Marcos Marado
About: Arquitecto de Serviços e Sistemas na Sonaecom.
Co-organizador do Tecnonov.
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Blog Posts
Music Media - are physical formats dieing?
--I guess that there are plenty of ways I could use to talk about this, and a lot of things I could say about it. So, since this comes as a reflectio...
Got myself an Eee PC 701
--I'm back from my vacations, and there's lots of stuff I want (and will) blog about. But this one had to be now: I got myself a new Eee PC! Well, as...
How to use your blackberry as a modem in Debian
--[ATENTION: this blog post was updated!]After aquiring a BlackBerry cellphone, I wanted to use it as a modem for my laptop, running Debian. I still ...
Vacations
--I'm having a half a month vacations, and the plans were simply to rest. Went from Lisbon to Coimbra, and from there to Lamego, to show the city to ...
Opera Mini 4.1 beta
--Opera Mini is already aiming for its next release - 4.1 - and its beta is already out. If you follow this blog you know that I'm an user and fan of...
Busy Times
--My "busy times" continue, and I don't expect to recover from my "blog posts scarcity" in the next following months: I'll have some vacations next m...
Welcome to Equal Dreams, the fair music market
--Equal Dreams is a platform which enables direct sales of digital music from right holders to consumers as well as easy communication and co-operati...
Are you European? It's urgent, Europe needs you
--There is a very important EU vote taking place on July 7th on some amendments to telecommunications legislation that threaten to sneak in a number ...
Tomorrow, NeoFolk in Portugal
--First a conference by Ian Read, then a concert with Fire + Ice, Orplid, Barditus and Àrnica. Tomorrow Portugal is Looking for Europe. If you're g...
HOWTO install HedgeWars (Worms clone) in an EEE PC
--HedgeWars is a "Worms" clone and a pretty cool game. They put it this way: Hedgewars, it's a Blast! This is the funniest and most addictive game yo...
Installing Second Life on an EEE PC
--I've been playing with an EEE PC lately. This 299€ (in Portugal) GNU/Linux ASUS laptop is awsome, and I'm really happy that ASUS did it. They did s...
Blogging in Portuguese
--If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know by now that I'm involved in several projects that are cutting my time to blog. While some of you...
Motorola no more
--If you know me for some time, you'll know that I am, or used to be, a Motorola fan on cellphones. The first time I bought a Motorola cellphone the ...
Document standards: there can be only one?
--The Inquirer is running a story telling that Brydon, from ISO, told them that "Naturally, its desirable that there is only one international standa...
OOXML is NOT a standard
--I don't usually do this, but this time, here it goes: I'm quoting an entire press release, this time from ISO:Four national standards body members ...
Bill Gates
--Disliking Microsoft for years, I heard countless times sentences like "you might not like Microsoft, but you'll have to admit that Bill Gates is a ...
The Player of Games
--All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly si...
The SSH/SSL vulnerability: what you should know
--I wasn't going to post about this, but it seems that, for my own sanity, I must. As you might know by now, a Debian Security Advisory came out, tal...
Tidbits
--Whom rights?If you're an interested in the developments of the music industry like I am, you'll bump into the sentence "rights of content owners" c...
Debian Barcamp-style event to happen in Portugal
--At the 16th of August 2008, in Aveiro (Portugal), an event called DebianDayPT 2008 will happen, in comemoration of the 15th Aniversaty of the Debia...
Underneath It All (Nine Inch Nails Tribute)
--I'm not really into Nine Inch Nails, but since I know quite a few readers of this blog are fans of NIN, and since I think this compilation is going...
Lest we Forget
--While with silence in this blog, the last two days were spent in rememberance.In the 25th, here in Portugal, is a day to celebrate Freedom, since i...
Connecting to SLTalker via SSL
--I've missed the opportunity to see Wong Kar Wai's latest movie this evening, so instead, I kept the ride of "coding for talkers" from this morning,...
TakeOff 2008 // Artists Promotion
--I usually try to avoid making one blog post about more than one thing, but I'm using the train travelling time to write this, and since it's stuff ...
TakeOff and Artists in Promotion
--I'm heading to Coimbra. Tomorrow I'll have a full day:TakeOff 2008, 19 April, morning and afternoonconversa "Artistas em Promoção", 19 April, eveni...
meme: top ten UNIX shell commands (revisited)
--Two years ago I posted here about a "top10 UNIX shell commands" memo. Seems that the memo is flooding my feeds once again, so I decided to re-run t...
Tecnonov 2008: fiasco or success?
--I could start writing about this issue in a several number of ways. I could, and maybe should, start by not using a title such as "fiasco or succes...
After OOXML, XPS
--When you thought that OOXML was enough trouble, XPS comes to be talked about. Many people just ask why Microsoft decided to create a "standard" (OO...
Tecnonov 2008, tomorrow - Fnac - Coimbra - Portugal
--Tomorrow I'll be at Tecnonov 2008 to talk about Virtual Worlds: pass, present and future.Program (in Portuguese):[ 10:30 ] - ABERTURA[ 10:40 ] - Oc...
Interview to Hype! Magazine: "How much is a game worthy?"
--How much is a game worthy? In the end of 2007, Radiohead made a revolution in the music distribution business by sharing their last album "In Rainb...
OOXML approved as an ISO standard
--Specially during the last year, I talked about OOXML several times in this blog. Despite already existing already an open standard for documents, M...
Links
--To make a change to my latest blog articles, here's a post of "links".First of all, congratulations Prt.Sc. Prt.Sc is a Portuguese blogs aggregator...
Open Letter To NVIDIA
--I'm all for Openess. In my last blog post I talked a little about Open Documents, this time I'm going to talk about something different: hardware. ...
Document Freedom Day
--This one is going to be short, I promise.Tomorrow is going to the the "Document Freedom Day". I intend to celebrate it in Lisbon. If you want to ce...
Personal Log
--After going to work on monday, I took the rest of the week as vacations. I had lot's of thoughs of what to do in this days, and despite not having ...
Choosing a cellphone 2008
--It's time again: two years ago I choose which computer I would carry all the time would be, and now it's time to choose a cellphone again.This time...
Choosing a cellphone 2008
--It's time again: two years ago I choose which computer I would carry all the time would be, and now it's time to choose a cellphone again.This time...
Choosing a cellphone 2008
--It's time again: two years ago I choose which computer I would carry all the time would be, and now it's time to choose a cellphone again.This time...
How can I get the telnet client on Windows Vista?
--Windows Vista comes by default with no telnet client. To turn it on, go to:Control Panel > Programs and Features > > Turn Windows features on or of...
Crowdsourcing
--The Vienna University of Economics and Business administration is making a study on Crowdsourcing (see my first post on the issue here). The study,...
Crowdsourcing
--The Vienna University of Economics and Business administration is making a study on Crowdsourcing (see my first post on the issue here). The study,...
Seven Deadly Sins
--Is all over the news by now, the "Seven Deadly Sins" are supposedly going to change. Let me remind you that Pope Gregory I was the first to name th...
Metaplace Stress Test
--Want a sneak preview of one space-shooter games made with Metaplace? This one is entitled Uberspace, and you can see it in another stress test of t...
Quickies
--One awsome year has passed. The next one will be even better.Some people are doing one of two things: asking me if I don't have a twitter account o...
Wisdom of Crowds
--I've been reading and working a lot with the concept of the "Wisdom of Crowds" and how can you apply it to several fields. I'm to write more about ...
Gerd Leonhard's Music 2.0
--Gerd Leonhard's new book "Music2.0" is now available, finally, both as a 'real', perfect-human-interface i.e. printed product, as well as a pay-wha...
Microsoft going Open Source? Nah...
--All over the news today is the word that Microsoft is turning from evil to good, hell is freezing and they're really adopt Open Source and trying t...
Leave a Tip
--From now on, this blog, Merankorii's website and Noori Records' one have a widget telling you to "Leave a Tip". Basicly, you can give whatever you ...
How to behave on an Internet forum
--How to behave on an Internet forum: a funny video that can also be aplied to almost every virtual "place" (from virtual worlds to newsgroups, maili...
Silence
--Silence isn't "nothing", it causes reactions. John Cage surely knew it when he decided to create his 4'33'' piece. Also in this blog, things are qu...
Public Domain Jazz
--New free album: Public Domain JazzDespite being a long-living and rich musical style, Jazz is commercially undermined by the fact that most Jazz re...
