Clearlooks con Cairo abilitato

Howto in italiano su come abilitare il supporto a Cairo per il tema Clearlooks delle GTK+. Questo tema é il nuovo tema ufficiale di Gnome e devo dire che con il supporto Cairo, tutto funge ancora più velocemente. Qui trovate l’howto.

January 6, 2006 · 1 min · 41 words

nohup: leave a command in execution after logout

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.

January 4, 2006 · 1 min · 34 words

Un libro in italiano sul Networking

Un libro scritto da Vincenzo Ciaglia, capo e fondatore del progetto Netwosix. Il libro lo trovate quì, ed é veramente ben scritto (ne ho letto solo un piccolo pezzo per ora): la cosa interessante é la trattazione abbastanza approfondita che Vincenzo ha fatto di vari protocolli, un paio del livello 2 (tipo l’ARP) e parecchi del livello 3, andando dal Routing (EGP (interessantissimo!) ed IGP) ai DNS all’ICMP. Complimentoni a Vincenzo per il tempo ben speso ed un enorme grazie a nome di tutti gli appassionati (e studiosi) dell’argomento. ...

January 4, 2006 · 1 min · 111 words

KDE 4 will run Dashboard Widgets

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)… ...

January 3, 2006 · 1 min · 125 words

Compiling FreeBSD Kernel

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.

January 3, 2006 · 1 min · 45 words

XGL screenshots

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. ...

January 1, 2006 · 1 min · 98 words

OpenOfficie 2.0 e DB

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.

January 1, 2006 · 1 min · 39 words

HOWTOs on detronizator.org

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).

December 31, 2005 · 1 min · 41 words

The Open Source software at my Bachelor Course

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 :(.

December 31, 2005 · 1 min · 52 words

Dell install FF on new machines

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.

December 30, 2005 · 1 min · 28 words