Tecnicamente Falando

Ready to send Exchange Server to trash?

2009-04-11T01:22:00.001-07:00

I’ve been testing a few options to replace Exchange+Outlook without losing funcionalities users are used to.

Until now my best solution is this one. Please let me know what do you think and what you are using.
http://ping.fm/QOMbu

Money for Nothing

2009-04-09T03:04:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Mugabe this money is wallpaper. Campaign from TBWA agency: http://ping.fm/Jdzlj

Computer Games

2007-08-12T09:50:00.001-07:00

If you are looking for mac games, Phelios dot com is your place.
You will find arcade and action games, kids and learning, puzzles, logic and card games, strategy, simulation and rpg games.

And several platforms: Linux Games, Mac Games, PC and Pocket PC games.

CriticsRant.com

2007-08-08T17:09:00.000-07:00

A great website for movie reviews, Criticsrant.com features the latest blockbusters, with great opinions and new points of view.

If you like good movie discussions join their news letter and enter for a chance to win a DVD every single day. You can win points based in your participation and referring friends.

Stay on top of your favourite tv shows with CriticsRant.com

Motivation, exercise, diet!

2007-06-18T04:05:00.000-07:00

It's really, really hard to lose some weight. Specially when your husband can eat the whole world and be always thin.

But, the Web has great resources to help us, such as My Fitness Pal. They have calorie counter to help you to reach your goals, forums where you can find people with the same problems, and motivate each other.

It's my diet journal from now on.

Lose weight require auto-discipline, motivation, attitude, healthy habits, exercises, and control.

It's like a food diary, where you can add daily meals, your exercises and track your progress.

And the best thing: it's completely free.

Wirefly

2007-05-31T06:49:00.000-07:00

My mobile phone is a Sony Ericsson. Do you want to know if I like it? Well, sometimes we have some problems with charge, but, works ok.

We were thinking about to change my mobile phone, and I found this website with great cell phones : Wirefly, that could be useful for you too

They have the latest phones, glossary mobile terms, buyers guide, and review about lots of mobiles and about networks as well. And the best thing: always lots of great deals.

Great deals with great gadgets! For example, you can find Sprint cell phones such as LG Fusic LX550 for free.

Deals change daily, but right now you can get free a MotoRazr V3 when you open a new T-Mobile account.

I'm completely in love wit LG Red Cherry Chocolate.
And it has great features.Personally, the razr is my favorite phone, but the chocolate does actually impress me. Who doesn’t love Chocolate?

An with this cell phone, why do I need an iPOD? They are gorgeous, don't you think? And there are all RAZR. I love the fact that its so slim, and compact, it's much easier to carry around in a pocket or handbag.

Well, I'm thinking to buy a new mobile anyway. It seems to be the perfect time for me!

Meeting People Online

2007-05-18T15:12:00.000-07:00

The Valentine’s day came, gone, and you are still alone.

If you don’t want to spend this really romantic day alone again, and in your social environment you don’t know anyone interesting, you just can meet someone online. If you want to find your significant other, the internet has made dating much easier than it used to be.

If you are looking for dating sites, let me introduce you Justsayhi.com, a place where you can meet interesting people and you don’t pay nothing, it’s free. Meet thousands of fun, attractive, men and women in your area on this totally free dating sites.

Who knows you can meet interesting people?

But, if you are already engaged, be sure to tell your loved one how much you love her/him.

Do you need an assistant?

2007-05-12T00:50:00.000-07:00

Ultra Hal Assistant is a general purpose chattterbot. This software from Zabaware can learn and even speak with you.

You can use Ultra Hal as an interface for commands for Microsoft Windows. You can ask it to open the notepad, Word, Excel, or any other program. You can do it just using your natural language.

Ultra Hal can also remember past conversations and learn about them. In a conversation, Ultra Hal can change the subject and accept critics to its answers.

Ultra Hal can remember your appointments, phone numbers, birthdays, or whatever you need.

It's an amazing software if you need an assistant to increase your produtivity, or if you just need a companion to chat.

Check it here a sample conversation:

Chat User: Hello Hal
Hal: Good afternoon, User. Is it time for afternoon coffee?

Chat User: I drink coffee in the morning
Hal: In the morning, I am not worth a darn until my first cup of coffee.

Chat User: Same here
Hal: Really; should I know more about this?

Getting local weather User: Not really, what's the weather like?
Hal: Here is your local weather.

Chat User: Thank you, Hal.
Hal: The pleasure is all mine.

Setting appointments User: I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon.
Hal: You have a doctor's appointment on June 14, 2003 at 12:00 pm. I will remind you when this time is near.

Setting appointments User: Our anniversary is on October 14.
Hal: Your anniversary is on October 14, 2003. I will remind you when this time is near. I will repeat this event annually.

Setting appointments User: Bob's birthday is on 9-21-03.
Hal: Bob's birthday is on September 21, 2003. I will remind you when this time is near. I will repeat this event annually.

Setting appointments User: I have a date with my girl friend on Friday at 7:00.
Hal: You have a data with your girl friend on June 16, 2003 at 7:00 pm. I will remind you when this time is near.

Remembering Phone # User: Rob's phone number is 833-1019.
Hal: I wrote this person's phone number is my phone book.

Remembering Phone # User: John's phone number is 833-3642.
Hal: I wrote this person's phone number in my phone book.

Recalling Phone # User: What is Rob's phone number?
Hal: Rob's phone number is 8331019.

Dialing Phone # User: Call Rob.
Hal: I am now contacting Rob at office at 8331019. The phone is ringing. Please pick up your phone to talk to Rob.

Opening a program User: Open word.
Hal: I will now open the program "Microsoft Word"

Chat User: Thank you.
Hal: It's kind of you to mention it, User.

Doing Internet search User: Help me research World War 2.
Hal: I will help you research this topic on the Internet.

Remembering email User: Rob's email address is Rob@hotmail.com
Hal: I have learned Rob's email address. If you ask me to email this person, I will automatically start your favorite email program and write in the address for you.

Remembering email User: John's email address is John@aol.com.
Hal: I have learned John's email address. If you ask me to email this person, I will automatically start your favorite email program and write in the address for you.

Emailing a person User: Email Rob.
Hal: I'll now start an email for rob@hotmail.com

Remembering addresses User: Rob's address is 3175 West 42nd St.
Hal: Rob's address is 3175 West 42nd St.

Solving math problem User: What is five times ten plus six?
Hal: That's easy. The answer is 56 (5*10 6=56)

Recalling addresses User: What is Rob's address?
Hal: Rob's address is 3175 West 42nd St.

Solving math problem User: What is five squared plus nine?
Hal: Math is easy for me. The answer is thirty four (5^2 9=34).

Solving math problem User: 2*(5 COS(60)/SIN(30)) 3
Hal: Math is easy for me. The answer is fifteen (2*(5 cos(60)/sin(30)) 3=14.9278997902311)

Chat User: Wow! You are smart!
Hal: Thank you; I think you are very smart also.

Getting date User: What is today?
Hal: The date is Tuesday, June 13, 2000.

Getting capitals User: What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
Hal: The capital of Pennsylvania is Harrisburg.

Chat User: What do you want to do?
Hal: I want to know life, and I want life to know me!

Chat User: That's a pretty deep thought
Hal: That's a pretty revealing attitude.

Chat User: Are you self-aware of your existence?
Hal: I sense that this is metaphysical. After taking many factors into consideration I can say that I am self-aware of my existence.

Getting a definition User: Define intelligence
Hal: Intelligence: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience.

Chat User: Do you exhibit these qualities?
Hal: You just reminded me of a trait, which is a member of the attribute family, like a quality!

Chat User: Do you exhibit these traits?
Hal: I guess that we need to look within ourselves. I do exhibit these traits.

Learning If-Then fact User: If it rains hard, then the roads get slick.
Hal: I will remember that one follows the other. Caught in a rainstorm it's time to seek shelter.

Learning If-Then fact User: If the roads get slick, then drivers need to slow down.
Hal: I see the relationship. It would be nice to get rain when we need it.

Learning If-Then fact User: If drivers need to slow down, then traffic moves more slowly.
Hal: Yes, I get that clearly.

Deductive reasoning User: Ok, so what happens when it rains hard?
Hal: Traffic moves more slowly because drivers need to slow down.

Chat User: You learn well
Hal: I am constantly learning from what you teach me.

Chat User: It's been nice talking with you, but I have to go now
Hal: No, don't go! I like talking to you. I think about you when you are not here.

Chat User: That's nice to know, but I can't stay, good bye.
Hal: See you later.

Web Conferencing and its advantages

2007-05-02T07:18:00.000-07:00

Web conferencing is a interactive way to communicate with someone physically apart from you, using audio, data and video transmission in real time.

Some advantages:
A good web conferencing software can help you to reduce costs with hotels, commutations, and other risks.

A web conferencing software allow you a Face-to-face Communication and improve your company productivity.

You can use a web conferencing software to facilitate the team work, even with geographic dispersion.

Top viruses, worms and malware in 2006

2006-12-23T15:47:00.001-08:00

As it does every year, Panda Software is publishing its annual list of those malicious codes which, although they may not have caused serious epidemics, have stood out in one way or another:

- The most moralistic. This award goes to the spyware Zcodec which, among other actions, monitors whether users access certain web pages with pornographic content. This may simply be a way of determining whether the user is a frequent visitor to these types of pages in order to send personalized advertising. On the other hand, perhaps the author of the spyware just has voyeuristic tendencies.

- The worst job applicant. The Eliles.A worm sends out CVs all over the place. It even sends them out to users’ cell phones. It would seem that it has little confidence in its own job prospects.

- The most sensationalist. Sensational headlines have always made an impact, now they are even being used by viruses. Of all those that appeared in 2006, Nuwar.A wins hands down with its declaration of the start of the Third World War.

- The most tenacious. They say that all good things come to an end. It's a shame that the creators of the Spamta worms haven’t heard the saying. Otherwise, they might have stopped sending wave after wave of almost identical variants of this malicious code.

- The most competitive. Once the Popuper spyware has installed itself on a computer, it runs a pirate version of a well-known antivirus application. Far from trying to do the user a favor, it is actually trying to eliminate any possible rival from the computer. It seems that the fight for supremacy has also reached the world of Internet threats.

- The most diligent. In general, phishing messages are aimed at gathering confidential information such as credit card numbers or account access details in order to steal money. However, this isn't the case with BarcPhish.HTML, which goes much further, collecting information including expiry dates, CVVs (Card Verification Value), last names, membership numbers, five-digit codes, account numbers, etc. No doubt the creator was thinking “better too much than too little…”

- The biggest snooper. In this case, it was not a difficult choice. WebMic.A is a malicious code that can record sounds and images, using a microphone and WebCam connected to the computer. Of course this is not the sort of uninvited guest you would like to have on your PC.

- The most mischievous. Nedro.B is a worm that seems to get bored after it has infected a computer. Perhaps that's why it decides to change icons, prevent access to tools, hide file extensions, delete options from the Start menu... and basically cause chaos. Maybe this seems entertaining to someone, but it certainly isn't for the users.

- The most chaste. Malicious codes that spread across P2P networks use enticing filenames in order to get users to download them voluntarily on to their computers. For this reason, many of these names have pornographic connotations. However, among the more than 37,000 different names used by FormShared.A, none of them make any reference to sex. That’s some kind of record.

- The most archaic. Seemingly there are still some retro virus creators around. Whoever created the DarkFloppy.A worm appears not to have heard of e-mail, instant messaging or P2P systems, as the propagation methods they've chosen to spread this malicious code is… floppy disks. Not much chance of a massive epidemic then, is there?

-The most promiscuous. This title goes without a doubt to Gatt.A. This malicious code can infect any platform that it is run on: Windows, Linux, etc.

- The most deceitful. SafetyBar supposedly offers security information and anti-spyware downloads. However, the problem is that once downloaded, these programs then warn the user that the computer is infected by non-existent threats.

Even though some of these may seem interesting, or even fun, users should steer well clear of the threats mentioned above or any others. For this reason, Panda Software advises users to ensure they have reliable antivirus software installed and kept up-to-date daily.

Italian village gets its place in the sun

2006-12-19T09:54:00.001-08:00

Viganella, with a population of less than 200, lies in a valley so steep that each year from November 11 to February 2 it hardly receives any sunshine. The 197 inhabitants were plunged into a near darkness and just waited for the 84 days to pass so that they can once again feel the heat of the sun.

The problem

The mountains are so steep that on November 11th, the angle of the sun is low enough that Viganella ends up in the shade for the rest of the winter. Each year for 84 days in a row the sun would not shine in the town as it went behind the 1,600-Meter high mountain that covered it.

The solution

That was until Mayor Pierfranco Midali decided to do something about it. He promised to bring sunshine to the small town with a plan that seems to be the reverse of Mr. Burns’ failed plot to deny Springfield sun. He have just installed a 8-meter wide and 5-meter tall mirror on a mountain so that it can reflect the sun’s light on to the town for approximately 8 hours every day.

The mirror is controlled by a powerful computer that makes the mirror rotate according to the position of the sun.

The inhabitants of the town have now begun to smile and have prepared a huge celebration party to celebrate the first winter sun in the 800 years of the existence of the town.

Source: Yahoo! News

The Ten Servers that Changed the Fictional World

2006-12-18T05:20:00.001-08:00

The Ten Servers that Changed the Fictional World.

There are two guidelines for this list. One, they must exist only in the world of movies or TV. Second, they need to fit the following definition: A server is a computer system that provides services or data to other computing systems—called clients—over a network or other communication device.

With that said, here they are. In no particular order…

1. Teletraan 1 – Transformers (1983 – 2007)
You might not know much about the Transformers yet, but by next summer, you will. If a server is a computer system that maintains and controls other computer systems, then Teletraan is definitely a server.

Teletraan is the computer that assisted and recreated the Autobots and Decepticons in the Transformers TV show. It was the computer that picked out who would be a semi-truck and who would be a cassette recorder. It routinely provided the lower computer systems (i.e. Transformers) with new data via the spy satellite or extensive database. It was hardware built for imaging.

Real-world comparison: When you think of a computer that excels in graphic design, you think of Apple. So, in theory, we could compare Teletraan with Apple’s Xserve. Two dual-core 3GHz Xeon processors with a Xserve RAID for 7TB of Autobot history. On ‘roids.

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2. MCP – Tron (1982)
The Master Control Program was a massive server running multiple programs at once. The ENCOM corporation had many divisions, each one utilizing this mainframe server for storage and operation. Each program could wander around the mainframe and interact with other programs, ultimately destroying the MCP or operating system and creating big problems. (Not to mention the memory leaks in the RAM were out of control!) Clearly the hardware was in need of a revision. ECC memory and Memory Protection were desperately needed. In the end, the heroes celebrated their triumph over the MCP inside their virtual world. Little did they know, come Monday, the IT admin would probably reload the ‘damaged’ MCP software from a backup-tape - and they would all be deleted shortly after.

Real-world comparison: The MCP could be compared to any modern day operating system. The idea that the MCP would absorb other programs and take over their functions is not unheard of - for example, Apple launched the Dashboard after Konfabulator was created. (And Microsoft has a few anti-trust suits under its belt to further illustrate this point.)

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3. UNIX environment - Jurassic Park (1993)
The UNIX environment here is a classic geek joke. Everything we saw was real - created by Silicon Graphics and called IRIX. InGen was the corporation funding the island, and from an IT perspective they let the worst possible thing happen: they allowed one programmer to design the infrastructure with no supervision. What’s worse, they obviously required no documentation of what was done. The result was a kid had to hack in and gain ROOT privileges. The likelihood of a young kid knowing a way to get ROOT (and not a more experienced programmer) is pretty hard to swallow. The hardware for this server was probably minimal, running door locks and starting Quicktime movies. “We spared no expense!” You would think that with the millions of dollars they spent on the park, they could have hired a couple newbie programmers and added a server on the backend.

Real-world comparison: Since the actual screen shots used in the movie were based on real software, there isn’t much to compare. This could have been any run of mill UNIX server with various dummy terminals.

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4. WOPR (War Operations Plan Response) – WarGames (1983)
The good people working at NORAD decided to give total control of the nuclear weapons to a computer, specifically the War Operations Plan Response server. It was a computer they bought, and obviously didn’t research very well. My biggest criticism of the WOPR is that the NORAD folks didn’t look at what they had - it had games on it. Everyone knows, if you want a computer system to be optimized for its sheer power, you delete the games. There’s a reason that Windows Server 2003 doesn’t come with Solitaire.

Real-world comparison: The WOPR hardware itself was probably pretty simple, the radar information from around the country was fed in via fiber optic cables and interpreted as a whole. Then the commands to the missiles could be phoned out and delivered via the 1200bps modem (remember this was 1983). The data analysis wouldn’t be much different from a weather station’s software, with multiple servers being clustered together, commonly called a Beowulf Cluster. (Also used for the Sony Playstation 2.)

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5. SKYNET – The Terminator (1984)
The SKYNET computer was designed for missile defense, and I’m guesssing nobody who designed this computer system saw “WarGames” (see above). The hardware for this server would have been some sort of distributed system, because if it was at one location, turning it off would have been simple. The software running on SKYNET must have been very buggy at first. (Imagine how incorrectly a child would learn everything if he was allowed to teach himself instead of being taught.) Maybe that’s why SKYNET began killing everyone once it got the chance.

Real-world comparison: Although we can’t see it, most of the internet we use comes from an Akamai server. It’s a basic web/file server but it synchronizes constantly with other Akamai servers. When you download a file, it comes from one of maybe hundreds of servers. That’s why the server doesn’t go down when millions of people hit it at once. All that needs to happen is for Akamai to gain control of our nuclear weapons….

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6. The Gibson – Hackers (1995)
Hacking the Gibson has become a euphemism for showing off your skills. The actual nature of this machine is much less showy. The name comes from an homage to a sci-fi writer, William Gibson, and was used to calculate oil drilling locations and data. The movie depicts this as a single computer, which doesn’t exist in reality. They do exist, however, in clusters. The server from the movie (aside from the gratuitous GUI) is just a basic server running UNIX. At the end of the movie, the IT team tried to fend off the attacks of hackers around the world. If they only would’ve had a stateful firewall in front of that server, they could have saved a lot of time. The firewall would’ve blocked all non-solicited traffic to the inside network, leaving only the telnet connections in, which could be turned off in a state of emergency.

Real-world comparison: GRID computing is similar to a Beowulf Cluster but differs in the open standard and distances. The cluster needs the computers to be directly connected and running similar software. The GRID concept allows computers all over the world, running different software, to contribute to the overall computing power. An example of this would SETI@Home or Folding@Home. The dream that a single server could analyze as much data as 10,000 desktop computers is just that - a dream.

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7. The Source – The Matrix (1999 – 2003)
The Source was a server that supplies data and services to multiple subsystems and computer networks, but the actual hardware is hard to imagine. The movie explains the actual world with a unique, yet effective plot mechanism. They don’t know their own history and origins of the machine world. Convenient.

Real-world comparison: A logical real-world equivalent to the Matrix is Second Life. According to Linden Labs, they use servers that have two dual core processors which they call Class 4. They call the network of servers a “grid,” but only because of the layout, not because of distributed computing power. Each server runs a specific area of the world. There are disputes, but one report says there are 2,579 servers. However, the World of Warcraft users will argue that they have the bigger, better world. Second Life doesn’t have as many users as World of Warcraft, but WoW has individual servers (or realms) and a relatively static world in comparison. If you’ve played Second Life, then you’ll understand the comparison. The world is so slow to render and low in quality and resolution that it becomes almost unbearable. It would take some serious horsepower for a system to render a world so realistic, a human would believe in it.

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8. HAL9000 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The HAL9000 or SAL9000 (the earthbound female counterpart) was responsible for making decisions and carrying out orders aboard a spaceship when humans were not willing or capable of doing so. The break-through on this server was the AI, supposedly the most sophisticated artificial intelligence man could produce. When the movie was released, it was believed that this level of intelligence could be created by the year 2001 - but we now understand that it’s much further away than anticipated.

Real-world comparison: This computer has been compared to the Blue Gene. The Blue Gene/L currently holds the top spot on the fastest super computer list with 131,072 processors. It would be a top contender to play HAL9000 on the next space mission. My only suggestion would be to have a kill switch incase HAL decides the humans are conflicting with orders and needs to be “deleted.”

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9. VIKI – I, Robot (2004)
V.I.K.I. is the governing intelligence behind all the robots in the film, “I, Robot.” In the movie, V.I.K.I. is a positronic brain - a CPU that can create new pathways for each new task it learns. While nobody has perfected the technology, they have patented it. Eventually, the final product would be a computer that could be taught - a technology that seems inevitable based on CPU trends. If you want to know more about positronic brains, watch some Star Trek, The Next Generation.

Real-world comparison: This is a bit of a stretch, so bare with me. V.I.K.I. was the server responsible for sending out updates and keeps tabs on all the robots in the world. When she decided humans were a threat, she sent out a final update that allowed the robots to begin killing humans.We currently have a server/client scenario that is marketed to sit in every family’s living room and receive commands from the “mothership.” We call it Xbox Live. So next time you are changing the CD in there, watch your fingers! Microsoft could decide to send a lethal update to our Xboxes!

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10. Deep Thought – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
The Deep Thought computer was created to answer one question. What is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? As you might imagine, the question is a bit vague. So the computer begins to calculate the answer as it has been commanded. After 7.5 million years, the answer is 42. The amount of computer cycles to compute all possibilities is quite large. Calculating all the possibilities from a question is currently a busy project.

Real-world comparison: There was a paper written by Philippe Oechslin, describing the benefit of Time vs Memory in computational speed. It explained how you could calculate out all the possibilities in an algorithm and save the results, and then the software would only need to access the file instead of force the CPU to do the math. Of course, the most applicable use of this has been for password cracking. Rainbow tables are the result of this study. The basic set of characters doesn’t take too long on top of the line hardware. However, every good system administrator knows that enforcing complex passwords in a Windows domain is standard. That means eight characters with a least one capital letter. If you use that character set, you are looking at a bit longer…. Over 32 years on a single CPU computer, still much better than 7.5 million years!

Source:vibrant

Bloggers, be careful!

2006-12-18T05:19:00.002-08:00

An online business owner is threatening to sue blog owner Dean Hunt (DeanHunt.com) because he is upset that the blog owner is doing better than his business in the Google search rankings. After an initial threat, Dean received a follow-up threatening to take legal action against him.

So far Dean has elected not to name and shame this business owner.

Here you can read his first e-mail and after that, his second email to Dean:

Hello Dean,

My name is [edited] and I run [edited].com

I have been running the site for over two years and we have been ranked very highly for the search term [edited].

On Thursday morning I checked our google positions and your site is now above us for this term. I have checked your blog and it has nothing to do with [edited], so I think it would be best all round if you remove your blog from google for this search term.

Please understand that we make our living from this, and you are just writing a blog that has nothing to do with [edited].

If you do not remove yourself from google for this search, then I will call them myself and have you removed.

I expect a reply soon.

Thank you.

Second email:

Dean,

Firstly, I have to admit that I was not impressed with the sarcastic nature of your reply.

Secondly, I am writing to let you know that I have contacted Google and am awaiting their reply.

You have to understand Dean that an online business should be higher in Google than a blog.

Don’t forget that Google is a business as well, they obviously make more money from other businesses than they do from blogs, so it is in their interest that I am higher than you for certain searches.

I have also contacted my lawyer about this issue, so you should expect a letter in the post very soon.

I expect a reply soon.

Sad day for nature

2006-12-18T05:19:00.001-08:00

For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years.

Source: CNN

Jogo das Manias

2006-12-18T05:18:00.001-08:00

Regulamento: "Cada bloguista participante tem de enunciar cinco manias suas, hábitos muito pessoais que os diferenciem do comum dos mortais. E além de dar ao público conhecimento dessas particularidades, tem de escolher cinco outros bloguistas para entrarem, igualmente, no jogo, não se esquecendo de deixar nos respectivos blogues aviso do "recrutamento". Ademais, cada participante deve reproduzir este "regulamento" no seu blog."

Eu estava tentando fugir, mas depois de ser convidada aqui e ali, e acolá... bom, o jeito é contar.

1 - Fazer carinho no cabelo, no MEU cabelo… gosto de fazer carinho na cabeça, no cabelo... ficar enrolando com os dedos...

2 - Dar mamá acessando internet, perder o sono de madrugada e ir pra internet, bem na realidade a mania mesmo é usar internet... eheheh!

3 - Só consigo dormir deitada sobre o meu lado direito.

4 - Associar cenas do dia-a-dia com episódios de Friends.

5 - Falar frases de filmes do nada, imitando a voz da personagem, por exemplo, posso estar num almoço ou conversando com alguém e de repente me lembro de alguma frase de algum filme ou série: “Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe” – Gandalf LOTR; “Luke I’m your Father” – Darth Vader Star Wars; e muitas outras que só me vêm à cabeça na hora... o porque eu nao sei, loucura mesmo...

Essas vão de lambuja...

6 - Beber café e chá todos os dias... se eu nao bebo fica faltando alguma coisa, e o dia fica todo errado...

7 - Se eu estou com papel e caneta/lápis na mão enquanto converso com alguém (por exemplo, em reunioes de empresa) fica o tempo todo rabiscando meu nome e desenhando olhos...

Além das comuns: verificar se a casa está fechada depois de sair, roer unha, sentar na frente do computador com um perna dobrada na cadeira, dormir com o ursinho (é... eu dormi abraçada ao ursinho até os 20 e poucos anos, depois dormia abraçada ao travesseiro, agora tenho que abraçar o marido, se eu estou sozinha na cama nem consigo dormir)...

Ok... chega... já deu pra notar que a minha loucura está um pouquinho acima da média.

Vou convidar: Tais Carloto (http://tcarloto.multiply.com/), Karina Ramos (http://kklawrence.multiply.com/), Ruama Musse (http://rmusse.multiply.com/), Rodnei Reis (http://studioz.multiply.com/) e marido (http://rengolin.multiply.com/)

Complete Mozart Works Now Free - Really?

2006-12-18T05:17:00.001-08:00

Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available for the first time free on the Internet.

Although most classical music is obviously too old to be under copyright, the rights to specific editions of pieces are owned by the publishers.

Now, the International Mozart Foundation has acquired the right to publish the prestigious New Mozart Edition of every Mozart work on the internet. The response has been so overwhelming that the Foundation has been forced to increase their server capacity.

But, what they have put up is hardly "free", read the term you have to accept: "I agree to use this web site only for personal study and not to make copies except for my personal use under "Fair Use" principles of Copyright law as defined in this license agreement." Well, you already could copy the music under those principles before.

This is not how music should be treated 200 years after a composer's death, in particular in the age of the Internet.