Two months ago I designed this logo for an internal company product contest. I didn’t win, but I learned a lot. Xara made the work very simple, and well… hope you like it as much as I do…

Ubuntu 8.04 was released last week. This release includes features like:

• Firefox 3 Beta 5: Web browser
• Desktop Effects enabled by default: Window shadows, wobbling, animations, desktop on a 3D cube, transparency and a lot more.
• Gnome 2.22: Window …

Three weeks ago I had to work on polyominoes for a final project. Since I had to program an enumeration quickly, I wanted to find a simple algorithm to do it. Well, my search was hard. I barely found information on enumeration algorithms and read the …

Ok, first time was fun, but now I hate it… I have deleted about 1000 spam comments in about a week… suggestions accepted…

Hey!, today while checking the comments for my site I found the amazing quantity of 117 comments… all of them spam! hahaha… this is a new record!

Finally, after six months it was so heavy. This is my garden covered by hail.

How to change the screen resolution of Solaris 10 running in vmware

1. First you must install the vmware tools on your virtual machine.
2. Edit your xorg.conf file:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

3. Under the section “Monitor” put a number sign (#) in front of all …

Photoshop is one of those so popular applications often missed in the Linux world. Ok, ok, the GIMP is there, but you have to learn to use it. Even moving a simple selection around becomes a hard to accomplish task. This makes me think, about all …

Do you want to know how to set up Oracle? It is pretty simple and this tutorial will take you step by step through the installation process.

Installing Oracle XE on Ubuntu.

My first encounter with Oracle was back in 2001. It was installed on a Windows 2k test server. We worked in a one year long project and I had enough time to learn about it. I just remember having encountered feelings. SQL was very pleasant: the CASE …