Andre Noel

Avi Alkalay translated to english the Jomar Silva’s Post about standards, ISO and etc. It’s a very good post.

It seems that all the mess Microsoft made about “ODF or OOXML” will repeat on the question “PDF or XPS”. Remeber: ODF and PDF are already standards, but Microsoft wants to force the use of their formats.

Microsoft has released Windows Vista along with a new standard for non-editable electronic documents, called XPS (XML Paper Specification), which uses the same packaging concepts of OpenXML (OpenPackaging Convention) to represent non-editable documents. Who guess where XPS is standardized as another “Open Standard” wins a gift… ECMA… A lot of creativity is not needed to understand that this standard will also be submitted to ISO through a FasTrack in the coming months, just following the OpenXML opened path to that.

On this Christmas, instead of receive gifts from Noel, help Andre Noel to receive a notebook Asus Eee PC.

Just vote on my answer (translated to english by google translator). I’m near 500 votes.

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Yesterday me and my wife went out to celebrate our “dating anniversary”. “Uhn?” - you may think - “why to celebrate a ‘dating anniversary’ if you’re married?”

Here goes my simple tip: Celebrate.

It all begins on that dec 6th, when I knew I would like to live all my life on her side. We knew that God was joining us for a beautiful romance and on that day I ask her to marry me!

“Uhn?” - you think again - “Didn’t you tell that you start to date on that day?”

Exactly. But I also told that I knew I would like to live all my life on her side.

We married two years and four months ago, but happy for six! And every “dating anniversary”, marriage anniversary, or birthday are a new reason to thank God for the wonders of this years…

Have you already looked through your window at morning, saw that it was a beautiful day and thanked God for this?

Celebrate.

You can help me to win an Asus EeePC simply by voting on my answer on a promotion here on Brazil.

So, what my phrase means?

The question is: Where should Linux run?

My answer: “Linux should run on deputies and senators. So their filesystem would be less subject to corruption, the votes of draft laws would be significant faster, with fewer crashes, and the uptime would not be only from Tuesday to Thursday, but for seven days a week.”

To vote you only need a valid mail and know the answer to a simply sum (like 5 + 2) to confirm. After it you have to click on a link on your email.

It would be nice to install Ubuntu on it and use to spread Ubuntu here…

Please, vote here!

PS: You can also help me passing it on…

This post is an adaptation of one post I made on my portuguese blog. It may contain some write errors (especially on manicurist part).

One day I was talking with my friend (and GSoC Guy) Lucas Veloso, and I solved a problem that bother many Linux users: the use of “win key”.

May we call “ubu key”?

Step-by-step for win key “removal” e ubu key “install”:

• With a nail sandpaper, sand the top of the key until you see no image there (be careful to don’t damage the key).
• Alternative: According Lucas, if you use a transparent nail polish on the key and remove it using acetone (after a while), the image can be erase easily.
• After remove the image, pass nail polish on the key.
• Print the image you want to put on the key on a normal sheet (i made it 0,6cm x 0,6cm).
• Pass transparent nail polish on both sides of the sheet over the image. The sheet will become a little “plastic”.
• Cut the image carefully, using a knife.
• Paste the image on the key (you may paste with the nail polish) and pass more nail polish to fix it and protect.
• The end.

Wow, I’m talking like a manicurist…

Below is a picture of Lucas’ keyboard, in a different version, as you can see:

Another keyboard that I like is the one of Jose Vitor:

His girlfriend made it for him, inspired by my portuguese post.

PS: Here goes the template made with inkscape to create the “ubu key”.

PS2: Yesterday I saw one “Ubuntu keyboard” for sale. It looks nice…

I’ve just bought an ogg player (the box says MP3 Player, but I will use it to play ogg…). As many others, it doesn’t say that it plays ogg, but it do (look the picture above).

Funny part: Look the page of manual (translated below)…

Red part: Important: For unknown reasons some Windows XP doesn’t open automatically the window Removable Disk.

Go figure…

The Google Brasil’s Blog announced here the Android, which, they say, “is the first cell phone platform trully open. It includes operating system, user interface and applications – all in one software which runs on the cell phone, but without the barriers of proprietary software that hindered the innovation on the segment”.

The post also shows a video (from where I got the picture above) and call the developers to work on applications to this platform.

Download now the new Ubuntu total free, FULL version (not shareware) and without virus!!! The following file is ready for use, you don’t even need to write the serial. Just burn a CD and use it (you can just use without install, if you want to)…

Choose your download:

Ubuntu 7.10 (HTTP)

Ubuntu 7.10 (Torrent)

PS: I didn’t smoke anything… I don’t know why, but some people think that what is free isn’t good… They prefer to use something illegal with a crack… Do you understand?

Just copy this code:


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/display.js"></script>
<noscript><img id="countdownimage" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png" width="199" height="164" alt="Ubuntu 7.10 - Coming soon"></noscript>


And a handsome countdown timer will appear in your site:

I added it on my blog.

On my last post I wrote about the “Liquid Rescale Plug-in” for Gimp and published an image that I resized. Now I’ll show how to make it step-by-step.

First I choose a picture. The original size was 2048×1536 pixels.

Then I choose Layer > Liquid Rescale…

I changed the width to 1500 and “OK”:

Well, this is no good. The image was resized, but the plug-in didn’t know what was important on the image.

So I backed up the original and created a new transparent layer to identify what was important on the image:

On this new layer I filled with black what I want to preserve (I think it would be any color).

The new layer after painting (the white part is transparent):

Following, I selected the photo layer, then I choose Layer > Liquid Rescale…, but now I set my new layer as the area to preserve.

Finally, I executed the script and voi là!

OBS: I did the same thing on my three years old computer running Ubuntu Feisty (Athlon XP 2000+, 512Mb RAM DDR), and on my new computer on my work, running win XP (Pentium 4, 3.0, 512Mb RAM DDR2). On my computer the process was really really really faster.