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Uma opinião sobre navegadores

Muito se fala, nesta época da web 2.0, em navegadores de internet (browsers).

Com a evolução nas páginas da net, os navegadores foram consequentemente sendo actualizados e melhorados de forma a suportarem as novas funcionalidades oferecidas a utilizadores cada vez mais exigentes. Durante alguns anos, os programadores web depararam-se com problemas de compatibilidade com o Microsoft Internet Explorer, em particular com a versão 6 devido à politica seguida pela empresa que o produz que decidiu não seguir as regras (standards) do mercado e implementou as especificações de páginas web de uma forma pouco clara ou natural, devido a esse facto, a programação exigia que se escrevesse código especifico para contornar os erros do dito navegador.

Tudo isto causou um enorme retrocesso na web, fazendo com que muitas das funcionalidades que deviam estar disponíveis ao utilizador não o estivessem devido aos problemas inerentes à massiva utilização do internet explorer 6 que foi abusivamente introduzido junto com o sistema operativo Microsoft Windows, prova disso é a pesada multa aplicada pela União Europeia à dita empresa por práticas anti-concorrenciais e monopólio.

Pois bem, entrámos numa era diferente em que as alternativas surgem de todos os lados, em termos de navegadores encontrámos um sucesso enorme com o Mozilla Firefox que se tornou no browser de eleição para testes de páginas web, desenvolvimento e uso diário.

O mesmo vem preparado para milhares de extensões que aumentam as capacidades de navegação bem como é mais seguros e mais estável do que qualquer versão que testei até hoje de Internet Explorer. E depois de tudo isto o preço é uma surpresa, GRATUITO e ainda por cima é software livre, o que significa que é nosso, podemos modifica-lo e adaptá-lo se assim o entendermos sem correr o risco de sermos processados judicialmente por isso pois tratam-se de liberdades impostas pela licença de software livre sob o qual se rege.

Posto tudo isto, pouco mais há a dizer, o meu conselho passa obviamente pela instalação do Firefox para poder assim aproveitar ao máximo o melhor que a net tem.

Cumprimentos,

OesTuX

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Ou pode descarregar directamente clicando aqui.

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One thing that usually comes with being an it guy, half geek and other things, is the lack of time to even have a personnal life.

Well in my short existence, life taugh me to be a little more responsive to having one and i am maing an effort in that way.

“Everyone deserves to be happy and every foot as a sock that fits it” thats what my grandmother used to say and ….. guess what she was wright!!

Lets see if i can manage things just like in an algoritm and make things work without bugs at the first time.

Now back to silence as i am already speaking too much

Yes it has been a while :S

I have been a little (not to say alot) busy these last months.

Between python, free software presentations, updating iphone firmware, linux, talks about ubuntu and debian and some more python time is short :S

Lets see if after all these social interactions, tweets to the world etc, there is time for my little corner.

Stay tunned

Cheers

Everyone of you who know me, know that i have a particular passion for that little gadget from apple called iphone.

It all began when someone asked me to prepare a brand new mac book air with the company software.

I whas imediately in love, not by its hardware qualityes, which lack power, but by the use of it, weight, battery etc.

Is onwer whas surprised with it so much that he decided to buy an iphone over the net. As usual i had to bee the guy behind its prep and put my hands to the dirt

Once you start using it, you feel that it is an amazing product, full of possibilities. Imagine my surprise of putting a terminal gui to the gadget ans start poking around in bash and starting an apache server wright from it :!

Well, enough talking has, like everyone knows, im not that good with words, i got a gift today, a 2g iphone, the same one that i had my hands on the first time, in exchange i had to tweak and jailbreak a couple 3gs iphones.

Man i am happy, i’m already making plans of starting to play a bit with python on it and see how far i can get with it

First i have to sort out the mess of upgrading it to 2.1 firmware but thats for tomorrow, now i just leave a nice poem that i found wille surfing for some answers and that i consider so good that i had take a litle time and post it here.

Keep up the good work bill

Today after a long long conversation with a local teacher i decided to keep being a free software advocate which i have almost forgotten becase of having too much work on my hands.

She just kept saying that she is too used to proprietary software and she cant stop using cracked software.

I have to admit that sometimes i just loose control but, seriously, having a teacher who can help educating my children with those kind of habbits doesn’t make me happy. should it ??

Once and for all whe have to stop giving up our rights of software users, whe have to make a stand not just for us but for our children and help adopt free software especially in the education.

So i decided to give her a cd full of free software for the education, lets hope she gives me the chance to put that running on the school computers and prevent the “infection” of the little ones.

I will try to keep updating this post with great news about it.

In the menatime, send over some ideas and links for good free software for education that i might use.

hacker *at* oestux *dot* org

Cheers

The Portuguese government, as usual, disregard once again us, free software users.

Although they have made a java application for us to be able to calcule our IRS (anual taxes) and claim to have an installer for *nix stations i’ve found out that the same whasn’t ready for end-users.

Maybe the problem is in the quality of the people behind their software programing or maybe they just dont care, i do not know, what i know is that it keeps buging me why the world isn’t open to everybody while the politicians are always claiming that it is ;( rants rants ….

Anyway lets step back to the solution i have found momentarily:

find out your printer name:

lpstat -p

install xpdf if not already done:

sudo apt-get install xpdf

click your encrypted pdf on choose open as then select xpdf

click on the printer icon and chose to print like this:

lpr -P printername

thats it, everything should go out well on the printer

Hope this heps someone

cheers

After starting this blog, someone sent me an email asking for more info about my hacking habilities.

The person in question whas wondering if a whas a so called white hat or black hat.

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For the past week i haven’t even got the time to write a few lines here.

I’v been doing some pyqt programming, which by the way I LOVE, and things are starting to run smootlhy.

Although not too much time as passed since those huge bash scripts and that f** abssg (advanced bash shell scripting guide) and i find myself poking around with the pydocs everyday and starting to convert all those little utilities that every sysadmin creates for the day to day tasks from bash to python.

I must admit that when smoeone once told me to forget about learning java and grab that “Dive into python” pdf i whas’nt really believing that now i would be already as fluent as i am with the language but also finding myself to relpace some java apps with python ones.

Im tired and work is still calling so i’l tell my python story some other day.

Cheers

I whas (like usual), struggling again to make ie more safer to avoid beeing hit every damn day with spyware viruses etc when i decided to write this post.

The ultimate guide to make ie safer is just to uninstall it, just take that damn piece of garbage out of your computer and you’l be fine.

Instead try browsing with mozilla firefox http://www.mozilla.org the fastest, feature rich and probably best n

browser in the world.

And bamm problem solved

ps: Free software really rocks