"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi

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The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

Google Data Centers Video

An interesting video attached to this post about the Google Data Centers.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/security-first-security-and-data.html

At around 4:05 you can see something that resemble a tape library (or a TAN I suppose) used for backup puroposes.

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New Linux kernel 2.6.38 gets a speed boost

The new Linux Kernel 2.6.38 has been released and has a lot of new exciting features and improvements.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/new-linux-kernel-gets-speed-boost-723
Besides, it seems that Ubuntu Natty will get this kernel.
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Driving a car with the power of thought

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/fup/2011/fup_11_047/index.html

Interactive map of the Linux Kernel

Linux Kernel Map:
http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

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Firefox and the Java Console

After upgrading to the lastest 3.6 Firefox and the latest Jre 6.0.20 on my Ubuntu 10.4, I faced the problem about the Java Console.
Since Jre6u10 the Firefox extension has been dropped by design.
You have to enable it from the Java Console Plugin Control Panel.
Useful links:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460244

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Java_Console_disabled

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511884

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Thnuderbird and Date Display format

To make Thnuderbird display the date in a more readable format, I made the following customizations:

In the prefs.js added these lines:

user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.default”, 2);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek”, 4);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.today”, 0);

just to have a more compact date for the last week messages.

Then to have the date in my locale it_IT, you need something like this:

export LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8

and the trick is done!
The usage of [...]

Gnome Background Generator

I really like to have the background image of my Ubuntu desktop automatically changing over time.
From System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background you can use the Gnome feature of using a special .xml file to accomplish this.
Togheter with this nice Python script (gnome-background-generator) you can simply automate the process of updating the files for [...]

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.4 on HP EliteBook 8530p – Almost all is fine!

I’ve finally upgraded my Laptop to Lucid Lynx 10.4 and all is almost fine.
The volume control from the panel now works coerently, but the brightness control from Fn+F9 and Fn+F10 keys is not working.
I’m trying to upgrade the fglrx driver to 10.9, but this bug #555122 and especially comment #20 may be helpful. There is [...]

An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra

An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra:
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=320

“It is the algorithm for the shortest path, which I designed in about twenty minutes.”

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Why the Nokia N900 is an incredible device

I ordered the N900 just after the Nokia’s launch announce. Being already an N800 owner, I was waiting from a long time for a device like this.
Here is a list of things you can do with it, from my experience on a daily usage basis:
* email reading and writing
* web browsing with flash support and [...]