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Convert DBF to CSV on Linux with Perl and XBase

Avi — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:39:18 +0000

I spent a few days to figure out how to make a simple conversion of a DBF file into a plain text file as comma separated values (CSV) or tab separated values (TSV) in a batch/command line way. I was almost setting up an OpenOffice.org server because it seamed to be the only packaged solution to [...]

That’s why I disable SELinux right away

Avi — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:29 +0000

Folks at the Fedora Project devel list asked us to enable and use SELinux.

So I sent this reply:

SELinux blocks some very basic functionality I use in my Linux systems. That’s why I disable it right away.

SELinux is too complex to learn on the moment that you are setting up a new system and [...]

The Flash versus Apple War

Avi — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:29:52 +0000

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 [...]

Samsung LED TV with Medi@ 2.0 is not ready for me

Avi — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:18:49 +0000

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 [...]

Drupal is Gonna Change Your World

Avi — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:37:33 +0000

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 [...]

Ambient Music

Avi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:31:40 +0000

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.

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Organize fast and precisely your MP3 files with ID3v2 tags

Avi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:32:37 +0000

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 [...]

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 [...]

Earth Clock

Avi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:30:17 +0000

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Help save our planet !!

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I was invaded again: more passwords for you not to use

Avi — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:44:36 +0000

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 [...]