Why I love UK? A not so serious Monarchy

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The Queen have started to make a series of Podcast about her Speeches. This service is offered by the British Monarchy Media Center. It’s not so important, but this is a sing of the young of this Monarchy, with a big, rich and important story, but the ability to reorder and resync itself respect the changeing world. Every English person ... read more

Why I love UK? Transports and Related Services

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Take a look here: the Transport of London website. Well organized, rich, usefull. Every information users needs, also with other services like RSS News about “delays”, “tube enhancements”, “contest and festive related informations and suggestions”. Besides, Transport system itself is powerfull, effective and “right”: English people speaks about a “not enought services, so poor transport system”. They are accustomed to ... read more

Why I love UK?

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It’s not easy to explain… and I can’t synthetize my motivations in a couple of words. Hence, I think it’s a good idea to list, in a new series of post, the single facts one bye one. I’m from Italy and the needs of service and a bit of civilization is the main matter for me. I’m trying to change ... read more

Picture of the Day

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Quest’immagine si commenta da sola: è dedicata a tutti quelli che sono stati DAVVERO CATTIVI!!! :D :D :D Un grazie particolare a Sharketto per avermela passata ;) . ... read more

Se non giochi, non fare le regole!

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Questa frase GENIALE quanto OVVIA e SEMPLICE non è mia ma di Luttazzi: che la pronunciò durante uno dei suoi spettacoli. Ed è quella che mi è venuta in mente quando ieri ho sentito e poi oggi ho letto le parole del Papa in quel di San Pietro. Prendo ad esempio l’articolo su Repubblica, ma andrebbe bene uno qualsiasi dei ... read more

Get the most out of ZSH

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Taking a walk for one of my preferred blogs I found an interesting article from IBM DeveloperWorks: “Get the most out of zsh”. I did’t know this shell until now and, reading the article, I was convinced to give it a try. icebook# sudo apt-get install zsh Take a look at it. Is the Bash era over? Looking for direct ... read more

System Rescue CD v0.3.0 released

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Main changes: 0.3.0) 2006-12-20: Updated the kernel to Linux-2.6.18.5 with Reiser4 Added xorg graphical environment with WindowMaker Added gparted-0.3.3 to replace qtparted Added ntfs3g-beta-20061212 (full NTFS Read/Write) Added graphical editors (gvim, leafpad) Added graphical web browsers (firefox-2.0 and dillo) Updated the file-system tools (parted, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, ...) Updated the system (glibc, clamav, ...) Updated the bootdisks I used it a ... read more

Machintosh può farvi più Felici!

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Recita così il finale di questo spot che MelaBlog ha pescato su www.spot80.it. </embed> Personalmente, le immagini potevano anche essere “buone” ma il messaggio, così come viene passato, è davvero scadente e quasi banale. Ma forse il mio palato ormai è assuefatto quasi alla moderna pubblicità, dove i giochi dei “doppi sensi”, del “non detto”, del “sussurrato”, della “seduzione intellettiva”… ... read more

VMWare Fusion Beta Released

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From the official announcement page: VMware Virtualization for Mac Beta Program What is VMware's virtualization product for Mac? The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware's rock-solid ... read more