Archive for the 'Linux' 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 […]

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

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!!!

All the Women of Seigo

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Geeks aren’t the only ones with women
A nice out-of-the-topic post!
By the way, if you do not know who is he, Aaron J. Seigo is one of the major KDE hackers

The True Firefox Logo

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

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Vacuum

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Higgs… Noether… Symmetries… SU(3)… Flavour… Color… Crap… Neutrinos… Neutralinos… Standard Model And Beyond…
Why Pisa and Roma universities have a quality of teaching surely NOT better than Padova University, but have plenty of money to send their undergraduates some months in America during the thesis?
Why Pisa and Roma universities consider the Summer Student as an exam […]