Sweden, here I come!
Thanks to dela, I just can’t refrain from shouting that once again! :)
Notes about TPCI 2007-02
The TPCI February Headline is Programming Language D reaches Status A My headline is Ruby gained 10 places and 2% With its 10th place it’s definitely the new boy in town! I also noticed that there are just three languages in the top ten that gained scores and positions: they are Python, JavaScript and Ruby.
Updating WordPress with Subversion and sitecopy
I don’t know why but the official Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion page doesn’t mention an easier (and better?) way to do the same task: svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.1/ wordpress-2.1.1 # substitute 2.1.1 with the version number you need svn export –force wordpress-2.1.1 wp_blog # wp_blog is a folder with your external and previous WordPress version’s files [...]
Cari compagni
Cari Compagni (vecchi e nuovi, di coalizione e di partito, di nome e di fatto), quanti di voi, oggi, avrebbero voluto aver appoggiato politicamente il ricorso della Rosa nel Pugno? Avreste avuto un trotzkista in meno al Senato e ancora un Governo! Bevete dunque il calice della vostra stupida volgarità.
Graziano Fornero
He is the man_of_the_day because I unexpectedly met him close to his old home almost twenty years after he had gone away.
Testing screencast tools
I tried: Byzanz, Istanbul and Xvidcap; I’ve just chosen Byzanz: in my opinion it’s the closest one to the KISS principle and creating animated GIFs makes its output usable even on outdated OSes.
Patente e libretto
Di solito evito di raccontare qualche triste episodio relativo alla sedicente laicità dell’Italia (anche perché gli amici dello UAAR di norma arrivano prima di me :)) ma dato che questa volta non vedo traccia di questo argomento sul loro sito, metterò giù due righe. Pare che un Giudice di Pace abbia revocato la sospensione della [...]
99942 Apophis
I’ve got six words to say to 99942 Apophis: I put my trust in you :).
Intervista al CD di ILS
Il numero di Marzo 2007 di (GNU) Linux Magazine contiene un’intervista al Consiglio Direttivo dell’Italian Linux Society, del quale faccio parte.
Using AWK to remove file extensions
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for awk remove file extension Well, it’s definitely easy to achieve it if your files have just a “.” in their names. You can use this one-liner that works inverting the problem :) # substitute jpg with the extension [...]
