Windows on Zio Ivan

Charles: not the Prince, the Proxy

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:33:14 +0000

It’s around 3 months now that I’m spending majority of my time developing for the web. For both Career (my new job at Betfair) and Personal (my pet project txty.mobi) reasons.

And when you do it pretty intensively, with a lot of JSON, Javascript code and what not, you need some tools to “ease tasks”. Particularly, the ones where you need to simulate a non-browser client or stuff like that.

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

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

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.

Iastemma

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:37:04 +0000

No, il Cinguettio questa volta non basta. Ho una domanda per tutti gli utilizzatori di [en:Microsoft Windows] che mi seguono::

MA COME CAZZO FATE AD USARE QUELLA LOTA DI SISTEMA OPERATIVO?

ho perso tipo 2 settimane un mese fa a configurarlo per bene in una partizione dedicato
- ho installato numero 2 giochi ([en:Gears of War] e [en:Race Driver: Grid], due grandissimi giochi) per il puro piacere di dire «Anche io ogni tanto torno bimbio e spendo qualche ora a giocare»

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/).

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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! ;)

Picture of the Day

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

ROTFL

Source, EntreGeeks.

Ci è sfuggita una sottigliezza...

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:49:39 +0000

… che però è più che fondamentale. Quando siamo stati alla “Giornata di Informazione Tecnologica” ci siamo fatti “fregare” dalle parole degli Evangelist Microsoft circa una sottigliezza a dir poco SCONCERTANTE.

Su [en:Windows_Vista|Windows Vista] non si possono installare programmi SE NON come Admin. Questo vuol dire che non si può installare nulla, nemmeno il [en:Mame] o l’emulatore della [en:Playstation|Play]. Con ovvie restrizioni all’usabilità (nonchè alla liberta) degli utenti. E’ ovvio che, che so, il [it:driver] della [it:Scheda Video] vada installato con permessi “elevati”: ma lo stesso non vale se voglio giocare a CrackAttack.

Ci hanno fregato con la storia della retrocompatibilità e della sandbox: su Vista, infatti, i programmi che tentano di scrivere nel registro o in file/directory di sistema vengono “fregati” a livello di API, redirigendo il loro output su una sandbox contenuta nella cartella utente. Molto bello. Ma ci devi arrivare ad installare ;)

Ma questo cosa comporterà (secondo me)? Che TUTTI si faranno account amministratore e useranno SOLO QUELLO, perché è naturale che non si vorrà essere infastiditi continuamente. Questo avrà la naturale conseguenza di eliminare ogni traccia della filosofia “l’account di Admin lo si usa solo se necessario”. E quindi di tutta l’architettura “SICURA” di questo (s)Vista. E, a testimonianza di questo, gli stessi Evangelist lì presenti avevano TUTTI disabilitato la funzione di “chieder loro se continuare o meno quando un programma richiede di eseguire operazioni potenzialmente pericolose”: se nemmeno loro sopportano questi messaggi… figurarsi l’utente.

Seguono altre fonti.

E la chiamano "Giornata di Informazione Tecnologica"...

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:51:37 +0000

Oggi ho partecipato alla “Giornata di Informazione Tecnologica” organizzata dal Centro di Ateneo per i Sistemi Informativi (C.S.I.) della “Federico II”. In questa giornata Microsoft Italia ci ha deliziato con un programma di tutto rispetto:

[en:.NET_Framework_3.0|.Net Framework 3.0]
[en:Windows_Presentation_Foundation|Windows Presentation Foundation]
[en:Office_2007|Office System 2007]
Microsoft [en:SQL_Server_2005|SQL Server 2005]
[en:Windows Vista]

Dopo questa intera giornata di auto-fustigazione (resistere dal picchiare fisicamente i [en:Developer_and_Platform_Evangelism|Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist] è davvero una ardua prova…), solo in uno modo posso esprimere quello che vorrei dire a tutta la società di Gates: ECCOLO QUI!

The BEST Apple Ad

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

Absolutelly the BEST! No Way!

:D :D :D :D :D

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?

Il Dildo Cromato

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:31:50 +0000

Lo so, potrà sembrare quasi volgare come definizione, ma… quello è. Vista è questo. Una nuova interfaccia grafica strafica sul… nulla. Niente di davvero nuovo. Nessuna rivoluzione. Solo tanti calcoli affaticanti per la nostra scheda 3D, che non regalano DAVVERO nulla di utile a livello di [it:Usabilità] ([it:Microsoft|M$] davvero non sa cosa sia…).

Mi fa piacere segnalarvi un articolo che ho trovato su Inquier (versione Italiana). Ecco un estratto:

Prendete 10 persone e fate loro provare Vista; nessuno, oltre la rutilante facciata, sarà capace di trovare altro che un bell’aspetto.

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.

Dicono che già se ne son viste...

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:58:36 +0000

… di schermate BLUE su [en:Windows_Vista|Vista].

Io non mi baserei su una immagine e su un articolo che non contiene riferimenti attendibili… ma … a ridere… già RIDO!!! :D :D :D

P.S. Prossimamente ci presenteremo a un seminario di presentazione di Vista con i nostri adorati Macchini Portatilini: vi faremo sapere le reazioni.

Uh Nemo, guarda: anche io ceeee l’ho questo effetto… ah Nemo, anche questo… Uh, che ridere… il mio non richiede un cluster per girare: “it’s just on my iBook 1Ghz”!!!

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!!! ;)

A proposito dell'Usabilità

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:05:38 +0000

Questo post vuole essere qualcosa in più di un commento al post di Nemo a proposito della “Guerra della Copia”.

In particolare, voglio citare Time Machine (prossimo venturo in Leopard aka Mac OS X 10.5) e Previous Version (prossimo venturo in Vista aka il-sistema-operativo-in-perenne-sviluppo).

Usabilità e Semplicità. Sta tutta qui la chiave. Ed è qui proprio il punto dove dissento dal parere di Nemo: come informatici, sappiamo bene quanto l’Usability sia parte integrante dello sviluppo di un Software. Si possono avere migliaia di features fantastiche:

Windows Vista più complicato dei precedenti

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:01:32 +0000

In questo si legge la filosofia ERRATA di M$. Un sacco di versioni, come a voler giustificare delle fasce di prezzo: più vuoi, più paghi. Quando in realtà l’unica cosa che fanno é togliere e mettere delle DLL.

Cosa succede? Succede che le persone, gli utenti, impazziscono per cercare di capire quale sia la migliore versione per far questo o quello. Davvero una politica scorretta e poco vicina ai bisogni dell’utenza: non capisco proprio come lo si possa presentare come “IL” Sistema Operativo User-Friendly.

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:

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 ;) .

Zucconi e le mele

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:55:22 +0000

Un bellissimo articolo (si legge la qualità dello scrittore) di Vittorio Zucconi, che scopro essere vecchissimo amante delle Mele.

… “Mi perdoni se m’intrometto e mi presento, sono un professore della Stanford University in California, sono a Parigi in vacanza con mia moglie”. E allora? “Le voglio raccontare una piccola storia. Lavoro nel dipartimento di fisica e di computer non so niente. Un paio di mesi or sono una azienda vicina al nostro campus, chiamata Apple Computers, ci ha recapitato una macchinetta che nessuno aveva mai visto prima, gratis, per provarla. I miei colleghi e io le abbiamo dato un’occhiata per divertimento e da allora tutti fanno la fila per adoperarla e ignorano le altre. La prego di credermi, non ho nessun interesse personale né commerciale, non lavoro per la Apple, ma mi permetta di darle un consiglio: si porti a casa questo qui e le giuro su mia moglie - la signora alle sue spalle lo guardò male - che questa sera lei lo userà come se lo avesse sempre avuto”.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 available

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:28:51 +0000

Via OSSBlog.

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…