Eee Box and Wubi
Eee Box comes without cdrom: I’ve tried to install a GNU/Linux distro within a USB stick but the BIOS didn’t recognise it every time (I don’t know why). So the fastest way to install it – without a cdrom or a stick – was using Wubi. Changing boot order was simple too!
Notes about TPCI 2008-11
The TPCI November Headline is Visual Programming Languages Popular (Logo, Alice, NXT-G) Visual programming? Are you on drugs? May I have some? :)
They did it again
I remember an old sentence once read on IRC, many years ago: I don’t watch TV: one tube is enough. Nowadays, with LCDs widespread all around, even though there are not many tubes left I still don’t watch much TV. Yesterday, passing by a television set, I incidentally noticed a commercial advertising of a sore [...]
Local rulers
Update: this new post is already outdated but it was too much fun to write it to suspend its scheduled release (because I’ve got the protocol! :D) Although they spend fortunes daily to maintain their shiny websites, too often it’s so hard to get a reply from an email sent to a civil service. During [...]
What a dog is!
When you come back home after sunset, your dog might be the one who sees the dawn.
Are right libertarians gone for good? :)
Having read Jerith‘s answers to the Political Compass test, I tried it by myself. If you are curious, my coordinates are: Economic Left/Right: -4,62; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5,79. From my point of view, the most interesting thing is not my result: oddly, it seems there are not many people placed in the lower-right square. Are there [...]
Coordinate Comuni piemontesi
Dopo aver scritto ed eseguito uno script, ecco latitudine e longitudine (secondo Google Maps) di tuti i 1206 Comuni del Piemonte, per gli usi più improbabili. :) Il file (CSV) comprende: Codice ISTAT; Comune; Provincia (Sigla); Latitudine; Longitudine.
