Archive for the 'Computer' Category

Fast claws

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I don’t understand the very reason pop3 email clients cannot download 10646 messages all in-a-row…
You cannot even say that they download messages one thousand a time, because for every “Get New Mail” you click, they download a number of mails randomly oscillating between 400 and 600…
Furthermore, the new phaenomenon is that every click creates a […]

Comments activated…

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Funny thing: I deactivated some time ago comments to be able to check for spam the old comments (deleted 15.000 of spam comments…). I forgot to reactivate comments… But spambots were still able to spam!
Now I installed an antispam filter, and reactivated the comments… Let’s hope the filter will work!

Time

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

A seminar from Nicola Cabibbo… It was nice, interesting and stimulating! Perhaps I will write something about it later.
The painter who came to my home to paint the walls used a tricky method to check if the first stratus of paint were still wet: he used an Ohmeter!!! He did not know how it works, […]

No Windows, Great Party

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Dell computers with NO Windows preinstalled. Cool!
Via Ossblog

Spam until you come

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Today I realized that in the last few months I got quite familiar with the idea of having just one or two persons writing comments in the blog: so my moderation activities were limited to the yet-to-moderate comment list. I totally forgot the comments that still went through the filter… So the blog ended with […]

I am reading…

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, as well as a couple Tom Clancy’s books

The Same Old Song for the Same Old Fart

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Happy birthday to meee,
happy birthday to meeee,
happy birthday dear Pietrooo,
happy birthday to meeeeeee!
I gave myself as a present another 30/30 in an exam… So good!

Quote of Today and a thanksgiving

Monday, January 8th, 2007

You should emulate your heros, but don’t carry it too far, especially if they are dead
And thanks to the 1402 unique visitors of this week…

Thank you, Michel Xhaard

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Yep! The Acer Orbicam usb camera integrated in my laptop now is working, thanks to the 1.00.11 version of the
driver developed by Michel Xhaard
Cool!!!

Policies

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

I just changed the moderation policies for the comments, for I had the suspect that some comments were erased with no notification to me…
Let’s see if that works!