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Novell Linux Xgl demo

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Novell Linux has just released this amazing technology demonstration video showing off some of the new features of their impressive operating system.

The system used was an old system with only 256MB's of RAM. Windows Vista won't even boot on that.

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Snow trip unpluged

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I'm going for one week of snowboarding and tracking at Avoriaz, with no laptops attached, so this blog will have a break. It's gonna be freezing, with weather forecast pointing maximum temperatures of -6 and minimums of -19 celsius. But who feels cold when you have adrenaline?

Netlabels

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Recently I read (in more than one place) about netlabels, so I decided to take a deeper look at it, and try to better understand what's behind it. A netlabel works like a traditional record label, producing and promoting music projects. But similarities ends here, since they are different in a matter of formats and economics:

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Get your problems right

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People say that I'm a good person in problem solving. They say that because sometimes I get out of the box solutions, and they see it as something unusual. Well, I'm not a special guy, what I do is always trying to get the problem right, and that is half way to good problem solving.

When I was in university, I had a course named "systems analysis", and one day, the teacher told us a story on this matter, which I will share with you. Every time I'm confronted with a difficult problem, I think on this story and try to use the lessons learned. So, here is the story.

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Majors re-design

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After Microsoft implementation of a new design for their webpage, it seems Yahoo and Google are also testing for new layouts:

You can read what other people think in the comments section of the posts mentioned above.

Update 7/Mar/2006: Google is testing date ranges in the search box, see it for yourself in this ego centric url.