“Apple relies on an emotional response to its products to sell them, at least initially. For example, once you’ve used OS X you’ll never go back to Windows, but that first leap of faith is just that: a leap of faith that you’re willing to take because the UI is so beautiful. You recognize the power after the purchase.“

oh se não é verdade :p

fonte:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10001972-16.html?part=rss&tag=rsspr.6244491&subj=news

“A VMWare anunciou que distribuirá seu software de virtualização ESXi gratuitamente a partir da próxima segunda-feira, dia 28 de julho.

A ação foi anunciada por Paul Maritz, novo CEO da companhia, e é uma resposta à iniciativa da Microsoft em lançar sua própria máquina virtual, a Hyper-V, que pode ser obtida por usuários do sistema Windows Server 2008 por US$ 28.

Através de máquinas virtuais, usuários podem instalar vários sistemas operacionais em um mesmo PC, criando um ambiente seguro para testes. O ESXi, que já foi um dos carros chefe da companhia e era vendido por US$ 495, ainda pode ser incluído em servidores vendidos por fabricantes como Dell, HP e IBM, conforme noticiado no site RedmondMag.

Com o lançamento gratuito a companhia pretende levar novos usuários para suas outras ferramentas, essas pagas. Curiosamente, lembrou o site InformationWeek, Maritz esteve no cargo de vice-presidência sênior da Microsoft durante 14 anos, ajudando no marketing de produtos importantes da companhia como o Windows 95 e Windows NT.”

fonte: http://www.geek.com.br/modules/noticias/ver.php?id=37569&sec=6

a twitter user turns to another and says ‘dude i think we are being followed’

quando construímos a nossa Casa, se erguermos as paredes muito fortes podemos não deixar passar uma doce brisa. há quem não dê valor a uma Tenda porque se deixou vencer pela dureza da Casa e está preso a ela. na Tenda o inverno é mais difícil, é caótica e algumas vezes incompreensível, protege-nos do que precisamos mas não nos aprisiona, é o Lar que habita em nós, no nosso coração, aonde estejamos. a moral da história é que cada arquitecto da Casa constrói aquilo que o faz feliz mas tem sempre a opção de guardar um espaço para uma Tenda no seu Quintal, porque existem materiais mais fortes que a Telha.

Processor and memory

* 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

    * 4MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed

    * 667MHz system bus

    *  20-inch (standard)

          - 1GB (2x512MB) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory

          - Two SODIMM slots support up to 3GB

    * 2GB Corsair 667MHz totalling 2.5G, with spare 512 Apple DIMM

Storage

    * 250GB Serial ATA 7200-rpm hard drive (2)

    * slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

          - Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 2.4x speed

          - Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed

          - Writes DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs at up to 4x speed

          - Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed

          - Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed

          - Writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed

          - Reads CDs at up to 24x speed

Communications

* Built-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme Card (802.11g standard) (3)

    * Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module (1)

    * Built-in 10/100/1000 BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)

    * Works with 56K V.92 Apple USB Modem (sold separately)

Display

* 20-inch (viewable) widescreen TFT active-matrix liquid crystal display

    * Millions of colors at all resolutions

    * Typical viewing angle:

          - 20-inch model

                + 170° horizontal

                + 170° vertical

    * Typical brightness:  280 cd/m (20-inch model)

    * Typical contrast ratio:800:1 (20-inch model)

Graphics and Video

* ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor using PCI Express

    * 128MB of GDDR3 SDRAM

    * Optional 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM on 20-inch model

    * Mini-DVI output port with support for DVI, VGA, S-video, and
composite video connections via adapter(4)

    * Built-in iSight camera

    * Support for external display in extended desktop

          - Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200

          - Analog resolutions up to 2048 x 1536

    * Support for external display in video mirroring mode

Electrical and environmental requirements

* Meets ENERGY STAR requirements

    * Line voltage: 100-240V AC

    * Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase

    * Maximum continuous power: 180W

    * Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)

    * Storage temperature: -40° to 185° F (-40° to 85° C)

    * Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing

    * Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet

Size and weight

* Height: 18.6 inches (47.2 cm)

    * Width: 19.4 inches (49.3 cm)

    * Depth: 7.4 inches (18.9 cm)

    * Weight: 22 pounds (10 kg)(5)

Peripheral connections

* Two FireWire 400 ports; 8 watts shared

    * Total of five USB ports: three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) on computer,
two USB 1.1 ports on keyboard

Audio

* Built-in stereo speakers

    * Internal 12-watt digital amplifier

    * Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack)

    * Audio line in/optical digital audio input (minijack)

    * Built-in microphone

Software

* Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari,
Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Xcode Developer Tools)

    * iLife '06 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand),
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, iWork (30-day trial), Big Bang Board Games,
Comic Life, Omni Outliner, and Apple Hardware Test

    * Front Row

    * Photo Booth

Like new, bought in August 2007, guaranteed until August 2009
No iRemote
Mighty Mouse
Apple Keyboard
Original OS X Tiger, manuals, box
Includes Creative i-trigue 3330, bought in Feb 2008, garanteed until Fev 2010

See

http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMac_Late_2006.html
http://pt.europe.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=268&subcategory=288&product=14091

for specifications

jose.moreira A T josemoreira.net

Only 1.200USD / 800€

no catz where armed during the stealing of this picture!

1. you take a boar’s head to the cops and ask for a reward
2. you get pissed because the local pharmacy doesn’t sell health potions and you scream at them “… if i had my 70lvl here you would #$#$ you all up”
3. its 2am and you’re playing Wow
4. you walk slowly under the shadows while crossing a tough neighbourhood
5. its 3am and you’re playing Wow
6. you ask for the griphon master everytime you visit a new town
7. its 4am and you’re playing Wow
8. you are at home and you hear something about an attack (on a tv movie), you grab you cape, your sword, your helmet, you winter boots, a hunk of meat from the fridge and you run outside of the house screaming “where are they, where are they?!”
9. its 5am and you’re playing Wow
10. you write “you know you have been playing too much World Of Warcraft when…” articles because you know all of the reasons
11. its 6am and you’re playing Wow
12. you take bandages to work just in case the orcs come by…
13. you play too much Wow, /laugh hahaha

PHP developers get Eclipse boost | InfoWorld | News | 2007-09-17 | By Paul Krill

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is commonly used for building Web applications. With PDT, Eclipse is providing technology that can be used as is by developers or serve as the basis for value-added products manufactured by tools vendors.

“The idea of it is to have a very good PHP editor, a debugger,” and PHP inspection, said Yossi Leon, a leader of the PDT project and a product manager at Zend Technologies, which makes PHP-based tools.

Features of PDT 1.0 include:

* Context-sensitive editors offering capabilities like syntax highlighting, code assist and cold-folding.

* Integration with the Eclipse project model, enabling inspection using File and Project Outline Views and a PHP Explorer View.

* Incremental debugging of PHP code.

* Frameworks and APIs for extending PDT to build PHP-oriented developer tools.

PDT can use different plug-ins that will work with the Eclipse IDE to add functionality. Examples of these capabilities include ftp support, source code control, and database connectivity.

Zend does not see its own products competing with Eclipse PDT and plans to build a product based on PDT. “We found that PDT is more of a framework to build products based on this, so it provides a very good editor and good debugging, but there is much to complete beyond that,” Leon said. PDT is not an IDE and does not provide out-of-the-box profiling or remote debugging, said Leon.

But an early user of PDT said he planned to eventually replace the Zend Studio PHP IDE with the Eclipse offering.

Granite Data Services 0.4.0 (final) is released - Confluence

Granite Data Services 0.4.0 is available for download.

Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL’d), alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flexâ„¢ 2) Data Services for J2EE application servers. GDS implements services factory for EJB3 (Session beans that return Entity Beans), Spring and Pojo interactions.

This 0.4.0 release is mainly a bug fixes and compatibility release, with one new feature: a Jetty6 based security service. While GDS is still in early development stage, you should be able to use the current 0.4 version in non-critical production environments. 

jQuery BlockUI Plugin

The jQuery BlockUI Plugin lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser[1]. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI adds elements to the DOM to give it both the appearance and behavior of blocking user interaction.

Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates | Graphics

Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of the article and visualize the topic of the post. Buttons can be used to motivate users to some particular actions; and templates are supposed to help designers to create user-friendly interface elements right away. And whatever aim you’d like to achieve, free visual design elements are always useful - simply because they can give your text content a better visual appearance.

We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them.

Not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using icons - they’re changing from time to time.

GrailsPlugins/AuthPlugin

This is a Auth Plugin based on Spring Acegi Framework.

This plugin extends the acegi framework and provids a simplified access control model, that means developer can use this plugin as a drop-in user/security module for grails powered project without knowing the details of acegi framework.

Heterogeneous database replication with SyncML

Availability and performance are primary considerations when you’re developing distributed applications. But using data stores to address these concerns can result in problems with data synchronization between heterogeneous data stores. In this article, Jayanthi Suryanarayana and Neil Tunnicliffe offer a solution using JDBC and the SyncML standard to achieve generic database data replication.

When you are designing distributed applications, you must consider availability and performance. A common solution is to include a data store on the client system. Typically, the client will require a lightweight data store as a result of limited resources. This approach poses a challenge for data synchronization between heterogeneous data stores. One resolution to this problem is a Java-based approach using JDBC and SyncML standards for heterogeneous database replication, but first a little background.

Create a Lightbox effect only with CSS - no javascript needed at Emanuele Feronato

You may call it Lightbox, or Greybox, or Thickbox, but it’s always the same effect.

When you are on a page, and click on a photo or trig some event, a Lightbox is an effect that fades the pagein the background to show you new content in the foreground.

I mean this effect

Checking Projects into SVN - Grails - Confluence

Up to and including Grails 0.4.x there are files that are generated or copied by Grails within your project tree. This can be problematic as it is unclear what is to go into SVN and what isn’t. In addition, you will not usually want your compiled .class files going into version control, nor duplicates of your libs etc.

This is correct at the time of writing (Grails 0.4.x) but makes the following assumptions:

* You do not want ./plugins/core (Core Grails plugins) under SVN
* You do not want anything under ./web-app/WEB-INF/ under SVN. You should not usually need to put files in here. Files from ./conf are copied to WEB-INF/classes so they are on the classpath, if you need to supply anything.

Why is this such a hassle? Well SVN prevents files or directories being considered for version control by checking an “ignores” list that is set via an SVN property. This property is set on specific directories within your SVN working copy. Therein lies the problem - until you have a working copy you cannot tell it to ignore files.