My first Linux installed and used was RedHat 5.0 Hurricane from 1997. And I’ve been a RedHat desktop user until the 9 came out in 2003. Now 8 years later I am back again. Been long lost in many distributions but seems like finally fedora convinced me to come back 🙂 So here I am … Read More →
Ever wondered what it takes to a laptop to come here? Località Data Ora Locale Descrizione MILANO,IT 11/10/2010 5:33 IN CONSEGNA 11/10/2010 5:25 SCANSIONE ARRIVO BERGAMO,IT 11/10/2010 4:30 SCANSIONE PARTENZA 11/10/2010 3:02 SCANSIONE ARRIVO 11/10/2010 3:02 SCANSIONE ARRIVO KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 11/10/2010 1:48 SCANSIONE PARTENZA KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 10/10/2010 22:36 SCANSIONE IMPORTAZIONE 10/10/2010 20:53 SCANSIONE … Read More →
Or should I say the business is outdated? Just spoke today with some salesman that was at Fastweb (one of the largest Italian MAN providers that also gives NATed access to Internet) to offer some software solutions. Skipping over the jokes and technical staff, here is the sentence important in this context: And then I … Read More →
Sooner or later your slick new notebook is going to annoy you with fan noise and heat. You can even notice it is kinda slowing down. This is inevitable and you will have to open it up (usually happens after your warranty has expired, so no probs), carefully unscrew all these little shiny and black … Read More →
So, now I’ve got this shiny new Milestone with Android 2.1 on board. And as a consequence of this fact, I have up2date contacts on google to sync the address book with. I also have a voicemail implementation on my own asterisk that sends me an email with wav attached in case of a missed … Read More →
Once there was a way to open ODF (Open Document Format, read OpenOffice) docs in MS Office. You could get a free (as in beer) plugin from sun and open files. Not anymore. Although the Oracle site still, at the time of writing, offers the software for free with the tagline “Get it now: FREE”, … Read More →
Oracle has changed Solaris 10 license from “free to use” to “90 days trial” Expect trials for Java SE, MySQL and some “light” versions barely working you can get for free: Now, with its acquisition of Sun finalized, it seems that Oracle has appended this sentence to the license paragraph above: Please remember, your right … Read More →
If you ( better not you, but **** happens) remove your /etc on redhat/centos 5 and you still have an open remote root shell, here is what you have to do to make sure you still can reach the host (I wouldn’t write it if I had a backup): 0. Say f***********ck, take a deep … Read More →
As Neil Schwartzman in returnpath blog says about McAfee email report which shows that overall amount of email has grew up whenever the SPAM ratio remains the same: The very bad news: Overall email volume is way up so the amount of spam has gone way up too. Translation: there is a lot more crap … Read More →
Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from … Read More →