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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. ...

> 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$!!!

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. ;) .

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. ...

> 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?

> Title: Scanline Flowline VFX Subtitle: Photorealistic CG water from SIGGRAPH 2006

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).

In questi giorni non sono a Napoli (torno tonight) ma non mi sono fatto scappare la notiziona: Refurbished anche in Italia ed anche per i comuni mortali. Ora mi sa che non ho più scuse… ;) Un esempio? Refurb MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.16GHz /1GB /100GB /SD /AP /BT - Apple Certified 15.4-inch widescreen display 1440 x 900 resolution 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo 1GB (single SODIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 100GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 4x SuperDrive ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory One FireWire 400 and two USB 2.0 ports ...

Su Downloadblog è uscita la news che VMWare avrebbe reso disponibile la beta di Fusion, quello che dovrebbe essere VMWare Server (o Client, non si sa) per MacIntel. Io allora ho inserito il commento: Ma dove? In realtà nel Post c’era un link che rimandava ad un file da scaricare. Ovviamente, non più disponibile. Si scopre ora (ecco perchè l’UPDATE alla notizia da parte di Downloadblog) che non era affatto na beta pubblica, ma qualcuno che ha violato l’NDA. ...

Finally, someone makes it: it’s probabile the best fitting things for me and my iCal addiction. I have ever thinked about the possibilty of sync my iCall calendars (8 or 9… 8O ) with GCal, thinking that the Google WebApp is very very impressive and beautiful… but there was nothing that make it easy and effective. Now, the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not available right now… but soon it will be. Until then, take a look to the Blog. ...