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Support, guaranties, licenses and contracts. They not always work

Published on December 16, 2008 in General

The concept of technical support associated with Free and Open source software is not well understood, specially for executives and managers, specially the ones that start to trust and work on this technology and philosophy and expect to develop their business taking advantage from Opensource products. Traditionally the business of close software companies, consist in

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Suits, penguins and other bullshit.

Published on December 9, 2008 in General

During this year we have realized some changes in our systems at work. So we had the opportunity to work with many other company workers, specially EMC, IBM and Oracle. These companies, usually, outsource some services to other ones, in most cases for consulting. Fortunately in my job people can dress casually, no neck ties

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By bicycle: Shinjuku – Nihonbashi – Akihabara – 20Km

Published on December 6, 2008 in Japan

Today I meet a friend at Nihonbashi so I thought to go by bicycle. Then I get lost trying to come back home and I pass through Akihabara as well. It took me only one more hour than the train. The rule is confirmed again, by bicycle there is not so much difference than the

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Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group

Published on December 6, 2008 in Geek, Japan

Too busy this week to update the blog. Last Thursday was the first Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group meeting (Nomikai). It was so fun and a good opportunity to meet interesting people. More pictures of the event at Jim Grisanzio’s blog: Masafumi Ohta eeePC

 
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30 Kilometers by bicycle.

Published on December 1, 2008 in Japan

Last Saturday I tried to go to my job by bicycle. It took 2.5 hours to go, 2 hours to come back. More than 4 hours… Today I tried to do a practical experiment an it only took 1.5 hours! This is the path: From Shinjuku, pass through Yotsuya, leaving behind the Sofia University, arriving

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