Archive for the 'Micro & Soft' 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 […]

NYTimes video: workaround!

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

As I answered to Jonathan Ryshpan in a previous post concerning NYTimes linux support, a working workaround for visualizing the NYTimes video is to install the User Agent Switcher extension of Firefox. Then you select the “IE6″ identification string, and the website lets you in the video section! Thanks to the fellows from the forum […]

Opinion-builders

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Do you remember my email to NYTimes support service?

From:
FeedRoom Customer Support via RT

Reply-To:
feedback AT rt.feedroom.com

To:
MY EMAIL

Subject:
[feedroom.com #347805] nytd-Feedback

Date:
29 Jun 2006 20:59:08 -0000 (22:59 CEST)

 

Thank you for taking the time to write.
We apologize that we do not offer Linux support at this time. We hope
to offer it in […]

No Discrimination For Linux Users

Monday, June 26th, 2006

UPDATE: They replied!!!
I read every time more often the international news of the online editions of British and American newspapers or press agencies. I find they are more fair and complete than the Italian ones.
The New York Times has a Video section in which are stored videos from its reporters: in the homepage of the […]

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 […]

Microsoft has to pay

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

The sentence was confirmed: Microsoft has to pay USD 65 million for stealing a copyrighted idea related to office suites from a guatemala programmer.
Slashdot says

RETIRED?!??!?!?!?!?

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Bill Gates announces his retiring…
Unbelievable