A missed chemical engineer
During the last ten years more or less, I often wished to be a chemical engineer because I’m pretty sure that I could enjoy my free time without finding someone that bothers me with phrases like “You are a chemical engineer… oh, I was just looking for someone to fix the plant I have at [...]
Wishes with a script and Bluetooth
At the end of each of the last few years I sent a short message to my friends with a text like “Dear Name, I wish you a Happy New Year”. It was not possible to send a custom message to each of them using my mobile, so with a bit of scripting I got [...]
Piergiorgio Welby
Piergiorgio is the man_of_the_day; my day and yours, even if you are not Italian or if you are not an Italian radical.
A script to make a folder UNIX-like
Sometimes I have to deal with people who use a tentatively OS that, among other things, doesn’t understand UNIX-like permissions :). I modified a bash script of Kaz Kylheku (found in bash-doc) which for a given folder recursively changes: the permissions of all its files to 644 (and “dos2unix” them); the permissions of all its [...]
A long term artificial object
An artificial solar system made of six stars of the same kind placed to make a hexagon: this view is described in an old novel by Arthur C. Clarke (I’ve forgotten its title, sorry); the whole thing was made by an alien civilization before its extinction and, million years later, it still reminds the human [...]
I offer free beer
As you may have noticed, yesterday I started to use FeedBurner and today it states that there are, on average, seven feed readers of temporaneità: it’s not that much but having some not random readers is a good start and a good surprise :). So dear members of the seven club, let me say that [...]
Is it a real epidemy?
Writing using English helps me to avoid offending too much most of the Italian journalists :-\ I use the Internet every day for work, without any problems, even recently. Today I discovered they’ve started to bother all of us with a new national emergency: we would all be affected by a strong spyware epidemy. I [...]
Samsung SyncMaster 204B with Kubuntu
I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 204B monitor. It’s a 1600×1200 20” with a 5 ms response and bright colors (for a complete review of it, you can point your browser to HardwareCentral). Here I just want to let you know it shines perfectly with Kubuntu :) and that here you can find my xorg.conf, which [...]
A test about logical fallacies
I admit I didn’t do my homework :) so I tried this test to check the knowledge and the ability to recognize logical fallacies: I got a modest 60% score. What about you?
Social bookmarking italiano
Come promemoria personale ed eventuale notizia per altri, gli unici siti di social bookmarking italiano indicati da Wikipedia che ho trovato funzionanti sono: Segnalo, SocialDust
