Digital Media, Internet and Tech stuff

Just to start talking about smartphones and hacks, a friend at Globo.com, sent me a very interesting link about how to install Linux on a Treo 650. What it’s interesting is that it just alters the boot to the SD card and then you install an Linux image there, so your palmOS stuff is all safe and unaltered.

I am going to borrow my wife’s 680 and give it a try

http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/06/30/im-in-ur-treo-linuxin-ur-phonez/

Check it out the video with booting : http://mirror.video.blip.tv/Elleo-LinuxOnATreo650996.ogg (Ogg Theora)

Recently we are experimenting an explosion in sales of branded PCs (like Dell, HP, Toshiba, Positivo, etc) in Brazil, for the first time, the expected PC sales during 2007 is threatening sell as much as TV sets. Industry estimates 11,7 million TVs will be sold, and nearly 11 million PCs. In 2006 some 8,6 million PCs were sold.

“Between 2005 and 2006, 8 million people went from poor to low-middle class. That’s an astonishing amount,” Positivo Chief Executive Helio Rotenberg said in an interview to Reuters. “And the middle class has more money and more credit. This is an explosive formula.” Positivo is the leading Brazilian computer manufacturer and estimates overall PC sales will grow 35.5 percent a year through 2010.

The government program called “Computador para todos” (Computers for all), that offers tax exemptions for low cost computers running GNU/Linux, to be paid in up to 36 months, will have an upgrade on its configurations delivering PCs with LCD monitors, the amount of money is about 600 million BRL (almost 300 million USD). Last year, approximately ~150k computers where sold and now they expect to double it, including cheaper laptops as well.

Phillip Calçado sent me this very cool video with Linus talking about Git at Google. It’s a must have to see video. It’s funny to see him joking on CVS and making fun of Subvertion, too radical but, you know, that’s his character.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8[/youtube]