apple platform versus the Flash platform. It is very strategic for Apple to keep the attention [...] Today I spent several hours testing the almost amazing Samsung LED TV on a local store. More specifically the UN40B7000 model. The image quality is great and all but I was more interested in the digital multimedia features included in these new models, branded Medi@ 2.0 (or Media 2.0). You actually plug these TVs on your [...] Forget expensive and proprietary MS Access. Forget about applications built on top of complex muiltitab spreadsheets. Drupal with Content Construction Kit, Views and Faceted Search are the right and way better solution for you. Forget about building Flash-only web sites. Drupal and its modules is a better and semantically correct way for your Web 2.0 site. Forget [...] By
 Avi on  Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:33 +0000 | Tags:  lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Linux & Open Source Web 2.0 You can say whatever you want, I’ll keep saying that Ambient Music (the style of music you can listen in albuns such as Buddha-Bar, Café Del Mar etc) is merely a fusion between New Age and João Gilberto’s Bossa Nova. This is a set of personal notes and a tutorial for everyone about how to correctly organize and tag MP3 files using the id3 command line tool. General way to tag MP3 files: id3 -M -2 [-v] [-t title] [-a artist] [-l album] [-n tracknr] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] file.mp3 Recursively tag with ID3v2 a tree [...] By
Avi on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:32:37 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia 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 [...] By
Avi on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 | Tags: best best:tech featured lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia Poodwaddle.com Help save our planet !! By
Avi on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:30:17 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:no | Categories: Ecology & Environment It took some time to have my honeypot invaded again in a useful way. They were attacking constantly but were using it only to connect to IRC rooms. Useless for me. But yesterday a sweet cracker invaded it again and left behind about 240000 non-unique combinations of user+password he was using to invade others. They were all [...] Although WordPress 2.7 is almost only eye candy, it is great useful eye candy. The user interface is much much more practical, AJAXed, nice and fast. I recommend an immediate upgrade. It worked flawlessly with my complex homemade theme, my homemade plugins, plus all other plugins I use throughout my blog. Spam fighting is a difficult job. Many spammers are too smart for Akismet and I was spending too much time cleaning comment spam. Captcha-based anti-spam methods are ok but they hurt too much the usability and user experience. Then I finally found Yawasp WordPress plugin that implements an innovative anti-spam method. It makes the comment form field [...] 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. Once inside, [...] By
Avi on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:00:11 +0000 | Tags: best:tech featured lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Linux & Open Source Pay attention to this screenshot. This is Mac OS running as a VMware virtual machine.
Pretty cool as a proof of technology. But let me tell you, this is quite a useless virtual brick. The UI is extremely slow. I had to remove the background to improve it a [...] By
Avi on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:27:30 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Info & Biz Technology Yesterday I met a colleague at IBM Brazil that moved to a world wide position. He is now living in Manhattan, New York. His everyday routine, as most Information Workers nowadays, is to talk to people, make phone conference calls, e-mails, design and communicate strategies, make some data consolidation and reports, instant messaging, etc. Since most of [...] By
Avi on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:46:52 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Community and Society Ecology & Environment Info & Biz Technology
The kind of thing you can find circulating in São Paulo, friday at noon. By
Avi on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:35:14 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Chronicles Community and Society Web 2.0 I was oweing this for the lovers of M. C. Escher works. Last July I visited the wonderful Escher Museum in Den Haag, Holland. One of my preferred works is the Print Gallery where a painting gets mixed with the surrounding real world in a precise geometrical way, as you can see bellow (borrowed from aixa.ugr.es/escher/table.html).
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Avi on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:29:56 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:no | Categories: Community and Society Metaphysics Travels This is the 12 weeks plus 4 days ultrasound result of our baby. We don’t know yet if its a boy or a girl. Stay tuned, it will be revealed in the next one. He is growing fast and we are looking forward for his arrival in february. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = [...] By
Avi on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:40:40 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Metaphysics Multimedia I just participated in very successful proof of technology with Siemens OpenScape video conferencing products. We made a point-to-point SIP high definition video conference over a local area network. Another test used H.323 protocol. We also included my SIP-enabled Nokia E61i in the conference over the office WiFi network in a direct multipoint call simply calling [...] By
Avi on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:58 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Mobility Multimedia
In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Its weight was close to 1 ton and had a capacity of 5MB. So now please do not complain about the lack of storage in your 2GB pen drive. By
Avi on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:08:50 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Chronicles Info & Biz Technology There is this website called Brand Tags that lets people quickly tag brands that pop up in a web 2.0 style. Then you can also browse brand names and see their tag cloud. For example, Linux is associated with “penguin”, “free”, “tux”, “cute”, “free” etc. Windows gets “computer”, “crap”, “crash”, “monopoly”, “sucks” etc. Apple gets “apple”, “computer”, [...] ISO has a press release about the 4 countries (India, Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela) and their appeal against the OOXML standardization. The important part of it is this: According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document which is the subject of an appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while the appeal is going on. [...]
Great wine. Recomended. By the way, 2005 is a great year for chilean wines.
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Avi on Fri, 09 May 2008 22:30:05 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Info & Biz Technology
The Iron Man movie is all about programmers. Being challenged and have to invent something that will make you get rid of hand work, the adventure of a project, to mold, test and debug, and the joy of having a prototype inspiring the next perfect design. Just don’t miss it. The metal man movie [...] By
Avi on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:34:28 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Community and Society Info & Biz Technology Isn’t this web app very neat? You must interact to feel it. By
Avi on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:09:03 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Community and Society Web 2.0 Many developers are clamming that good specifications are more important than standards, specially now that the OOXML process opened to the public the dungeons of ISO processes and how the organization produces standards. This is a clear example on how ISO’s reputation is compromised. But unfortunately “ISO standards” are what governments tend to use. These are the words they put in their Request For Proposals when they are going to buy things. These “ISO standards” are the words they use to claim how they’ll interoperate and trade across borders. And also how public institutions will interoperate with private institutions. Over time, it defines also how private institutions use [...] By
Avi on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:12:35 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Info & Biz Technology
There was an ISO/IEC/JTC1 meeting in Oslo, Norway wednesday and the local community protested against OOXML and demanded more integrity in ISO’s processes. I couldn’t agree more. Photos by Martin Bekkelund. More info on Zak Greant’s blog. This is my first post in the new WordPress 2.5. Upgrade was as easy as: $ cd avi.alkalay.net Everything worked without any changes, including my experimental content-optimized Plasma theme. The new WordPress has lots of improvements, specially in the administration part and I recommend it. If there is one or more technical problems, the NB must disapprove the DIS. This is the rationale behind this [...] By
Avi on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:22:44 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Info & Biz Technology OpenDocument Format Dear Mr. Kimura, Attached please find a letter from Mrs. María Teresa Saccucci, Standardization Manager of FONDONORMA (Venezuela) through which Venezuela wishes to modify its position on DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats from “Approval with comments” to “Disapproval with [...] Finally Jomar, one of the brazilian delegate that went to OOXML’s BRM in Geneva has started to tell all the dirty little details of what really happened in that meeting and the surreal modus operandi of how 120 people can discuss 1027 issues in 5 days. Have fun in english and portuguese. Oh, and talking about [...] |
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