Archive for the 'Security' 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 […]

SElinux is shit

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

SElinux is shit.
No other word about it.
Don’t use Fedora/RedHat or other distros SElinux-based. Shit shit shit.
I proudly DO NOT USE SElinux.
Unfortunately, often somebody gives me a pc with configuration problems, and sometimes it has a SElinux-based distro installed upon it… SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT
P.S. of course, in the epic battle between me […]

Summer Student 12 / Go CERN Go!

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

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Stallmann Interviewed

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Richard Stallmann has been interviewed at the GPLv3 conference, in Barcellona, Spain.
This interesting interview contains Mr Stallmann’s previsions and prospectives for the Open Source community, including those about Trusted Computing (i.e. the new name of Palladium).
The article is more interesting due to the present debate in the Open Source community: in fact, Richard Stallmann leads […]

Microsoft prefers Linux

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Slashdot news of the day: Microsoft will use Linux to serve their corporate wireless LAN.
Well, as many of the comments to the news point out, this is a tremendous news: it means that Microsoft is admitting that their own system is so bad that the possibility of use it for their own corporate […]

The same old story

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Ok, it is time to return to the past.
And to create a new PGP-key pair.