Para quem se questiona sobre o local de trabalho de muitas das empresas que fornecem serviços na internet e não só, há um site que está a reunir fotos. Por exemplo, as instalações da Mozilla Foundation, onde várias pessoas trabalham diariamente em produtos como o browser Firefox. Ou então, as instalações da RedHat no Brasil.
E porque não dar uma olhada no espaço de trabalho daqueles que mantêm a rede social orientada a contactos profissionais linkedin, a Pixar e muitos outros aqui.
Segunda-feira, 22 de Outubro de 2007
Sexta-feira, 19 de Outubro de 2007
Firefox Extras
The Mozilla Firefox browser have a very nice feature: the ability to add extras to enhance your browsing experience. In this article I will show you some of them.
Keeping your browser bookmarks synchronized between your desktop and, for example, your laptop computer can be a problem. To help avoid it, there's an extra that give you the possibility to keep a backup of you bookmarks online. It's called Foxmarks. It's particularly interesting because you can keep you bookmarks in your own server or in the Foxmarks server. If you want something more powerful, you can choose the Google Browser Sync, that can keep your bookmarks, history, cookies and saved password in just one place.
If you think your page loading is getting slower and slower because of the flash ads, video ads, etc, you can just block then with Adblock Plus. Just install it, restart your browser, select one of the lists of ad providers, and it's done. But remember: the ads are the only way most of the sites have to pay the hosting bill, so, use with care!
There's lots of sites that requires a registration just to allow you to access some information. Sadly, some of them will sell your email information to spammers. To avoid it, you can use a fake email, temporary email, to just complete your registration, with this extension, that make the use of the spamavert.com accessible with just a mouse right click, and choosing the option "Show Spamavert address".
Keeping your browser bookmarks synchronized between your desktop and, for example, your laptop computer can be a problem. To help avoid it, there's an extra that give you the possibility to keep a backup of you bookmarks online. It's called Foxmarks. It's particularly interesting because you can keep you bookmarks in your own server or in the Foxmarks server. If you want something more powerful, you can choose the Google Browser Sync, that can keep your bookmarks, history, cookies and saved password in just one place.
If you think your page loading is getting slower and slower because of the flash ads, video ads, etc, you can just block then with Adblock Plus. Just install it, restart your browser, select one of the lists of ad providers, and it's done. But remember: the ads are the only way most of the sites have to pay the hosting bill, so, use with care!
There's lots of sites that requires a registration just to allow you to access some information. Sadly, some of them will sell your email information to spammers. To avoid it, you can use a fake email, temporary email, to just complete your registration, with this extension, that make the use of the spamavert.com accessible with just a mouse right click, and choosing the option "Show Spamavert address".
Sábado, 13 de Outubro de 2007
Disable Touchpad in GNU/Linux
Sometimes, while typing, I touch in the touchpad, the pointer moves and the cursor goes to another place in the text. I really hate that. Soo... who to disable the touchpad while typing?
It's simple. In GNU/Linux you can use a small application called syndaemon. With that, you can specify the time between the last key press and the next accepted mouse click.
First, as root, edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and add, in the Input Device section, the SHMConfig option, with the on value, like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
Now, save the file and restart the X.Org. The fastest way to restart it is pressing ctrl+alt+backspace (before doing this, make sure that you have closed all applications running and saved any document you may be using).
After that, open a terminal, and type:
syndaemon -i 1 -t -d
The -i switch specify the amount of time (in seconds) between the last key press and the next accepted mouse click (the default is two seconds). The -t switch disables the click and scrolling features. That way, you can still move the pointer. The last switch, -d puts the application running in the background (as a daemon). You can run this command every time you start your session. In the gnome, go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions and add it.
It's simple. In GNU/Linux you can use a small application called syndaemon. With that, you can specify the time between the last key press and the next accepted mouse click.
First, as root, edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and add, in the Input Device section, the SHMConfig option, with the on value, like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
Now, save the file and restart the X.Org. The fastest way to restart it is pressing ctrl+alt+backspace (before doing this, make sure that you have closed all applications running and saved any document you may be using).
After that, open a terminal, and type:
syndaemon -i 1 -t -d
The -i switch specify the amount of time (in seconds) between the last key press and the next accepted mouse click (the default is two seconds). The -t switch disables the click and scrolling features. That way, you can still move the pointer. The last switch, -d puts the application running in the background (as a daemon). You can run this command every time you start your session. In the gnome, go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions and add it.
Segunda-feira, 8 de Outubro de 2007
Recantos algo escondidos
O novo centro comercial de S. João da Madeira, a 8.ª Avenida, tem uma série de pequenos pormenores interessantes. A maioria está à vista de todos, outros estão em recantos, como este inovador wc, que tem despertado muitas caras sorridentes, mas tem escapado a muitos dos milhares de visitantes diários.
Domingo, 7 de Outubro de 2007
Gaim 2.0beta6
For those having problems with gaim 2.0beta3.1 present in the Ubuntu 6.10 (like frequent crashes), and want do install the lastest version without breaking future systems upgrades, and without installing third-part packages (of unknown quality), fallow this small tutorial that will teach who to install it on your home directory.
First, you need to download the latest version of gaim, from the official homepage, and installing the base Ubuntu packages for compiling it:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Next step is download and installing the GNU TLS library development tools, needed to provide encrypted comunications with the instant messaging system (for more information go to the official homepage):
sudo apt-get install libgnutls-dev
Now that we have all the components, lets uncompress the files downloaded from the gaim site, and compile, like this:
tar xvfz gaim-2.0.0beta6.tar.gz
cd gaim-2.0.0beta6
./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-gnutls=yes
make
make install
It will create some directories in your home directory, with all the files needed to run gaim. To run gaim, just type:
/home/yourlogin/bin/gaim
That's all!
A very interesting plugin is the guifications, that shows a little message on the right corner of your screen, when, for example, some of your friends is online. You can download the sources from where.
To install it, like with gaim, you need to uncompress the sources package and compile:
tar xvfz gaim-guifications-2.13beta6.tar.gz
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
Now you have the gaim with guifications! Just configure it and enjoy!
First, you need to download the latest version of gaim, from the official homepage, and installing the base Ubuntu packages for compiling it:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Next step is download and installing the GNU TLS library development tools, needed to provide encrypted comunications with the instant messaging system (for more information go to the official homepage):
sudo apt-get install libgnutls-dev
Now that we have all the components, lets uncompress the files downloaded from the gaim site, and compile, like this:
tar xvfz gaim-2.0.0beta6.tar.gz
cd gaim-2.0.0beta6
./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-gnutls=yes
make
make install
It will create some directories in your home directory, with all the files needed to run gaim. To run gaim, just type:
/home/yourlogin/bin/gaim
That's all!
A very interesting plugin is the guifications, that shows a little message on the right corner of your screen, when, for example, some of your friends is online. You can download the sources from where.
To install it, like with gaim, you need to uncompress the sources package and compile:
tar xvfz gaim-guifications-2.13beta6.tar.gz
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
Now you have the gaim with guifications! Just configure it and enjoy!
Sábado, 6 de Outubro de 2007
A Consola do GNU/Linux
Há uns anos atrás, quando comecei a utilizar o GNU/Linux, havia a ideia de que quem utilizava o ambiente gráfico não era um utilizador de segunda.
Em cerca de uma década esta ideia mudou, mas a verdade é que nessa altura todos se esforçavam muito para aprender a utilizar a consola. E, sejamos sinceros, é verdadeiramente poderosa. Nos sistemas UNIX não há nada que não se possa fazer utilizando apenas o teclado.
Para o crescente número de utilizadores que só descobriram as maravilhas dos sistemas UNIX numa era em que a guerra deixou de ser entre o ambiente gráfico vs consola para passar a ser mais entre qual o melhor desktop, se o KDE ou GNOME, ou entre um dos sistemas mais leves, como o XFCE, ou utilizando apenas um gestor de janelas, deixo aqui um site onde são descritos os comandos básicos da linha de comandos do GNU/Linux (neste caso utilizando a bash).
Em cerca de uma década esta ideia mudou, mas a verdade é que nessa altura todos se esforçavam muito para aprender a utilizar a consola. E, sejamos sinceros, é verdadeiramente poderosa. Nos sistemas UNIX não há nada que não se possa fazer utilizando apenas o teclado.
Para o crescente número de utilizadores que só descobriram as maravilhas dos sistemas UNIX numa era em que a guerra deixou de ser entre o ambiente gráfico vs consola para passar a ser mais entre qual o melhor desktop, se o KDE ou GNOME, ou entre um dos sistemas mais leves, como o XFCE, ou utilizando apenas um gestor de janelas, deixo aqui um site onde são descritos os comandos básicos da linha de comandos do GNU/Linux (neste caso utilizando a bash).
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