startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia
My friend Camilo Telles did his master thesis on this exact subject, he projected this camera entirely in wood and cheap web cameras, he also wrote a software to integrate all the images in one single, it’s not his work, but it’s similar and very interesting. Reference: http://adn.blam.be/papervision/
Better late, then never. In my vacations I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s movie about heath care in the United States. He shows a number of situations where it simply doesn’t work. People that has a private plan and got rejected when a serious decease like cancer appeared, or even people that were pretty well, but had their lungs burned because they wanted to save lives after the 09/11 accident. A comparison is made to a different health care system applied in countries like, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. The idea is simple, everybody pays taxes and this includes health…
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…
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…
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…