Geekish Stuff

Journal of my Google Tech Talk video views, todays talk: Scrum et Al: Talk about implementing Scrum on companies. Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Ken has been a software developer for over thirty years. He is [...]

I had to make a quick spreadsheet to project my current preferences on which job I would prefer to go, balancing preferences and salary pay on each plate. Instead of opening Excel or even OpenOffice/NeoOffice on my Mac, I have decided to give a shot on Google Spreadsheets.First impression, I was amazingly surprised with a slick and [...]

After spending some time installing a not so known Slackintosh 10.2 Linux distribution on my Apple PowerBook 12”, struggling to make all hardware work, I gave up. Slackware is a good distribution on x86 – someone said: who learns Fedora, SuSE, etc., learns how to use these distributions. Who learns Slackware, learns Linux. I believe [...]

After spending some time around to get Oracle 10g working on Debian (unstable repository), finally I did it!I needed a starting guide, since who made Oracle 10g built it only for some privileged distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Aside this problem, disguising my Debian was quite simple. Finally I [...]

This is how everything starts… First things, first. I’m not a native english speaker thus my english might not the be great deal. However I’ll do my best to be understandable for those who might be reading this. All my post’s will focus to my geek side of life and provide some helpfull tips if [...]