E o Vista lá foi lançado.
E se há quem precise de um bom corrector ortográfico, boas ajudas de escrita, e tem mais dinheiro que juizo é um jogador da bola. 300 notas de mil por algo que é software de base em qualquer PC? Fosga-se!
Como nota de rodapé, tem sido complicado converter pessoas ao OpenOffice. Nem digo ao Linux/Mac OS X, que é mudança a mais, mas pelo menos ao OpenOffice. A vantagem o OO.org ser de borla não serve de nada. Nas suas cabeças, o MS Office também é de borla, e até mais simples de arranjar. Nem que o OO.org faz tudo o que querem. São tudo pessoas que na sua maioria nem os índices automáticos usam ou sabem usar, quanto mais os 5% de MSOffice que o OO.org não implementa.
Sou todo a favor do ODF, mas até haver filtros para o MSOffice ler/escrever neste formato, é complicado fazer-me entender quando digo “quando enviarem documentos, façam Guardar Como e escolham da lista .DOC/.XLS/.PPT”.
Entretanto, descerebrados fazem linha para passar uma noite a instalar um sistema operativo. Não estão fartos de o fazer? Terão certamente muitas oportunidades para isso acontecer durante o dia nos próximos anos.
I needed to contact two different entities a couple of days ago, a bus-operator and a cable tv provider, and I had to resort to their contact forms.
I got my reply, but in both cases I needed to provide further information to my initial query. One had a From: field set as no-reply@domain and the other had a admin@domain (but does not exist, as my reply was returned).
Is that hard to provide a valid From: or Reply-to: fields correctly so we can skip the contact form the second time and have some context in the email, as the previous messages are quoted in there?
Three things have been of note in these last days:
- My hosting company changed my IP and the email they send was not clear on this: as I am not using their DNS services, I didn’t get forwarded to the new IP
- Every time I have to use it it’s hit and miss. Sometimes it’s not really MS’s fault: it’s the wireless card drivers’s lack of WPA-PSK, but for the most part the Windows Standard configuration panel is a pain to use. And the manufacturers’ own utilities are not that good either. I’ve had one from a cheap PCMCIA card that even refused to run in a non-administrator account.
- An old Nokia 7210 died here at home. She told me it was an accident. We went shopping for a replacement. Why do every operator and phone store advertise the price **always** as “XXX, includes 10 euro for the old phone”. All their prices are made to look 10 euro cheaper than they really are. I’d rather smash my phone than selling it to them at this price. And before you tell me it’s for recycling, they only accept working phones.
I’ve been using a Macbook for the last couple of days at work and I’m stunned.
This is a regular Macbook, with the Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz and 2Gb, and compared to my own 12″ Powerbook (1.5Ghz G4, 768Mb) this is a huge step forward. Applications open so quickly and Neooffice is actually useful this time. Firefox got a lot of mileage in these two days, as on my G4 I avoid it whenever I can (I use Camino when I have to use Gecko).
My two main worries about the Macbook were the keyboard and the screen. The glossy screen has not been as bad as I tought it would be, but I don’t have a lot of direct light where I’m working right now. When I move to a different place things may change however. The keyboard is quite nice in fact, and although strange at first feels quite smooth.
Performance-wise, this is a incredible machine. Lots of applications running (some Universal, some PPC-only) including the trial version of Parallels running XP and Ubuntu and the ‘book felt like it could handle a bit more.
As I’m writing this right now, the MenuMeters CPU graph shows two flat lines. Odd that it shows this as two 80486 CPUs at 2Ghz, though.
I guess I need to clean up my Powerbook. I am still using the original Panther installation that came with it two years ago, later upgraded to Tiger, and a lot of stuff in OSX and my apps has become stale and left to rot.
A quick browse of Wikipedia revealed the list of japanese words of portuguese descent. The meaning of “Mizu” and its origin is quite odd.
Do the words “Mizu” and “Misu” mean the same thing? Think about it the next time you have your Misu Soup. 