"Um pequeno e desconhecido filme de Raul Solnado, com o nome "Na Minha Aldeia, Cerveja a Copo", foi descoberto recentemente na Cinemateca Nacional e restaurado. (...) O objectivo do filme promocional era mostrar como tirar uma imperial correctamente."
- Carla Graça
from Bookmarklet
"Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the non-profit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of every webpage ever posted. Now the MIT-trained computer scientist and entrepreneur is expanding his effort to safeguard and share knowledge by trying to preserve a physical copy of every book ever published. "There is always going to be a role for books," said Kahle, as he perched on the edge of a shipping container soon to be tricked out as a climate-controlled storage unit. Each container can hold about 40,000 volumes, the size of a branch library. "We want to see books live forever.""
- Miguel Caetano
from Bookmarklet
"If you're preparing to roll out IPv6 on your network, this concise book provides the essentials you need to support this protocol with DNS. You'll learn how DNS was extended to accommodate IPv6 addresses, and how you can configure a BIND name server to run on the network. This book also features methods for troubleshooting problems with IPv6 forward- and reverse-mapping, and techniques for helping islands of IPv6 clients communicate with IPv4 resources. Topics include: DNS and IPv6—Learn the structure and representation of IPv6 addresses, and the syntaxes of AAAA and PTR records in the ip6.arpa IPv6 reverse-mapping zone BIND on IPv6—Use IPv6 addresses and networks in ACLs, and register and delegate to IPv6-speaking name servers Resolver Configuration—Configure popular stub resolvers (Linux/Unix, MacOS X, and Windows) to query IPv6-speaking name servers DNS64—Learn about the transition technology that allows clients with IPv6-only network stacks to communicate with IPv4 servers...
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- Miguel Caetano
from Bookmarklet
"This week is the yearly Google I/O at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It’s a meet and greet for lots of people and companies, a big dot-com over-the-top party, and most of all it’s geared towards “web, mobile, and enterprise developers building applications in the cloud with Google and open web technologies… Products and technologies to be featured at I/O include App Engine, Android, Google Web Toolkit, Google Chrome, HTML5, AJAX and Data APIs, Google TV, and more.” Maybe not so much Google TV or Google Wave this year :) but for open hardware and mobile folks, this was one of the most important weeks in history."
- Marcos Marado
from Bookmarklet
"We’ve all lived the nightmare. A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he1 can’t seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is so kludgey that it ultimately must be rewritten from scratch by more competent people. And yet his interviewers—and/or the HR department, if your company has been infested by that bureaucratic parasite—swear that they only hire above-average/A-level/top-1% people."
- ovigia
from Bookmarklet
One of the great things about free software is that they're usually also the best tools O:-) The greatest Operating System, the greatest browser, the greatest audio editor, the greatest text editor,...
- Marcos Marado
from Android
I'd love to live in your world. Really. My audio and video editing needs are not met with stable open source "power" tools. Not even my graphic design ones… it can get really frustrating at times, working around bugs and random crashes and dealing with crazy workflows because of that one fundamental little thing that isn't still quite implemented. :(
- João Martins
Regarding graphics and animation there are some I know that would never swap gimp and blender for anything else, but I don't know nothing about it, nor video edition.
- Marcos Marado
from Android
Audacity is great as an audio editor but I need a full-fledged non-destructive DAW platform (I'm currently between ProTools and Logic).
- João Martins
GIMP doesn't handle CMYK or color separations, and Blender is great for 3D and animation, but video editing is a all different thing.
- João Martins
Even for the most simple tasks, when printing in "pro" workflows" I'm using Inkscape + GIMP + Scribus to get the right kind of prepress ready outputs. It's frustrating.
- João Martins
"Gimp still lacks full CMYK color model support. The ability to separate and then edit an image in CMYK mode is still a long way down the list of features to be added (if on the list at all). However, there is a plug-in called Separate that offers a partial solution to the problem." Partial indeed.
- João Martins
There's a CMYK plugin for Gimp for years. I don't even know what color separation is nor have I tried video editors tho ;-) Regarding audio edition, I was only talking about edition per se, and for that nothing beats Audacity. I never tried pro tools (am actually curious), but have some experience with Logic and understand your point. Wouldn't trade my setup with several tools and...
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- Marcos Marado
from Android
i've used audacity for a while. and i cant really recommend it for professional use. lots of bugs and annoying quirks that other professional tools have polished much better.
- Filipe Cruz
same thing with gimp. it drives me mad, specially under mac osx, how buggy it still is. inkscape is alot more accesible though.
- Filipe Cruz
I'm with you, Filipe. But in Inkscape the CMYK / color separations / prepress issues don't get solved. I'm using Scribus, wich is a DTP app, to go around that. And it's crazy!
- João Martins
Marcos: having a CMYK plugin is not the same as having CMYK support. Not even close, really. And I understand how hard it is to implement these things in opensource apps, because they rely on closed proprietary systems. But it sucks. And it can take years out of your life when deadlines approach. But, I'm a totally opensource designer, now. As for music and multimedia (video), it's a different thing…
- João Martins
CMYK is on Gimp already, no need for plugins, it seems. I have no clue on CMYK is tho, so if you say it sucks then I believe, maybe the Gimp designers I know don't use that?
- Marcos Marado
from Android
Well, i use gimp at work, but I work in the telecom business so I don't need to go pro there. :) For me, Gimp does the job for me. About network management, Nagios really works for me, as well as other open source platforms. Apart from the obvious like apache or perl, I can still mention Cacti, RT or awstats. I guess that the 'multimedia corporation' does not give much space for geeks to work with.
- Jose Martins
from fftogo
Only now I saw and realized that there were more comments than mine and João's... Sometimes Friendfeed likes to behave in weird ways. Regarding stability and bugs, Gimp is known to work well only on Linux, with the Mac OS ports being buggy. I had no idea that audacity suffered from the same issues, but I've been trying to use Audacity in a couple of computers running Mac OS X and I was...
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- Marcos Marado