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Tag: technology

Remembering friends

Due to my computer abilities I have been appointed the lab’s internal IT manager. It basically entails nothing with the exception of communicating to the real IT people what the lab needs or fixing up some code in our PHP system for ordering and some databases.
One of my duties is to administer the mailing lists [...]

The iPad bashing

has started in full swing (gizmodo)!

And yes, some of these things are true. Also true is that we don’t have to buy it. Developers can make apps for other systems, that are more open (Believe me, it’s all going to be about what apps will make it a must have). That is all great if [...]

Apple tablet hype #7

Apple tablet hype #6

At 2m50s (via macrumors):

“Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is [...]

Apple tablet hype #3

Apple tablet hype #2

Apple tablet hype #1

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Save MySQL from Oracle

Mysql is the most ubiquitous database server in the world as far as number of installations goes. It is also open source and you can use for free or buy support for it. If you have ever bought any hosting programs or use a simple website setup that is backed up by a database, chances [...]

A razao dos acentos

Normalmente não uso acentos. No entanto, nos ultimos posts devem ter reparado que mais palavras contem acentos. Viva a tecnologia dos macs:

[geek post]: Analise de dados para toda a gente

Sim, mesmo para “voces de letras” (que respeito mais do a maior parte dos meus amigos engenheiros…)

Na realidade, e’ util para toda a gente. Mesmo quem domina o excel sabe o que e’ preciso fazer, a chatice e’ andar sempre a fazer o mesmo varias vezes quando nao e’ trivial automatizar as coisas…