Monthly Archives: September 2008

EROEI: usare Wikipedia :)

Leggendo i referer di questo sito, ho scoperto che diverse persone l’hanno raggiunto interrogando un motore di ricerca per
Quanti barili di petrolio servono per estrarre un barile di petrolio?
e anche per
Quanto petrolio serve per produrre i pannelli fotovoltaici?
A queste domande sono date delle risposte (direi soddisfacenti per il lettore medio) sulla pagina relativa all’EROEI di [...]

Disabling Live Bookmarks

This is a reminder for me and a note for you; disabling Firefox Live Bookmarks is not easy: once enabled, I didn’t find the way to turn them off anymore (therefore, asking Firefox to show a feed drives it to pop up the “Add to Live Bookmarks” pop-up, instead of simply showing the feed most [...]

Calf-Point 0.3 is out

This release adds the previously missing custom menu.

A moment of clarity

Vincent: So you decided to be a bum?
Jules: I’ll just be Jules, Vincent - no more, no less.
Vincent: No Jules, you’re gonna be like those pieces of s**t out there who beg for change. They walk around like a bunch of f****n’ zombies, they sleep in garbage bins, they eat what I throw away, and [...]

Customising wp-comments-post.php

It could be due to my ignorance but I find odd that WordPress templates rarely offer a customised way to show the comment’s output when the users forget to fill a field (or they fill it wrongly). Usually, they simply call wp-comments-post.php that shows quite a poor output.
I’ve tried to go over this problem with [...]

Highlighting a recent post

I was asked to modify the way the “recent entries” widget shows its posts… the problem was to force the native WordPress widget to show a class=”something” for a post in the list (in case the post was exactly the one showed within single.php).
Starting from the original code, I could have written a widget instead [...]

Mounting a My Book with Samba

This is a reminder for me and a note for you: I’ve just mounted a Western Digital My Book… without having had a look at it with this raw one-liner:
smbmount //its_ip/public /mnt -o \
workgroup=MYBOOKWORLD,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,\
username=admin,password=123456