Avi Alkalay

ABNT Decide Solicitar Cancelamento do OOXML na ISO

Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:41:49 +0000 Updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:41:49 +0000 |

Hoje recebi o seguinte e-mail da ABNT:

De: Milena Pires Assunto: Formal Appeal

Prezados Membros,

Por solicitação do Diretor de Normalização, Sr. Eugenio Guilherme Tolstoy De Simone, informamos que, após a análise dos comentários dos Srs. Murilo Dantas e Deivi Lopes, a ABNT decidiu solicitar à ISO o cancelamento de todo o processo de elaboração [...]

Linux & Open Source

Linux cada vez mais forte em PCs de uso específico

Published: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:30:29 +0000 Updated: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:30:29 +0000 |

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Notícias como as do Banco do Brasil migrando seus 40.000 ATMs para Linux será cada vez mais freqüente.

Explico. Uma empresa que precisa manter uma infraestrutura de computadores largamente espalhados, deve ter uma equipe preocupada com os seguintes pontos:

Obter suporte para o sistema operacional Desenvolver customizações do sistema operacional Desenvolver aplicações de negócio específicas [...]

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Heaven for Brand Owners

Published: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:35:06 +0000 Updated: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:35:06 +0000 |

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 [...]

OOXML in the ISO’s limbo

Published: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:25:16 +0000 Updated: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:25:16 +0000 |

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 [...]

Chronicles ● Linux & Open Source

Psicopatas usam Slackware !?

Published: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:12:19 +0000 Updated: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:12:19 +0000 |

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Juro para vocês, a seguinte notícia apareceu no jornal sensacionalista Hora H hoje. Como não tem permalink, segue o screenshot mesmo.

Só faltou isto para ficar definitivamente provado que usuários de Slackware são assassinos e bebem o sangue de suas vítimas !

Bem, a notícia é verdadeira mas minha afirmação foi brincadeira… [...]

Info & Biz Technology

Unicode – Уникод – יוניקוד – يونيكود

Published: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:30:05 +0000 Updated: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:30:05 +0000 |

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Community and Society ● Info & Biz Technology

Iron Man and Programmers

Published: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:34:28 +0000 Updated: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:34:28 +0000 |

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 [...]

Events ● Info & Biz Technology

Evento para os Heróis da Tecnologia

Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:52:50 +0000 Updated: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:52:50 +0000 |

Costumo dizer que são os desenvolvedores as figuras mais importantes no cenário da TI corporativa.

Não é o CIO não. Este conversa com outros gerentes e assina o cheque, mas só e somente só quem sabe “meter a mão em código” pode transforma um problema de negócio em um software capaz de resolvê-lo, e estes [...]

Community and Society ● Web 2.0

Cool Election-Related Google Maps AJAX Application

Published: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:09:03 +0000 Updated: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:09:03 +0000 |

Isn’t this web app very neat? You must interact to feel it.

Info & Biz Technology

Developers: ISO Standards Do Matter

Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:12:35 +0000 Updated: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:12:35 +0000 |

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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 technology. [...]

Linux Journal Index

Índice Linux Journal, Março de 2008

Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:58:26 +0000 Updated: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:58:26 +0000 |

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Porcentagem de usuários que clicam em propagandas pelo menos uma vez por mês: 1 Número de vezes por mês que tais usuários clicam em propagandas: 1 De cada três pessoas que clicam em propaganda, o número de mulheres: 2 Bilhões de dólares americanos projetados em 2008 em vendas de propaganda: 486 Bilhões de dólares [...]

Linux Journal Index

Índice Linux Journal, Fevereiro de 2008

Published: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:43:57 +0000 Updated: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:43:57 +0000 |

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Número de processadores x86 necessários para executar a mesma quantidade de trabalho de um mainframe IBM System z: 250 Consumo de energia de um mainframe zSeries como uma porcentagem daquela necessária por 250 x86 processadores: 2 Porcentagem de todos os servidores físicos que serão virtualizados em 2011: 50 Número de parceiros no Google Open [...]

Norway doesn’t want OOXML (and I agree)

Published: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:20:09 +0000 Updated: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:20:09 +0000 |

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.

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Linux & Open Source

FISL 2008 e Open Source na IBM

Published: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:36:06 +0000 Updated: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:36:06 +0000 |

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Algumas pessoas andaram me perguntando por que a IBM não está participando do FISL 2008.

Percebia em seu tom de voz (ou nas linhas do Jabber/Google Talk) que na verdade perguntavam se a IBM está parando de suportar Open Source. Não está.

A IBM continua a suportar Linux, Open Source e Padrões [...]

Web 2.0

Profissões Web 2.0

Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:46:02 +0000 Updated: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:46:02 +0000 |

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Sobre as novas profissões relacionadas a Web 2.0 que estão surgindo no horizonte. Como as empresas podem tirar proveito delas, e também o desafio de encontrar profissionais com este perfil. [...]

Web 2.0

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:40:46 +0000 Updated: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:40:46 +0000 |

This is my first post in the new WordPress 2.5.

Upgrade was as easy as:

$ cd avi.alkalay.net $ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/

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.

Info & Biz Technology ● OpenDocument Format

OOXML: Open Letter to YES-voting and ABSTAIN-voting Countries

Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:22:44 +0000 Updated: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:22:44 +0000 |

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If there is one or more technical problems, the NB must disapprove the DIS. This is the rationale behind this idea. [...]

OOXML: Venezuela changed vote from YES to NO

Published: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:36:46 +0000 Updated: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:36:46 +0000 |

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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 comments”. [...]

OOXML’s BRM: A flow of dirt

Published: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:03:08 +0000 Updated: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:03:08 +0000 |

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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 [...]

OOXML: A global NO so far but still counting

Published: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:11 +0000 Updated: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:11 +0000 |

Open Malasia blog has a user friendly post with a map of the voting. See the tables and understand the voting criterias.

OOXML: Brazil Says NO. Again.

Published: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:55:16 +0000 Updated: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:55:16 +0000 |

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It is now official. Brazilian vote was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, including Microsoft crew’s: OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard.

Our first vote, in august, was also NO, due to the same reasons: OOXML is an awful specification.

That outcome was expected because we simply followed the [...]

Info & Biz Technology ● OpenDocument Format

Microsoft sells Intra-operability as Interoperability

Published: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:19:16 +0000 Updated: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:19:16 +0000 |

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These are my visual examples of the difference between real Open Standards-based Interoperability and Microsoft Intraoperability. [...]

How Microsoft raped ISO

Published: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:18:29 +0000 Updated: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:18:29 +0000 |

One of the most critical and discussed points of the whole OOXML subject is how the specification lets you include binary proprietary information.

Let me show you how it happens with a piece of an OOXML document, the red-marked text is the problematic part (see for yourself, §6.2.2.14, paper page 4,813, lines 7–13):

<v:shape> <o:ink [...]

The OOXML Date Bug

Published: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:16:43 +0000 Updated: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:16:43 +0000 |

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This is an example of an old Excel bug that was transported to OOXML for “compatibility” reasons.

In new OOXML, there are several non-standard ways to represent dates. The main one is this, that requires that 1900 is a leap year contradicting the Gregorian calendar, used for centuries now.

More info on [...]

OOXML in Numbers

Published: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:08:38 +0000 Updated: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:08:38 +0000 |

This is a numerical photography of what is the Microsoft Office Open XML wannabe specification:

6063 pages written in 12 months Only 6 months of analysis pointed 3500 issues that span from intellectual property, to standard date & time representation, to malformed XML definitions, to binary proprietary bits 3500 issues where summarized in “only” 1027 [...]

OOXML na ISO e os números que na verdade não existem

Published: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:00:07 +0000 Updated: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:00:07 +0000 |

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Li algumas coisas na Internet sobre o resultado final do BRM. Em alguns lugares encontrei números e interpretações das mais diversas sobre estes resultados. Como faço parte do comitê da ABNT que analisou o OOXML, resolvi conversar com o Jomar, que foi um dos delegados brasileiros em Genebra.

Ele me disse que não pode comentar [...]

OOXML: Está rolando um barraco na ISO

Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:43:15 +0000 Updated: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:43:15 +0000 |