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 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. ...
[OT] Questo post é parecchio fuori dal “target” di questo blog ma… vale la pena ascoltare il simpaticissimo Tony che ci aggiusta “vindovs” :lol: L’mp3. Il sito ufficiale di T. Tammaro.
Filippo Cerulo ha completato questa guida all’uso di OpenOffice 2.0 e i DataBase. Grazie a Filippo per l’ottimo e completo lavoro (tratta l’integrazione con vari DB, da PostgreSQL a Oracle, passando per MySQL e MSSql). Qui l’indice degli argomenti.
La notizia sta facendo il giro della rete (e parecchi siti ci stanno speculando): non siamo ancora a livelli di censura Cinese ma la resta comunque un fatto degno di nota. Nell’ultima finanziaria c’é un provvedimento senza precedenti: la nuova normativa prevede infatti che, per impedire che gli italiani spendano denaro sui casinò online gestiti in molti diversi paesi, sia necessario impedire loro tout-court di accedere a quei siti… Personalmente, sono contento per il provvedimento in se (odio i Casinò on-line) ma TEMO MOLTISSIMO il crearsi di un precedente: sarebbe il primo caso esplicito ed ufficiale (perché ordinato direttamente con un provvedimento del Governo) di censura su Internet per un paese “occidentale”. ...
Here is a slideshow of his internals.
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. ...
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).
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 :(.
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.