Só queria anunciar mais um novo projeto que iniciei com o meu amigo Evandro Pastor. Trata-se do Castálio Podcast. No primeiro episódio (Episódio Zero) o Evandro armou uma emboscada e me entrevistou, com direito a perguntas sobre como ingressei no mundo do software livre, meu passado junto à comunidade Ubuntu Brasil, distribuições e aplicativos favoritos. Interessado? Quer saver o motivo do nome do podcast? Dê uma conferida e passe a dica para os amigos.

Barrabin Barrabash, the great is once again up to no good with his tricks in yet another one of my translations of Karlisson Bezerra's original work. Enjoy it and have a wonderful weekend!

You probably remember reading about my issues with running my WordPress-based blog on Dreamhost's environment, and how frustrated I was with the experience of using their Private Server services. The short version is that I eventually migrated my blog back to their shared hosting environment, turned off most of the plugins and cried myself to sleep. The very next day, after reading (and replying to) the comments I received, one in particular caught my eye: Amazon’s Free Usage Tier offering new customers the following EC2 services each month for one year:

Remember my last post about the comic strip my friend Karlisson Bezerra created to explain how Creative Commons licenses work? Well, over this weekend I was talking to him and offered to translate one of my favorite strips to English (here’s the original in Brazilian Portuguese). I always get a kick out of this one and hope you’ll enjoy it too! [caption id=“attachment_1329” align=“aligncenter” width=“600” caption=“Barrabin Barrabash: SQL Inception”][/caption]

A while back my friend Karlisson Bezerra, author of the Brazilian comic (all using open source tools such as Inkscape, etc) Nerdson, created a pretty nifty story explaining how to use the Creative Commons license. The original strip was written in Brazilian Portuguese but someone took the time to do a quick translation into English (as the translator is not a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, some things got lost in the translation, but the end result is still worth checking).

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out.

Who said that lightening doesn’t strike twice on the same spot? I’m proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 2 GNOME Edition! Once again, this alpha release is from our QA branch, and is intended mostly to receive feedback on brand new installs from end-users, specially in relation to the overall behavior of X.org on first boot! Obviously, if you’re already running Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA1, simply update your system from the command line: *sudo conary updateall*

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out.

This year I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time: get my own private Linux server! A place where I could have total control (i.e. root access) and be able to install or run anything I wanted! Better yet, I wanted a conary managed system that could leverage all the packaging that I have already done for Foresight Linux and be dead simple to maintain!

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out.