Archive for the 'GNOME' Category

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…

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 […]

Bug in Ubuntu upgrade of xserver-xorg-core

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It is bugged.
Do not upgrade.
If you have already upgraded, downgrade in the following way:
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_1%3a1.0.2-0ubuntu10.1_i386.deb
Also the .3_i386 version seems bugged, so use the .1.
Well, I am sure they will fix the bug in a few hours!

My Puppy

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Yeah!
Today I went in the students’ computer room of the Physics Department.
Some personal computers have only Windows installed, shame on the Admin.
But today I discovered (via Ossblog that one can put a small Puppy Linux on an USB pendrive and emulate it from a Windows or even Linux pc!
Obviously, I tried immediately: all worked well!!!
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GNOME italian translation project

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Yesterday I joined the GNOME italian translation project!
Basically, I will become responsible for the translation of a GNOME software in Italian!
Unfortunately, they have just updated the website, so it will not possible for some days to choose a software whose translation to mantain!