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Oracle buys SUN

Gustavo Felisberto — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:11 +0000

The question in most of the Free Software advocates right now is what will happen to Suns Free Software products:
1- MySQL
2- OpenOffice
3- Netbeans
4- ……

Although MySQL seems the first candidate to die I guess this is one of the products with the best chance to survive*. Databases is the core business for Oracle so they will probably keep the product and in time make it more Oracle friendly. So that users that develop for MySQL can easily migrate to Oracle when requirements increase.
Right now Oracle has the Oracle Express Edition but installation is sometimes complex and the limitations to the CPU/Memory/Disk Space make some developers run away. PostgreSQL is very good, but does not have the momentum. So MySQL is not a brand that any company wants to kill.

* – The Free Software products always have a chance to survive if the “Mother Company” kills them. The community can always pick the product and develop it. That is one of the base ideas that made Stallman create the concept. But it is always easier for a product to survive if there is a cash flow of some sort.

Vmware keyboard issues

Gustavo Felisberto — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:22:16 +0000

I’m running Windows XP inside vmware. The host machine is running Linux (Ubuntu jaunty). I was having issues with the keyboard where the arrow keys would not work, or would do the wrong thing (down key would open the start menu).

I found a solution that involved editing ~/.vmware/config and add a line like:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
But this would not work properly as Vmware would think I had a Japanese keyboard and some keys would not work.

I found another solution and this one seems to be working fine. Instead of the previous code add this to your ~/.vmware/config:

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu

New Life

Gustavo Felisberto — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:05:42 +0000

Laura:
Chegaste no dia 21 a este mundo. Não tenho palavras para descrever o que senti quando te vi e peguei pela primeira vez, mas consigo dizer que foi a melhor sensação do mundo.

Raquel:
Chegou a nossa filha….. Chegou a nossa filha…..

A todos os leitores:
Estou aqui a olhar para o écran e não sei o que escrever. Nada me parece correcto. Tudo me parece demasiado pequeno ao pé desta sensação forte cá dentro que me faz o cérebro parar. Digam só uma coisa a este pai babádo…. Não é a bebé mais bonita que já viram?

Betta Fish

Gustavo Felisberto — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:15:09 +0000

This beatifull fish is now mine. But it was breed by Martinho Brazão. If you are looking for Betta fish you can be sure his fish will be sent in very good packaging.

iPhone to thunderbird+lightning

Gustavo Felisberto — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:00:55 +0000

Apple should add thunderbird+lightning support to at least iTunes on Windows. Not every windows user has Outlook installed.

Right now almost all options to do this include some extra softwares (jailbroken iPhone) or thunderbird plugins and Google accounts. And I may not want my data in Google.
If you do not mind having data in Google read on. Right now I just want to sync Calendar events.

As I need to have data synced I’ll post my findings were. So stay tunned.
[UPDATE 2009-02-10]
All this syncing is dangerous. The iPhone will delete all contacts and/or calendar events on the phone when adding a external sync.

Two solutions so far for Contacts and Calendar:

1- Get your company to install Exchange or one of the Free Software alternatives. And then just add the account on the iPhone and search for info on how to get Lightning to get the data from there.

[New Update 2009-02-15 15:17] There is no need to use the Nuevasync Service
2- This is the one I use. It involves having a Google Calendar account and Sync the iPhone and Lightning there. In the iPhone follow the instructions in the Google Mobile Sync page. To have Lightning use the calendar just add a new Calendar of type CalDAV and in the url put: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/YOUREACCOUNT@gmail.com/events .

There is no “Sync now” and events will be propagated auto-magically. In my case if I have calendar open on the iPhone and add events in Lightning they propagate in 3 to 5 seconds.

Use the Wiimote writs band…. Always

Gustavo Felisberto — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:15:00 +0000

Why you should use the Wiimote writs band at all times:

New Home

Gustavo Felisberto — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:47:01 +0000

After many years running on my home server this blog is now hosted at lylix. I went to them because it was the only Gentoo/Funtoo VPS provider I could find:)

If something does not work, please drop me a note

20 weeks, It’s a Girl

Gustavo Felisberto — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:58:41 +0000

20 Weeks and we now know that were having a girl. We’ll name her Laura, and as you can see from the picture she has a beautiful nose…

A Wiki for Gentoo

Gustavo Felisberto — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:57 +0000

A long long time ago I voiced about the need for a wiki in the Gentoo project. In those days Gentoo-Wiki was starting up.
For some reason or other people inside the project felt that having the users producing documentation was a bad idea. For some other reasons that I never understood the gentoo-wiki.com becamed a banned issue, and Gentoo developers were advised not to mention, and not to link to him. I wrote an extensive article about Gentoo on the Efika board that got some raised eyebrows because it was written on the Wiki.

Now Gentoo Wiki has been down for a few days. And according to the backup page it does not seem a fix is going to happen soon.

If we had taken this project under an umbrella a long time ago our users would not be missing on this very important resource.

The powerfull new VT100

Gustavo Felisberto — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:09:18 +0000

My friend L0rd Saur0n made this nice retro chick image. I found it so hilarious that I just had to share.

VT100 in Bright Green