Archive for November, 2008
Facebook: "Please reset your spam settings"
In: Web
30 Nov 2008I log into Facebook and I see the following:
it reads:
Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost. You can reset them on the Notifications page. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Before going into the boring stuff, did you notice how many spam notifications you could get?
Memo to Facebook: your notifications settings are unnecessary.
If they are subject [...]
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- Tags: facebook, Web2.0
Throwing Price-Sensitiveness Out WITH the Window
In: Business
22 Nov 2008source
Lets say you find a item you like a pair of sun glasses. To be more specific this are Oakley Romeo 2.0, polished frame and titanium lens color, which are worth USD 375. The question, are they worth the price. As you might know Oakley products are quality products, therefore they are worth the price. [...]
Thoughts on the Asus Eee PC (and the OLPC)
In: Computer
19 Nov 2008Recently I had the experience of “playing” around with a Asus Eee PC 900, to be mo specific I was fixing some issues with the wireless. You can find the post here.
I always been a fan of the Asus Eee, from the time that the rumors started. Just the concept of having a very portable [...]
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- Tags: Asus Eee, economies of scale, Edubuntu, Gnome, KDE, netbooks, OLPC, ubuntu, Ubuntu Eee, UNICEF
Ubuntu and the Asus Eee PC 900
In: Computer
12 Nov 2008Yesterday I said hi to a classmate of mine and while going through the routine: “how are you.. what’s up .. blablabla”, he told me he had trouble with a new “mini” laptop he just bought. He installed Ubuntu on it and the wireless wasn’t working. So, I asked him if it was a Asus [...]
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- Tags: Asus Eee, tech support, ubuntu
Risk and The [Crystal] Window Metaphor
In: Business
6 Nov 2008Approximately a month ago, I finished reading “Good in a Room“. Like most of those books they use real life cases and stories to keep the reader interested. In one of the stories of a “financial advisor”, the author uses a metaphor of a window being broken several times by some kids playing. Maybe it [...]
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- Tags: Business, Finance, Good in a Room, life, Risk, Risk Mitigation
"Our software will be open source", so what
In: Open Source| Web
2 Nov 2008Lately I have heard the term “open source” and the word advantage in the same sentence. And my reaction being “aja and…”, which made me realized that people tag a new project as open source, underestimate the efforts of starting, sustaining and growing a open source project. Even more, I wonder if there are naive [...]
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- Jubin: Thanx a lot!! worked fer me.. [...]
- Geries Handal: Ciao Emanuela, Ho già parlano spagnolo, così ho scritto questo messaggio in spagnolo e in italian [...]
- Emanuela: Ho seguito tutti i procedimenti, allora, su Gestione processi windows (ho windows vista) non c'è wl [...]
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