Technology needs reason or motivation to be used? I say, technologies are like flags? Or like a soccer team?

I explain. Software flags are how I see questions about technologies being defended like the heart of a soccer team. Alias, I think we choose a soccer team for various reasons: your father cheered for it, you liked the color, it won the championship when you were a child…

I cheer for Grêmio, world champion in 1983. I don’t remember soccer games before the final match in Japan. But I’ve never been a fan of soccer… only remember it during the World Cup.

I often wonder what’s holding back so many talented people in our country from making a living with computing.

We always seem to be selling labor and time, whether it’s through fixed employment or short-term contracts. And yet, we rarely invest in products. It’s strange for a country like Brazil to have few globally used products. There are some exceptions, but they’re quite rare.

I recently came across an interesting post on Mesquita’s Blog about bananas and banana economics. This story might give us some ideas.

I am a forgetful guy. I really don’t remember certain things, but others I don’t forget. Once, back in the late 90s, I forgot what year it was… a college friend mentioned a language called “Python”. He said it was super practical, very good, even being a scripting language.

At the time, I was already working with Linux, and anything to help was welcome. I downloaded Python and did the traditional print the primes, using lists, of course! Then I created an application to find duplicate files on the hard drive. That was enough to free me from Perl, which until then was the best scripting thing in the world for me.

Captain Format is a gentle way I found to call someone with simple and practical solutions, even if not always rational.

First of all, I use Linux and Windows. I like both and I speak well and poorly of both as well. So do not understand this post as a declaration of war.

The term comes from the ease that the technical support of some companies have in “condemning” your Windows. Slow or freezing computer, there is no other solution: format! There are known variations: before formatting, of course, all your problems are due to a lethal and unknown virus.

• Playing with the animals from O’Reilly.
• But why a gem? (What really changes)
• Besides the initial shine (Things that are not so obvious, that you only see by using the language)

varied: professionalism of the group, productivity

I keep thinking about how many software programs someone can master.

I remember super-equipped friends. On the same machine: CorelDraw, Photoshop, 3D Max, AutoCAD, etc. The same goes for other types of programs, aside from the hundreds of games installed. 300 GB hard drives filled with everything imaginable…

The answer to this could be piracy or pure lack of things to do. I know few people with enough money to have all these programs at the same time. But they can be found on some torrent on the network… or through a newspaper with home delivery.

I don’t remember very well the order of events, but I remember that one day we were talking about MMORPG and how there was always a friend of a friend of a friend who knew about World of Warcraft (WOW).

One fine day, I visited Edson César and to my surprise, the game was installed there. It was the end of 2005 and the end of nights without anything to do. I didn’t even need a guest account, I bought the game’s serial key, because in some jungle store, they sold such a wonder.

This blog is for the friends from Manaus and everyone who ventures into the forests of computing.

Many times, isolated from the pre-Internet Amazon jungle, they discovered their passions for technology. Children of the Free Trade Zone and grandchildren of the revolution, they had access to the Atari, Coleco, Odyssey, and other gadgets of the time. Raised on “Sanden” milk, imported, just like their “Crest” toothpaste… they sought every way to find solutions for things that no one cared about in the 80s.

Here is the translated text:

+++ title = “Dead Mouse on Ubuntu” slug = “2008-12-26-dead-mouse-on-ubuntu” published = 2008-12-26T06:00:00.001000-04:00 author = “Nilo Menezes” tags = [ “tips”, “ubuntu”, “linux”] +++

This is just to register and save it in Google :-)

When I installed Linux on my home machine, the first problem I had was that the mouse would stop working from time to time. Although the rest of the computer continued to work, X froze. After a lot of browsing and research, I discovered that it was a problem with the Nvidia 4 chipset, which my motherboard uses. Although plausible, this problem does not cause any problems in Windows XP. This led me to the shameful task of explaining to the children why Linux freezes. My middle daughter asked why we used Linux, since Windows XP did not freeze!