tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72225842512252722912012-01-16T21:37:03.454-03:00A little analysis may be the cureGustavo Campanellihttps://profiles.google.com/104465544466213823298noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222584251225272291.post-23751597095434114932010-02-24T20:49:00.006-03:002010-02-24T21:10:27.188-03:00

Today Daz 3d, the site dedicated to programs and figures has launched a five day promotion. It starts today and ends 02/28/2010. As you can see, there's not much time to think about it, so at least check it out. The offer includes over 2000 products (figures, textures, poses, objects) that cost only U$s 1,99 each, which is quite cheap. For Platinum Club members, the offer is a little better,

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There's a whole group of companies that decided it was better to punish their clients than to provide a good service. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is not logical, it's not a necessary evil, it's just a road full of little rocks we are supposed to travel barefoot while smiling and thanking and paying a toll. Let me explain a little why I think DRM is bad. Let's suppose you have a computer, it

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Putting aside hype and advertising, every news we get about new developments usually plays with our sense of wonder. It's a common thing to admire the way someone solved what was previously a limitation. The funny thing is this can be true even when faced with things we normally consider evil, because we can see that the application of the technology is different from the way it was used.This

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Since I'm a big comic fan I like not only American comic, but European as well as Manga styled and Argentinean comics (called Historietas) which is logical since I'm from Argentina. Some years ago I discovered webcomics, so I jumped in and begun reading like crazy. Styles and quality varied, and generally improved as artists found their unique voices. But there was a little problem, there were

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I have another blog, a Spanish one, called Demasiado Personal, where I have the Project wonderful ads I plan to get here sometime in the near future. Lately it seemed like the ads weren't coming at all, and I thought it was because of the world wide economic crisis. Turns out I was wrong. It had to do with a change in Project Wonderful.The new system divides the world in four areas, 1) United

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There are several classes of Boycotts, but I think that I may be the only person to boycott coke because they played and played a real crappy song in the radio some years back. I only ended that boycott when coke launched the Final Fantasy IX ad. This happened quite a few years back, but it serves as a perfect introduction for a boycott I started a few days ago. I had been writing about the need

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Due to the ammount of people asking for it, the Linux Format magazine has decided to release it's cover art as Wallpaper. This wallpapers are freed under a Creative Commons licence, similar to the one that protects and frees this blog contents.This licences are copyleft type, quite similar to the GNU licence, which means that as long as some simple conditions are respected, the content is

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Greetings. You are coming into a new territory. But contrary to the space you used to inhabit, that didn't belong to you, this new territory has a piece of free land with your name on it.It sounds a little too good to be true, but it is true. There are some things we must make clear, though. This piece of land, your piece of land, is inside a really big terrain of millions of free pieces of land

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A pair of years ago I tested this programming language called Python, in honor of Monty Python. It's an easy to learn language, in fact the easiness is part of the design, but in this case easy doesn't mean lack of power. Some months ago I developed a little program for a friend, and decided to give Python another go. It didn't let me down.It's not a compilable language, it's interpreted, but

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Yesterday at the office one coworker showed me a news, and suddenly I started laughing. It wasn't a simple laughter. It was a laugh attack, the kind that leaves us breathless, like the ones that puts tears on our eyes.To explain why this happened I need to fill you with some background information. Without it, this isn't funny at all. Some time ago Nvidia purchased the Ageia Physx technology that

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Till now, it was easy to spot brute force attacks. A brute force attack is one where attackers are using dictionaries to try and guess correct combinations of username and password.As those dictionaries are really long, this type of attack used to be easily detectable, because the attacker had to put a big part of his machine to the task and so he tended to do a lot of attempts per second, so

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A new version of Python, 3.0, has been recently released. It has a a lot of changes, and for a lot of people, it has more changes than desirable, so don't rush to instal it, keep on reading and learn before deciding.Most changes in Pyhton until now have been retrocompatibles. This implied that, unless we had used an obscure quirk of a command that got corrected in later versions, we didn't had

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A few days ago, something extremely important happened. An Israeli citizen became the first person in the whole world to achieve two things at the same time.1) Devolution of the money paid for a Windows license included inside the price of a computer, after taking Windows off his computer in favor of Linux.2) He was not forced to sign a NDA (non disclosure agreement), so he's free to talk about

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Back in 2006 I heard a lot of talk about 'the blog fever', stating that it was a momentary thing, and that because of the difficulty of maintaining an active blog, it was predicted that by 2008 there would be no more blogs left.Before continuing, let me stop laughing...Thanks for waiting.The argument sounded strange at first, but then I started thinking and found a certain logic behind those

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Maybe some of you believe I'm some kind of blind fanatic , and that's not true. I recognize when a closed program has details that I like (my friends have seen me praising some little details I like about Vista). Nontheless, I can't stop seeing along the things I like those other things I dislike and I can't change because it's closed software. That lack of freedom is the main reason why I keep

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Today I was reading an excellent article in Groklaw where I learned about the case of a teenager that killed herself (apparently because of peer pressure over the Internet)What raised my attention was that they are convicting someone accused of actions against the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. This law was written in the United States with the purpose of punishing those that gain illegal access to

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Since I remember there have been free access electronic circuits, I remember electronic magazines including several projects each issue. But lately this trend has gone further.Internet has given normal people the capacity to put things so that others can check them, so when applied to electronics we find a clear improvement: we are not limited to the things we can put in a magazine, neither are

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There's a conflictive type of relation between cigarettes and me. I'm opposed to them, as I consider them harmful, but at the same time it fires up an intolerant side in me, when I always try to be as tolerant as possible.Before I continue, let's start at the beginning. My relation with cigarettes started when I was about 12 years old. Some school mates were starting smoking as a sign of

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As you can see, I've kept apart Games from Software. This has not to do with games not being software, because they are. This has to do with my own position about games, which is quite different from the one about software.I simply LOVE games, I think I'll never stop playing. Perhaps I'll change the type of games I play over time, but I'll never stop playing. That being said, there's something

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It's really worrisome to see the way the malware and spam business is evolving, but at the same time it's impressing to see they skills they use to defeat each measure taken against them.Social engineering is being fabulously applied by this groups, they have distributed content making people think it was completely safe, using ingenous and intelligent ways.But todas I bumped into a news story

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There are some programs whose purpose itself generates the need of having the latest version. This kind of programs, like antivirus, anty spyware, firewalls, need to be updated to be fully functional, so that they can stand against the latest known hazards. The same reasoning can be applied to programs that are used to access internet, such as navigators, mail clients, rss readers. Some operating

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I know a lot of people that are always running behind the latest piece of hardware and trying to play the latest game that just got out. Sincerely, I don't share those positions.Let's start with Hardware. The latest hardware is always overpriced (it has to do with it being new and powerful, but also because prices tend to fall when something gets mass produced). When they buy it, they obtain the

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Clearly, the past isn't better in every way than the present, but at the same time not everything in the present is better than the past. This is specially true when we talk about computers.A known fact is that one of the barriers computers had to trascend so that they could reach us in a massive way was the fear they generated in the unexperienced user. Nowdays that barrier has been greatly

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There's a game studio made by only two people, that released an excellent game for Windows, called World of Goo. I recently saw that the piracy on this game is over 95%, and it's only a 20 dollars game.This game is being pirated because it's really good, but with the same mindlessness that they pirate big chain's 40 or 60 dollar games. And that's something that's completely unfair, because this

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Given the amount of English speaking people that liked one of my ideas, I decided to open a second blog in English, just because I think some of the things I say have some value for some people.In case you were wondering, my other blog is a Spanish one, called Demasiado Personal. Although this blog will mirror some ideas from the other, it won't be the same, because some content here would not

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