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

La Fibra che Ride

The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

The Solution Schema for Every Problem

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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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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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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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RIAFFERMAZIONE DEI PRINCIPI FONDANTI LA RETE INTERNET

RIAFFERMAZIONE DEI PRINCIPI FONDANTI LA RETE INTERNET

ISOC Italia, delegazione nazionale di Internet Society, preso atto del dispositivo della sentenza di primo grado,emessa il 24 febbraio scorso dal Tribunale di Milano, che ha condannato tre dirigenti di Google per violazione delle norme sulla privacy, a causa di un video rimasto presente per alcune settimane nel 2006 [...]

Simple IPV4 to IPV6 address converter

A dirty 2 shell lines trick to convert a static IPV4 address in the corresponding IPV6:

ipv4=$( ip ad sh eth0 | grep “inet ” | awk ‘{print $2}’| sed -e ‘s/\/.*//’)
printf “2002:%02x%02x:%02x%02x::1″ `echo $ipv4 | tr “.” ” “`

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Shiretoko IS Firefox, it’s only a User Agent issue

On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
but the Ubuntu Mozilla Team has decided to rebrand it as Shiretoko, and this seems to break some sites which relies on the User Agent string. Using the User Agent Switcher add-on for Shiretoko, ops… Firefox, is a [...]

Google Patents World’s Simplest Home Page

Google Patents World’s Simplest Home Page

The first patent request was made on 2004, and now the Google Home Page has received a patent for “Graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal”. Is Bing already violating this patent?

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Internet e la battaglia del mediterraneo

Internet e la battaglia del mediterraneo