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Me @ the Selenium Conference 2012

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:56:36 +0000

It’s widely spread opinion that at some point of our career we, software people, should start giving speeches and talks. I’m firmly convinced that THAT is not for me, and I want to carve my ears out of my head every time I hear my heavily-accented-english, mixed with my ability to cut words and make the message come across barely understandable.

But, this presentation was really important to me: I presented my-work-so-far on building a PhantomJS WebDriver. I call it GhostDriver (provisional name).

Dan Pink on Motivation

Sun, 30 May 2010 19:13:51 +0000

This is a really amazing version of the Daniel H. Pink speech about Motivation. It all into it’s second book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”.

And, best of all, it’s all explained on a white board ;)

Books that are my Developer Mantra

Mon, 03 May 2010 21:24:57 +0000

I can’t put it any simpler: buy and read those 2 books ASAP.

Getting Real

Rework

This is proper stuff. This is stuff that translates into words what you, THE DEVELOPER, would like to have in your daily work life.

And probably the reason for which having a pet project, something where you set the rules, helps remaining sane, and sometimes to dream that, one day, you will be on your own.

Job's (a bit) wrong

Sun, 02 May 2010 11:30:14 +0000

This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash.

Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share

[…] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers. […]

Ehm, what about Netscape Gecko? It’s not just Firefox and it’s share of web users, much larger than the one of Safari, but also the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is very much involved in building (W3C) standards like HTML5 et similia. I can see that you used the word “Almost”, but that’s not a good start: Steve, let’s try to be more fair here.

Roald Dahl Plass in 360

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This took some patience. Not to take the pictures themselves, but to bear with a group of trip-mates that were either freezing or bored to wait for me to take this 12 pictures -_-

Roald Dahl Plass

Do you like it? If so, I have a larger (way larger) version.

The Story of Bottled Water

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:09:43 +0000

Show this to as much peoples as possible. It probably something some informed/smart people already know, but I admit that having someone making a video of it, makes it more “rememberable”, so more effective on (my) future behaviour. I’m cheese? I’m controllable through videos? Possibly, but in this case I’m OK with that.

More at: The Story of Stuff.

Why iPhone still ruleZ

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:37:39 +0000

I’m going to make a simple point. And because people that know me think I’m a “unfair-Google-aficionado-that-doesn’t-see-how-evil-Google-is”, I’m going to use Android as victim here.

iPhone ruleZ

Other OS? I’m not even taking into consideration old stuff like Symbian: is just too easy to trash it now-days (Qt is a whole different story though).

Binary Tree Rebuilder

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine you have a Binary Tree, with those characteristics:

* Nodes do not respect any order relation - In other words: it's <strong>not</strong> a [Binary Search Tree](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_tree) of any kind

* Every node appears <em>once and only once</em> within the tree

A nice Binary Tree

Then, your little brother passes by your desk and, to upset you, deletes the tree from your computer memory/HD (yeah, I know, I’m pathetic at inventing hypothetical situations :-P ).

Fortunately though, you previously did a Pre-Order and an In-Order visit of your tree, and stored the result in an 2 nice array.

Can you rebuild the original tree structure out of this 2 array?

How are you going to rebuild it?

Yes, you can! (Sorry, I couldn't resist). And it's quite easy as well. What you have to do, is the following:

Take the first element of the PreOrder Array and use it as root of a new tree
Find the position of this New Node in the InOrder Array, scanning it from 0 to n-1 (n is the number of Nodes)
IF next element in the PreOrder Array is on the left of the New Node in the InOrder array: call RECURSIVELY this procedure, this time taking into account the portion of InOrder array that goes from 0 to the position of the New Node in the InOrder Array -1.
IF next element in the PreOrder Array is on the right of the New Node in the InOrder array: call RECURSIVELY this procedure, this time taking into account the portion of InOrder array that goes from the position of the New Node in the InOrder Array +1 to n-1.
Return the New Node

By the way, this doesn’t work. To fix it we should be more generic, specifying things a little bit better. Things like:

* Every recursive calls takes into account a portion of the InOrder array; in the case of the first call it's the entire array

* There is going to be as much recursive calls as the number of elements in the PreOrder array

Of course, is a tree what we are talking about here: recursion is a MUST.

Serverless chat to reduce office distance

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:37:26 +0000

This idea comes out for an old university-time idea: to write a serverless chat application. Of course, I’m aware of the complications and the problems that using Broadcasting could create, so this problems would be took in consideration by design.

But why now? I was thinking of a way to reduce the “office distances”: making easy to connect with a person who works in your own office. I know, it sounds a bit “creepy” to depend on an application to do that. After all you could just stand up and go to the colleague’s desk. And that’s what I’d normally do: nothing impossible.

iPad Simulator in Video and Comments

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:52:45 +0000

I would have just posted it on Twitter, but I have some comments about this video.

One of the first video of the iPad Simulator

Watch it in Full screen at 720p: it help “feeling” the proportions used by Apple in the UI
It clarify how it does execute iPhone apps: they most probably implement the iPhone API as is: indeed even the Keyboard that you get in an iPhone application is the same (no super large/super cool keyboard of the iPad

"Bidirectionally multiplied" array

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Another small problem before I go to sleep tonight:

There is an array A[N] of N numbers. You have to compose an array Output[N] such that Output[i] will be equal to multiplication of all the elements of A[N] except A[i]. For example Output[0] will be multiplication of A[1] to A[N-1] and Output[1] will be multiplication of A[0] and from A[2] to A[N-1]. Solve it without division operator and in O(n).

Use Backtracking to print all Subsets

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’m “studying” this algorithmic technique: Backtracking. This is an algorithmic approach to problem solution that I trust every good Computer Scientist already uses; but taking a good theo-practical look at it is something better.

A Backtracking Tree

I believe you can find enough informations about it online (the 2 links I provided are more than enough), so I’ll go straight to the problem.

Problem definition

Given an integer n, and the set S = { 1 … n }, calculate (print) all the possible subsets of S. For example, for n = 1, all the possible subsets are { 1 } and { } (empty set). For n = 2, all the possible subsets are: { 1 2 } { 1 } { 2 } { }. In general, for the set made of the first n Integers, the number of possible subsets is 2ⁿ.

Money change problem: Greedy vs. Dyn.Pro.

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This is a classical problem of Computer Science: it’s used to study both Greedy and Dynamic Programming algorithmic techniques.

I hate having my pocket full of copper!!! -_-

Definition

Given:

A set of n Denominations D[0…n-1] in ascending order, representing a Monetary Coin System
An money amount A, as input

calculate a solution:

* <strong><code>S[0...n-1]</code></strong>, with <code>0 &lt;= S[i] &lt;= (A/S[i])</code> and <code>0 &lt; i &lt; n-1</code>

where:

* <strong><code>A = Sum<sub>[i=0 -> n-1]</sub> { D[i] * S[i] }</code></strong>

* <strong><code>Min{ Sum<sub>[i=0 -> n-1]</sub> { S[i] } }</code></strong>

In other words

Find the smallest amount of coins to make the given amount.

Calculate abs(int) without branching

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

For this you need someone to teach it to you: if you made it yourself, then you are a very good Comp-Sci, and you should send your CV to Google ASAP. ;)

Without branching O_o?

Yes, without using any “if ( a < 0 )…”. To do that, you need to refresh how Two’s Complement works, then come back.

What we really need to focus on is that, given a signed int A, the negative of that number is: B = ~A + 1. BUT, we are trying to calculate the Absolute Value, not the negative. So, something like:

Pascal's Triangle generator

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

What’s Pascal’s Triangle? That’s what it is (Wikipedia has all the theory, if you need).

Pascal’s Triangle first 6 rows

The thing I wrote here is a generator of the n-th row of the triangle, that doesn’t use more then the memory needed to store the solution. Instead of allocating a Triangular Matrix, and building every row based on the one above, solution is built in place.

How does it work

The result is generated “filling the row from right to left”. I start initiating the element on the right hand side to ‘1’. Then, I run something like:

String search in O(n + m)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Searching a string inside another string is a very easy task. Given a string A and a string B, start a loop over A from left to right and, for every letter, start an internal loop to see if there is a match with the letters of B.

A ball of string

Pseudo code would look something like this:

function NaiveSearch(string s[1..n], string sub[1..m])
   for i from 1 to n-m+1
      for j from 1 to m
         if s[i+j-1] ≠ sub[j]
            jump to next iteration of outer loop
      return i
   return not found

Time Complexity? O(n * m), where n is the size of A and m is the size of B.

Count bits set in parallel

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This time it’s not something I make myself. Indeed, I still can’t “see” it 100%: I got it, but it’s a bit complex.

A cute little lady counting (bits? ;-) )

It’s a method to count the number of bits in a number in O(1), in just 5 lines of code. INHUMAN.

The “human” solutions

Of course, there are methods that look way more easy and, given that the size of a number in memory is “fixed”, the O(1) still stands. For example: 0. Based on the “evenness/oddness” of the number

unsigned int bits_counter_v0(unsigned int x) {
    unsigned int count = 0;
    while ( x != 0 ) {
        // If odd, add 1
        count += (x % 2 == 0) ? 0 : 1;
        x >>= 1;
    }
    
    return count;
}

1. Counting one bit at a time (always the least significant one)

unsigned int bits_counter_v1(unsigned int x) {
    unsigned int count = 0;
    while ( x != 0 ) {
        // If least-significant bit is 1, add 1
        count += (x & 1) ? 1 : 0;
        x >>= 1;
    }
    
    return count;
}

2. Counting 4 bit at a time with max 8 shifts, using an “hashmap” with precalculated results The fact that it can count the bits in “max 8 shifts” has the trade off of the memory used by the hashmap.

unsigned int bits_counter_v2(unsigned int x) {
    unsigned int count = 0;
    // "Hashmap" of the values for the least significant 4 bits
    unsigned int int_to_bits_count[16] = {
        0, // 0  00
        1, // 1  01
        1, // 2  10
        2, // 3  11
        1, // 4  100
        2, // 5  101
        2, // 6  110
        3, // 7  111
        1, // 8  1000
        2, // 9  1001
        2, // 10 1010
        3, // 11 1011
        2, // 12 1100
        3, // 13 1101
        3, // 14 1110
        4  // 15 1111
    };
    
    while ( x != 0 ) {
        // Add the bits count of the least significant 4 bits
        count += int_to_bits_count[ x & 15 ];
        x >>= 4;
    }
    
    return count;
}

Let’s see what some insane people made.

Largest square array of same integers

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tonight it’s a challenging one. Or, better, a problem of which is really difficult to find a good solution in < O(n³). Indeed, it’s a question that an ex-colleague was asked during an interview with Big-G.

The guy, a part from being a REALLY smart guy, is also very humble, and he doesn’t want to be mentioned by name. So, sorry for girls looking for a young, smart, promising young man: you need to find who he is yourself. ;)

The "Polite" Merge Sort

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Another old-classic problem: the Merge Sort.

Merge Sort Algorithm

The problem of the classical implementation

The whole algorithm is explained in the wikipedia link above, so I’ll focus on the problem here.

The Merge Sort is an in-place-sorting-algorithm that requires some support memory to do it’s calculations. At the “merge step”, an amount of memory as large as the current portion of array being merged is allocated to be used as priority queue (again, the why is easy to find on the web). After this memory is used, normally get’s released.

Fibonacci's numbers calculator

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Another simple-but-yet-interesting problem that I found challenging solving is the to Write a Fibonacci’s numbers calculator. It’s a REALLY SIMPLE problem, but still can demonstrate how superficial thinking in programming can lead to dramatically bad solutions.

What’s a Fibonacci’s number

A Fibonacci’s number is an integer number generated using the following function:

Assumed that: f(0) = 0 f(1) = 1 for a generic “n” Integer: f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2)

For example, the first 20 Fibonacci’s number are: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765

I want it!

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:33:37 +0000

YouTube >> The Go Programming Language

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:13:12 +0000

A video that I need to watch myself (I just managed to watch 25% of it), but I thought was good to post it here: just to remind how good it is to think “out of the box”. Even in Programming Languages.

Presenter: Rob Pike Presented on: 30th Oct 2009

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles. For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:http://golang.org

Find the non repeating char in O(n) time and O(1) space - v2

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

My colleague and friend Luca (@lucabox) described a better solution to the problem of "Finding the first non repearing char in a string in O(n) time and O(1) space". It uses smartly the space, making the solution nicer and slicker. Or we are just 2 geeks that need to give more attention to their girlfriends :P

Luca’s solution description

The logic of this solution is based on the usage of an array of unsigned chars. Every char (assumed to be lowecase) has an associated small byte (1 char = 8 bits), where the bits 0x1 and 0x2 (the 2 least significant) represents, respectively, “present once in the input string” and “present multiple times in the input string”. After the input is “scanned” once, and every letter is marked with the correspondent “presence bit” (once, multiple or none), it get’s scanned a second time to find the first char of the input which has the bit “present once” set to “1”.

AES explains itself

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:26 +0000

This guy, Jeff Moser, is mental! He made a loooong comic strip to make AES explain itself: from a very high level, non technical explanation, deep down to mathematical details.

Worth a read for sure! ;)

Just added support for Tweetable

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:29:49 +0000

What’s Tweetable? It’s a plugin that integrates Twitter into my blog.

QDetroBro: Experimenting with Qt on S60

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:23:44 +0000

The best way to learn a new language or a new framework is to find an idea and implement it. So I’m doing for Qt on S60. So I decided to implement a dummy browser that has some smart/attractive/peculiar/interesting/funny bits. QDetroBro

Because I’m lazy to package and attach code, and because is always good the evolution of a project from the ground-up, I decided to post it on my GitHub account. You can find it at: http://github.com/detronizator/QDetroBro/tree/master.

Git-over-SSH through Socks 5 Proxy on Windows

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:01:52 +0000

Because of my work, I use crappy M$ Windows in my office. And we are behind a bidirectional firewall.

So, how do you do if you need to pull/push code with Git-over-SSH in this scenario? You need a Socks 5 that passes the firewall, and some scripting.

First, you need to install:

Git on Windows - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
Connect.c - http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/goto-san-connect-1.85/src/connect.html

Then, you need a script that connects to the Socks 5 server. Like: [sourcecode lang=‘bash’] #!/bin/sh

Snippet: fix Screen Orientation in a Qt/S60 app

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:58:10 +0000

I follow the Qt/S60 Mailing list, that is turning out to be a very interesting and active ML, and the Qt Labs blog, always full of very good code, written directly by the guys of Qt Software. I thought could be nice to start to post some of the stuff I’m learning.

#include <eikenv.h>
#include <eikappui.h>
#include <aknenv.h>
#include <aknappui.h>
// ...
// lock orientation
CAknAppUi* appUi = static_cast<caknappui *>( CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi() );
if ( appUi ) //< Actually, this will always pass. It's a "static_cast" after all...
{
   appUi->SetOrientationL( CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait );
}
// ...




Today's source is: [Nokia Forum](http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164499).</caknappui></aknappui></aknenv></eikappui></eikenv>

How to understand Berlusconi

Fri, 29 May 2009 07:13:55 +0000

Last episode of the latest “Passate Parola” episode of the great Marco Travaglio.

I wish it was in English: it would simplify a lot the life of who would like to understand the “Berlusconi’s Story”. There are Italian subtitles though: it could be useful for someone that is able to read Italian at lease.

At the Google I/O 2009

Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:35 +0000

Just a quick one. First day of the Google I/O 2009 in San Francisco (CA). Apart from a lot of informative and interesting topics and breakout sessions (I mainly focused on App Engine and Android), I came back at home full of:

Stickers
T-shirt
Google Chrome comic paperback version
A brand new “Google I/O device”, that is a black HTC Magic sim and firmware unlocked for developers + Android Market with Paid Apps support + Amazon Mp3 store +…!!!. How much? For FREE, of course!!!

"Improving the developer experience", Symbian Foundation blog: my comment

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:12:28 +0000

I just wrote a comment to an article I read on the Symbian Foundation blog: "Improving the developer experience", by David Wood.

I think it’s worth replicating it here:

detronizator Says: May 18, 2009 at 9:58 AM @Mark Burton: I had EXACTLY the same experience. It was like jumping back to the “future” of software development and see that IT’S NOT MANDATORY to have to deal with ANCIENT C++ to write software for mobile. More funny: it’s all based on Open Source/Open Standard technologies, like gdb and qemu!!! @wtr1: Did you ever see Android running on the Emulator (because that’s what it is: WINSCW is a SIMULATOR)? And Symbian itself? I did when I was there. A guy started working on Symbian for QEMU, achieving to start th OS in a 10th of the time, if not less. Even faster than ANDROID to boot!!! But at that time people took me as a fool for supporting this guy so strongly… Seriously: WINSCW is “theoretically” faster but so badly written that it’s actually slower. @David Wood: I basically agree with you, but to say that “there isn’t such a Symbian controlled by manufacturers”, it’s what I’ll call “more than just a personal and partial opinion”. The control and the “steering” of THE manufacturer (who said “Nokia?”) was in every step that was taken in Symbian. And that was absolutely “correct”: after all Nokia owned the most of it. Now you are “step by step” trying to change this. But the problems you are dealing today are heritage of a “not so far past”. And, as you said yourself, “it’s not going to change overnight”. A last thought: I’m realizing that the most of those posts are focused on discussing the “technical philosophy”, “political moves”, “current market”, “business model” of Symbian but… are we ever actually going to discuss technical and more interesting stuff? And, bear in mind, this is not a critic to the audience here, neither to the bloggers (who always arise good, important and interesting points): my critic is to make people realize that the problems of this Platform are so “deep in developers soul” and “frustrating for beeing so old complex”, that the main discuss driver is always away from the technical stuff. For example: what about “common mistakes made by C++ developers and how symbian address and solve them” or “how to build a Client-Server architecture in 5 minutes” or “how to optimize performance of a UI-intensive application” or “how to generate JSON files in your web-based S60 app”… and I could say more. Developers, at least of my age, want code, snippets, smart patterns and so on… My 5 cents. PS Please, bear in mind that WINSCW is a “SIMULATOR”, while QEMU is an “EMULATOR”, like the ARM one that Nokia preferred to QEMU… and we are still waiting here! :P PPS At least this is the definition you can find on books from Tanenbaum or Sterling.

Typewriter: an Idea just popped into your mind

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:07:35 +0000

From "Who’s Minding the Store", by Jerry Lewis

From “Decameron - La Macchina da Scrivere”, by Daniele Luttazzi (blog)

“Ciccotti e la Macchina da Scrivere”, by Tommaso Ciccotti

«Mom, I want to do Open Source too...»

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:32:00 +0000

After I received an email, this imaginary story came to my mind:

Kiddo>Mom, my friend G. Android came today at school and said “he is Open Source and it’s cooooool”. Not everyone understood in it and ignored him. Then we all got it, and he became very popular. Can I do it too? Pleeeeeease!!! Mom>Ok S. Symbian, but don’t forget that you need to explain IP, binary compatibility, Active Objects, Descriptors… and you can’t give away all the secrets of your mommy away to those Open Source folks. Kiddo>But moooom, this is not really… Mom>Hey young man! This is my house and I say what you can do and can’t do. You do Open Source, but in my way! Nokia way!

Android Dev Phone 1: Official Updates

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:15:39 +0000

For the once of you that tried “home made ways” to update their ADP1, like my previously published how-to, this news can be interesting.

Google and HTC finally managed to push-out an official page on the HTC site, to explain step-by-step how to update firmware and baseband of the device.

I just did it, having a very pleasant and straightforward experience. The phone seems to be way more stable, bug-free and the battery lasts for more then 50 seconds ;)

New Theme: The Journalist

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:24:57 +0000

Another update for Detronizator.org’s theme. Say hello to “The Journalist”, from Lucian E. Marin.

Great job Lucian! ;-)

Chrome Experiments

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:16:19 +0000

WOW! I mean… WOW! Look at what people are doing using the power of HTML5 + a very fast Javascript Engine!

Those experiments are collected here: Chrome Experiments (note the subtitle: “Not your mother’s JavaScript” - LOL).

Bear in mind: this is not only because of Chrome itself. This is the power of HTML5 Canvas element, plus, of couse, the very (very) fast V8 Javascript engine). And indeed, I ran them on my Safari 4 beta without a glitch: the Javascript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) is pretty good too.

Studenthood Nightmare

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:21:08 +0000

This is another thing it happens to me as well! I don’t really know what does it says: probably that some of the studenthood “duty” left a deep mark on our subconscious, making us imagine realities in which we “didn’t do our job”… and now we pay the consequences.

Or, simply, that some teachers at school should be reported for “mental raping”! :-D LOL

Android Dev Phone 1: to GIT Master and Back

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:15:19 +0000

If you, like me, have a Android Dev Phone 1 (“ADP1” from now on), you are probably wondering how to take the latest version of the Android Source Code, the “GIT Master”, compile and put on your device.

I googled and googled and googled, finding some sparse material. But it’s all messed up: sometimes it was incomplete or partial, sometimes it was a matter of formatting/style, it could get very difficult to read. So, this post is my way of making it organic and organized.

Let’s get it started!

Not Funny!

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:57 +0000

LOL!!!

It happens to me all the time

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:33:01 +0000

How do you end Parenthetical Statement with Emoticons?

To be honest? I can’t work out what’s the right thing to do. But I know that I normally do the send option: even if it looks “ugly” it does follow a logical pattern. The second one is too “messy” for a control freak like me ;-)

How do you normally solve this dilemma?

Google Latitude on iPhone? Background Process?

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:05:37 +0000

Google just introduced a new service, Latitude. I will not go in the details of explaining what it does, simply because the official web page is detailed enough, and has a nice/fancy video.

What is relevant for me is the list of phone with which it will work:

Will it work with my phone? Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile on these phones:

Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1 (coming soon)

iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)

most color BlackBerry devices

most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices

most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones)

many Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, such as Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon) This service is free from Google; carrier charges may apply.

Windows 7 in 6 different sauces

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:59:13 +0000

Images and Videos say more than ever here.

--’ Here it comes again!!! --'

Steve, please say something:

Source: The Apple Lounge

Perpetual Motion: a practical example

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:45:41 +0000

LOL!!! :)

Yet another Theme

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:23:45 +0000

Yes, still experimenting with Themes. This one is “Emplode”, by arcsin.se.

A little bit more classic than the previous one. I like it’s clean and slick style, but with classic and “paper-ish” colors.

Let’s see if it last or I change my mind again.

Guys, don't forget St Valentine's Day

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:42:41 +0000

Ok, it’s a commercial, stupid and useless Day, made because it’s difficult to understand that Men and Women are different and care about different things. But, this video is GREAT!!! ;-)

I told you guys!!!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:36:05 +0000

While my iPhone’s Weather application was showing this

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:38:56 +0000

I hope the Movie is better than the Book.

It’s not a “bad book” in absolute values: it’s bad because it doesn’t follow it’s own logic. If you write the story of a man that, on the side of the age goes from Old to Young, and on the side of the body size goes from Small to Big… don’t screw everything because you need to close the book in a “strange but appealing way”.

Conversion Tables

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:39:12 +0000

LOL

The one in Charge -_-'

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:30 +0000

The man with the funny hat

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:03:27 +0000

That’s what happens when you found your religion on the fact that [en:Pope|a Man] with a funny Hat is ELECTED “The Representation of God and His Willing on Earth”:

Watch CBS Videos Online

Where his humanity is? Why he didn’t just stop, send away the guards and touched the hands of the “so faithful” woman? Is this act REALLY the willing of God on Earth?

Where exactly?

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:40:37 +0000

Yesterday, 25th of December, President of Iran [en:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] broadcasted from Channel 4 a Christmas Speech for people of UK.

Now, I could understand the “surprise” of receiving a “classical” Christmas Speech from a President of an Islamic and Middle Eastern country, while Queen Elisabeth the II was doing the same (Yes! The British Monarchy has an Official Channel on YouTube!). But, reading the full transcription and watching the video I can’t see where exactly Ahmadinejad was “offensive” or expressing his “fanatic anti-semitism”. I mean, we all know what he said during the last years, and how much he would like to send a couple of nuclear bombs on the Israeli army, but there is nothing of that in this message. (By the way, would it be that bad to kick the ass of the IsrAmericans? :-P )

Particular interesting to read is the article from BBC, “Ahmadinejad show ‘causes offence’”, where different perspective and comments are reported, mostly from westerns. And the only thing I can see is that no one actually listened of what he said: westerns just assumed that he wants to kill Jews and Christians; while, actually, what he said is quite shareable and agreeable: changing just a couple of words it would easily be the Speech of the Pope!… Ehm… Mmm… Eee… Sorry, my mistake: the Pope will never send it’s Greetings to Muslims! He will just send some Crusaders! Yes, seriously: it’s actually a Positive and Good-Willing message. He just condemned the bullish and expansionisms of “some” countries, as something that Jesus will stand against, if he was on earth.

I’m not supporting Ahmadinejad here: I’m simply highlighting how much our media (all of them) likes to control our perception of things, sometimes passing down to us just a surrogate (a POISONED SURROGATE) of the news.

From my side, I just congratulate Channel 4 for doing this. Brave, Intelligent, Modern, Really Open-minded. Full video and transcript (both in english) follows.

Involuting Christianity

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:40:11 +0000

Once, in a very weird and dark nightmare, I read this letter from the Pope:

My dear Christians, The World is changing and a wave of new corrupted culture is establishing a new, different, atheist moral. Please, don’t join the World in it’s changing. Bear in mind that homosexuality is a Sin and an Abomination: I’m sure God is furious much more because of you loving your homosexual partner, than of the fact that you all are polluting the planet. So, please, stop bumping each other. Actually, I think would be way better if you were just raping your own sister! Being in this period of the year, bear in mind to destroy the Pagan beliefs of your kids: Santa Claus doesn’t exists. Only Jesus, with it’s collection of miracles, and it’s conception on the 8th of December and birth on the 25th of the same month, it’s real. Like Adam and Eva. Sincerely, your ~~Cultural and Religious Dictator~~ Pope

Granpa Luigi - Sorbillo's Pizza

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:27:33 +0000

Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BEST Pizza I have ever (EVER!) eaten in my whole life!

This Pizzeria, Sorbillo, is a family with a long History of “pizzaioli”. From fathers to sons, they passed down the knowledge, the secrets of how to make the real Napolitan Pizza.

Tonight I went there, completely unaware of where I was heading too: and I discovered the best pizza I have ever tried. This pizzeria also won the Prize of Best Pizza of the World! I don’t know in which year, but most probably they are still the best.

The Android is spreading all around

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:51:28 +0000

I was sure that is was just a matter of time, before we started to see Android spreading all around into every possible flavour of Mobile (only?) piece of hardware.

It started when just the first versions of the SDK were out in the wild: people were “just” recompiling the kernel, and boom! The magic was happening. That was a demonstration of really good and effective layering: just adapting the kernel to the hosting hardware was making it up and running.

Now, with the source code available to everyone, the porting festival is becoming even larger, with small-medium company, as well as university guys, porting Android everywhere.

Finally! I updated my WordPress installation

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:17:37 +0000

Yes, I did it. Finally. It was on my todo-list since last year and I decided, in this moment of confusion and 100 things to do, to update.

Why? Because Wordpress 2.7 was released recently, and I decided that I was “late enough”.

Codename of this release? “Coltrane”! Yes, like [en:John Coltrane] ;-) .

Update: And this update comes from my iPhone! I can finally use the WordPress app.

Friends

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:14:16 +0000

Very True!

Thinking aloud about my Career

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:54:28 +0000

I don’t know exactly how to express what’s happening to me. I mean, to be quick, I’d say that “I’m doing well with my Career”. But that’s not my point here; and I don’t think you really care, do you? Plus, it’d show how little humble I’m: not really helpful social and friend wise. ;-)

Linux on iPhone

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:46:48 +0000

Of course, it was a matter of time: we all knew that. But, still, this video is important: a concrete, publicly understandable proof, that Linux is going on the iPhone.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

Probably it will never have a concrete, commercial application (like running Android, as the guys from where I took the video would like ;) ), but it’s undoubtedly an important proof of the great flexibility and adaptability of Linux and, in general, of the Open Source Software.

The Butterfly Effect

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:41:00 +0000

What just happened will have consequences in the whole World, I’m sure of this. If either for Good or Evil, we still don’t know. We can just hope. But that’s the key:

Now there is Space for Hope again!

In the meantime, I must say, I have Very High Expectations.

While we will be sleeping

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:23:23 +0000

The most powerful Man in the World will be chosen. Our own future will be chosen. And we cannot participate to this: just watch the TV or sleep over it and accept the news, that tomorrow will meet our sleepy mind. Good Luck [Obama](http://www.barackobama.com/index.php)!

BrickBook Unboxing

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:12:46 +0000

[![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/detronizator/SQD0_TWfWZE/AAAAAAAABfQ/HEHlhDkPhoI/s160-c/BrickBookUnboxing.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#)

[BrickBook Unboxing](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#)

Simply, the Best laptop I have met. Ever!

P.S. Yes, I manage to grab one ;-)

WTF?

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:19:33 +0000

Tuesday or Wednesday last week, Appleintroduces one of the Greatest Piece of Art that the world of Technology has ever (EVER!) seen. This:

Yesterday, the less than a week after, at 235 Regent’s Street they were Sold-Out!!! The guys there said that «it was sold-out almost the same day it went on the market!!!».

Nerds and Wonks should drive America(?)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:17:01 +0000

I could start comment this out, but the article itself is interesting enough: I don’t need to add my own juice (and, most important, it doesn’t need it neither).

[…] We owe our well-crafted democratic form of government with its cleverly designed system of checks and balances, to a weird bunch of policy, technology, and scientific wonks and nerds such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton. These guys and their compatriots were the kind of wonks and nerds, who, when presented with a problem and a complex system to analyze and possibly replicate, threw themselves into learning as much about it as possible. Some were best at policy, and others were best at technology, and some, like Jefferson and Franklin were outstanding contributors to both. But today - because some of them did not exactly have winning personalities and others had personal morality issues - few would have little chance of getting elected. Which is a shame because not only did they have the desire, education and life experience to deal with such problems, they also had what Walter Lippmann - a premier political journalist of past decades - called “civic virtue.,” […] The wonks and nerds we need to run for political office and take direct control are out there. Some I see working within government advising the politicials, such as engineering nerd and ecomomics wonk Neel Kashkari, the interim assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury assigned with the responsibilty for managing the financial bailout. Others I meet at the embedded system design, science, and technology meetings I attend and write about. Many of you are satisfied and busy with the work you trained for. Others may have a complete disdain for politics and politicians. But remember our representative democracy was designed as a “goverment OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people.” […]

Nvidia introduces the Tegra

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:31:51 +0000

Nvidia today left me wordless! They are jumping in the mobile, smartphone and netbook market in a very “noisy” way.

The NVIDIA® Tegra™ family of computers-on-a-chip, brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms—from phones, MP3 players, and portable navigation devices (PNDs) to mobile internet devices (MIDs). NVIDIA Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces and advanced multimedia features, all while delivering longer battery life.

What would happen if the Dollar falls down?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:13:40 +0000

I strongly suggest to see this documentary. It will help people understand a lot of things about “how” things actually works in the [en:World Economy], why we trade Money and… why [en:USA] holds in its hands the balls of the World Economy. Or, doesn’t it?

The Day of the Dollar Roel van Broekhoven (Backlight 2005)

The documentary is in [en:Dutch] with English subtitles.

Franz Kafka is an Idiot

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:09:16 +0000

I just read “The Metamorphosis”. And I liked it… until I reached the last page of it. Where I understood that Franz Kafka is an Idiot.

First Edition Cover

I like of course very much the quality and Franz is, out of any doubt, a great novelist… but I totally disagree with the message, the perspective and the conclusion of it.

P.S. I read it with the great Stanza for iPhone.

Ragu', Gnocchi and Meatballs

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:43:45 +0000

[![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/detronizator/SN7OuhiHFvE/AAAAAAAABIs/W51FLbs4tRw/s160-c/RaguGnocchiMeatballsAndMoreMakingOf.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RaguGnocchiMeatballsAndMoreMakingOf#)

[Ragu', Gnocchi, Meatballs and more: Making of...](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RaguGnocchiMeatballsAndMoreMakingOf#)

All fruit of my hard work ;) Enjoy… the pictures, while we enjoyed the food! :P

Housemade Music in Oxford Circus

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:54:18 +0000

Title: Housemade Music in Oxford Circus Abstract: Great, Talented artists, express themselves using just “common stuff”.

I met those guys a week ago at Oxford Circus, while I was with my Bro’. They are really really good!

Browser Adaptive CSS with AppEngine

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:56:04 +0000

As I said, I’m doing some stuff with Google AppEngine. And, of course, I’m facing the usual problem of Browser Incompatibility:

Browser Incompatibility ;-)

=Browser Incompatibilities: the Most Common Problem= The most common problem for Web Site developers is the fact that every browser treats HTML Tags, CSS and Javascript in it’s own way. This Recipe tries to address one of the problem I faced the most: having a slightly different CSS for every Browser. =The Usual Solution= The usual solution is to load every time a different CSS depending on the Browser. But this solution has some side effects:

Jesus and Mo

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:25:28 +0000

I know I’ll now have some problems for posting this, but I can’t deny that it is VERY FUNNY!!! It’s a blog, with daily comic-strips about a very particular “couple”: Jesus and Mohammed.

The blog is entitled: Jesus and Mo. I was unable to find the name of the author (what a surprise), but I really don’t care. Is he American, Saudi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Thai, Chinese or Napolitan? I really don’t care, as long as the strips are smart and funny.

Back from the Google Developer Day 2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:45:32 +0000

That was pretty exciting. A free, big, enlightening event about the “Google Stuff”… Ok, ok. Who spoke with me here knows that it was NOT so enlightening: most of the knowledge they brought from USA is and was already available on the web. But that’s probably not the point. The point is, I believe, to share. Share the culture, the vision and… the APIs.

The Venue: Wembley Stadium!!!

I went there for mainly two topics: Android and AppEngine. About Android, the presenter, Mike Jennings, was very funny (and you will see him as the second presenter in the video below) and a “great character”. But his knowledge of the Platform was pretty basic. I believe he sort of Project Manager or something like that. Plus, in the second part they invited to do a “technical talk about the SDK” a guy, Carl-Gustaf Harroch. He is developing an application that involves a bit of LBS (Location Based Services) and some Google Maps. Ok nice, but he straggled quite soon with our questions about… almost everything of the SDK. And, yes, I was quite bastard with my own questions. Come one: how can you do a talk like that without even knowing “enough” what is the meaning of the Tags within the AndroidManifest.xml? He was even quite young and not very confident, and he was unable to introduce the basic concepts before talking about more complex and in deep stuff. At the end, quite disappointing session, I must say. Probably, I knew more about it :-P .

The USB freebie ;)

About AppEngine, I went to a “CodeLab”: a session where you are supposed to code. And I did, focusing more on my own Python code. They were available for help and questions, either about the application they proposed to build, or about your own. “In chair”, Mano Marks: confident. Probably too confident. But, at the end, he was helpful, even if an answer or two where quite “upsetting” (I mean: if I ask a question about something you don’t know, and I tell you that you are wrong, don’t be arrogant and confident; wait and see my proof!!!).

Now, let’s see the Keynote:

Death Star Canteen

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:20:36 +0000

Deadly Funny!!!

[Original Source: Zein’s Blog]

LHC is working properly

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:24:35 +0000

Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHCis working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind ;) .

4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr

Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes):

LHC Cooldown Status - It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o

Large Hadron Collider goes Rap ;)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:48:56 +0000

Some scientists working on the LHC at the Cern of Geneva had a cool idea to make people aware of “what” they are going to do. On the 10th of September there will be the First Beam (more info on the official website/blog), and I like the way they make sure people understand it’s NOT the end of the World.

My personal answer to them is:

Hey man, this shit is good! ;)

How to waste £200M

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:23:00 +0000

How can I say it without being unpolite with M$? … I simply can’t!

[Original Source: melablog.it]

Google Chrome: Is it the next generation of Browsers?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:28:58 +0000

I don’t have an answer to this, it’s too early (we don’t even have a screenshot of it). But I strongly suggest to take a look a the Google Chrome Comic Book: a very new, fresh, funny and precise (!!!) way to introduce an incoming software.

They discuss a lot of different topics:

* Problems they wanted to solve

* Performance

* Process Isolation

* Javascript VM and Performance

* Sandboxing

* Phishing and Malware

* UI principles

Very interesting. And, again, very innovative.

Ah, the Rendering Engine they chosen is… WebKit (what a surprise!!! ;-) ) and… it’s fully open source.

An early leaked screenshot follows.

Google AppEngine resources

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:31:52 +0000

In the last period I’m spending some time working with Google AppEngine: if you don’t know what is it, be ashamed! :P

I would like to highlight a couple of interesting resources that can make the life of who works with this framework/hosting platform/cloud computing system easier:

* [Google AppEngine Cookbook](http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/) with a lot of good recipe (there are few now, written by the Googlers, but I'm sure it's gona blow up soon)

The App Gallery, with a lot of interesting applications already in production phase

Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:03:43 +0000

Google finally announced the winners of the First Round of the Android Developer Challenges. There are 10 x $275,000 prizes and 10 x $100,000 prizes. $3,750,000 in prizes!!!. Not bad I must say.

There are some pretty cool apps, with a very clean and nice UI: demonstration of the power and flexibility of the Android Graphical Widgets Framework. Take a look at them in the official gallery.

Congratulations to the Winners!!!

The Berserk of Ignorance

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:38:33 +0000

There is this article from the Financial Times that I would like to link here but, because it needs a registration (that I strongly support you to do), I quote it here:

Italian party seeks to block new mosques By Paul Bompard in Rome Published: August 25 2008 02:24 | Last updated: August 25 2008 02:24 Italy’s Northern League, the populist, xenophobic, sometimes separatist movement that is a key component of Silvio Berlusconi’s governing coalition, has proposed new legislation which would effectively halt construction of new Islamic mosques. The bill, which the League’s chief of deputies Roberto Cota is expected to send to parliament next week, would require regional approval for the building of mosques. It would also require that a local referendum be held, that there be no minaret or loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, and sermons must be in Italian, not Arabic. Chances of this being approved as it stands are slim, since it clashes with a number of constitutional rights and there was no immediate support from either Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party or from the ex-fascist National Alliance. But there has been cautious support from the small, ultra-Catholic UDC party, and the proposed anti-mosque legislation undoubtedly reflects widespread feeling among Italians that some defence against a rapidly rising Islamic presence is needed. At present, the Muslim population in Italy is estimated at 1m, with 258 registered mosques. The Northern League, which theoretically favours the secession of northern Italy from the centre and south, won more than 8 per cent of the vote at the April general elections, and has always trumpeted defence of national values of the northern Italian “race” as the natural product of its homeland. Without giving details, Roberto Maroni, the rightwing interior minister from the League, also said in April that “nomads” – as Italians call the Gypsies, although most do little roaming – who were not Italian citizens and did not meet conditions to stay would be deported to their “countries of origin”. The League has capitalised on a wave of xenophobia, of fear of crime committed by foreigners, and of preoccupation with illegal immigrants, which did much to help the Berlusconi alliance win the elections. CopyrightThe Financial Times Limited 2008

Tiger Woods is Jesus, Really!

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:29:04 +0000

LOL! :D

Arsenal vs FC Twente

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:09:04 +0000

[![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/detronizator/SLBBwapgEIE/AAAAAAAABGU/IuN2SX1wzjM/s160-c/ArsenalStadiumAndChampionsLeagueTickets.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/ArsenalStadiumAndChampionsLeagueTickets)

[Arsenal Stadium and Champions League Tickets](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/ArsenalStadiumAndChampionsLeagueTickets)

I know is just Twente and that’s just a Preliminary of Champions League, but is still the Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium ;)

And I’ll go there with Don Fabio: not just anyone!!!

Even the Irish Times...

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:02:17 +0000

… knows what a knob/dickwad is Bondi.

I would like to drive your attention to one particular sentence in the end:

… Mr Bondi has, however, had nothing to say about the artistic merits of the “popular” entertainment that passes for serious broadcasting on the TV channels owned by his political master, Mr Berlusconi.

This is not the first time I see how strong is the position of international news papers and media against the Quality of our TV: how ugly we look like? :(

Dijkstra on Ferragosto

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:27:18 +0000

No, Ferragosto is an Italian Holiday only. Here we are working (quite) hard. But a break is allowed to everyone, isn’t it?

I found this “extract” of Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective, by Edsger W. Dijkstra (Springer-Verlag, 1982. ISBN 0–387–90652–5).

I like angry techs

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:31:03 +0000

I wrote about Hadoop some time ago (for “some reasons”) and I did EXACTLY what Ted Dziubas says here.

But I’m not offended at all: he is 100% right! And I strongly suggest to take a look at this article: in the middle of his swearing there is, actually, some good stuff about “what is going on in the Web2.0 Yet Again Exploding Bubble!!!

Not Dead, Just Busy!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:38:38 +0000

No, I’m not Dead. I’m just “very Busy” guys ;) A lot of things are happening at the same time: as soon as I have more time I’ll speak about it.

I’ll just make a list of things I would like to speak about… if I would have time to do so:

My new Job in France Telecom R&D UK - Orange Labs and my work inside the Source of Webkit (and a bit of Opera)

Viva la Vida

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:45:32 +0000

I love this song. It’s just amazing: I loved it even before I read the Lyrics. And, actually, that’s the incredible things: no one seems to be “sure” about what exactly is the mean. Someone says it’s about Jesus (quite unlikly from my point of view: to see Jesus in there you need to “stretch” the meaning). The other, more accredited belief, is that it’s about Napoleon (the cover of the CD and a lot of what is said in the lyrics is adherent and coherent with this option).

But, as I said, I loved eat even before I read the full lyrics. It made me feel inspired. And made me think about love, life, my past, my present and my next leap. Probably more because of the great music and instruments than by the lyrics itself. Well done Coldplay ;)

… but, wait a minute! On Wikipedia, in the page about this album, there is this section about Chris Martin:

[…] Q magazine asked Chris Martin about the line “I know Saint Peter won’t call my name” sung in “Viva la Vida”. Martin replied: “It’s about… You’re not on the list. I was a naughty boy. It’s always fascinated me that idea of finishing your life and then being analyzed on it. And it’s that runs through most religions. That’s why people blow up buildings. Because they think they’re going to get lots of virgins. I always feel like saying, Just join a band (laughs). That is the most frightening thing you could possibly say to somebody. Eternal damnation. I know about this stuff because I studied it. I was into it all. I know it. It’s still mildly terrifying to me. And this is serious.” […]

So, looks like they are really into some religious message (or sort of it). Probably, just fascinated by the “figure” of Jesus himself.

Anyway, Enjoy! ;-)

Cleaning Apple "Classic" Keyboard

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:58:12 +0000

You know, I’m picky when it’s about woman and technology (and food, but not as much as for the previous). Apple, a while ago now, get rid of the the normal/classical keyboard with big and deep keys (that every proper geek/software engineer loves)…

… to replace it with the crap, ultra slim, no-noisy, no-tasty, no-feedback alluminum+plastic keyboard.

A shame. A real shame.

Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:32:20 +0000

I met one of those superior piece of art/technology/sculpture/car around the Tate Modern (just outside of it): Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S. I couldn’t resist to take some pictures. ;)

[![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/detronizator/SHDKtVuuPyE/AAAAAAAABBQ/um0zy8ZsAVo/s160-c/MaseratiQuattroporteSportGTS.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/MaseratiQuattroporteSportGTS)

[Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/MaseratiQuattroporteSportGTS)

333.33

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:27:14 +0000

It’s not another jigsaw, but you will never imagine how incredibly this number popped out O_o . Free to wonder in the comments! ;)

Politically Incorrect Poetry

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:23:53 +0000

By mistake I missed the first issue of “10 Politically Incorrect Poetry” (a semantic translation of “10 Poesie Incivili”) from Andrea Camilleri (Wiki in Italian).

A masterpiece. Published by MicroMega, the first issue contained 10 poetry, the second 5 (and sounds like there will be others…).

They are all about Berlusconi, Fini, Bossi and the “Gentle-Opposition” of the Italian Democratic Party. The only problem: they are in Italian, sorry! But we talk about a “Master”, so a try it’s worth it.

Title: 10 Politically Incorrect Poetry

Boring in the City

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:28:53 +0000

I watched 3 minutes of Sex and the City (the Movie) and… I want to cut my throat an close myself in jail to avoid to have to suffer so much in life… again.

HOW THE FUCK WOMAN WATCH THIS IMMENSE, BREATH-TAKING, OVERSIZED, HORRIFYING AMOUNT OF CRAP?!?!?!

In 3 minutes there was only few concepts: We, as woman, are:

Stupid
Always looking for the right rich Man to pay for us all the stupid exaggeration we love

Picture of the Day

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:22:37 +0000

Cooliris releases PicLens 1.7

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:26:53 +0000

I have already highlighted in the past this project. Now I’m delighted to report that version 1.7 is out, and… it’s a great one!!!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of PicLens Version 1.7 with three exciting additions:

Shop Amazon– The 3D Wall transformed image search. Now PicLens launches online shopping into the 21st century. Browse and buy seamlessly just like window shopping!

Discover– MSNBC, ESPN, movie trailers…Get the latest news, photos, and video feeds.

Fonejacker

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:20:55 +0000

This was one of the few tv programs I liked when I arrived in UK (of course, just after BBC News ;-) ): some of the accents that the Fonejacker does were (and some still are) quite difficult, but… it’s super funny anyway.

F**k off!!!

Official web site: www.fonejacker.tv.

A new, even bigger City

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:35:28 +0000

After a year and a couple of months I’m going to leave Symbian Software Ltd. (London). It has been a very good experience as my first job in [en:UK]: a way to grow mainly, first as a [en:Man], then as a [en:Software Engineer]… and then professionally in general.

A lot of interesting, inspiring, intelligent people (and a lot of NOT), that showed me “their way”: I took where it was worth it, not where it wasn’t… and left where I was able to.

Nokia should Learn, not Teach

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:06:34 +0000

From Slashdot:

Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM

[superglaze](mailto:superglaze@hotmail.com) writes in to note that according to Nokia's software chief, its plans for open source include getting developers to [accept things like DRM, commercial IP rights, and SIM locks](http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb20080612_288518.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business). > «[[Ari] Jaaksi](http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/) admitted that concepts like these "go against the open-source philosophy," but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. "Why do we need closed vehicles? We do," he said. "Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues, but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies, but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too."»

So, Nokia wants to EAT using the knowledge and the software that the Open Source Community created… and, at the same time, change it’s culture and impose concepts that are COMPLETELY against the Open Source “philosophy” itself. Interesting… Instead of learning of the quality of what the Open Source community is capable of doing using a development model built around “equality and quality”, they want to teach/impose? And to who? To the Trolltech employee? They are free to do so… but this does not mean that the rest of the Community will change its mind. QT? There is KDE that has a foundation to protect it PLUS there is always the Fork option ;-) . Think about XFree86 and X.org: nowdays they lost all the users… because of the stupid decision of changing the license.

Google I/O 2008 - Keynote

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:18:36 +0000

Title: Keynote for Google I/O 2008: Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud. Abstract: Featuring Vic Gundotra, Allen Hurff (MySpace), Steve Horowitz, Kevin Gibbs, Mark Lucovsky, Bruce Johnson, David Glazer, Nat Brown (iLike).

I’m at minute 23 and it looks very very interesting and relevant (for every developer in any field).

So, sit tight, grab a coke/beer/cigarette/juice/whatever-you-like and… listen carefully.

Worse than being unable to Sleep...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:29:11 +0000

… is being woke up at 8:32 on Sunday Morning, after you went to sleep around 02:30.

Wake Up! Now!

And not just woke up “politely”: your flatmate comes back at home and turn on his super-laudly-hard-techno-rock-massive-disruptive music.

I leave at you to imagine the rest.

Ah, by the way: just attached to his room, in the flat next to us, there a very Old-Style-Super-Polite English Couple. -_-

Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:00:57 +0000

Come on guys, Join the Download Day of the BEST Web Browser ever made. ;)

Do I have an (ugly) Alter-Ego?

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:03:27 +0000

Me in Malta? O_o

A couple of frieds of mine, Michele and Imma, went to Malta and found this man…

The Italian Man who went to Malta

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:10:54 +0000

> Title: The Italian Man who went to Malta

A Fox in Boundary Row, London

Sun, 18 May 2008 23:01:29 +0000

I was on my way to the office (yes, on Sunday: I have stuff to do ;) ), when I see something that doesn’t look correct or “in the right place”. A Fox in the middle of Boundary Row!!!

[![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/detronizator/SDCgpPE2BfE/AAAAAAAAA80/DRR4vtnWpwQ/s160-c/AFoxInBoundaryRowO_o.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/AFoxInBoundaryRowO_o)

[A Fox in Boundary Row O_o](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/AFoxInBoundaryRowO_o)

I don’t know, probably was bringing to my desk Firefox 3 RC1 ;) Yes yes, I know: Firefox is not a [en:Fox], but a Red Panda!!!.

Debian on my NSLU2: The Revenge of the Swirl

Sat, 17 May 2008 21:57:58 +0000

After some playing with Unslung on my Linksys NSLU2, I realize it was a “very limited solution” for our needs. We need to share 4 (sometimes 5) NTFS (or others) volumes, where everyone of them is 500GB: this is too much even for the modified firmware of Unslung, unable to read the full directory trees (and the contained files) of my massive movie’s collection.

[![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/detronizator/SC9F6fE2BaE/AAAAAAAAA8I/oz-Ujfnmj9g/s160-c/TheDebianNSLU2SReign.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign)

[The Debian/NSLU2's Reign](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign)

So, I came back to the Debian/NSLU2 solution. This time, with all the intention to make it work. It’s quite pointless to report here all the things I did to make it work in the way I want/need. I’ll just write down the most important bits:

London Open Source Jam - 15th May 2008

Sat, 17 May 2008 13:15:24 +0000

This time the main topic was about “Developer Productivity”. It was one of the most funny I have ever attended: a couple of speaker were just “crazy” (but in a good way)! ;)

If interested in knowing more, here is a transcript of the event: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dm58hwb_5f93zjrcd.

Unslung on my NSLU2

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:32:22 +0000

Motivated by my friend KM here (sorry, Italian link), I decided to buy a Linksys NSLU2, a Micro-[en:NAS] based on [en:Linux]. Linksys (owned by Cisco) released since day one the source code of the tuned Linux Kernel, instantly allowing the Open Source community to hack this device in a million of ways.

My requirements are very simple: I need to share something like 6 external HD using either Samba or FTP+HTTP.

I first tried to use the “out-of-the-box” NSLU2 with the latest firmware, but it’s unable to manage more than 2 disks (on an HUB, it just see the first HDD attached). I then decided to use Debian/NSLU2, a very rich distribution for [en:ARM] that is just amazing. The only problem? It seems too much for an hardware like NSLU2, plus, after a normal apt-get dist-upgrade something related with [en:SELinux] and vsftpd happened and I didn’t managed to put it all back to work. I should have disabled selinux passing the parameter selinux = 0 to the Kernel at boot time but… there is no “easily modifiable” [en:Bootloader] to pass parameters to the kernel at boot time (at least, as far as I know). I suppose that I should modify the kernel, recompile and then re-flash it. Too much for something I want to finish in max 2 days. And the NSLU2 is slow. Very slow. It took something like 12 hours to make the full installation of Debian and flash re-flash the firmware. Besides, for what I need to do, it’s not worth it to do all this.

Training Path #6 - 28 Apr 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:06:53 +0000

2.2 miles ~= 3.54 kms

This time I was running with Luca: we pushed a bit the speed… but we practically died at the end of Blackfriars Bridge: still good, but next time I need to slow down to last more. Wish me good luck. I will run on the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge on July ;)

Training Path #5

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:11:42 +0000

2.05 miles ~= 3.3 kms

Today I took it a bit easy: John was with me and he has a problem with his knee, so we decided to do only 2 miles to start. Very beautiful day: looks like full summer, with a very strong sun smiling to us. We passed through a big festival/party/something in South Bank: a lot of people enjoying ice creams, watching shows and other stuff for kids. I tried to google for it, but I didn’t manage to know what’s going on up there.

Restraining Order

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:04:56 +0000

Training Path #4

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:46:54 +0000

2.79 miles ~= 4.49 kms

Almost to 3 miles. On Monday we will see if I can do that.

Personalize your $PS1

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Fancy $PS1 setting

The code to make the Bash prompt looks like mine is (~/.bashrc):

case $TERM in
	xterm*|rxvt*)
		TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]'
		;;
	*)
		TITLEBAR=""
		;;
esac;

PS1="${TITLEBAR}\n\[\033[0;0m\][\033[0;32m\]time: \
\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\t\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\
[\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]host: \[\033[0m\]\
\[\033[1;31m\]\h\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\
[\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]user: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\u\
\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-[\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]bash: \
\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\v\[\033[0;0m\]]\n\
\[\033[0;0m\][\[\033[0;32m\]cwd: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\w\
\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]# "

Thanks to Bash Prompt HOWTO.

Apache Hadoop on Mac OS X

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:04:06 +0000

For some reasons I started to play with Apache Hadoop (Core):

Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data.

Here’s what makes Hadoop especially useful:

Scalable: Hadoop can reliably store and process petabytes.

Economical: It distributes the data and processing across clusters of commonly available computers. These clusters can number into the thousands of nodes.

Efficient: By distributing the data, Hadoop can process it in parallel on the nodes where the data is located. This makes it extremely rapid.

Reliable: Hadoop automatically maintains multiple copies of data and automatically redeploys computing tasks based on failures. Hadoop implements MapReduce, using theHadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). MapReduce divides applications into many small blocks of work. HDFS creates multiple replicas of data blocks for reliability, placing them on compute nodes around the cluster. MapReduce can then process the data where it is located. Hadoop has been demonstrated on clusters with 2000 nodes. The current design target is 10,000 node clusters.

I followed the Quickstart guide and I can confirm that it works on [en:Mac OS X] too, but I managed only to make it run in “standalone” mode: usefull for first-stage development and debugging.

Lars and the Real Girl

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:28:54 +0000

Yesterday, waiting for Morfeus (the God, not the Blue-Pill-Red-Pill Freak) to catch me and bring me to sleep. I had this movie in my beloved iPhone, “Lars and the Real Girl”.

It’s pure gold. A movie about a guy, Lars (Ryan Gosling), who has a very strange mental disease, that needs a Girlfriend but is unable to catch-and-kiss the classical Next-Door-Girl (Kelli Garner) that loves him… also if she is aware of his sickness.

Video of the Day

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:06:58 +0000

> Title: Bill Gates: the last day at Microsoft.

I know that probably this is OLD, but… this is really funny! I have to say that [en:Bill Gates] surprised me for being so ironic about himself, his money and his power! I still don’t like you Bill, but at least you are better than big-fat-idiot-[en:Steve Ballmer].

How Google works

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:10 +0000

I was looking for info about [en:MapReduce] and I thought that would have been a good idea to take a look at the Tech Talks published by Google. Here we go.

Title: 2007 Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Geographic Data Sets Location: Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 Speaker: Barry Brumitt, Google Inc. Abstract: MapReduce is a programming model and library designed to simplify distributed processing of huge datasets on large clusters of computers. This is achieved by providing a general mechanism which largely relieves the programmer from having to handle challenging distributed computing problems such as data distribution, process coordination, fault tolerance, and scaling. While working on Google maps, I’ve used MapReduce extensively to process and transform datasets which describe the earth’s geography. In this talk, I’ll introduce MapReduce, demonstrating its broad applicability through example problems ranging from basic data transformation to complex graph processing, all the in the context of geographic data.

Innovation lesson from Pixar

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:36:30 +0000

Innovation is one of the major topics that all the Big companies speaks all the time about: how, what, when… Innovation?

When the reality is of a little/medium size company, Innovation is easy: you don’t need to convince, motivate, move people. Teams with “Innovation in mind” just pop out from the ground… and a good manager just need to feed and support them. But when it comes to big companies, with budgets of millions, with Customers that are even bigger… it’s like trying to move an Elephant using one man and a cord. Mission Impossible.

But. There are brave companies. Companies that plays the game smart. And those company lead Innovation. Apple? Yes, please! This article is indirectly about Apple: it’s about Pixar. It’s an interview to the Director of a different great movies in Pixar that brought “Innovation where looked impossible”: Phillip Bradley Bird (aka Brad Bird).

New Logo

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:04:04 +0000

My iPhone is now more “mine” ;) I’ll proudly show you as soon as we meet.

What? Ah, yeah. Thanks to PwnageTool from the GREAT DevTeam! Carry on guys!

PS Yes, I’ll use it also with my Wind SIM ;)

First Official iPhone SDK Interface Builder Tutorial

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:08:51 +0000

I received this letter from Apple this morning:

Log in to the iPhone Dev Center and download the third beta version of the iPhone SDK.

Make sure to take advantage of all the development resources available to you in the iPhone Dev Center, including updated documentation such as the iPhone OS Programming Guide, a new tutorial for creating iPhone applications using Interface Builder, and the latest release notes.

Into the Android

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:21:20 +0000

Last 2/3 months I used a bit of my free time studying Android the so called “Google OS”, that is the result of the Open Handset Alliance.

In this relatively short amount of time I had the possibility to collect information from the official sources, as well as from very interesting and active forums (like this one and this one). I had also the possibility to meet other experts during the Android Code Day event (here a summary what we did there). It was a very good place to ask important business related questions: I should say that the Google Developer Advocate Jason Chen was very keen to answer my tricky questions ;-) .

Spending other words on this here is quite pointless: half of the web speaks about it (while the other half speaks about iPhone ;) ). But I would like to share part of the result of this study:

* A Presentation: "Into the Android" [[PDF](http://downloads.detronizator.org/intotheandroid/Into the Android.pdf) | [HTML+Flash](http://downloads.detronizator.org/intotheandroid/Into the Android.html)]

* Video #1: MWC - Android running on different ARM-based devices [[mp4](http://downloads.detronizator.org/intotheandroid/MWC - Android running on different ARM-based devices.mp4)]

* Video #2: MWC - Android running on E2831 [[mp4](http://downloads.detronizator.org/intotheandroid/MWC - Android running on E2831.mp4)]

* Source code of the Application I developed for study (actually, is just the [Tutorial](http://code.google.com/android/intro/tutorial.html) that comes with the [SDK](http://code.google.com/android/download.html) with much more internal documentation ;) ): [VSNotepad.tar.gz](http://downloads.detronizator.org/intotheandroid/VSNotepad.tar.gz).

The presentation explains different details of the Development process using the code of this application as an example.

The video are also on Youtube and embedded here after the jump.

Morpherage

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:35:19 +0000

> Title: Morpherage

PS This video was done using iMovie in… 20 minutes.

Loop Rebooting iPhone: how to fix it

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:04:41 +0000

I was playing with my Jailbroken iPhone when I decided to install OpenSSH and login. 1 minute after I discovered there is a password I should use to login:

for user root is alpine
~~for user mobile is dottie~~

After I connected to my loved iPhone trough SSH (don’t be impatient: it takes a minute or two for it’s ARM cpu to generate the Keys), I changed straightaway the password for both the above named users (using just passwd).

Getting C++ Threads Right

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:46:33 +0000

Hans Boehm has given a very interesting lecture on “Getting C++ Threads Right” at Google last month. The lecture is available in video format from here

ABSTRACT

The advent of multicore processors has generated profound debate on the merits of writing parallel programs with threads and locks. Nonetheless, for many application domains, this remains the standard paradigm for writing parallel programs, and at the moment, there is no apparent universal replacement. And it is the focus of this talk. Somewhat surprisingly, there are a number of often subtle, but generally fixable, industry-wide problems with current approaches to threads programming. We’ll focus on probably the most widely used environments, consisting of C or C++ with a standard threads library. Problems span the spectrum from system libraries through language implementations through supporting hardware. They get in the way both in that they often make it difficult to write 100% reliable multi-threaded software, and in that they confuse even the basics of the programming model, thus making it hard to teach. A surprising number of “experts” do not understand the basic rules. Arguably, these problems really need to be addressed to even allow a meaningful comparison to other parallel programming approaches. Since solutions to these problems generally require a coordinated industry effort, we helped to persuade the C++ standards committee to address them by pursuing a coherent approach to threads in the next C++ standard. The talk will outline some of the proposed solutions, and give an update on this effort. Speaker: Hans Boehm Hans Boehm is a member of the advanced architecture group at HP Labs. He has worked on many aspects of programming language design and implementation, including garbage collection and concurrency, and he was HP’s representative to the effort to redesign Java’s memory model. He is a past Chair of ACM SIGPLAN, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

The slides for the lecture are available from: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/c++threads.pdf.

Picture of the Day

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:38:44 +0000

Figure 1: Comprehensible, and therefore wrong, software process.

Figure 2: More complicated, and therefore better, software process.

Figure 3: Simplified Software Process (SSP) model. Pretty dumb. Incredibly popular.

We live in a Geek World...

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:04:09 +0000

… or, at least, I do! ;)

One day you are here, the other...

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:07:01 +0000

It’s incredible. She was here around with us, working with us. Managing the career of people. Of Software Engineer like me. English: controlled, polite but sociable and engaged and enthusiast in her job.

Vomiting. Strong Vomiting. Anyone assumed was just a Virus of the Flue a little bit stronger than usual.

My Engineering Manager’s email of yesterday:

What Suzanne thought was the sickness and vomiting bug actually turned out to be a small brain haemorrhage when she went to A&E last Wednesday night. Martin, Suzanne’s husband, called on Thursday to let me know what was happening and indicated at that time that Suzanne would require an operation. On talking to him yesterday it transpired that Suzanne has had a subsequent haemorrhage on Sunday night….

Picture of the Day

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:01:38 +0000

Picture of the Day

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:31:30 +0000

The Holy Bible: The Right Advise ;)

Thanks to Nemo for the link!

Before... and After

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:44:39 +0000

This comes from my friend Nino aka Sensei aka NinoSoft aka Benedetto. First, in Italian:

PRIMA DELLE NOZZE lei: Ciao Bernardo! lui: finalmente! da quanto tempo aspettavo questo momento! lei: vuoi che vada via? lui: NO! Come ti viene in mente? Solo a pensarci, rabbrividisco! lei: Mi ami? lui: Certamente! a tutte le ore del giorno e della notte! lei: Mi hai mai tradito? lui: NO! MAI! perchÈ me lo chiedi? lei: vuoi baciarmi? lui: Si, ogni volta che ne ho l’occasione! lei: Saresti mai capace di picchiarmi? lui: Sei impazzita? Lo sai come sono io! lei: Posso fidarmi di te? lui: Si! lei: Tesoro … 7 anni DOPO LE NOZZE basta leggere il testo dal basso in alto… ;)

Said by...

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:36:21 +0000

… Stavo per partire, dovevo andare da mio cugino a Milano. È strano come con chiunque parli, qualunque sia l’argomento, appena dici che stai per andartene via ricevi auguri, complimenti e giudizi entusiasti: «È così che si fa. Fai benissimo, lo farei anch’io». Non devi aggiungere dettagli, specificare cosa andrai a fare. Qualunque sia il motivo, sarà migliore di quelli che troverai per continuare a vivere in queste zone. …

Said by...

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:27:11 +0000

[About Christmas]… Please take the time to rest when the work is done. Remember, the difference between humans and computers is that our uptime is a function of our downtime.

President and CEO of Sun Microsystems

Prelude du Fornication

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:04:38 +0000

My Hero

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:57:52 +0000

My Hero: Classic Italian Espresso

My Hero is Black, with a Brown hat and Penetrating smell. My Hero is Strong, when I feel that he is around my mind suddenly turn on like a light bulb. My Hero is Italian, because is the only place where his taste is Strong Enough for Me. My Hero helps me everyday: without him no jobs would be easy enough. My Hero is a Man, because the Woman is the Sugar.

Advices of a Jerk

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:46:12 +0000

Title: Advices of a Jerk

I have as much qualities as deficiencies, I would miss virtues. But an Older Brother is not every time right, just Older. And I know how to badger you about everything, it is clear I should stop, but for your unluckiness I have no sons and I have to bring to you Advices of a Jerk. If they say to stand up, sit down and when they sit down, stand up. Do not believe only in what you can see Pursuit you dreams as long as you believe they are true. And, suddenly, everyone will be your friend They will say to love you for what you are but they will want only to have a piece of what you have. But There will be Mom forever. She has younger eyes than us. With here you’ll have precious days, stay with her as much as you can. Don’t care if models or salesgirls, or some girls will make fun of you. Look after them as Princesses, you will be a King. If they say to stand up, sit down and when they sit down, stand up. Do not believe only in what you can see Pursuit you dreams as long as you believe in them. They will insult you yelling, so You laugh. They will close your mough, so You write. If they will hit you and they will impose you prohibitions You mock them and sing their secrets. You have my determination to make every mistake before to learn from them. But sometimes it’s not worthed the price, as when you were playing in the courtyard and was my duty to look after you… or at least try to. You will do as you wish. You will follow your idea. Let’s do a turn around the buoy, also if there is high tide. It’s a vice of our family, like this Advices of a Jerk. If they say to stand up, sit down and when they sit down, stand up. Do not believe only in what you can see Pursuit you dreams as long as you make them true. And then, when the party is over everyone will go away. You will finally realize that what is still their is enough and, yeah, that’s your home. They will insult you yelling, so You laugh. They will close your mough, so You write. If they will hit you and they will impose you prohibitions You mock them and sing their secrets.

HTML 5: I still love the Web

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:56:44 +0000

Who knows me better, knows that I love the [en:WWW|Web]. So, I was seeking for info about the next generation of web.

What I mean with “next generation”? I mean “what we can expect to see in the future”. And the best place, is to go were people (with good skills) go and start to discuss and brainstorm about this stuff.

I found a very interesting pre-RFC: HTML 5 Working Draft. All the amazing and cool stuff are coming are there and is pointless for me to report them (just one: Client-Side Persistency!!! COOOOL!). But it’s interesting to see WHO is working on this. I mean, who is ALREADY thinking about what we will have in the “next World Wide Web”.

What I hate the most?

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:34:25 +0000

Edit 2007-11-23: Is it normal that my guy that sit on my right is cutting is nails? -_-

When a “person” makes a lot of unpleasant noise sipping his/her drink. Almost everytime it happens with hot drinks. When a “person” produce a lot of strange sounds with his/her mouth chewing. When a “person” fart and/or burp in public without begging for pardon. … In general, I hate who is not well-mannered. At least, in public and/or in a place where not everyone is a close friend.

Don't get bored to death or the Queen will sue you!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:52:16 +0000

Sounds impossible? Depends on WHERE you get bored. Please, do do it in the [en:House of Parliament].

[en:LONDON] (AFP) - [en:Queen Elizabeth II]’s speech in the [en:British Parliament] Tuesday may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That would have been against the law.

Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in [en:Britain], according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by a television channel showing a legal drama series. And though the lords were clad in their red and white ermine cloaks and ambassadors from around the world wore colourful national costumes, at least nobody turned up in a suit of armour. Illegal. Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant woman to urinate in a policeman’s hat and murdering bow-and-arrow-carrying Scotsmen within the city walls of York, northern England. A law stating that in [en:Liverpool], only a clerk in a tropical fish store is allowed to be publicly topless, was also ridiculous, said a poll of 3,931 people for UKTV Gold television out Tuesday. Nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17th century and was originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan [en:Oliver Crowmell]. The laws and other regulations were culled from published research into ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent statutes have rendered them obsolete. Respondents were given a shortlist and asked to vote. Most ridiculous British law:

Guinness Domino ads

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:50:49 +0000

After a lot of unmotivated comments (for the quality of the Movie itself) about my post about Domino Harvey, I finally have another Domino to talk about.

This is an ads going on in the UK TV. It’s from Guinness, one of the most strong-tasty (I say “not very much good tasty”), beer that you can find in any pub here. But the advert is very very good ;)

Title: Guinness Tipping Point Domino advert Abstract: New Guinness Advert - only previously available to those who solved the puzzles on the Guinness website!

Giorni Dispari

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:09:39 +0000

> Title: Giorni Dispari (Divenire Tour2007) Author: Ludovico Einaudi

The piano is a “frightening” instrument for me. I have a lot of walls. I have thousands of bricks making these walls. I have my castle that helps me to fight against all the bad things. But the piano is like an earthquake that destroy everything around. And it leaves me alone with my self. A terrible comparison between the exterior me and the interior me. Two sides of the same person, that can’t live together in the same place: at least one must die. Or disappear.

101 days in the Big City

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:58:32 +0000

Taipei 101: The tallest building in the world since 2004

This is my 101 days. Writing a post on the 100 (50 * 2) was just too obvious ;)

A lot of things are changed, and a lot are still changing. My life is stable like an Elephant on the point of a needle.

The Big City has giving a lot to my “maturation process” as Software Engineer, but it’s not just gold because it sparkle, is it? But it worth it. We come out of University thinking “we deserve the best”, but we don’t. At least, we don’t yet. I’m figuring out, every day much more clearly, that University is just a gym, and whatever we did there, it is just not enough for the business world.

Stroustrup: an overview about C++0x

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:00:14 +0000

A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of [en:C++0x]. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO [en:C++] standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I’ll take questions.

Video of the Day

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:37:04 +0000

> Title: Comedy Football Comment: ROTFL!!!

House 04x01

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:49:22 +0000

English: Beautiful!!!

Napoletano: Ruoss!!! Nu capaton allucinant!!!

American: Cooooool!!!

Italiano: La prima puntata della quarta serie dimostra da subito che gli autori hanno ancora diverse frecce al loro arco. E sono pronti a scagliarle al momento più opportuno. In particolare, un paio di elementi sono stati solamente accennati, senza entrare troppo nei dettagli. Questo suggerisce tutta una serie di possibili risvolti, e regala al telespettatore la sensazione di stare assistendo all’inizio di un’altra grande annata per House M.D..

585 consecutive minutes among Heroes

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:23:40 +0000

Update 2007-10-02: I just discovered that [en:NBC] has released, during all the Heroes series, graphic novels that “complete” the Heroes story. More details [en:List_of_Heroes_graphic_novels|here].

Good stuff NBC!!!

WOW. I’m addicted. Another time.

On June 2007 my friend Nemo wrote a post about his new addiction, [en:Heroes_(TV series)|Heroes], a brand new american TV Serial:

Heroes is an American science fiction drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The show tells the story of several people who “thought they were like everyone else… until they realized they have incredible abilities” such as telepathy, time travel, flight and spontaneous regeneration. These people soon realize they have a role in preventing a catastrophe and saving mankind. The series emulates the writing style of American comic books with short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing arc. Kring said “we have talked about where the show goes up to five seasons.” …

English Humor

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:25:10 +0000

There was once a man who had 2 horses, but he couldn’t tell them apart. So he cut the tail off one, but it didn’t work, because it grew again. So he cut the mane off one, but it didn’t work, because it grew again. Then he misured them, and he found that the black hourse was 4cm shorter than the white horse.

-_-

P.S. This “joke” was used (in an interesting teaching way) during my first lesson for the ESOL L1 course in the [en:Southwark College], just started today. P.P.S. I know: it’s a shame to have a course in Saturday, at 9:30, when you are supposed to sleep. But, what can I do?

Stephen Fry has opened a Blog

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:18:17 +0000

From [en:Stephen_Fry|Wikipedia]:

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of [en:Hugh Laurie], he is also the host of the television panel game [en:QI].

I like this man. I discovered him thanks to Laurie, and reading and watching him I discovered that he is great on his own.

Fry and his FryPhone (is not my idea: is him)

Simpsonized Detro

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:14:18 +0000

My friend Manu, after she has Simpsonized her boyfriend and her self, she wasted her time Simpsonizing Me! :)

Here is the result:

Yeah, I have the face of a Serial Killer, haven’t I? Or… just of a “pesc eh nicolò” (sorry, I can’t translate it)!

JigSaw autopsy

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:21:05 +0000

Saw 4 is on is way. And who LOVE this series knows that will be very very… very difficult to make something better than the previous movies. But this clip, with the autopsy of JigSaw, is just PERFECT!!! Everything as usual: unexpected and bleeding.

Probably… a little bit of spoilering… or not? I think not! Take a look and let me know.

By the way, I putted it after “continue…” because the images very horrifying (I’d say “amazing”, but someone will think I’m a Serial Killer ;-) ).

Clive Owen shakes Madonna

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:14:37 +0000

This short movie is not very “about” [en:BMW], but no one will forget it!!!

Title: BMW M5 with Madonna Abstract: BMW M5 commercial with Madonna very funny and sweet ass car.

Source, cine|blog.it.

My iPod Video 30GB on eBay

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:18:53 +0000

Update 2007-09-14: I re-listed it on eBay because they contacted me and said that I’ll receive my money for the 2 auction back. As usual, eBay has a great Customer Care (or, at least, this is my present and past experience about that).

Update 2007-09-12: I sold it twice. Twice was a spoof/fake. :(

A fake account on eBay bought it with the option “Buy Now”. Then he asked to me to send the product in Africa (Nigeria) and asked to me to pay with PayPal. In the beginning I thought it was strange… but with the money, I would sell also in Nicaragua.

Picture of the Day

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:09:35 +0000

Just a bunch of geniuses (that make one of the best things in the world of [en:Information Technology]) ;) . This picture was taken during the last Kernel Summit 2007.

Source, PollyCoke.

Video of the Day

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:51:05 +0000

I posted a lot of time ago a promotional-candid-camera from Shell+Ferrari. The main character was the Great [en:Michael Schumacher].

Today I received an email from:

Steven Field Online Advocacy Edelman Washington, DC

He says he work with Edelman doing online public relationship for [en:Shell_Oil_Company|Shell]. And that Shell has done other candid camera, this time with [en:Felipe Massa].

Enjoy!

> Title: Felipe Massa: Shell Station Video Star Abstract: Shell Formula One driver Felipe Massa surprises some patrons filing up at a Shell station.

HiEuro 0.2

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:43:27 +0000

Here we are. 0.2. 0.2 of nothing but a “divertissment” which help me to learn better and better the Cocoa Framework, and discover all the magic stuff it does.

The release notes is:

0.2 (2007-09-09)

* Support for Italian, Spanish, French and German (Thanks to [Manu](http://secretum.neminis.org/)). > * New "Preferences" panel to set the "Default Currency" to convert from/to and the "Default Currency Ammount" to set at the application startup (Thanks to the [Alhandra's](http://alhandra.wordpress.com/) suggestion). > * Remove a Bug in the "German Mark" definition (I wrote "Deutsche Mark" in the English version :P ) >

One important aspect I learnt is how to bind Preferences to the User Defaults (the Cocoa default preferences system). Pratically, the one that generates, for every app, a file .plist in your ~/Library/Preferences directory. Unix-Style joined with Apple-Style.

Picture of the Day

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:14:44 +0000

Update 10th of Sep 2007: The name of the Restaurant is “Sig. Grilli - Ristorante Pizzeria” in 40 Goodge Street, London W1. I wrote a review about it in Italian ;)

It was parked in Tottenham Court Road. We were just out of an Italian Restaurant (£25.00 each… for a beef steak and House’s Red Wine!!!)… when I saw it:

It’s beautiful, isn’t it? The mythic [en:Volkswagen] [en:VW_Type_2|Type 2 (aka Transporter)]!!!

Another one follow.

HiEuro 0.1

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:37:51 +0000

First release, first problem.

After a lot of research about the standard [en:ISO 4217] (the one that define the “3 letter name” for every currency in the world) and all the symbols of European currencies, I miss one: the [en:Slovenian Tolar].

If someone is able to find it out and, ideally, to give me the relative [en:Unicode_Symbols|Unicode] it will be very appreciated.

Also, I’m looking for someone able to translate the name of the different currencies (13) in, at least, French, German and Spanish. Other languages are welcome too. Manu, this call is to you ;) .

Let's start experimenting new flavours

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:32:44 +0000

I started. What? My “project” of learn how to write (serious) apps for Mac OS X. Using Cocoa. Details on the “official” page: Experiments with Cocoa.

Cocoa Butter…

What’s the first “experiment”? HiEuro!

Google Desktop on (My) Mac

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:38:16 +0000

I tried it from the first release, but I was disappointed because of the “heavyness” of the indexing process: all my apps seems to be like “yawning” at every interaction I did.

But because I like Google (yes, I said! I like it!) I thought “why don’t give to it another chance?”.

I read a post on the Official Google Mac Blog about the latest release (1.1.0.520 (8/31/2007)) and I simply installed it (not a classical Mac OS X installer, but we can forgive this…).

I love Mountain Bikes

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:11:46 +0000

I went inside the store (www.halfords.com) to choose a Town&Trial Bike (also known as Touring Byke): just because I have to go around “a city”.

But when I saw her I forgot about any “stupid-little-tiny-weels-bike” and just loved her at first sight!

Apollo FS.26 SE Mens 20" Full Suspension Mountain Bike

I’ll go to bring her with me on Sunday: we will go around London just for fun. I hope we will stay together forever. And that she will like my weight. And…

Better Samba File Sharing in Leopard

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:19:04 +0000

I know: Samba is Open Source and you can ALREADY do it by hand (on Tiger too) but it’s quite easier if you have a panel to set up it quicker.

Take a look at this:

Here is a complete gallery of screen-shots of the latest build of Leopard: 9A527.

Source, mela|blog.it.

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 - New Features

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:47:21 +0000

Straightaway from OSNews.com:

“This article will briefly discuss the new features found within Gutsy Gibbon and hopefully give you a better idea of what to expect when the final version of Gutsy Gibbons is released in October. Some of the more notable new features are a Graphical Configuration tool for X, improvements in plug-in handling for Mozilla Firefox, revamped printing system with PDF printing by default, fast user switching, new desktop search (Tracker) application and the new AppArmor security framework.”

H.264 conquers Flash

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:08:45 +0000

Adobe has released a beta version of an update for Flash 9. Codename “Moviestar”. It comes with a very important features: support fo [en:H.264].

This update includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9, including:

Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs (new Aug. 21).

Multi-core support for vector rendering.

Full screen mode with hardware scaling.

Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework.

Come on, let’s download it!

iSync and SonyEricsson Symbian/UIQ 3.0 finally speaking

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:53:12 +0000

Thanks God, now I can [en:iSync]!!!

As someone probably remember, I switched from an [en:Nokia E70] to a [en:Sony Ericsson W950i].

In the beginning, it was not possible to synchronize my [en:iBook] with my new smarth-phone because of a “strange” implementation of the [en:SyncML] protocol on Sony Ericsson/UIQ 3.0 phones.

A lot of people has tried to figure out how to do it (Google for it), failing! But now [en:Sony_Ericsson] has finally released the relative plugins:

Chi lo dovesse riconoscere, chiami il 112

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:35:36 +0000

<embed src="swf/player.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="500" height="410" class="class="strPlayer"" name="flashplayerObj" align="middle" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="autostart=false&strip=0&logo=1&repeat=false&image=&file=repubblicatv/file/2007/bambino.flv&videoTitle=Il bimbo abbandonato&fsType=fl" />

In Italiano: Da Repubblica.it:

TORINO - La Procura di Torino hanno autorizzato la diffusione di un filmato con il volto del bambino abbandonato nell’ipermercato Carrefour di Nichelino. Il piccolo sta bene ma è trattenuto all’ospedale di Santa Croce a Moncalieri, ma non parla e non risponde alle domande in nessuna lingua. Chi riconosce il bambino può chiamare iL 112 dei carabinieri o lo stesso ospedale.

The more you Hide, The more I want to See!

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:46:45 +0000

Update 14th August 2007: Look at this!!! The first NATIVE GAME for iPhone! Before that Apple itself release any game for it 8-O !!!

It’s true: [en:iPhone] is based on [en:Mac_OS_X|Mac OSX] and it is quite similar to it. Apple, from the beginning, has chosen to close it, avoiding to release any [en:SDK] or stuff like that.

Theoretically, the only thing a developer can do is to work on a Web 2.0/Ajax web app. That is not so bad, but… not enough. At least, for hackers that “likes to know more and more”.

The Dead Spinal Cord

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:08:44 +0000

> Title: Bella Ciao Singers: Modena City Ramblers

A friend of mine, one that I’d have never expected something like that, has sent to me this email:

I heard this song by mistake and i loved the music if you have time and if it is not ball breaking i want to ask you to translate it for me […]

And then I replied:

You choosen probably the “spinal cord” of the Italy. The FORGOTTEN spinal cord. What has joined us against Fascists + Nazists during the Second World War. The origin is not sure, but it comes from the Partigians, people in the middle-north of Italy that has fightened (and death) for the Freedom against Mussolini and his stupid idea of joining Nazists. Today, in every young knows it… but only very old man REALLY UNDERSTAND what it means. Not because of the words (they are few and simple) but because of the “carried message”, the “payload” of this song. Anyway, you can find a lot of translations here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao Thanks for remembering me the “good part” of my beautiful country.

Bejeweled for Free

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:45:35 +0000

This version of Bejeweled is available for free as Ajax implementation. And it is a good way to waste your work-time ;) . Originally thinked to run on [en:iPhone], it is quite good also on [en:Firefox] (I haven’t tried on [en:Internet_Explorer|IE]).

Enjoy!

… … …

What? Sorry, if you, like me until this morning, don’t know what the hell is this game, here is a piece of the dedicated Wikipedia page:

50 days in the Big City

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:33:33 +0000

When I began this new experience, during the BootCamp, a Teacher/Employee of Symbian, L.Simpson (yep, “Simpson” :-D ) said:

Wellcome to the Big City!!!

He was referring to the amount of code [en:Symbian OS] is made of. But I think it can be applied to everything here. The feeling of being part of something big.

It is Frightful… but Fascinating and Stimulanting too.

Actually, I’m (and I’ll be for a lot) “no one” here… but I see a lot of young guys like me doing important things. And this is the most stimulating thing: I Could!

PySync Google Group

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Guys. I’m part of a very little Gooooogle Group (only 5 members) discussing about an interesting project, PySync.

I’ll not go in details (everything is in the “3” discussions inside the group), but some interesting ideas are “popping-out”.

Share if you have something to.

Google London Open Source Jam

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:13:07 +0000

Edit: Added a linkto the Google Group of the project of Mal about the sync-stuff. It’s name is PySync.

Yesterday I went with a collegue (thank you Serage, particularly for the pictures ;) ) to this event that the Google’s London Office sort twice (or more?) a year. Google London Open Source Jam.

I went for one main reason and other two minors (and… I didn’t know that the most important was another one ;)):

The Topic
- To take a look to the Google Office in London (very very close to Victoria Station)
- Free Food (very nice pizza ;) )

(What’s the “main one” is up to you… :-D ).

The Topic

This time, our topic of interest is Mobile.

Linux on phones

JavaME vs JavaSE vs .NET CF vs Native

Browser technologies: AJAX and Flash

Building native apps that port to multiple architectures

Open platforms (e.g. OpenMoko)

Cross platform testing

Making the most of mobile hardware (camera, voice, bluetooth, GPS, etc)

Phone bling

Quanto fa 100 - 5?

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:04:44 +0000

95kg

;) I know I know… I’m going crazy ;)

The only Eye that I miss

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:31:04 +0000

I hope you’ll better soon my Love. Your Eye is the only [en:London_Eye|Eye] that I miss [en:London|here].

Detro@Last.FM

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:04:18 +0000

I already knew this service… but only now I’m becoming addicted!!! There is nothing better during the working day.

Simply. Smart. Nice. Fast. And… it Work!

You can follow me on Last.FM using the “widget” on the right (look at the sidebar).

Hide-a-Pod

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:48:51 +0000

[en:London] is one of the best place… if you want to steal an iPod: as average, every train in the tube has 10 iPods inside. And other 5 are inside any bus.

But, because of this, the number of pod-snatching is very very high, and you can see in every station (particularly in Camden Town ;)) ads suggesting to “take care of your belongings”, a lot of them dedicated to the [en:iPod|Pod] of [en:Steve_Jobs|Jobs].

But now, there is a solution: and it comes from the smallest (LOL) competitor of iPod: [en:Zune|The MS Zune]!!! It is called Hide-a-Pod!!!

Video of the Day

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:56:09 +0000

Title: United 300 Abstract: 2007 MTV MOVIE AWARD Winner! First ever Best Spoof award, handed out by Samuel L. Jackson himself - Watch as 300 Spartans stand their ground against German Hijackerrs..

Dear KM, this is for you ;-) .

ps From the loading of the page of YouTube to the real moment I found it I spent… less than 5 seconds -_- .

Said by...

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:45:01 +0000

Non prendermi sul serio. Io non scherzo mai! Don’t take me seriously. I never joke!

Me. ;)

Picture of the Day

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:40:55 +0000

This is SPARTAAAAAA!!!

Freakin Brothers

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:44:30 +0000

>>

Title: Freakin Brothers Abstract: LOL!!! :D

Said by...

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:45:40 +0000

Life is made up of sobs, sniffless, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry (also known as William Sydney Porter).

Video of the Day

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:02:49 +0000

> > Title: Star Wars Lightsaber Duel Abstract: One of the best Star Wars fan film vidoes here

Finally, something very very “realistic” about [en:Lightsaber] :D .

Wooden-Made Binary Adding Machine

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:00:04 +0000

>

Some math-and-woodcraft savant has built a binary adding machine made of wood and powered by falling marbles. If I’d had this during my University Boolean Math class, I would have grasped binary (and logic) a lot faster. ;)

The “official website”: Binary marble adding machine.

Source, Reddit.

iPhone Main Features

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:15:58 +0000

Simply LOL!!! :D

Me on Facebook

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:11:16 +0000

No, I have not a Facebook account. It’s just a friend of mine, Vidula, that has putted pictures of us (Lennart, Sebastian, Serage, Vidula and me).

How ugly I’m? :(

Where the Hell is ZFS?

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:53:38 +0000

Ok, the features of Leo are not so “special” and “amazing” and “incredible”, but I suppose that, until October, Applewants to still hide some secrets.

But, WHERE THE HELL IS ZFS???

Video of the Day

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:49:23 +0000

> Title: Unity in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X Abstract: Demonstration of VMware Fusion's upcoming Unity feature which allows users to interact with Windows applications on Mac OS X as if they were Mac applications. Source: [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/06/vmware-fusion-unity/).

S. Jobs is gonna kill J. Schwartz

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:46:35 +0000

The information comes directly form Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO. I ~~hope~~ am sure [en:Steve_Jobs|Steve] will ~~not~~ be angry for this: the WWDCis the next week… and [en:Jonathan_Schwartz|Schwartz] has revealed one of the BIGGEST FEATURES!!!

Anyway, GREAT NEWS! Leopard is gonna be the BEST [en:Operating_System|OS] for Desktops in the World.

Source: TUAW and Mac Rumors.

Edit: Thanks alhandra for the hint about “hungry” and “angry” :P .

Is like give a A Glass of Ice Water in the Hell

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:58:24 +0000

I’m looking these 2 videos about the Chat between [en:Steve_Jobs|S. Jobs] and [en:Bill_Gates|B. Gates] at All Things Digital 2007.

Actually I finished this:

And on my way to see the most interesting one:

Good Luck Grace

Sun, 27 May 2007 23:23:33 +0000

A friend of mine (one of the Best’s ;)) will do the Final Exam… just Tomorrow (28th of May 2007)! I’m now in London and the exam will be in Naples, so… I’ll not be present :( .

But my Soul, my Friendship and my Heart will be there…

Good Luck Grace

P.S.: Ti voglio un Mondo di Bene!!!

Resume/CV updated!

Sun, 27 May 2007 14:53:28 +0000

In English: At my Resume Page you can find an updated version of my CV (New Symbian Employement and ASD Certification).

In Italiano: Alla mia Pagina Resume potete trovare la versione aggiornata del mio CV (Nuovo impiego in Symbian e Certificazione ASD).

Who wants to work in Symbian?

Wed, 23 May 2007 17:30:35 +0000

Guys, it’s time. If someone want to apply, as Graduate or (better) as Professional… it is a pleasure for me to do. Actually I’m thinking about:

Alexa
Faucho
Ugo

Other good candidates, but that I think not interested are:

SbatMan
Biondo
Eligio
Nemo
Ayor
Luke

But, if someone wants to apply, let me know. Go on http://www.symbian.com/about/careers/index.html for more details and vacancies. The Graduate program is the same I did… and can be a good idea for you too.

Champagne, the Name of a strage Wine

Tue, 22 May 2007 23:13:28 +0000

Almost 5 weeks ago a collegues (and now friend) of mine was wondering about the name of “Champagne”:

… Wines from the Champagne region were already known before medieval times. Churches owned vineyards, and monks produced wine for use in the sacrament of Eucharist. French kings were traditionally anointed in Reims. Champagne wine flowed as part of coronation festivities. Kings appreciated the still, light, and crisp wine, and offered it as an homage to other monarchs in Europe. In the 17th century, still wines of Champagne were the chosen wines for celebration in European countries. The English were the biggest consumers of Champagne wines, and drank a lot of sparkling wines. …

Video of the Day

Tue, 15 May 2007 13:40:11 +0000

> Title: Star Wars kid Drunken Jedi

> Title: Star Wars Kid Matrix

Very very Funny!!! ;)

On YouTubeis available the “making-of” also.

Beating Heart disease All Together

Sun, 13 May 2007 22:00:54 +0000

It’s the name of a very funny (and smart) campain of the “British Heart Foundation”, that wants to help any “over 50” (but why not also “under 50” ;-) ) to take “30 Minuts everyday” to do… something good for their hearts.

The [en:British_Heart_Foundation|B.H.F.] has make a lot of funny ads (there are a lot of them everywhere here in London). My favourite? The answer could not be more obvious.

My Room in Acton House

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:46:34 +0000

Here is a SmartSet on Zooomr. Do you like it? ;)

I have GeoTagged them too ;)

A little piece of bits

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:00:20 +0000

I don’t know HOW but… I’m online. Someone, for my luckyness, doesn’t know the meaning of the words like “Security”, “Privacy”, “Protection”, “Encryption”, “Authorization”, “Identification”…

It’s not a post, it’s only to say that “I’m not dead”: I have only little problems.

I’m now a London Citizen (I live at the 253 of Horn Lane, near North Acton Tube Station)
I’m a Graduate of the Symbian BootCamp codename “Donatello”

Ring or Fart?

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:44:56 +0000

Title: TootTone Abstract: Turns the fart into mobilephone ringtones, very useful.

Thanks to Lelly for the suggestion. ROTFL!!! :D :D :D

Detronizator now on WordPress 2.1.3

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:33:53 +0000

Post of April the 3rd, 2007 (today) taken by the WordPress.org official blog:

WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 By Matt. Filed under Security, Releases. We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches. These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release. As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.

DRM-Free Music on iTunes: it's official!

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:37:06 +0000

Every (almost) web site is say the same thing: today is a big day for the freedom (of the music and the customers). The Jobs’s tought is now reality. [en:EMI] (in the person of the CEO, Eric Nicoli) and [en:Steve_Jobs|Jobs], in a live blogging on Engadget, announce that, starting on May 2007, iTunes (and, probably, any other EMI music reseller) will sell music without any DRM.

Details can be found on:

Laurie is also a novel author

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:37:03 +0000

Thanks to tv|blog I have disclosed that [en:Hugh Laurie] is ALSO a novel author. On 1996, Hugh has written [en:The Gun Seller]:

The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie’s first, and to date only, novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MOD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles. Wary of becoming another “celebrity author”, Laurie initially submitted his manuscript pseudonymously, only revealing his identity after it had been accepted for publication and was persuaded by his publicist to publish the book under his real name for the sake of publicity.

What's your side?

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:24:26 +0000

My side? [en:Optimus Prime] (also known as [en:Optimus Primal]), of course!

IRon

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:54:21 +0000

Ok, it’s an horrible game of words (Just say if you understand it). But I have to post these photos! :D

I’m ironing a lot of things (I left only 2 shirt… for tomorrow). It’s the demonstration that “The Man does not need The Woman!” ;)

Iron a Shirt

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:03:06 +0000

I’m going away. And I have to learn “how to iron”. And, as anyone knows, the hardest thing to iron are the Shirts.

So, this is the first experiment: what do you think? ;)

New Zooomr RSS Plugin

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:08:44 +0000

I continue to follow Neminis about the HDR. And also about “the way to publish images”.

I have installed the Zooomr RSS Plugin by Hans. It’s now on your right side.

Hi say hello with a lot of beautifull Ladybirds from the Etna.

Video of the Day

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:10:31 +0000

> > Title: Cubo Rubik con ojos cerrados Abstract: Un chico que monta el cubo de Rubik con los ojos cerrados.

It’s very amazing! And… It would be the same also with the eyes opened!!! O_O

Thanks to MadMonkey for the suggestion.

Help me with the final Baggage

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:39:36 +0000

Hi. Can you help me?

I’m writing down a list of things that I have to bring with me for my “final move” in UK. I need an help: what do you’d put in your baggage for a light-move to another country?

Obviously, you can exclude everything that you’d bring for a normal “travel with return”.

Every help will be appreciated! ;)

HDR experiments...

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:40:33 +0000

Because I can’t resist to try to understand… when my great friend try something ;) .

Here you can see the original version of two images:

London - Regent’s Street - Apple Store (made by me during my second trip at London for the Assesment Day of Symbian)

Gulls (by National Geographics)

And, after the jump, the [en:HDR]ed version.

Speed up Mail.app

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:06:06 +0000

+ + `vacuum`

BRRRRRUUUUUUUUUMMMMM!

Anyone that use Mail.app (the “official” mail client on [en:Mac OS X]) knows that the greater mailboxes become, the slower Mail.app goes. I don’t know how many email I have, but the oldest is from the 2002 (I have cutted older because they became useless).

Today, I found an interesting link on TUAW: A faster way to speed up Mail.app on Hawk Wings.

Starting from that tips, I have expanded it to vacuum every table in the SQLite3 database used from Mail.app to index our emails.

Continue to see the mini-howto.

Fusion Beta 2 available

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:37:20 +0000

Today, after finishing of the URL-game of xmau (I have jumped the 42 because… I don’t know how to make THE QUESTION: I have found the credits casually! ;) ), I have decided to come back to life.

And, on TUAW, I found this: VMWare release the beta 2 of Fusion, the [en:Mac_OS_X|MacOSX] version of VMWare Virtualization System.

The biggest news is the availability of the native 3D-Support of DirectX for virtualized [en:Windows] installations.

Here the Release Notes.

Video of the Day

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:23:43 +0000

Title: 300 - Italian Trailer

I’m waiting for the [en:Sin_City|next big movie] from the Graphic Novel of the [en:Frank_Miller_(comics)|SUPER FRANK MILLER]!

OpenSolaris free Starter Kit

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:42:37 +0000

On http://get.opensolaris.org/ you can book a free OpenSolaris Starter Kit. It’s a good occasion to try the features of this SUPER-[en:Operating_System|OS] and familiarize with it.

It’s free! Inside you’ll find tutorials, documentation, and two DVDs filled with useful software. Get started using OpenSolaris technology — right on your laptop or home PC. This kit will help you learn about the OpenSolaris source code and the community. On the DVDs, you’ll find:

Silk - Seta

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:36:48 +0000

“Wandering” on Cine|blog I have found something special and unexpecteed: the cinematographic transposition of Silk.

Silk is a novel by Italian writer [Alessandro Baricco](en:Alessandro Baricco). It was translated into English in 1997 by Guido Waldman. A new English translation by Ann Goldstein was published in 2006.

Lelly has lent it to me two months ago: I have read it in few ours!!! A beautiful history of love and passion, written without written words: everything is a gesture, an intuition, a reference to something thinkable but not expressible.

World Time Clock

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:29:00 +0000

The description from MoMA Store:

This barrel-shaped desk clock has 12 sides, each with the name of two major cities. Altogether, the 24 cities represent the 24 Global Time Zones. To find the local time in another time zone, simply roll the clock so the city representing that time zone is on top. A great gift for business travelers and globetrotters.

Author of this interesting gadget is Charlotte van der Waals, [en:Dutch] Industrial Designer. And, she seems to be very “clock addicted”, looking at another gallery of products from her: in particular, it seems that she loves to make “world universal clocks”.

How to Make Mac Icons

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:45:51 +0000

Are you curious about “how to make icons for Mac”? I’m. And TUAW have something for someone interested in the same thing.

A few weeks ago, Matthew Cone showed us how Macinstruct’s beautiful icons, courtesy of the talented Gary Gehiere, came to be (http://www.macinstruct.com/node/40). In that article, you were shown the beginning stages of icon design – how the meaning of an idea is distilled down to a few carefully placed pixels. The end result, of course, is seen here - on Macinstruct - in the icons scattered throughout the website.

Symbian Contract's Package/Box

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:48:07 +0000

When I have seen it, the first thing I have thinked was:

WOW! My new [en:MacBook Pro]!!! 8O

Instead, it is the package of my new contract with Symbian as [en:Graduate] [en:Software Engineer]. On Zooomr a complete SmartSet (aka “Dynamic Gallery”)!

What’s next?

My photo on Zooomr

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:17:33 +0000

It is to get a free pro account ;) . Do you want one too?

Pirates doesn't want Vista

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:06:59 +0000

In my opinion, Balmer is yelling because NO-ONE LIKES VISTA, PIRATES TOO!!! :D Instead, everyone is waiting ~~for steal~~ Leopard!!! ;)

Source, Gustomela.

Julian Beever

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:12:35 +0000

In English: Great! Insanelly Great!

Modern Art has new ways and means to express itself with no doubt. Probably, the [en:Computer] it’s the biggest change we has: most of all for the Architecture. But, in the third millennium, people that can leave us without words still exists: people capable to make a Work of Art… from a draw with crayon on a pavement.

Julian Beever is great: it’s useless to define his Art and his inspiration… his fancy… his liking… his faculty of abstraction… To “define” his Art in the right way, the only way is to show you a lot of photos from his gallery.

In Italiano: Grande! Veramente Grande!

L’arte moderna ha indubbiamente nuovi mezzi e modi per esprimersi. Il computer è forse il più grande cambiamento che si è avuto: soprattutto per l’Architettura. Ma nel terzo millennio esistono ancora persone capace di lasciarci senza parole: capaci di rendere un “semplice” disegno fatto con gessetti sul marciapiede… un’Opera d’Arte Grandiosa!!!

Julian Beever è un grande: non serve definire la sua opera ed il suo estro… e la sua fantasia… e il suo talento… e la sua capacità di astrazione… e… Per “definirne” bene l’arte, l’unica strada è mostrarvi qualche foto dalla sua galleria di opere.

Ne volete altre? / Do you want more?

MS: «Was DES cracked? Really?»

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:43:30 +0000

Yeasterday Nemo and I have found a post on OSSBlog about the new release of ophcrack 2.3.4.

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on [en:Windows], [en:Mac OS X] (Intel CPU) as well as on [en:Linux].

In the last release, ophcrack supports [en:Windows Vista|Vista]. Mmmm… sounds strange.

Carbon Copy Cloner meets Intel

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:25:39 +0000

Yeah: today is time for meetings :D !!!

By TUAW a news that anyone (like me? without money?) was waiting for: CCC aka Carbon Copy Cloner is [en:Universal Binary].

This means that now it runs on [en:MacIntel] too. But, what’s new in this beta release?

XCode meets Mono

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:12 +0000

And… seems to be a nice meeting. ;) After a lot of development, the comunity surrounding the project realeases last stable version 1.2.3.1 of Mono.

What about [en:Mac_OS_X|Mac OS X]? Here is a dedicated page on the official wiki of Mono. And, in particular, I’m happy to highlight a tutorial/howto about XCode and Mono integration: CSharpPlugin.

I know that [en:Mono_(software)|Mono] is the open-source implementation of [en:.NET_Framework|.Net] (started by [en:Novell]), and that I hate [en:Microsoft|M$], but… I can’t hate a framework. It’s like to hate the [en:Plutonium] because we make the [en:Atomic_Bomb] with it! ;)

Learn Cocoa: a new howto

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:24:01 +0000

TUAW today highlights this new Tutorial about Cocoa: Learn Cocoa (part II).

Some people on TUAW say that:

… there wasn’t actually any coding involved…

But it was about the first part, that is “introductive”. In this second part seems that things are changing. I haven’t readed yet to give a valutation; but I’ll do… I promise.

Stay tuned.

Picture of the Day

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:07:44 +0000

ROTFL

Source, EntreGeeks.

I'm looking for a Flatmate

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:13:49 +0000

Hi. This post is for any Londoner that is looking for a flatmate or a lodger… and that waste their time on my weblog ;) .

I’m looking for a long-term accomodation in [en:London]: a studio or a flat (also shared with max 3/4 people). I’m looking for something furnished, with 1 or 2 bathroom (for a better sharing), kitcken with all amenities, washer, fridge and so on. Better if renewed.

I’d like to be contacted by email for now, because I’m still in Italy. A view of the Accomodation could be sorted in March: I’ll come for few (3/5) days for a briefing for my new job. It could be a good occasion. My schedule (to be confirmed) is:

* 11th - available in the evening

* 12th - available starting from 5/6 o'clock pm

* 13th - available starting from 5/6 o'clock pm

* 14th - available starting from 5/6 o'clock pm

* 15th - available all day

* 16th - available all day

* 17th - available but under departure

Details on me follows.

Contagiousness of Yawning

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:28:39 +0000

Lelly have rised my curiosity about “why the yawn is so contagious?”. And, obviously, Wikipedia has the answer:

Contagiousness The yawn reflex is often described as contagious: if one person yawns, this will cause another person to “sympathetically” yawn. The proximate cause for contagious yawning may lie with mirror neurons, i.e. neurons in the frontal cortex of certain vertebrates, which upon being exposed to a stimulus from conspecific (same species) and occasionally interspecific organisms, activates the same regions in the brain. Mirror neurons have been proposed as a driving force for imitation which lies at the root of much human learning, e.g. language acquisition. Yawning may be an offshoot of the same imitative impulse. At a distal level (in terms of evolutionary advantage), yawning might be a herd instinct. Other theories suggest that the yawn serves to synchronize mood behavior among gregarious animals, similar to the howling of the wolf pack during a full moon. It signals tiredness to other members of the group in order to synchronize sleeping patterns and periods of activity. It can serve as a warning in displaying large, canine teeth. This phenomenon has been observed among various primates. The threat gesture is a way of maintaining order in the primates’ social structure. The contagion of yawning is interspecific, for example a human yawning in front of a pet dog can incite the dog to yawn as well. Oddly, sometimes sympathetic yawning may be caused by simply looking at a picture of a person or animal yawning, or even seeing the word yawn. …

I'm IN!

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:43:38 +0000

Less than 30 minutes ago I have received THE call from G. A. from Symbian Ltd. Human Resources. I was waiting this call until the last 22nd of January, the day I came back from [en:London] after the Assessment Day of Symbian.

Few details:

* Position: Software Engineer in London Office

* Starting date: 2nd week of April

* Salary: ENOUGH ( ;) ) x Year + 2 retouch during the first 2 years

* Type: Permanent Contract

I’ll go in London for a “briefing” on [en:C++] in the second week of March: I don’t need the briefing so much, I’m not so young with C++… but it’s a very good chance to exercise my english. ;)

FeedBurned!

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:04:44 +0000

Because of the numerous requests ( :P ) I have registered my weblog on FeedBurner. Last comments too.

Subscribe quickly: I have activated a plenty of features of FeedBurner. I didn’t know how rich it is.

Ah: to integrate FeedBurner in my Wordpress more easly, I have used the [WP FeedBurner Plugin from OrderedList.com](FeedBurner Plugin).

My new PGP Public Key

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:47:57 +0000

Not so important: I have updated my PGP Public Key. Please, update it if interested. It’s downloadable from my Bio-page http://www.detronizator.org/bio/.

Dynamic Google Page Rank for Detronizator.org

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:32:08 +0000

Today is a great day ( :P ): I have added Google Page Rank calculation on the sidebar (→) of my weblog. It’s possible thanks to the [en:PHP] class “Google Page Rank Checker” by Emre Odabas, hosted on PHPClasses (the most important source-of-code-and-snippets for PHP Developers).

The class calculates “only” the integer value (between 1 and 10): the graphic representation is by me.

Actual Page Rank? 5!!! O_o

Why I love UK? A Bit of Blair and Fry

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:07:25 +0000

Few days ago I had changed the subtitle of my [en:weblog]

Consider yourself Perfectible makes you Perfect!

It’s not about me… or, better, it’s not ONLY about me. It’s about EVERYTHING. About Countries too. What it means? Follow me…

Today I have listened (and readed) this podcast entitled “PM (Prime Minister) and Stephen Fry reflect on modern Britishness”: it’s the newest podcast from the website of 10, Downing Street. I have discovered it also, after the one about the Queen.

The Google Masterplan

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:27:15 +0000

The video, for first:

The official site of this “project” is: http://masterplanthemovie.com/.

Personally, I think only few of these “considerations” are sharable: they should give the source of assertations like “Google and CIA collaboration” and “Google genetic research”.

But, in terms of quality of the video, IT IS AMAZING: an incomparable level of ideas, post-production and super-graphic!!!

Source, DownloadBlog.

DRM and Jobs

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:36:28 +0000

[en:Steve_Jobs|Jobs] has published a long article about [en:DRM|DRM (Digital Right Management)], [en:FairPlay] and Music: “Thoughts on Music”. It’s the official answer of Apple to the dispute (and lawsuit) borned in [en:Norway] against the DRM system of the [en:Cupertino]’s Company, and that is rising in other countries also.

S. Jobs explains three possible way to face up the problem of DRM and, in particular, the “desire” of customers to buy DRM-free music. Summarizing:

The BEST Apple Ad

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:12:48 +0000

Absolutelly the BEST! No Way!

:D :D :D :D :D

I want one of it... DESPERATELY!

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:17:19 +0000

First, the video from TopGear:

> Title: Top Gear - [The Carver](http://www.carver-worldwide.com/) Abstract: The carver is perhaps the greatest gadget and coolest less then 4 wheel vehical on the planet. Vanderbrink (no way to find out this brand over the Internet) is the brand if you want to look it up. They are available in the US but are classified as a motorcycle which means you need a helmet. and thats just wrong.

It’s INSANELY GREAT! Like a motocycle, but a car. Like a car, but a motocycle. It’s also beauty and tiny (easy to park). I want one of it!

Windows NEEDS Updates!

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:10:02 +0000

If you don’t trust me, stay in alert at least. And, if you are so brave, TRY this at home with a “non -updated” Windows ;)

Source, DownloadBlog.

Windows Vista vs MacOSX Leopard

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:52:37 +0000

It doesn’t need words.

VS.

Source, GadgetBlog.

Virtualization? Why not?

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:44:52 +0000

… because the [en:Microsoft|M$’s] mormons think to squeeze money from consumers also from this. I’m reading on TUAW that:

… This means that if you want to run Vista on Parallels, and want to keep within the terms of the EULA, you’ll need to buy either the Business or Ultimate versions, whose [en:EULA]s allow for virtualized use…

M$ wants to control also the “environment” where Vista runs, not only what runs INSIDE Vista. Does it sound like… [en:Mafia]? Where is our freedom to install the buyed system ANYWHERE WE WANT TO?

Pick a Color, Please!

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:02:05 +0000

Yesterday Apple launched a new set of colors for the iPod Shuffle: Pink, Orange, Green (alien), Azure and, obviously, the classic Silver. In my opinion is the right move to “recharge” the interest for this device (if it would have need ever).

It would be a good idea for Saint Valentine (if you have a so heavy wallet ;) ).

Source, Melablog. A beauty photographic-set for an Orange one is on AppleInsider.

Switch to OpenDNS

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:55:24 +0000

OpenDNS. A Safer, Faster and Smarter DNS network, open to any user: you only need to change your DNS configuration to:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

If you need other info, take a look at the FAQ page.

I experienced a speed improvement in name resolution and the anti-phishing system works great and transparently. It’s a very good initiative.

SpotlightFS: example of MacFUSE usage

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:45:21 +0000

I check the Official Google MacBlog regularly and, yeasterday, I read something interest on it:

SpotlightFS is a MacFUSE file system that creates true smart folders, where the folders’ contents are dynamically generated by querying Spotlight. This differs from Finder’s version of smart folders, which are really plist files with a “.savedSearch” file extension. Since SpotlightFS smart folders are true folders, they can be used from anywhere—including the command line!

SpotlightFS is not very complicated, and it’s a good example of what can quickly and easily be done using MacFUSE. Please check out SpotlightFS and the other cool stuff on the newly updated MacFUSE project site.

Solved! Rubik vs. Detro 0-1

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:40:31 +0000

When I was in [en:London] for the first time, I buyed a [en:Rubik’s Cube] (I have never found it near my home). ~~Yeasterday~~ Yesterday, ~~saying~~ seeing “The Pursuit of HappYness” (a very good work of the italian ~~directory~~ director [en:Gabriele_Muccino|Muccino]… and a GREAT [en:Will_Smith|Will Smith]), the curiosity growed-up: the Rubik Cube was on my desk.

After the movie, I started to look for help and howto for this game: the best I found is by Gaetano Zumbo (thank you very much). It’s in italian, but it contains a lot of example, techniques, tips and 3d animation in [en:Java3D].

Another method for the resolution of this “brain teaser”, take a look at RubikIllusions.

Rubik's Cube solved - 2007-01-30

Continue for the video.

I'd like to buy Vista...

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:30:29 +0000

LOL! Aren’t you confused about the hundreds… thousands kinds, versions, upgrades of [en:Windows_Vista|Vista]? Really [en:Microsoft|M$] thinks that users doesn’t have nothing better to do that read a brochure full of useless and incomprehensible differences?

Source, TUAW.

iPhone Ring Tone

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:38:49 +0000

During the last MacWorld, [en:Steve_Jobs|Jobs] presented the iPhone. I have nothing else to say about (the ENTIRE WORLD have already said enough): I have to share something interest only: the [iPhone Ring Tone](http://downloads.detronizator.org/iPhone Ring.mp3.bz2).

Now, My [en:N70] sounds VERY GOOD! ;)

New theme for Detronizator.org: FreshApple

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:56:19 +0000

After only 2 days of intense work/playing (…) with the [en:Theme (computing)|theme] Fresh by iLEMONed, I completed my new theme, FreshApple.

What do you think about it? ;)

P.S. Besides, I have updated Wordpress to 2.1. Speed improvement and few new features. Nothing else.

Stimulating Brain

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:24:45 +0000

In English… Download blog (where guys have ever nothing to do ;) ) they have ~~founded~~ found* the blog of this dude, Stefanos Karagos, who have done a study about cerebral waves and their “syntony” with external sounds. Founding on this principle, he have composed an experimental audio file: a set of sounds which, based on our elevated frequency (don’t worry, no ultra-sounds!), stimulate our brain like a Cup of Coffè.

Docvert: Convert MsDocs into... anything!

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:03:45 +0000

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to OpenDocument and HTML.

Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 which can then be converted to HTML, RSS, or any XML format. The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted to HTML or any XML. This is done with XML Pipelines, an approach that supports XSLT, breaking up content over headings or sections, and saving those results to multiple files (e.g., chapter1.html, chapter2.html…). The result is returned in a .zip file.

Multi-Touch experiment... grows-up!

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:50:24 +0000

This project (see the video) is insanelly evolving and GROWING! Comments would be useless and never enough…

Source, GadgetBlog.

The video follows.

Ubuntu Studio is coming...

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:41:37 +0000

It’s a new Ubuntu-based distro: it is a “pro-target” Ubuntu, designed for:

* photographers

* printers

* audio editors

… and so on.

Coming this April…

Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Source, OSSBLog.

M. Spencer present AsteriskNOW

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:30:38 +0000

Mark Spencer, developer of many Open Source projects like Gaim and, obviously, Asterisk, and founder of Digium, shows us how much simple is to start a PBX with AsteriskNOW!.

I spoke about AsteriskNOW here, at the time of its presentation.

Source, OSSBlog.

Video of the Day

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:46:18 +0000

> Title: 3D morphable model face animation by Volker Blantz

This demo, if real, shows a new and fantastic system to make 3d model of our faces. With only one photo, the system can extract our face-structure, in a simple and powerfull way. Obviously, applications are infinites.

Source, Gamesblog.

Video of the Day

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:19:30 +0000

>> >

Title: SNL - Steve Jobs iPhone Abstract: Steve Jobs shows the Apple iPhone on SNL Jan 13, 2007 ;)

Why I love UK? Intelligence about Transports

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:21:15 +0000

In England, in Bristol and Leeds Town, an experiment is underway: normal Cars can take the bus and taxi fast lane if it carry one or more passengers. It’s called “car pooling” and it aims to grow-up the ratio people/car.

Probably this experiment will fail because a great number of families are “nuclear”, with one, two or, at maximum, three components. But, at this real moment, the Halls of the two cities speak about a sensible trip-time reduction.

iPhone: Apple reinvents Mobility

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:04:46 +0000

I think its so useless to spend any kind of word. Go to the (very busy) official iPhone presentation page… and wait for June (or October if you are in Europe… or 2008 for the rest of the world).

Gorgeous!!! O_o

Testing DashBlog

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:43:22 +0000

This post is made using DashBlog, a widget for Dashboard (MacOSX)

Asterisk NOW

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:07:15 +0000

A new distro-based version of Asterisk, with the aim of make a smart-setup of an Astrisk PBX Server easy and quick.

Asterisk® in 30 minutes or less. The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk®, can now be easily configured with a graphical interface. AsteriskNOW™ is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk®, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk® system.

Dashcode public beta released

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:42:26 +0000

If you have an ADC (Apple Developer Connection) account and you are interested in Widget’s Development, probably you’ll consider interesting to know that Apple have released the beta of Dashcode.

Personally, I’m not a Dashboard lover. I have disabled it few days after Tiger Installation: it wolf down much too much memory… and, if I need a “small-service-app”, I use an equivalent web-page or normal-app.

Source, Melablog.

New Year, Old Stories

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:47:47 +0000

No, It’s not a post on politics or demagogy: it’s about foolishness!!! HD-DVD, one of the 2 “standards” of the future of Home-Movie (and Digital Video Storage in general), seems to be cracked… already.

An anonymous cracker, called muslix64, have published a post on Doom9 about a very little Java program that is capable of Rip AACS-Encrypted video from an HD-DVD.

More info on a page of Wikipedia dedicated to this program, BackupHDDVD. Source, The Inquier IT.

I'm a Lantern?!?!?!? O_o

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:21:02 +0000

Following the example of my friend Nemo, I have done the “Superhero Test”.

Your results: You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern
95%
Batman
85%
Superman
80%
Iron Man
70%
Hulk
60%
Supergirl
55%
Spider-Man
50%
Robin
42%
Wonder Woman
35%
Catwoman
35%
The Flash
30%
Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination. > ![](http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/pics/lantern2.jpg)
[Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test](http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/)

Wikipedia has an answer for anything, as usual! ;)

VMWARE 6.0 Beta Released

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:19:24 +0000

The most known Virtualization System is under heavy development, and many interesting features will be in the final version. The most interesting? Integration with the Eclipse IDE.

I have only a doubt: what about Fusion? Will be a different project or it’s only the beta name for VMWARE for MacOSX? Will they be merged?

Release Notes on

Picture of the Day

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:58:17 +0000

Title: Dodge Viper SRT-10 Abstract: The new version of my favourite car in the world (yes, I prefer it more than any Ferrari), will be updated with 600 HP (horse power) and a Torque Power of 760Nm. A MONSTER!!! :D

On continue, other beautiful images.

Why I love UK? A not so serious Monarchy

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:14:44 +0000

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 does not see the Queen as a Power, but as a Symbol. A Symbol of the History, the Tradition, the Importance.

Why I love UK? Transports and Related Services

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:57:13 +0000

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 something richer than me. And than every “Napoletane” people.

Why I love UK?

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:47:32 +0000

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 my life. I’m trying to come to live in the oldest “Monarchy” in the world.

Get the most out of ZSH

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:29:25 +0000

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 links? Official homepage of the ZSH. An interesting mirror on SunSite.

System Rescue CD v0.3.0 released

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:34:23 +0000

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 couple of times to fix my linux-box and, in general, my pc. It’s the swift knife of every good admin. The only “fault” of it? The project is growing only on x86: PPC is sucking.

VMWare Fusion Beta Released

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:12:24 +0000

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 and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today. With Fusion, you can run traditional PC applications on your Mac: if you need to run PC applications, you can now do so by leveraging the power of virtual machine technology.

I still haven’t a MacIntel ( :( ) but I’m so happy about it: I saw Parallels Desktop in action and… I was not really enthusiast about it. I know VMWare and its quality level: the bigger and the stronger player in the battle for virtuallization it’s on its way.

Other details about Fusion (I suspect it will not be the final name of this product ;) ), on

Month of Apple Bugs: another Fake?

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:03:41 +0000

My friend V.V. (thank you, dear V.) sent to me this link: Coming in January: “Month of Apple Bugs”. This “article” speaks about an “hypothetical” developer, called “LMH”, who will start, in January 2007, an entire month dedicated to “searching for MacOSX bugs”.

Mmmm…. Ok, I love MacOSX, and I love every Unix System too (Linux Rulez!!! ;) ) but… I think that: this “announcement of power” has only 2 possible whys:

Video of the Day

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:58:31 +0000

> Title: NYT: Did Microsoft rip-off Apple Mac OS X in Windows Vista? Abstract: Vista and Mac OSX are NOT the same thing at all!!! ;)

Video of the Day

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:44:03 +0000

> Title: Live Free or DIE HARD (aka DIE HARD 4) Characters: Bruce Willis and Justin Long (the "mac guy" of the Apple "get a mac" advertisements)

Video of the Day

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:27:56 +0000

Title: The Simpsons Movie - Trailer number 2 Abstract: Any other words… are useless!!! :D :D :D

My iceBook and I

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:05:15 +0000

My iceBook and I

A PicasaWeb test…

Video of the Day

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:29:18 +0000

> Title: 300 - The Trailer Abstract: Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" concerns the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy. > Directed by: Zack Snyder Other info: [IMDb](http://imdb.com/title/tt0416449/)

Leopard Technology Series for Developers

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:47:10 +0000

Today Apple release a new “Technology Series” about Leopard. And I think to show you it… on my blog.

The list of articles:

Leopard Technology Overview

  		* [Leopard Developer Tools Overview](http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/tools.html)

  		* [Leopard Developer Application Technology Overview](http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/apptech.html)

[ebay+sell] MS Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:44:09 +0000

Are you interested in it?

Video of the Day

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:35:57 +0000

> Title: Firefox Ad Abstract: The nicest Firefox Advertisement ;)

PowerUp your Apache .htaccess

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:17:13 +0000

Here is a collection of “code snippets” about the .htaccess file of Apache. Take a look: it’s full of usefull things.

It remembers to me about a very little howto (in italian) that help to make multiple web-sites on the same machine… without virtual-hosts: a very little and poor self-production.

PostgreSQL 8.2 released

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:07:23 +0000

The BEST Open-Souce RDBMS (not only for me), becomes better than itself.

5 December 2006, Washington DC (LISA Conference): The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announces the release of version 8.2 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system. This 14th public release adds features, maturity, and performance requested by business users, delivering manageability comparable to leading enterprise database systems. Version 8.2 is expected to drive even more migrations toward PostgreSQL.

Video of the Day

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:49:42 +0000

> Title: SpaceNavigator Demo on Google Earth Abstract: Created by 3dConnexion (Logitech), SpaceNavigator, is a mouse that allow to navigate on 3d axis from the most common applications (like GEarth). The most important news? It cost ONLY 59,00$!!!

New Page on Detronizator.org

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:59:33 +0000

English: Today I have added a new page to my site: Publications and Self-Productions. In this page I’ll list my (few) publications and every self-producted documents/papers/articles/pdfs.

Take a look, if interested ;) .

Italiano: Oggi ho aggiunto una nuova pagina al mio sito: Publications and Self-Productions. In questa pagina listerò le mie (poche) pubblicationi e ogni documento/articolo/pdf auto-prodotto.

Dategli un’occhiata, se siete interessati. ;) .

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for the Mac

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:33:50 +0000

On 16 Nov 2006 Google release the new version of GWT (Google Web Toolkit). As experts probably know, until this release GWT was not “develop-able” on MacOSX. But the music is changing…

Edit Nov 22 2006: On the Official GWT Blog:

After a couple weeks of fixing all the issues our developer community has so diligently reported in the issue tracker, we are happy to announce the official release of Google Web Toolkit 1.2 today.

Video of the Day

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:06:49 +0000

> Title: Microsoft, Wake Up and Smell Defeat! Abstract: Craig bemoans the fate of the newly released "iPod killer".

Zune, launched on the market few days ago, is getting only bad reviews and comments, and it’s the target of every show-man in the USA. I’m not surprised about this: Zune have NO APPEAL!!! Look at EVERY iPod: the Apple’s product is so… sexy ;) About the Zune features? Oh sure, they are amazing: but do you really think this is a very good motivation to prefer it instead of iPod? With the new “iPod Touchscreen” under-development?

Video of the Day

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:44:45 +0000

Title: LCA Linus Torvalds dunking Abstract: The dunking of Linus Torvalds and other well known Linux personalities raised just over $6000 for Cystic Fibrosis SA (CFSA).

Video of the Day/2

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:52:50 +0000

> Title: Scary Mary Comment: The power of Post-Production! ;)

Video of the Day

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:05:59 +0000

Nice thigs today:

Title: What will Schumi do Next? Abstract: It’s a very funny series of videos on YouTube with Michael Schumacher as actor of various Candid Cameras.

The first on

Video of the Day

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:56:37 +0000

Title: OilChange Abstract: Genius! He’s a Genius really!!!

Resume/CV updated!

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:53:02 +0000

At my Resume Page you can find an updated version of my CV (Graduation ;) ).

Alla mia pagina Resume potete trovare la versione aggiornata del mio CV (Laurea ;) ).

JPound has a new dedicated page

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:06:38 +0000

Here.

It contain some usefull information about it, resources, links, libraries and… my Graduation Thesis and Keynote.

Take a look, if you are interested ;)

It's OVER!

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:41:47 +0000

It’s Over, It’s Over! My graduation is here. Final “Score”:

My Clound

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:14:06 +0000

MacOSX: "Well Known" TCP and UDP Ports

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:07:51 +0000

This document lists TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products, such as Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, AppleShare IP, Network Assistant, Apple Remote Desktop, Macintosh Manager, and .Mac. Many of these are referred to as “well known,” industry standard ports….

Here. Source, Tevac.

Apple HIG: Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:31:19 +0000

Chapter: Apple Human Interface Guidelines Section: Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference Extract: As you implement keyboard shortcuts in your application, use this table to find:

Which key sequences are reserved by Mac OS X. Users rely on these shortcuts to perform the specified actions no matter which application is currently running (these include shortcuts reserved for accessibility purposes). Do not override these shortcuts.

Which key sequences are recommended for common application tasks. Users expect these shortcuts to mean the same thing from application to application. Provide these shortcuts if your application performs the associated tasks. You should avoid using these shortcuts for other purposes. Link: click here.

Picture of the Day

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:05:39 +0000

Author: Worth1000

Source, Cineblog.

The Alphabet Evolution

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:34:24 +0000

Nemo found this cool stuff:

The Alphabet Evolution through the centuries.

Havok 4 Presentation

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:32:15 +0000

8O : No words to explain the power of this Physical Engine.

Here, other stuff.

Source, Gamesblog.

Picture of the Day

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:35:31 +0000

Audi R8 at Paris

Source, Autoblog.

Log4E

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:51:13 +0000

Log4E is an Eclipse Plugin which helps you to set up your logger easily in Java Projects. It assists you in several tasks: logger declaration, logger Insertions at certain method entries, substitution of System out’s, modification of already existing logger statements. Log4E has active support for Log4j, Commons Logging and JDK 1.4 Logging. By defining your own templates you might be able to adapt your own logger to the Plugin.

A very usefull plugin for every Eclipse Java Developer, that knows the importance of Logging… expecially in huge projects.

Picture of the Day

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Today, 2 pictures:

Thing: The Glory Hole Abstract:The Glory hole is a non- regulated spillway, which is located about 200 feet behind the dam. The outside diameter of the Glory hole is 72 feet. The hole in the center tapers down to no less than 28 feet. The distance from the crest (top edge), to the exit point which is situated in the south side of the canyon, is about 700 feet. The crest of the Glory hole, sits 16 feet lower than the crest of the dam. When and if the water level of the lake rises to 15 1/2 feet over the top of the Glory hole (its maximum design), it will release 48,400 cubic feet per second, or in layman’s terms, 362,000 gallons every 1 second !

Intelligence + Beauty = Art!

A video (low quality) is on

Resume/CV updated!

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:36:01 +0000

Finally I catch much time to rewrite my Resume.

It’s Europass CV Compliant, but written with Latex and the Document Class “europecv” by Nicola Vitacolonna, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Udine, Italy.

If interested, take a look.

Video of the Day

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:20:54 +0000

> > Title: BOOM! Author: [All About Steve](http://romain-moisescot.com/steve/)

Picture(s) of the Day

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:04:46 +0000

Title: Mathematic Sender: Tato aka Faucho

ps. Finally, I have a second to publish these “meaningfull” pictures.

Video of the Day

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:20:19 +0000

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Title: Gran Turismo HD at TGS (Tokyo Game Show) ‘06 Comment 01: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW 8O Comment 02: Ferrari, FINALLY!!!

I’m also proud to highlight “the YouTube of Video Game”: GameKlip. In particular, the category dedicated to the Tokyo Game Show 2006.

Edited at 2006-09-25T09:06:53+00:00: The embeded player of GameKlip have a very big problem: it starts to play on page load… does not wait for the play button press. I moved it on

Picture of the Day

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:10:40 +0000

It’s only an example of what mind + algorithms can do. Abstract: Exploration of Generative Art, Mathematics, Algorithmic Design and the Beauty of life Artist: Mandalabrot.net

Source, Designblog.

Video of the Day

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:18 +0000

> > Title:Experts Easily Reverse Diebold Results & No One Would Know Author: Princeton University Abstract: This video highlight how mush simple is to tief vote with new USA Election Voting Machine: the Princeton University give a complete demonstration of the process and, if you want, a technical paper was published, with the malicious tief-votes code

Official information page at Princeton, here. Source, Ziobudda. Italian news reporter, Doxaliber.

Cool things you can do on Mac

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:20:57 +0000

I suggest to take a look at SilverMac: Tips&Tricks for your MacOSX ;) .

An example?

Video of the Day

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:42:03 +0000

Title: Bohemian Rapsody

Artists: Queen Comment: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes Look up to the skies and see…..

my beloved Freddie Mercury performing at Earl’s court with Queen song BH, at the year 1977. it is my favorite show- from my favorite band Long live Queen…

Queen, Freddy Mercury’s tribute, feat. Elton John and Axl Roses on

My InternetHome.

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:03:58 +0000

Simply click here

I can pay to build my Internet Home on InternetMap for it but… I do not want ;)

I need only 150 clicks.

KDE4 su Mac OS X

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:49:10 +0000

It can be REAL! After the sufficient, but instable, KDE3 compiled on Mac OSX, seems that KDE4’s developers are working to run it on Mac OS X.

This is possible because Trolltech have released many months ago QT4 for Mac OS X: a very powerfull, smart and fast C++ Framework… integrated with Aqua.

The Terrific positiveness of Apple technician

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:37:31 +0000

An humoristic interpretation of the way this technicians interact with customers.

What would happen if the irrepressibly positive Apple repair technician I talked to this week about my broken iPod were to get a new job at a suicide hotline…

It’s very horrible when anyone wants to turn our suffering… a “smileable” thing.

Source, TUAW.

Installing a Bind9 Master/Slave DNS System

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:57:38 +0000

Welcome In this howto we will install 2 bind dns servers, one as the master and the other as a slave server. For security reasons we will chroot bind9 in its own jail. Using two servers for a domain is a commonly used setup and in order to host your own domain you are required to have at least 2 domain servers. If one breaks, the other can continue to serve your domain. Our setup will use Debian Sarge 3.1 (stable) for its base. A simple clean and up2date install will be enough since we will install the required packages with this howto. In this howto I will use the fictional domain “linux.lan”. The nameservers will use 192.168.254.1 and 192.168.254.2 as there ip.

AuthImage: F**K Spammer in your WP Comments

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:49:58 +0000

Here, the plugin homepage.

It seems to work correctly. I hope the spam-tornado that HIT every day my blog will goes down.

Bye bye Pluto

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This post is about the planet, not the cartoon’s character ;) .

From Science&Space on CNN.com:

Pluto no longer a planet, say astronomers. Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (not the eneby of BigG. :P ) stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. …

Video of the Day

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:50:02 +0000

KLOSS does not sell many things, but stomachs need to be filled, and the price of erasers keeps rising. After over two years in development, ‘DeLighTable’ is finally avaliable to buy as a commercial product. The real work obviously lies in the pressure sensitive surface, but now it also comes in an attractive casing. With a framework finished in polished stainless steel, DeLighTable has taken the guise of a slim coffe table only twenty five millimetres thick. To purchase, simply fill in a form through the ‘contact us’ section. The tables are made to order, and the typical lead time is four to six weeks.

JPound 1.0 - First Official Release

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:17:39 +0000

This is the first official release of a new project, JPound:

JPound is a Control and Configuration System for Asterisk PBX Based on the ARA (Asterisk Realtime Architecture) and builded with DB-Centric-Systems in mind, JPound is a young but powerful (I hope ;)) idea to make Asterisk a complete, manageable, extensible, flexible Phone System. Actually, JPound version is 1.0 stable. The main structure is good defined and it seems to be solid but extensible. I have many idea about future services and expansions: it’s a ’testing-the-field’ release. …

Detronizator.org does Wordpress 2.0.4

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:17:47 +0000

Because of the diffused inactivity on the servers of my hoster (Top Host) I catch’up the time to upgrade (finally) ot Wordpress 2.0.4.

Here the official release message:

WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board. Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your old files with the latest from the download. If you’d like more thorough instructions, the Codex is always the best spot. Since this is a security release, if you have any friends with blogs make sure to remind them to upgrade and lend a hand if they’re not too savvy. We’re all in this together. Thanks to Geoff and Mark Jaquith for identifying.

Video of the Day

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:26:06 +0000

A GTA “refactoring”, by Coca Cola.

Fun With UNIX Commands

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:37:20 +0000

Actual UNIX commands and responses…

% make love Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop. % got a light? No match. % sleep with me bad character % man: Why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % rm God rm: God nonexistent % make ‘heads or tails of all this’ Make: Don’t know how to make heads or tails of all this. Stop. % make sense Make: Don’t know how to make sense. Stop. % make mistake Make: Don’t know how to make mistake. Stop. % make bottle.open Make: Don’t know how to make bottle.open. Stop. % (- (-: Command not found. % make light Make: Don’t know how to make light. Stop. % date me You are not superuser: date not set % man rear No manual entry for rear. % [Where is Chandra Levy? Missing ] % “How does Gary Condit rate as a liar? Unmatched " % If I had a ) for every dollar Reagan spent, what would I have? Too many )’s. % * How would you describe Bill Clinton *: Ambiguous. % %Vice-President %Vice-President: No such job. % “How would you rate Reagan’s senility? Unmatched “.

Greenpeace hate SUV (and me too!)

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:40:31 +0000

But Q7 remains and amazing Car. ;)

Greenpeace released this anti-SUV commercial at the British International Motor Show. Its shows how people will treat (according of course to Greenpeace) a coworker who lives in a city and owns an SUV (in the video, the guy has a Toyota Land Cruiser). Kind off far fetched if you ask me. Ok, SUVs waste gas, take up space and have no place in a city, but spitting in the mans coffee ? Jeez….See the video below.

Aptana: advanced IDE for Web 2.0

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:28:33 +0000

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features:

Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions

Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure

Error and warning notification for your code

Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions

Cross-platform support

Free and open source. (Source available soon)

Aptana seems to be a very powerfull IDE for Javascript (finally!!!). The biggest features is the Integrated documentation, merged with a “suggestions-system” that indicate standard and non standard tags and attributes (indicating the browser compatibility with icons). A screenshot follows:

GLS^3

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:10:50 +0000

Imagine an Integrated Desktop Search Engine that re-index every work you write, every file you create, every “content”… as you do that things… in a very discreet way. Every developer will thinks it’s a very difficult “mission”, it isn’t? ;)

Ok, but take a look here:

The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based on What they mean to you, and not based on their hierarchical location.

GLS³ is an open source semantic storage solution for GNU/Linux that indexes your data, extracts from it metadata and relevant information, allows you to organize it using queries and tags, an API to allow Developers to integrate searching and organization capabilities in their application, an extensible plugin-based Type System, shared schemas between applications through an API, a pseudo file system for backward compatibility, a web interface, As-You-Type searching and more.

I suggest also to take a look to the published demo-videos: these are very interesting and… pregnant!

Picture of the Day

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:27:40 +0000

Natalie Portman

Truth is a game we play to win. Without truth we are animals. Without forgiveness we are savages.

Picture of the Day

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:54:49 +0000

Title

de: Erschießung der Aufständischen am 3. Mai 1808 in Madrid

en: The Third of May

es: El Tres de Mayo

it: Il 3 maggio 1808 Author Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de Technique

de: Öl auf Leinwand

es: Óleo sobre tela

it: Olio su tela Dimensions 266 x 345 cm Current Location Museo del Prado - Madrid - Spain

p.s. El espinazo del diablo

A Search Engine that's becoming an Inventor

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:57:35 +0000

Interesting article on the New York Times.

An analysis about Google and it’s powerfull capacity to “growing-up”. From Search Engine, to Web Apps Developer, to Financial Services Vendor, to… Hardware. Who can stop Big G?

Does M$ Think Different?!?!?!?!

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:49:06 +0000

Microsoft becomes a part of the project ODF-converter: it’s hosted on Sourceforge (M$ on Sourceforge ?!?!?!? What’s next time? Bush that fight on a real battle-field??!?!? 8O ).

If ODF does not give you any “trigger”, read here. Anyway, the most important thing to know is the interest of M$ to release various plugins to enjoy conversion between her proprietary-formats and Open Documents of OASIS.

Source, Ziobudda and Arabian Phoenix dot com.

The Unix History

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:39:28 +0000

Remember, Unix is a “kind” of Operating System, UNIX is a Registered Trademark: a little bit different :D

Unix History Graph

Source, Ziobudda.

Arrived!

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:18:01 +0000

The ShipIt project by Canonical (the Company behind Ubuntu Linux) was true: yeasterday a big package with 10 CD with Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Dapper Drake was arrived to me.

8 for x86
- 1 for AMD64 and EM64T
- 1 for G3, G4, G5

The package contains also 12 Ubuntu “linux for human beings” stickers.

Thanks to Canonical!

Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update released

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:14:50 +0000

Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update was released yesterday night: various improvements and few little new features.

You can find informations about it, here.

A little extract, follows.

Eldy: Simple-Functionally-Easy OS

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:40:05 +0000

Obviously, based on linux ;)

An easy and simple interface. Poor and feature-less programs. Big-Chars interface.

Usefull for old-boy with no interest to learn “new-techs”.

It’s an Italian project. Check it out.

Source, Downloadblog.

CSS Tweak: Zip your CSS

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:34:54 +0000

Usefull for geek-web-developer.

CSS Tweak will take your CSS and optimize it so that file sizes and download times are reduced. The tool is different from other optimizers as it gives you the option to stop it from altering your CSS code layout.

Source, Downloadblog.

WikiMapia.org

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:52:36 +0000

A very powerfull and pretty use of Google Maps: I have registered

The Capodimonte’s Astronomical Observatory of Naples
The Capodichino Airport of Naples
The VSTceN inside di INAF-OACN

Source, Downloadblog.

PostgreSQL 8.1.4 released

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:49:31 +0000

The most advanced Open Source RDBMS… becomes even more advanced!!! ;)

New Advanced Database Features

Roles: PostgreSQL now supports database roles, which simplify the management of large numbers of users with complex overlapping database rights. IN/OUT Parameters: PostgreSQL functions now support IN, OUT and INOUT parameters, which substantially improves support of complex business logic for J2EE and .NET applications. Two-Phase Commit (2PC): long in demand for WAN applications and heterogeneous data centers using PostgreSQL, this feature allows ACID-compliant transactions across widely separated servers. Performance Enhancements Improved Multiprocessor (SMP) Performance: the buffer manager for 8.1 has been enhanced to scale almost linearly with the number of processors, leading to significant performance gains on 8-way, 16-way, dual-core, and multi-core CPU servers. Bitmap Scan: indexes will be dynamically converted to bitmaps in memory when appropriate, giving up to twenty times faster index performance on complex queries against very large tables. This also helps simplify database management by greatly reducing the need for multi-column indexes. Table Partitioning: the query planner is now able to avoid scanning whole sections of a large table using a technique known as Constraint Exclusion. Similar to the Table Partitioning found in other database management systems, this feature improves both performance and data management for multi-gigabyte tables. Shared Row Locking: PostgreSQL’s “better than row-level locking” now supports even higher levels of concurrency through the addition of shared row locks for foreign keys. Shared locks will improve insert and update performance on many high-volume OLTP applications. …

Apple DOES NOT close the Darwin's Kernel (by now)

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:39:54 +0000

In the last week, some blogs and online-tech nical-newspaper speaks about the Apple’s intention to close the Darwin’s Kernel Source Code for Intel.

Last Friday, Ernest Prabhakar, Product Manager and Open Source & Open Standards Mac OS X Product Marketing at Apple Computer, says:

Hi all, Just to be clear, Tom Yager was speculating about why we have – so far – not released the source code of the kernel for Intel-based Macintoshes. We continue to release all the Darwin sources for our PowerPC systems, and so far has released all the non-kernel Darwin sources for Intel.

Nothing has been announced, so he (and everyone else) certainly has the right to speculate. But please don’t confuse “speculation” with “fact.” Thanks, – Ernie P.

Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. (408) 974-3075 Product Manager, Open Source & Open Standards; Mac OS X Product Marketing Apple Computer; 303-4SW 3 Infinite Loop; Cupertino, CA 95014

Other Ajax oriented GUI Toolkit

Sun, 21 May 2006 10:05:42 +0000

[Plex Toolkit](http://www.plextk.org/trac/wiki)

An XML+Javascript based toolkit that aims developer to make up very amazing interfaces, creating interface in XML format. Can find demo [here](http://www.plextk.org/trac/wiki/Demos).

[QooXDoo](http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/)

QooXDoo is an advanced open-source JavaScript-based GUI toolkit. QooXDoo continues where simple HTML is not enough. This way qooxdoo can help you implement your AJAX-enhanced web 2.0 application - easier than ever before.

QooXDoo also seems to be a very interesting JS Framework to make up beauty interfaces. Demo here.

The Console Wars

Fri, 19 May 2006 23:14:36 +0000

Microsoft vs Nintendo vs Sony Xbox360 vs Wii vs PS3

GWT: a big piece of code by Big G.

Thu, 18 May 2006 10:08:56 +0000

Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile. GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Dilbert and Google

Thu, 18 May 2006 10:00:22 +0000

The “strength” of Google on the WWW seems to be like (much bigger?) the “strength” of M$ on the Operating System’s World. Every Web Developer, Blogger, WWW-Interested-People have to check the ranking on google of owned websites.

What do you think about Big G.?

Ah, the Dilbert String:

MacBook predicted

Mon, 08 May 2006 22:02:46 +0000

From Think Secret:

May 5, 2006 - Following up on our report earlier this week concerning the MacBook’s May availability, sources have nailed down next Tuesday, May 9, as the introduction day for the Intel-based laptop. … Update - May 6, 2006

Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook’s announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations, and will likely cost slightly more than previous iBook models—not unlike the price increase Apple’s Mac mini saw with its transition to Intel processors.

Set Me Free Now

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:10:53 +0000

EN - Nemo, Manu and I need an help from all of you:

we ask your help to fly away from Italy. Our families cannot help us to reach the amount of money that we need to take up our residence in another, better, country.

For this reason we have created Set Me Free Now.

IT - Nemo, Manu ed Io abbiamo bisogno di un aiuto da tutti voi:

noi chiediamo il vostro aiuto per volare via dall’Italia. Le nostre famiglie non possono aiutarci per raggiungere la quantità di denaro necessaria per prendere residenza in un altro/migliore paese.

Dheme 0.2

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:36:27 +0000

Update for the new “D"heme of this/my homepage/blog.

New :hover style for the h3 header of sliding div
Added the class img.wp-smiley for smiles in posts
I have enlarged the left column and restricted the center column
Added a nice background for the blockquote element

What it lacks? Primary, a admin menu using the style of the “Credits toggle” on the bottom (had you seen it, don’t you? ;) )

Howto defragment XFS

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:46:28 +0000

After the coronation as the best (imho ;) ) file-system for *nix systems, BitUbique post an howto defragment an XFS partition.

Simplest and fastest way?

sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1

LPI 202 Tutorial on DeveloperWorks: Web Services

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:43 +0000

IBM publish another Tutorial on the LPI Exam 202. This time it’s on the “making of a Web Server” (title “Web Services” is not correct, IMHO).

In this tutorial (the fourth in a series of seven tutorials on exam 202 topics), David Mertz discusses how to configure and run the Apache HTTP server and the Squid proxy server, and in doing so, continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC-2) Exam 202.

Filesystems serious and realistic comparison

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:21:58 +0000

Nemo translated (in Italian, of course) an interesting comparison between the most diffused filesystems on Linux (and not only on The Penguin): Ext2/3, Reiserfs 3, XFS, JFS.

The original article was posted by hansivers on the Debian Administration Website.

Conclusion? XFS rulez!!! And I’m on the same: I start to use XFS average 2 years ago… and some big partitions on my HD still demonstrate optimal performance. Good Job, SGI!

detronizator.org STILL changes face / 2

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:35:42 +0000

Finally, I had a little amount of time to finish up my new theme. Dheme: only a name for you, right now. But I want to make it downloadable in the future.

Actual version is 0.1: under heavy-development.

Dheme borns with 3 focuses: eye-candy, usability, richness.

Animations of Dheme are builded with the beautiful moo.fx library.

Do you like it? ;)

Earlier... but important anyway

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:50:24 +0000

The Google Summer of Code

http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

Italian informations? Look Neminis.org and netminers.

Linux Io Scheduler

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:22:10 +0000

The 2.6 Linux Kernel included selectable IO schedulers. IO Schedulers control the way the kernel commits reads and writes to disks - the intention of providing different schedulers is to allow better optimsation for different classes of workload.

Without an IO scheduler, the kernel would basically just issue each request to disk in the order that it received them. This could result in massive thrashing of the disk subsystem - if one process was reading from one part of the disk, and one writing to another, it would have to seek back and forth across the disk for every operation. The schedulers main goal is to optimise disk access times. An IO scheduler can use the following techniques to improve performance: Request merging The scheduler merges adjacent requests together to reduce disk seeking Elevator The scheduler orders requests based on their physical location on the block device, and it basically tries to seek in one direction as much as possible. Prioritisation The scheduler has complete control over how it prioritises requests, and can do so in a number of ways All IO schedulers should also take into account resource starvation, to ensure requests eventually do get serviced!…

Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:13:59 +0000

Suggestion.

There are too much way to personalize/hack firefox: this howto introduce you at this «dangerous world»

RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE CONTEST

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:40:21 +0000

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest brings the ideas of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rube Goldberg’s “Invention” cartoons to life. Named after, and inspired by the cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg, this Olympics of Complexity is designed to pull students away from conventional problem-solving and push them into the endless chaos of imagination and intuitive thought. To be specific, groups are given an elementary challenge: something as simple as peeling an apple, sharpening a pencil, or putting toothpaste on a toothbrush. But instead of just “solving” the problem, students have to make the solution as complicated and as convoluted as possible. In fact, the more steps - there’s a minimum of twenty - the better the Rube Goldberg Machine. And what a machine! An assemblage of ordinary objects, mechanical gadgets, and the oddest odds and ends are linked together and somehow get to the desired goal.

An example?

For video,

Boot Camp: Macs do Windows, too

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:05:11 +0000

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

I think its a great idea: supporting directly Windows on Apple Intel computers aims Users to become MacOSX users easly. First buy a MacIntel, then install the 2 systems and “try both 2 worlds”… what’s the result? New MacOSX-lovers. I’m sure ;) .

Developer Works: Using ReiserFS 4 with Linux

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:09:15 +0000

Take a look at the ext2 (second extended file system), ext3 (third extended file system), and Reiser4 file systems and discover how to create your own Reiser4 file system. The most commonly used file system, ext2, is a traditional UNIX®-style file system that doesn’t mix well with modern hard drive sizes. The ext3 file system adds journalling, but not much else. If you want something really advanced, you might want to check out the current Reiser4 file system.

New Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 11

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:34:15 +0000

Free space for new music

Here the official page.

Rediscover musical diversity with Mixed Tape. Always a treat: every ten weeks, Mercedes presents an exclusive, free-of-charge selection of new MP3s – currently Mixed Tape 11 with brand new sounds from around the globe.

A moving experience – not only in your Mercedes-Benz.

This is not advise: I can’t buy a Mercedes right now… ;)

Tiger 10.4.6 available

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:51:23 +0000

[Apple] → [Software Update…] Or search on that page the update for your system.

Darwin on L4

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:35:04 +0000

Operating Systems based on Micro-Kernel seems to return fashionable, and some experimental OS releases demonstrate it: the National ICT of Australia, infact, has released a Darwin porting for L4. This is for being able to study the behaviour of that class of o.s..

This porting include XNU, the hearth of MacOSX.

krugle demo

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:40:28 +0000

krugle/the search engine/ for developers/

findcode/findanswers/krugle makes it easy for developers to find source code and technical information—fast!…

I subscribe the beta-testing program of this new, powerfull search engine for developers. Yesterday an email advertise me that a very interesting screencast is available, to explain the target and the features of this engine.

Other than the features, the heavy usage of Ajax is very beautiful. But “bando alle ciance”: see the screencast here.

ADC's ScreenCasts

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:31:54 +0000

Since now, Apple makes “only” good howto to make simple application, helping developers to learn our beauty technology: Apple calls these howtos “Sample Code”. It was a good thing. Sometimes, howtos was very very “advanced”, using technologies too much difficult to understand in “few words”. It was a bad thing.

Suggestion/Suggerimento

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:06:58 +0000

http://secretum.neminis.org/.

EN: A new blog from an interesting person. No more words.

IT: Un nuovo blog da una persona interessante. Non aggiungo altro.

WP-SlimStat: Stats, stats and... stats!

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:42:11 +0000

«Track your blog!» Wp-SlimStat is a statistic plugin for WordPress.

Google as room mate

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:55:12 +0000

Personally, I prefer something like this!!! ;)

eyeOS: Web Based Desktop OS

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:19:14 +0000

Welcome to eyeOS, a web based desktop system. With eyeOS you can access your data and your applications anywhere, anytime. A virtual office in your hands, no need to install anything in the computer. Everything lives in the browser, for you and your work colleagues. eyeOS is open source and free software. Set up freely an account on our servers or, if you prefer it, install it in your server. Make your life easier with the virtual word processor, calendar, file manager, messenger, browser and other applications. And if you want more applications, just visit the eyeOS Application Database!

Nestopia: renew NES

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:52:33 +0000

A portable NES/Famicom emulator written in C++

It’s available for Windows and MacOSX and here you can found a rich collection of roms.

Source, Melablog.

On The Old Computer Dot Com a wide collection of emulator and roms.

Red Hat Knowledgebase: free access

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:46:19 +0000

Red Hat, finally, opens its Knowledgebase:

Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians.

A “sink without bottom” (translation of the italian meaning-full expression “pozzo senza fondo”) of sources, knowledge, solutions about Linux.

Source, OSSBlog.

Q [kju:]

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:01:02 +0000

Run Windows, Linux and a lot more Systems on your Mac. Q is a feature packed cocoa port of QEMU: Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and coreaudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC.

This is “only” an easy-interface to QEMU, «a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation», but it works very very good (and smarty, imho).

Google Finance

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:25:23 +0000

Another AMAZING usage of Ajax by Google: Google Finance. It’s obviously a “beta” and the home page does not seems to be very “ajaxed”… but try to find out a symbol and… be prepared for WOW! 8O

Five reasons you should use PostgreSQL

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:13:54 +0000

While PostgreSQL’s adoption rate continues to accelerate, some folks wonder why that rate isn’t even steeper given its impressive array of features. One can speculate that many of the reasons for not considering its adoption tend to be based on either outdated or misinformed sources.

In an effort to dispel some of the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) surrounding this impressive product, instead, I’ll put forth several of the most commonplace reasons companies have for not investigating PostgreSQL further.

SketchUp Google Earth Plugin

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:31:54 +0000

With the SketchUp Google Earth plugin, you can use Google Earth to view 3D models in their real-world context. You’re no longer limited to just viewing the world through satellite imagery; now you can build on the tapestry provided by Google Earth.

Whether you want to create presentations of proposed developments, share a building you’ve designed, or view a model in context, you’ll find the combination of SketchUp and Google Earth provide you with a great venue to express your creativity.

detronizator.org goes 2.0.2

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:02:32 +0000

Only because it’s necessary for security reasons: I’m very tyred to these annoying practies… ;)

2.0.2 Security Release

An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.

The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to Mark Jaquith, Robert Deaton, and David House for assisting with this release. Just a quick note: this is different than the snake-oil reports that went out on some security lists a few days ago. There were a couple, but they were either not actual security problems, too small to warrant a release, or just patently false. Remember: just because you read it on a mailing list doesn’t mean that it’s true. We’d be the first people to panic if there was an actual problem. As always, when something serious crosses our desks we jump on it and get a well-tested release out as soon as possible.

Porsche 911 Carrera 997 Commercial

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:45:12 +0000

So much video about cars in this period. And anyone of these is a beautiful advisory. ARTvisory! :D

1 Linux x 6 Users

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:26:33 +0000

Introduction
A Multi-Seat Linux Box: This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice. Xorg calls this arrangement a "multi-seat" system. > Advantages of a Multi-Seat System: The advantages of multi-seat systems in schools, Internet cafes, and libraries include more than just saving money. They include much lower noise pollution, much less power consumption, and lowered space requirements. For many applications, power and noise budgets are as important as initial cost. http://www.detronizator.org/wp-admin/post.php Requirements: To build a multi-seat system you need a video adapter, keyboard, and mouse for each seat. For six seats, you'll also need a motherboard with an AGP slot and five available PCI slots. In our test system we used USB keyboards and mice exclusively, but you can use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for one of the seats if you wish. > Xorg 6.9 or later is required, but this already ships with many of the major distributions. Our test system uses the free version of Mandriva 2006 and we did not rebuild the kernel or install any additional packages.

Here for the full article.

Real Simpsons

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:43:22 +0000

It’s identical to the original, isn’t it? It may be an original idea for a film… Matt think about it, please.

detronizator.org STILL changes face

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:32:05 +0000

The previous theme, Heminway, demonstrate difficulties in “information’s organization”.

This new theme is Sirius Theme by Olaf A. Schmitz.

Try! :D

Microsoft redesign the iPod Package

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:34:16 +0000

Pure MS Style! :lol:

At Naples we use a meaning-full expression: CAFONE!

WWJD 3

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:35:45 +0000

What Would Jobs Do?

A beautifull gallery on Engadget.

Some of these are pretty COOL! The first entry, for example.

Saab Aero-X images

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:29:20 +0000

4x4
2.8cc V6 bi-turbo Saab BioPower engine, entirelly in alluminium
400cv max-power, at 5000rpm
Accelleration 0-100 in 4.9s
Front Wheel of 22" / Back Wheel of 23"

Town Hall Auditorium - #4 Infinite Loop

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:46:15 +0000

#4 Infinite Loop Apple Computer Campus Cupertino, California, USA

click and drag to pan and tilt shift and control to zoom in and out, respectively.

Today Apple will present… new funny products! ;)

detronizator.org changes face

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:52:44 +0000

This new theme is for test purpouse only: I like it (too much) but… I’m not sure about readability and usability. It’s name is Heminway: you can found it here.

If you have any comments about it…

M$ Unveils Win Vista Product Lineup: Sic et Simpliciter!

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:45:16 +0000

On it.Wikipedia:

It’s a latin expression that means “simply, it’s that”. Used in order to emphasize that the things are in this way and there is nothing that needs a clarification.

Here, the Microsoft Unveils Windows Vista Product Lineup.

A nice extract:

The Windows Vista product lineup consists of six versions, two for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Starter. The number of offerings is the same as the number of offerings currently available for Windows® XP. More important, the lineup is designed to deliver clear value to a broad range of customers, each product tailored to meet specific needs of various segments of customers — home PC users, small and medium-sized businesses and the largest enterprises — and is aimed at bringing 64-bit, Media Center and Tablet PC functionality into the mainstream.

Pagani Zonda Roadster F

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:50:09 +0000

Private show of this Beauty Monster-Car.

No one tried to answer to my old quiz about its dashboard :(

NATO-ASI: Magnetic Nanostructure School

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:06:35 +0000

School Announcement
This school brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments of magnetism. Emphasis is placed on micro-electromechanical systems and spintronic applications. >
Objectives
The objective of the school is to propose a synergic junction between the characteristic expertise of the engineering and the knowledge of the basic science. The main effect should be a cross-cultural fertilization favoring an interdisciplinary enrichment for the attendants and their research perspectives. The program of the school will cover a wide area in the domain of the science and technology of magnetic nanostructures and microsystems. The lectures are organized in four main topics: Spintronics; Magmas (magnetic MEMS and NEMS for micromachines, microrobotics and microsystem technology); Magnetic recording; Magnetic Nanoscience.

The school was ideated from the Magnetism Research Group - University of Messina (Italy) and will start in Villa San Giovanni - Scilla, Calabria, Italy 2 - 15 July 2006.

A beautifull Firefox!

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:02:10 +0000

It’s very very nice! It is not? :D

PHP5 Form Generator/Processor

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:07:56 +0000

I highlight this howto: Building a PHP5 Form Processor. But the how to also “generate” the form (and the client-side validation code), then the title of this post.

On Dev Shed.

Ajax, Ajax and... Ajax

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:58:16 +0000

Wow: seems to be that every web-developer doesn’t do anything except Ajax!

Today, walking trough various blog I had found these interesting thing written in (and for) Ajax:

* [<strong>Lightbox JS</strong>](http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/) - a <em>simple</em>, <em>unobtrusive script </em>used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on<strong><em> all modern browsers</em></strong>. Simple and very Beautiful way to show photos in a web page (it's ideal to be used in a Web-Based-Photo-Gallery).

* [<strong>Tooltip.js</strong>](http://tooltip.crtx.org/) - NEXT GENERATION in Tooltips; using the Web 2.0 approach of doing a simple thing, and doing it well. It's based on [script.aculo.us](http://www.detronizator.org/home/index.php?s=script.aculo.us) (and then [prototype.js](http://www.detronizator.org/home/index.php?s=prototype.js)) and... it's a very-cool way to put tooltip into a web page.

* [REXV - Regular EXpression eValuator](http://www.rexv.org/) - [Regular Expression](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regexp) evaluator for three different regular expression systems. It's written in Ajax and it's very very usefull for regexp-addicted developer. It understand: <em>PHP PCRE</em>, <em>PHP Posix</em>, <em>Javascript regexp</em>.

Mac Book Pro: naked!

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:52:06 +0000

Everyone dreams it (ME! ;-( ). Someone loves it (… ME! ;) ). Anyone colors it (very very nice in black). Only ONE undresses it!!!

p.s. What courage?! 8O

New products from Apple at february 28

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:30:20 +0000

I’m waiting!

Democracy - Internet TV

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:13:54 +0000

Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.

Stop squinting at tedious web videos– sit back and watch big, high resolution videos one after another. It’s so easy to use that you’ll be watching interesting videos in moments.

It’s name is Democracy TV (DTV). It’s an Internet TV Platform TOTALLY Opensource.

Now, a Windows version is also available (before this, DTV was only for MacOSX).

ALL DONE!

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:06:03 +0000

I have finished ALL MY Universitary EXAMS!!!

Only the stage remains. I’m waiting for this (and praying for it)!!!

Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight4

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:17:40 +0000

Ubunto Dapper Drake is now UVF:

UVF - The Upstream Version Freeze

The Upstream Version Freeze is the point in the development cycle when Ubuntu stops accepting new upstream versions of software or packages. This allows the Ubuntu developers time to stabilize the current software in Ubuntu and helps avoid introducing new bugs. You can find out a bit more about this milestone at UpstreamVersionFreeze.

More informations and complete improvement list available on the official wiki.

Fiat 126 Roadster

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:14:03 +0000

Very very COOL!

Tablet Mac: Another Patent

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:56:27 +0000

Yes, another patent from Apple.

That patent describe interaction-patterns in details, with particular attention on a “virtual keyboard” that appear in a “contextual-way”.

Apple seems to be ready for an HCI REVOLUTON!!! Finally!

Example images:

Source, Melablog.

Take a look at Gnome 2.14

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:56:25 +0000

Davyd Madeley has released a “coming soon features list” of Gnome 2.14.

Really interesting new features for Gnome users:

Speed improvement in Memory Allocation System (Gnome use a dedicated subsystem for this stuff), using a new mem-allocator called GSlice (follow a benchmark), and in Font Rendering (Gnome Terminal will be fastest of XTerm 8O )
- some Administrative tools
- improvement to the integrated search system (expecially for Beagle-Enabled linux-box)
- Metacity improvement (it will use OpenGL… but I don’t know if this means the integration with Xgl/Compiz)

meebo - IM Ajax based

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:19:05 +0000

meebo is a multi-IM client (in beta version right now) that is Web 2.0 enabled: a really cool use of Ajax!

I tried it and seems to be functional and really usable (it’s in beta, don’t forget). Probably a very powerfull alternative for user without a Laptop or a Network-enabled palm.

The most interesting features? it use 1024 bit encryption RSA for Ajax communications!

Source, Consequentia Mirabilis.

Gentoo: the Mactel-Linux Project

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:22 +0000

I was one of the first Gentoo-on-iBook-7450 installer: I have an idea of the obstacles that Apple make (voluntarily?) to stop the “waste” of our hardware.

The installation of Gentoo on Mactel is only a “time issue”: EFI was, for me, the biggest problem (elilo rulez!). But I don’t know the internal hardware of that new machine.

Anyway, Good Work guys.

Source, Melablog.

Camino 1.0 released

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:17:27 +0000

It’s now available in Universal Binary. List of features is here.

I’m not a Camino user: I’m a Firefox-Extension’s addicted web-developer! But a Browser Gecko-Based with the powerful and beauty of MacOSX is a really interesting alternative for non-dev users…

Source, Melablog.

Mac OS X Update 10.4.5

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:04:05 +0000

10.4.5 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies:

-Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary and Font Book -iCal, iChat, DVD Player, Mail, Preview, Safari and Stickies -Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, Software Update -usability of Dashboard and widgets -viewing of QuickTime streaming media behind a firewall -time zone and daylight savings for 2006 and 2007 -RAW camera support, including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers -sharing using AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP file sharing protocols -reliable access to Open Directory, LDAP and Active Directory services -VPN connections to Cisco servers when using NAT -AirPort and Bluetooth wireless connectivity -compatibility with third party applications and devices -previous Mac OS X updates and standalone security updates

MacBook Pro: more powerful then itself

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:03:51 +0000

Singular but nice move from Apple: every booked (and now in distribution) MacBook Pro will be delivered with a SpeedBump Gift!

Core Duo 1,83GHz will be delivered with a Core Duo 2Ghz, the 1,67GHz with a 1,83GHz.

And, as it’s not enough, a new Core Duo 2,16GHz is be avalaible as an order-option!!!

Source, Melablog.

Oracle: 10.3 JDeveloper and OC4J released

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:11:13 +0000

I’m not an Oracle developer. I’m not an Oracle DB Manager. I’m not an Oracle Java Developer. I’m an Eclipse lover since Eclipse 3.0M* releases but, because of the power of Oracle, I had ever followed our development in the Java-Development-World.

5 days ago I Oracle sent to me information the release of JDeveloper 10.3 and OC4J 10.3 (Oracle Container for Java - our Application Server), and today I spent a little amount of time looking at the new features of JDeveloper and looking the interesting flash-screencast-demos.

iPod of the future: one more... Patent!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:42:04 +0000

The Patent: click. The Source: Melablog. Meaningfull image 01: Meaningfull image 02: Meaningfull image 03:

SheepShaver: MacOS Classic on MacIntel

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:49:46 +0000

This application was bord with the run Classic Application in any operating system. It seems to be an “Emulation-Layer” (so, not a “Virtuallization-Layer”) and… it’s for available (and supported) on various systems:

* [Linux](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) (i386, ppc, x86_64)

* [MacOS X](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macosx) (<strong>i386</strong>, ppc)

* [Darwin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29)

* [NetBSD 2.0](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbsd)

* [FreeBSD 5.3](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd)

* [Windows for x86](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows)

As you probably know, Apple, with new MacIntel, has cutted-off the support for Classic: it was a virtuallization, not an emulation and then… a simple recompilation it’s not enough.

MacMini-based Server

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:36:47 +0000

A state-of-art Server made up with beauty (and small) MacMini as “mind”.

Take a look at this interesting howto (start from Melablog). He makes up Software Firewall, Mail Server, DNS Server, IP-over-Firewall connection for DB Server… all based on Air Port extreme!!! How? Modding the Air Port Antenna, obviously! ;)

Multi-Touch interaction Experiment

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:10:06 +0000

A movie about the technologie which Apple has reacently pattented. It is not a movie made by Apple but by some researchers: On Google Video.

Some toughts here.

XGL: OpenGL sempre più prepotentemente sui nostri Desktop

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:54:09 +0000

XGL: tutti ne stanno parlando ultimamente. Ci sono articoli in ogni dove su XGL ma… che é? Prendiamo da Wikipedia:

Xgl is an X server architecture, started by David Reveman, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. Some say that it is seen as the future of the X.Org Server, but some disagree because it requires a 3D graphics card. Although most PCs are nowadays shipped with such a card, most vendors (most notably NVIDIA and ATI Technologies) don’t provide open source drivers for their cards, which do not work on all computer architectures supported by the X.Org Server.

Image Scaling with AJAX

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:53:43 +0000

It’s powered with prototype.js and script.aculo.us: nice!

If you use the script.aculo.us slider control to capture input values, it’s really just a matter of converting those values into something useful and modifying styles.

<script src="http://www.agilepartners.com/scripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>

A simple demo. (a Cut&Paste from the source site ;) )

Created by Agile Partners.com. I suggest to read the howto: it’s simple and clear. And demonstrate the power of script.aculo.us and prototype.js.

XGL: wordless videos O_o

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:57:31 +0000

INCREDIBLE!!! AMAZING!!! SUPER!!! POWERFULL!!! GREAT!!!

Videos are on linuxedge. Source, OSSBlog.

Finger-Zoom: a Apple new patent to increase HCI drammatically

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:37:33 +0000

Mac Rumors talks about Apple Tablet Patents:

A search at the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals a number of new Apple patent applications that relate to the long-rumored Apple Tablet based computer.

One of the most relevant:

Gestures for touch sensitive input devices - Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based on the data from the multipoint sensing device.

Geekbench Comparison: G4 vs G5 vs AMD64 vs P4 vs Xeon

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:01:16 +0000

On Geekpatrol.ca there is a comparison between…

Mac Mini 1.42 GHz

512 KB L2 cache

167 MHz system bus

1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM

iMac G5 2.1 GHz

512 KB L2 cache

700 MHz system bus

1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM.

iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz

2 MB L2 cache shared between cores

667 MHz system bus

1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM.

iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz

2 MB L2 cache shared between cores

667 MHz system bus

512 MB RAM DDR2 667 SDRAM

Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz

256 KB L2 cache per cpu

2 MB backside L3 cache per cpu

167 MHz system bus

1.75 GB DDR 333 SDRAM

Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz

512 KB L2 cache

800 MHz system bus

768 MB DDR 333 SDRAM

Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz

512 KB L2 cache per processor

900 MHz system bus

1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM.

Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2.0 GHz

1 MB L2 cache per core

1000 MHz system bus

2.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM

Power Mac G5 ‘Quad’ 2.5 GHz

1 MB L2 cache per core

1.25 GHz system bus

1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz)

512 KB L2 cache

800 MHz system bus

1 GB of DDR 400 SDRAM.

Intel Pentium 4c 2.4 GHz HT

512 KB L2 cache

800 MHz system bus

1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM

Intel Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz HT

1MB L2 cache per CPU

800 MHz system bus

1 GB DDR2 400 SDRAM

… using Geeckbench Preview: a ~~opensource~~ benchmark running on MacOSX and Windows by now.

Soon, Native GTK+ on MacOSX

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:58:22 +0000

Soon you may be able to execute Gnome/Gtk+ based programs ~~NATIVELLY~~ NATIVELY on Quartz without the X11 Emulation. Someone (thanks to exist) is working on the porting.

It may be the incipit of a new era for Open Source software on MacOSX. Take a look at this.

One of the most interesting characteristics of Gnome-oriented applications is the coherence between the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) of Gnome and MacOSX.

Source: Melablog.it and StyleMac.com.

Dojo: AJAX in Sun style

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:20:31 +0000

Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces.

This project has Sun behind itself: on Downloadblog there is a post dedicated to a Videocast of Sun Developers about Dojo and Java Studio Creator.

The “packages” organization of Dojo is very similar to Java Library: much coherent and clean.

Simple but seminal: Cornell researchers build a robot that can reproduce

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:19:24 +0000

Admittedly the machine is just a proof of concept – it performs no useful function except to self-replicate – but the basic principle could be extended to create robots that could replicate or at least repair themselves while working in space or in hazardous environments, according to Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and computing and information science, in whose lab the robots were built and tested.

PHP 5.1.2 and PostgreSQL 8.1.2 MacOSX Packages

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:22:54 +0000

Marc Liyanage releases the last version of his packaged version of PHP 5.1.2 and PostgreSQL 8.1.2.

I don’t know how is the packaged PostgreSQL but… I use the PHP of Marc from 2 years without any problems (excluding personalization to the php.ini file).

Thanks Marc for your nice work! ;-)

Ah, these packages are made for MacOSX.

Finder Software Engineer: Apple offers work

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:15:08 +0000

The Finder team is seeking an energetic, motivated software engineer to help develop next generation versions of the Finder, the notorious file browser for Mac OS X. You will be responsible for developing new features of an application that is often perceived by our users as the “face of the system”. You will be working on user interfaces spanning various browser views, new advanced search features, navigation and data presentation as well as many other parts of the application.

GT4 vs Reality on Nurbirgring

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:06:44 +0000

As I saw much too much times, GT4 is the DEFINITIVE SIMULATOR… until GT5 :D

The wrong-side 127

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:05:08 +0000

People have nothing to do :D

Firefox plugins highlight 001

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:18:10 +0000

Performancing - Powerfull Firefox extension to help enhanced blogger to manage our sites FireBug - Console/DomInspector/Other_Usefull_Things instrument for enhanced developers

Source, Downloadblog.it.

Pixar purchased by Disney

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:14:12 +0000

Disney was in trouble but… this acquisition is the begin of a rebirth of Disney as a “quality symbol” in the Industry of Digital Animation.

Jobs, because the acquisition was done with a quotation-paiment (entirelly!!!), becames an “heavy member” of the Disney.

I hope to see some beautiful films birth arise from this blending… and a great Apple Software utilization :D (anyone say Final Cut Pro?).

Source, Melablog.

Opera Mini is available worldwide

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:42:50 +0000

After various months of testing, Opera Mini is available worldwide.

I try it whit the simulator on the official website. Enjoy it.

Here the wizard that helps you to select the right version for your mobile phone.

Source, Downloadblog.

Google news became stable

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:29:51 +0000

I love Google news: I think it’s a very intelligent and powerfull system to aggregate news. I use it every day to see informations about politics and tech.

I hope that GNews continues on that way: multi-sourced news helps me to understand and hear every side of anything.

Thanks Big G.

iTab: iBook based but... not from Apple O_o

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:19:15 +0000

Seems to be a very strange title but… it’s true.

The official web site.

But it’s only an iBook with the monitor on the wrong side and a pen-as-a-mouse-pointer. No Inkwell, sorry.

Source, Melablog.

Ziplight: make Spotlight more curious

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:03:23 +0000

On that page of the Apple Download Center you can find Ziplight, a Spotlight plugin that enable searches into our zip archives.

A much usefull idea, it isn’t?

Why the Apple 1 price was $666.66?

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:32:27 +0000

Woz, the Apple’s co-founder divulges the reasoning behind the infamous computer price.

Cnet video of Woz explaining…

Ok ok, it’s simple:

… because it’s the same button for 5 times

Apple, think simple (and different)! :D

Source, Melablog.

Shiira 1.2.1 released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:24:33 +0000

A new version of this very powerfull browser was released.

We released Shiira 1.2.1. It is the Universal Binary. Shiira can run natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Mac.

And we implemented the auto filling feature. Your user names and passwords are automatically filled in the Web form. They are stored in the Keychain which is a standard password management tool of Mac OS X. What’s new of 1.2.1

MacBook Pro at february 15 2006

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:16:46 +0000

It’s coming soon.

Remember: I was born on february 6 1982. ;)

Anyone wants to make me happy? :D

Sources, Melablog and Gizmondo.

Design Draw with Patterns/Movements/Finger

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:52:43 +0000

It’s because the University Research in Italy does not have the same “importance/value” than in other Country.

This is a MIT production: Mpeg file link.

EDIT - Thanks to Nemo for the “Errata Corrige” of the title :oops: .

The House that Apple build

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:30:50 +0000

Source, Melablog.

Quicktime2RSS: sleep much more

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:33:40 +0000

Apple to offer speedy lecture podcasts … The education arm of the Apple computer company in Europe is developing a pilot of a new system of recording and rebroadcasting lectures within an hour of the professor packing away their notes.

The forthcoming QuickTime 2 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology, a development program to be launched in Europe in the spring, will allow the lecturer to record their own “performance” - their slides, notes and details of student assignments as they deliver them live to the students in the lecture hall. Once the lecture is over, the technology behind the system can turn the content into suitable files and automatically upload them to Apple’s iTunes network or connect it to RSS feeds that students, and others, can subscribe to. …

Autodelta 159 GTA

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:24:05 +0000

No words. Only love.

Source, Autoblog.

Look inside your Mac

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:44:45 +0000

There are crazy-mac-user that open our iMac (a Core Due iMac) to see inside of it

There are other less-crazy-mac-user that do xray-scanning to a PowerBook

There are other normal-mac-user that use it and love it. :D

Source, Melablog.it.

Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino: first Universal Binary build

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:25:35 +0000

Developers of Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino are working on a Universal Binary release: they have promised a official release in march.

By now, here are sufficiently stable releases. But, problems still remain: Java-plugin and Flash-plugin does not run, right now. On MacIntel (if you are so lucky ;) ) use Firefox build for PPC over Rosetta.

Source, Melablog.

First Blade Server on Cell

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:04:42 +0000

And, obviously, it use Linux.

Mercury Computer makes a Dual Cell-based Blade Server for scientific-military-research purpose.

Specifications:

Dual Cell BE Processors PPE core: IBM® 64-bit PowerArchitecture™ L1 cache size: 32 KB instruction; 32 KB data L2 cache size: 512 KB SPUs: 8 Local memory size: 256 KB Registers: 128 x 128 bits wide EIB: 192 GB/s aggregate bandwidth Processor internal clock speed: 3 GHz Processor-to-memory bandwidth: 24.0 GB/s Processor-to-processor coherent interface: 20 GB/s in each direction

NetBeans 5.0RC1

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:53:42 +0000

Official NetBeans 5.0RC1 page.

Source, alessiopaolucci.com.

Here are some of the cool features in this release:

Developing NetBeans Modules

Matisse GUI Builder

Servers

Web Frameworks

Web Services

Editor Enhancements

Code Completion

Refactoring

Version Control

Debugging

Other Usability Improvements

New NetBeans Add-on Packs

Personally, I prefer Eclipse much too much. But, also Eclipse would make a Matisse-like GUI editor… 😢

Apple worth more then Dell

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:31:59 +0000

In August 2005 I was thinking about purchasing Apple quotes: $43/45 was a good price for my wallett ;) .

My Bank, instead, wants from me “things that I don’t have” (other moneys) to allow me to operate on the US market.

Today is a good day but, if I had purchased some Apple quotes at that time, now I would be rich 😢 .

The title? See at here for comparation between Apple and Dell on US market.

GNU/Linux Command reference

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:53:18 +0000

A big one: Linux Shortcuts and Commands. An italian book that have a dedicated chapter: Linux Facile.

Source: OSSBlog.

elilo: boot on EFI machine

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:49:43 +0000

Linux, as we can expect from the linux-comunity, are ready for the EFI system that will substitute the old BIOS system on our (x86) machine.

EFI is the boot-system used on the new MacIntel machine, presented from Apple at Jan 10. What it means? It means that we can install and run on EFI-enabled machine every Operating System, also which that does not “understand” EFI (WinXP is the biggest example).

Here the home page of elilo, the EFI linux boot loader.

GTK+ howto from IBM DeveloperWorks

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:17:09 +0000

A collection of howto on Gtk+ on the rich DeveloperWorks website from IBM.

2 articles are available right now:

Source, OSSBlog.

New Mac don't have Intel Inside logo

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40:00 +0000

… but on the package will be the lovelly logo of Intel Core Duo.

And, Apple will not join, by now, the Intel Viiv project. But, why? :?:

Play WinMediaFiles in QT

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:33:36 +0000

Microsoft, because of the STOP to development of Windows Media Player for MacOSX, make a page on our site where we can download a nice thing: a plugin for QuickTime aims to view Windows Media Files.

Seems to be a good product: I will update you soon.

The plugin is Flip4Mac. The company behind this piece of code is Telestream, that sell other plugins to import/edit WMF.

I have a question: M$ is the richest company in the World and… needs third-part plugin to make our file-formats viewable on MacOSX? It’s a Joke? :| ( :lol: )

Letter to Apple Support

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:15:08 +0000

From: xyz@abc.123 Subject: Powerbook support Date: January 10, 2006 4:55:31 PM ET To: Apple Tech Support

Hello, I purchased a new Powerbook three weeks ago. It was working fine until a few hours ago when you announced the new Intel-powered MacBook Pro at MacWorld and I started to cry. “Four to fives times faster,” I sobbed, “a built-in iSight, and a brighter, wider screen."…

This Apple User purchased a new Powerbook but, because of the lauch of MacBook Pro, now he say at Apple Care “can you send me a new MacBook Pro as a replacement, please?”

Linux != Windows

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:18 +0000

This funny article is here: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm.

Thanks to KM.

It's too late...

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:00:59 +0000

… every people (hi hope ;) ) in the world know about the MacWorld of yesterday.

Then, I write just a little list of recommended links:

Find out what do you want! :D

Ah, last observation: I like too much the logo of the Intel Code Duo!

A 3D interface to the planet... on MacOSX Tiger

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:44:17 +0000

After you have installed Google Earth, you may want to explore some of the interesting data layers being published by other folks on the web. Anyone can publish content for Google Earth using our geographic markup language (KML). To view these, simply click the links below. They will appear in your “Places” list. To save them for future use, right-click on the feed you wish to save and select “Save to My Places.”

Genuary 10 2006 - 05:26pm: Apple store is offline

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:28:05 +0000

Are you ready :D ;)

Google do the right thing

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:10:03 +0000

Because of interest of much users to download the Video viewable on Google Video, Big G. insert directly on that web site the “button” for download the Videos.

Formats available:

Windows/Machintosh - .avi con codec XviD
iPod Video - Mpeg4
Sony PSP - Mpeg4

Developer Notes for prototype.js

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:14:33 +0000

Today, with my friend and co-worked Sbatman, we were trying to understand how the famous prototype.js library works.

For not-Ajax developer:

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 developers everywhere.

After an afternoon without appreciable results ( 😢 ), Sbatman found that documentation online: Developer Notes for prototype.js.

Russian Climbing

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:43:31 +0000

8O 8O 8O On Google Video

How to compile aMule 2.1.0 for Ubuntu/Debian

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:54:19 +0000

Thanks to Treviño for the howto (in italian).

But, for high-speed ubuntu/debian users, click here for the .deb.

Intel rolls out Viiv technology, dual-core laptop processors

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:41:50 +0000

Intel at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Thursday unveiled two platforms and several content alliances that provide the foundation for new experiences from digital entertainment and wireless laptops – and include the new high-performance, low-power Intel Core Duo processor…

Intel Viiv technology-based entertainment PCs will help make it easier for families to download, store, view, manage and share all kinds of digital entertainment and information on a choice of TV, PC, laptop and hand-held viewing screens, the company said.

iWeb: only a rumor?

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:30:32 +0000

Just before noon on Thursday, the company’s Garageband and Support websites displayed links to non-existent iLife ‘06 product pages and listed “iWeb” as one of its included applications. Released last year at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, iLife ‘05 – the current version of the suite – includes only iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, GarageBand, and iTunes.

Sources had previously told AppleInsider that Apple was preparing to introduce a new Web design application during next week’s Macworld Expo, which would integrate with the company’s .Mac suite of Internet services.

New Apple laptop to feature Intel Robson cache technology?

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:16 +0000

Although Intel only demonstrated its Robson (here a test) cache technology in the fourth quarter of last year, DigiTimes is citing sources who claim that Apple Computer will launch a laptop in the middle of January that utilizes the NAND flash based cache memory technology.

Robson cache technology, which Intel demonstrated during the Intel Developer Forum Taipei this past October, relies on NAND flash instead of a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) for starting up a computer or launching frequently used applications. Some of the benefits of the technology are speedier computer boot time and improve battery life.

Dodge Challenger Concept

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:01:57 +0000

Really cool!

From AutoBlog.

It’s not only a prototype: it can become a really car. Want number? - engine V8 HEMI, 6,1 dm^3

425 horse power

570 Nm max pair

manual gear (obviously)

But, do you remember anything? :?:

Skype 2.0 is out

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:29:37 +0000

Only for windows, by now. Download it for windows and read the changelog here.

New Windows Vista website

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:26:21 +0000

Windows Vista website have a new amazing layout (no Ajax, sorry) to present in the “right way” the content of the next M$ Operating System. I’m interested in the BIG REVOLUTION that it must start (:lol:).

Hey hey, one more thing: see at the “home oriented” software that will be available with Vista. Remember you anything?

A pensioned woman sues berlusconi

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:01:01 +0000

… because of the false promises of the President Silvio about the “minimum pensions”.

The pension of this woman would to be at least of 519€… instead it’s lower than before the “promises” of berlusconi.

For sources, please start from Neminis.org.

Louis Braille Birthday

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:27:57 +0000

Google dedicated search here.

nohup: leave a command in execution after logout

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:56:44 +0000

nixCraft have an interesting howto about the command nohup.

This command is very interesting, for example, for sys-admin that wants to lauch a command but don’t wants to wait for its termination.

Source, OSSBlog.

1TB for .Mac users

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:41:26 +0000

It’s true? An Apple technician say no, but some users says that our accounts indicates 1 Terabyte.

IMHO, Apple is preparing a service of online video-selling based on a remote disk (no video file on computer users bu only streaming): it’s for security (for majors), but… Jobs knows users know! ;)

A Bug? No, a Feature!

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:33:19 +0000

… a Windows “feature” created in the 1990, in win 3.0, is STILL ALIVE! 8O

The problem? This “feature”, the function SetAbortProc, is used by windows when a print-job must be stopped.

1990! We are in 2006! We (YOU) are on Windows XP! 8O

Source? Start from the 2cents of Neminis.org.

KDE 4 will run Dashboard Widgets

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:57:36 +0000

It’s easy to understand how: WebKit and KHTML use the same core (now they aren’t still together).

But, what about Cocoa-Based widgets? :?:

From Zack Rusin’s blog:

I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It’s in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we’ll merge it to HEAD. I’m planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I’ve spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element)…

Apple Bluetooth device: firmware update available

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:33:46 +0000

1.2 Version available on Apple MacOSX site.

Notice: needs reboot, AC-Power and average 15 minutes, after the reboot, to complete the update.

Embedding Python in your C programs

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:28:30 +0000

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively compiled programs. However, they are not languages that lend themselves to runtime flexibility. Once a C/C++ application is compiled, its code is pretty much static. At times, that can be a real hindrance. For example, if you want to allow users of a program to create plugins easily that extend the application’s functionality, you have to deal with complex dynamic linking issues that can cause no end of headaches. Additionally, your users will have to know C/C++ in order to extend the application, which severely limits the number of people capable of writing extensions.

Google Cube: what a joke!

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:22:41 +0000

Joke, wrong, obviously false.

But, here sources:

HAN - Human Area Network :D

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:09:50 +0000

RedTacton is developing a new technology to use the Human Body as a conductor to make Digital Device’s Networks.

There are some application-field for that technology, like:

When a consumer stands in front of an advertising panel, advertising and information matching his or her attributes is automatically displayed.

By touching or standing in front of items they are interested in, consumers can get more in-depth information.

Compiling FreeBSD Kernel

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:28:39 +0000

A custom kernel boots up the system faster, it takes up lesser memory space and one can install drivers for special hardware not supported by a default kernel…

How to get it wrong? ;)

Here is a interesting guide to compile the Kernel for FreeBSD.

XGL screenshots

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:21:05 +0000

XGL is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL. It is at an early stage in development and a number of important pieces are still missing. Xglx is the only server yet that use this architecture, it requires an already existing X server and is only intended for testing and development.

Because of a slow “development process”, Novell decides to migrate the CVS of the Project and to make it private, paying developers to “speed up” the process.

PPC G5 Quad cooling system

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:07:02 +0000

Here is a slideshow of his internals.

Ive has become CBE

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:01:23 +0000

Commander of the British Empire.

Queen Elizabeth II has inserted Johnathan Ive in the New Year Honours list of Great Britain.

… He is widely seen as one of the key figures in Apple’s resurrection.

Mr Ive started working for Apple in 1992 but exerted a big influence on its products only in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to the company he co-founded. Mr Ive’s first design for Apple, the iMac, was hugely influential and has been followed by a series of other widely admired gadgets.

HOWTOs on detronizator.org

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:02:57 +0000

Hi. Today I added a new page in the OUTPUT section: HOWTOs. Obviously, I will insert various kinds of howto.

The first howto is in Italian (and in English, in the future) and is about .htaccess configuration (in development right now).

The Open Source software at my Bachelor Course

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:52:58 +0000

In my University the Open Source has not much esteemer: a my good friend make a interesting “analysis” about the usage of OS software to pass an examination.

At Neminis.org.

~~I found the gEDA Project for Electronic Design Automation: I love you Nemo :D.~~ It does not run on my IceBook :(.

Opera: we are and will be independent. It's true?

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:02:13 +0000

I’m searching on http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/ official confirmation but there isn’t.

MacCity say…

Probably the news is true but I hate posts/news without sources.

Dell install FF on new machines

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:38:07 +0000

It’s a great news: one of the biggest PC-vendor of the planet thinking about install FireFox on new machines.

The butterfly effect on Redmond? :twisted:

Read MacCity article.

Winners and Looser: Apple is on both sides.

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:32:14 +0000

MacCity (today, is a link-storming :D).

WineXT: no, not the emulator.

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:29:17 +0000

WineXT is a MacOSX software (not free, sorry) to archive and manage a good wine cellar (or a wine shop, but I don’t know if have the support for wine selling ;)).

A related link here.

Read on MacCity.

Gennuary 24 2006: new ATI X1900

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:19:22 +0000

I have no money (probably, as you know) and on my old and noisy linux-box have a simple GeForce-2 MX inside.

But I hope a day to have enough money for a MONSTER like this:

On MacCity, an article about the next x1900.

Intel, new core and new slogan: it's OFFICIAL!

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:54:59 +0000

Hypothetical new logos: here.

Hypothetical new slogan: Intel, leap ahead.

Eric Kim, Marketing CEO of Intel, say:

Simple expression that highlights who we are and where we go.

In this article (in italian) on MacCity there are some other informations about this “revolution”: the Pentium name will die. Names like “Core Solo” or “Core Duo” will be the news.

Read the article above for more details.

IMHO, Apple will not use the Intel logo on the future MacTel machines… I hope :|.

New layout for detronizator.org

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:27:36 +0000

Today, after the “fast switch” to WP2.0, I decide to change my layout: after I saw it on Firefox and IE on a CRT monitor (I work always on my lovelly IceBook) and… orrible.

At the same time, I founded the K2 theme engine (simple and clean). And the Chameleon stylesheet on that page (very good base).

With a little CSS work, this is the result. Probably, in the next week I change little things, for example the logo (I love my old logo) but now… it’s ok.

Migrated to WordPress 2.0

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:59:38 +0000

I have migrated my site to WordPress 2.0 today. But, as you can se, some changes are “under the hood”.

In particular, significative changes are for the Admin: read here, here and here.

Want’s to migrate to WP2.0? Read this BEAUTIFUL guide (from codex, obviously), and download this AMAZING piece of code here.

If you loved the Administrative interface of WP for it’s simplicity, this new interface, heavly based on , will make you screaming. I’m sure ;).

Feeds Icons

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:42:00 +0000

Help establish the new standard

It’s the title of a new Web Site that have the objective of make a new standard: the Firefox Feeds Icon.

A new standard is being established to identify syndacated content. You can help by adding this icon to your site.

Link to the official web site.

I recommend to use it ;).

FIAT 500 attended for 2007

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:22:02 +0000

I have one of this in my garage: beauty, slim, funny car.

The future project of FIAT 500 seems to be “on the right way”: I hope Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torino works well.

Through AutoBlog.

Photos:

ThinkGeek T-shirts for *nix users

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:38:03 +0000

Very very funny: I will buy some of this… when I can! :D

Link.

Guido Van Rossum go to Google

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:36:17 +0000

Google assumes the creator of Python. As you (probably) know, Python is one of the most used language in G. (together with C++ and Java).

A good thing (evolution and power for Python development) or the transformation of Python in a “Google only oriented language”?

Stay tuned.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 available

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:28:51 +0000

Via OSSBlog.

Paper Bookmarks: what's?

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:27:09 +0000

A simple but AMAZING idea. Bookmarking of the Hard-book!

Here.

Manage ARA PBX easy

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:54 +0000

Callware VoiceOne is a web-app with an user-friendly look&feel about the management of PBX based on Asterisk Realtime Architecture (ARA) platform.

With this software, it’s possible to control the internal telephone line of our (:D) company. It’s possible to manage:

Internal numbers
VoIP Providers
Queue and multilevel permissions
Automatic responser systems

The application is under the Open Source LGP license and require Linux. Actually, 0.1 version is available.

BlogFS

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:12:38 +0000

BlogFS is a FUSE filesystem allowing you to mount your WordPress blog on your local filesystem. It uses XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API to communicate with WordPress. It might work on other MetaWeblog compatible weblogs, but it has only been tested with the single user edition of WordPress 1.5.

Shiira 1.2

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:11:13 +0000

This browser is a beauty “piece of code”: use the WebKit rendering engine and is full of good, usefull, great ideas.

It’s very slim and fast (as Safari) and have some functionality that I saw only in FF extensions.

Homepage here.

Screenshots here.

Apple Newton: Apple did PDA

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:03:52 +0000

I don’t know this: Apple, in past, did PDA. Apple Newton.

Here a wikipedia article.

And here an article (in italian) of Melablog about a museum dedicated to this fashinating PDA.

Google's Top Gainers of 2005

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:31:12 +0000

Here is the “classifications” of the most requested things on Google web-search engine during the 2005.

Very interesting this:

Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005

Myspace

Ares

Baidu

wikipedia

orkut

iTunes

Sky News

World of Warcraft

Green Day

Leonardo da Vinci

Very notable (for me, obviously) are wikipedia (4), iTunes (6) and World of Warcrafs (8).

Wikipedia is demonstrating its power: a good idea that I hope never die.
iTunes is demonstrating the power of music-selling on-line
WoW: Amazing. The greatest game of the last years.

CBT - Computer Based Training

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:12:38 +0000

It’s a new and interesting site that offers some sceencast about various arguments.

One of the most interesting is:

Linux DNS Server 38 minutes 28 seconds This video explains how to set up a DNS server on a GNU/Linux server. In the video I explain a little bit about how DNS works, then I install and configure BIND in a chroot jail on 2 DNS servers in a master/slave relationship. This video is specifically tailored to setting up DNS for a web server.

Fish: a new Unix Shell

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:03:28 +0000

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.

Bash is a standard (de facto), as every *nix user now but… this is the beauty of the OpenSource: any other programmer can think “hey, I want to remake this in another way!” and, than, do!

Fish is a beautiful example.

For screenshots-addicted users (like me ;)), go here.

-EDIT- Thanks to Nemo for “errata-corrige”.

Googled Blog

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:27:48 +0000

Google offers a great variety of services for users that wants to promote and make more reliable our site:

Today, I register detronizator.org on that services and updated the theme with some components: “Google Search Bar”, “Google AdSense”, “Google Referral”.

I make also the Sitemap of my Blog with this.

Now, CLICK ON EVERY Ads to make me rich! :D

PowerPC and Sparc: highlanders?

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:18:17 +0000

Ok, also Apple does believes in PowerPC no more. It seems that the future will be Intel-Based (ooooh my good!?!? what a joke? O_o), but the world is wide and the Tecnologies are much too much.

IBM and Sun, in similary way, are opening our tecnology (PowerPC and lastest Ultra Sparc, respectivelly) to the comunity (in particular, to Universitary comunity) to create (they hope) a large comunity of developer that are interest in study and development of this, in any case, big and powerfull platform (IMHO).

Play with Xcode build settings

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:09:19 +0000

In order to become an effective Xcode user, you need to understand two major Xcode concepts. The first is how Xcode projects are defined and organized. The second is how the Xcode build system takes the targets that are defined in your projects and turns them into products.

There is a lot of flexibility in the Xcode build system for customization, so you can choose to keep your settings simple or make them as complex as you like. But for most purposes, a basic understanding of how build settings and build configurations work will make this topic easy to master—once you have these concepts clear, you can choose the settings that work best for you.

ASUS copy Apple Style

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:50:54 +0000

Hey, this is not a personalized version of Apple iBook! No, it’s:

ASUS W6 Premium Edition Notebook Series “Reflects” Impeccable Taste in Digital Fashion. Gloss Coated LCD Cover, Pearl White Housing with Gold Details Offer Superior Mobility with Style…

Taste in Digital Fashion???? O_o IT’s the iBook PHOTOCOPY!!! It’s a “without-shame” copy of the ORIGINAL, BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING Apple Style!

Asus, are you joke?

Ariel Atom (500 kg, 300 cv, 50.000 €)

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:17:46 +0000

Amazing: Top Gear video-article.

Tips: look at the face of the tester during the “0-100km/h in 2,9s” acceleration :D.

Here the Ariel Motor website.

New pages on www.detronizator.org

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:20:23 +0000

Hi. Finally, I take a lot of time to make my personal pages.

I insert the “right things” in the pages WORKS (my occupations, my works and my experiences), and OUTPUTS (my universitary and personal projects).

[Parody] Video iPod = Heavy ass

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:08:58 +0000

Very very COOL!

On MelaBlog I found this: http://smartdelivery.watchmactv.com/mactv/mp4/087-ConaniPod.mp4.

Download and see: few seconds but… :D.

ps on Melablog u can find also the link to the iPod Video version.

Windows Vista will cut off the UI from the Kernel

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:43:17 +0000

… The company has already announced to developers that most drivers, including graphics, will run in user mode - which means that they don’t get access to the privileged kernel mode (or Ring 0). At this level, a process can do anything it likes, including overwriting memory that doesn’t belong to it. The result of such overwriting by (usually) buggy code is often a system crash. So the move should result in greater reliability, because crashing drivers cause some 89 per cent of system crashes in Windows XP, according to Microsoft. When run in user mode, they won’t be able to bring down the entire system…

WP Plugin: Google Sitemap Generator

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:03:14 +0000

A pretty plugin for WP: link. In less then 2 minute I have my sitemap “up and running”.

Good job Arne.

Syllable

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:44:42 +0000

Syllable is a reliable and easy-to-use GPLed operating system for the home and small office user

http://www.syllable.org/

This Operating System birth with the SOHO in mind: all the Graphics System (the X server, for the *nix-lover) is built-in the Kernel. It’s a good idea to test it… if I had enough time.

Gentoo Linux - Visual Installer Project

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:35:05 +0000

It’s, IMHO, the project that can give to Gentoo the right “power” and “motivation” to become the BEST source-based distribution in the world (is it not already? ;)).

The installer looks really coerent with the “manual-old-style” Gentoo Installation and offers an on-line help to guide the user through the (beautiful) installation process.

There is a graphical partitioning tool and … some other interesting features.

Good luck Gentoo. Link.

-EDIT- Thanks to KillinMilk for the “errata-corrige”.

iTunes Signature Maker

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:22:13 +0000

It’s a java applet that make a “signature mix” of your library based on information like rating or number of plays.

Here my signature (and here). Here the site where you can found the iTSM. Here the post of MelaBlog that highlight to me this news.

-EDIT- My Signature Structure: Paramilitar Ska-P

To The Place E-The-Hot feat. Lil’ Nova

E’ Natale (ma io non ci sto dentro) Articolo 31

Vertigo U2

Intro Articolo 31

Woz sell his home

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:13:48 +0000

Wozland: it’s the name that Wozniak use for it’s “child-centric” home. And, it’s on “for sale”. Here the brochure.

From MelaBlog.

MacWorld at San Francisco at January, 9-13 2006

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:03:15 +0000

I’m sure: all mac users already know what the next MacWorld promise to deliver us. I wants only to “highlight” you the sure date and the official link: http://www.macworldexpo.com/live/20/.

Jobs, of course, present the event the January 9. Any idea about that? :D :D :D

Google will not sell music...

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:58:37 +0000

… but continue to do the thing that Google make in the BEST WAY: http://www.google.com/musicsearch. This is the new service that the big G offers: centralization of Music search, getting data from stores like

and some others.

Offers Album indicization (obviously) and other amazing services like lyrics.

I hope Google offers APIs (really? I’m sure he will do!): in a little amount of time some applications will use the informations stored in this Services to increase our beautiness :D (examples? some OpenSource application can retrieve Lyrics from the Google “auto-magically”!).

Ice Age 2

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:46:42 +0000

Yes, I’m sure I’ll like this film much too much.

Here the Teaser and the first Trailer.

Notice: The quality of the trailers is STRONGER. The algorithm H.264 developed by Apple and released as open format is demonstrating it’s power!!!

To Blue or not to Blue?

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:18:40 +0000

Ok ok. Excuse me, but I can’t resist :). Personally, I use a different style for a different emotional-status (in other words, change the Aqua theme one month at time).

Vote for your preferred here.

ps Obviously, it’s only for (cool) Mac users :D.

Where was I?

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:45:46 +0000

Eclipse.org has a new amazing skin: http://www.eclipse.org/. Here is the homepage of the Phoenix Project.

APIs for Google Homepage

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:20:24 +0000

GOOGLE API’s comment (italian). About that on the Google blog. The Official Guide.

The chance to write motorsport history

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:22:56 +0000

It’s TRUE: Audi will run on the 24 Le Mans with a Diesel motor; a TDI engine.

Official Site. Comment (in Italian) of www.autoblog.it.

I love cars, and I hate cars (they are destroying the planet), and read about the utilization of a diesel-based engine to run for the 24LM it the sign of a new time for the diesel. Good luke Audi.

ps When run with hybrid or, better, gas-natural engie?

XBOX 360 does not run XBOX games!!! O_o

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:24:12 +0000

I really don’t know that before (article in italian), but it’s REALLY ABSURD!!! I (ipotetically, I HATE MS(not the cigarettes ;))) had spent much money for some games and now, if I want to buy a new Xbox 360, MS does not make the console “immediatly retrocompatible” but… I need to spend other money for a “plug-in” (I don’t know what exactly but… it’s irrelevant).

Why people buy these products? Why does not buy the Sony Console that is retrocompatible “by project”!?!?!?!

A certifiable path to Linux Jobs

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:11:06 +0000

You don’t have to have a Linux certification to get a job working with Linux, but it can’t hurt.

Simply working on Linux is easy. Join a Linux community like The Debian Project, Red Hat’s Fedora, Novell’s OpenSUSE, or half-a-hundred projects and go for it. Of course, you won’t get paid, and 95 percent of the work on Linux projects is programming. So, if you want a salary, and your skills lie in system administration or network management, it behooves you to look into Linux certifications. …

How to clean-up your last Apple Mouse

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:10:14 +0000

Mighty Mouse, beautiful, whiteful, cleanful… but your hands are not “fever-clean”. And because we LOVE the white of the Apple-Style, here is an article (in italian) about this: MelaBlog.

Here, you can find the article released from Apple: How to clean your Mighty Mouse.

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:47:11 +0000

Interesting article of Dion Hinchcliffe about the best Web 2.0 application of the year.

… So in spirit of the holidays, here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software that I’ve come across so far. You may have heard of some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a few nice new Christmas presents under your Web 2.0 tree. …

The article.

DivX 6.0 now available for MacOSX >= 10.3

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:35:10 +0000

DivX 6 for MacOSX

I’m not a DivX lover now: I prefer absolutelly XviD but on the net we will find some video compressed with DivX and… it’s a “must have” thing.

New logo for Intel

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:26:21 +0000

Intel wants to rebrand itself: here a link to the article. On the web, there is various new example “brands” for Intel: .

Here an interesting comment of MelaBlog about this question.

Anyway, I think thats are only speculations: that logos are no “credible” for a company like Intel. IMHO.

Geek's girlfriend: 10 laws

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:35:22 +0000

http://www.emilyhambidge.com/blog/emily/66/ Very very funny! Any other girl that want’s a Geek? :D I’m perfectly the same that Emily describe in her blog. :D

Simple and Direct

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:42:24 +0000

Wordpress is surprising me: I had tried Joombla, Drupal and other minor CMS/Blog system. They was heavy to understand and to use. Too many “personalizations” and “features” that a “simple and with-no-time” user does not require. I appreciate the use of very large characters in the administration interface, that evidence the interest of WP’s developers to make “build a blog” simple. WP offers, also, a simple way to make a personal web site, adding Pages and with the “feature” to do that gerarchically. Finally I can make a personal blog and a personal homepage at the same time… without needs to understand an API framework or the strange and complex structure of a CMS.

My first post on Wordpress...

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:49:39 +0000

Another. Another test of another cms/weblog system/way-to-make-my-homepage.

Will I make it… a day?

Anyway, I had imported old post that I make on the Google Blogger Platform.

Not a BUG: a Features!!!

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:48:43 +0000

Very very nice:

[posted with ecto]