Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

fevereiro 2008

The Maid – ISP Stories

Everyone that worked for an internet service provider has a funny story to tell, I have a few too, normally they are related to situations in the call center, but this is about the maid. We had a fm radio station as a client, among other things we broadcasted online their shows, since it was a long time ago, we had to use a combination of a sound board and a sound system, it was always in the correct station and on all day long. One day a new maid came, she started cleaning the place happily and felt so…

Linux Kernel Development

If you look major book sellers for Linux Kernel books, you will be disappointed, there aren’t many titles available, I remember a long time ago, when Alessandro Rubini wrote his first book about Linux Device Drivers, I think it was the first big hit, then shortly it became obsolete, as Linux runs fast. Accordingly to Amazon the most popular Linux Kernel book nowadays is Linux Kernel Development written by Robert Love, in it’s second edition focused in version 2.6. I was deeply involved in other subjects, reading piles of books when it came out few years ago. Right now in…

The seven largest Open Source deals ever

Some author did this research and here is the result: Sun buys MySQL, $1 billion, 2008 Sun now has their hands on the world’s most widely used open source database. Red Hat buys Cygnus Solutions, $675 million, 1999 Red Hat started the open source acquisition race early when they bought Cygnus Solutions, providers of open source software support. Citrix buys XenSource, $500 million, 2007 Considering how hot virtualization is right now, we can see why Citrix bought XenSource, the company behind the Xen virtualization software. Yahoo buys Zimbra, $350 million, 2007 Yahoo already have their own email services, and with…

Linux Kernel – Beginner patches

Some guy started studying the Linux Kernel, gently Linus rejected all of his patches, he obviously got frustrated and asked him a question: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever > patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled > people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant, > patches? > I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my > patches are gradually getting a bit…

Social network for book lovers

People know that I am not a fan of most of the current social networks, they are normally a waste of time, BUT, I think social networks have a powerful value when used with intelligence, I think you can extract very valuable content from people, you just need to solve the problem of trash/spam, as you don’t want to display stupid/offtopic information. Today I saw an interesting social network, aNobii, it’s focused in books, I always wanted a web platform to keep track of the books I read, to see what others are saying, get recommendations and also set the…

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