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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>temporaneità</title><link>http://perassi.org</link><description>English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi</description><language>en</language><generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3</generator><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/temporaneita" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Eee Box and Wubi</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/455587730/</link><category>English</category><category>free software</category><category>Ubuntu</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:05:02 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=658</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://event.asus.com/eeepc/microsites/eeebox/en/">Eee Box</a> comes without cdrom: I&#8217;ve <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick">tried</a> to install a GNU/Linux distro within a USB stick but the BIOS didn&#8217;t recognise it every time (I don&#8217;t know why). So the fastest way to install it - without a cdrom or a stick - was using <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/">Wubi</a>. Changing <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%20do%20I%20make%20Ubuntu%20the%20default%20boot%20option?">boot order</a> was simple too!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/455587730" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Eee Box comes without cdrom: I&amp;#8217;ve tried to install a GNU/Linux distro within a USB stick but the BIOS didn&amp;#8217;t recognise it every time (I don&amp;#8217;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!</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/17/eee-box-and-wubi/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/17/eee-box-and-wubi/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Notes about TPCI 2008-11</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/451468418/</link><category>English</category><category>scratches</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:31:37 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=651</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm">TPCI</a> November Headline is</p>
<blockquote><p>Visual Programming Languages Popular (Logo, Alice, NXT-G)</p></blockquote>
<p>Visual programming? Are you on drug? May I have some? <img src='http://perassi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/451468418" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>The TPCI November Headline is
Visual Programming Languages Popular (Logo, Alice, NXT-G)
Visual programming? Are you on drug? May I have some?</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/13/notes-about-tpci-2008-11/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/13/notes-about-tpci-2008-11/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>They did it again</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/450467332/</link><category>English</category><category>dark side</category><category>Nick Drake</category><category>scratches</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:35:07 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=663</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>I remember an old sentence once read on IRC, many years ago:</p>
<blockquote><p>
I don&#8217;t watch TV: one tube is enough.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Nowadays, with LCDs widespread all around, even though there are not many tubes left I still don&#8217;t watch much TV. Yesterday, passing by a television set, I incidentally noticed a commercial advertising of a sore throat relief tablet: its soundtrack used about two seconds of <a href="http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/NDpink.html#MORNING">From the morning</a>.</p>
<p>Using such a perfect song as the soundtrack of an advertising&#8230; why was so important to make us acquainted of their scurvy life?</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/450467332" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>I remember an old sentence once read on IRC, many years ago:

I don&amp;#8217;t watch TV: one tube is enough.

Nowadays, with LCDs widespread all around, even though there are not many tubes left I still don&amp;#8217;t watch much TV. Yesterday, passing by a television set, I incidentally noticed a commercial advertising of a sore throat relief [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/12/they-did-it-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/12/they-did-it-again/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Local rulers</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/449137140/</link><category>English</category><category>Piedmont</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:26:35 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=639</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Update</strong>: this new post is already outdated but it was too fun to write it to suspend its scheduled release (becasue I&#8217;ve got the protocol! :D)</p>
<p>Although their shiny websites and fortunes spend daily, too often it&#8217;s so hard to get a reply from an email sent to a civil service.</p>
<p>During the last weeks, I unsuccessfully tried in many ways to know where I could read the text of an agreement protocol I was interested in. I didn&#8217;t get any answer&#8230; even something like &#8220;How do you dare to write to us, you peasant?!&#8221; would have been better than nothing. <img src='http://perassi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So even a universally recognized masterpiece of writing like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a> may suggest to its reader unexpected links between events and thoughts.</p>
<p>There is a section where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> lists facts for whom <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom">George III of the United Kingdom</a> acted more like a tyrant than a king.</p>
<p>One of those charges against King George is</p>
<blockquote><p>
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Bad habits are hard to die.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/449137140" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Update: this new post is already outdated but it was too fun to write it to suspend its scheduled release (becasue I&amp;#8217;ve got the protocol! :D)
Although their shiny websites and fortunes spend daily, too often it&amp;#8217;s so hard to get a reply from an email sent to a civil service.
During the last weeks, I unsuccessfully [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/11/unworthy-rulers/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/11/unworthy-rulers/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>What a dog is!</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/445105870/</link><category>English</category><category>scratches</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:05:40 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=631</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>When you come back home after sunset, your dog might be the one who sees the dawn.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/445105870" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>When you come back home after sunset, your dog might be the one who sees the dawn.</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/07/what-a-dog-is/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/07/what-a-dog-is/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Are right libertarians gone for good? :)</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/442777552/</link><category>English</category><category>amicizia</category><category>scratches</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:01 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=613</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Having read <a href="http://jerith.livejournal.com/45855.html">Jerith</a>&#8217;s answers to the <a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/">Political Compass</a> test, I tried it by myself.</p>
<p>If you are curious, my coordinates are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Economic Left/Right: -4,62;</li>
<li>Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5,79.</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Are there really so few of them? Is my friend <a href="http://media.polito.it/elias">Elias</a> the last <strong>right</strong> libertarian <strong>left</strong>? Sorry, I couldn&#8217;t resist such a good pun. <img src='http://perassi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/442777552" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Having read Jerith&amp;#8217;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 really so few of them? [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/05/are-right-liberatarian-gone-for-good/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/05/are-right-liberatarian-gone-for-good/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Coordinate Comuni piemontesi</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/440582968/</link><category>Italiano</category><category>Google</category><category>Piedmont</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:19:28 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=634</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>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. <img src='http://perassi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Il <a href="/quickhacks/comuni/comuni.csv">file</a> (CSV) comprende:</p>
<ol>
<li>Codice ISTAT;</li>
<li>Comune;</li>
<li>Provincia (Sigla);</li>
<li>Latitudine;</li>
<li>Longitudine.</li>
</ol>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/440582968" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>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.</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/11/03/coordinate-comuni-piemontesi/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/11/03/coordinate-comuni-piemontesi/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Blog Action Day: poverty</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/421173901/</link><category>English</category><category>Blog Action Day</category><category>Fai notizia</category><category>Rientrodolce</category><category>scratches</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:44:55 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=559</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Having registered this website on the <a href="http://blogactionday.org/">Blog Action Day</a>, I&#8217;ll try to write here some notes about poverty.</p>
<p>A few months ago, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Daly">Professor Herman Daly</a> wrote <a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3941">Towards A Steady-State Economy</a> (an article published on &#8220;The Oil Drum&#8221;): one of its very observant passages was</p>
<blockquote><p>
What is the proper range of inequality — one that rewards real differences and contributions rather than just multiplying privilege? Plato thought it was a factor of four. Universities, civil services and the military seem to manage with a factor of ten to twenty. In the US corporate sector it is over 500.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Regardless of the fact that nowadays, as far as I know, there still isn&#8217;t any formal work on the ,teady-State Economy and, more or less, it&#8217;s like talking about economy before the Adam Smith age; in the long run we don&#8217;t have many cards to play: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_theory">Olduvai</a> (which, sadly, could be a way to solve the problem) or the Steady-State, which could be - on the other hand - a viable way to reply to what thermodynamics accounts for.</p>
<p><script src="http://blogactionday.org/js/93f6bd46ab74379771aad7658c2871a33ec2b724" type="text/javascript"></script></p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/421173901" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Having registered this website on the Blog Action Day, I&amp;#8217;ll try to write here some notes about poverty.
A few months ago, Professor Herman Daly wrote Towards A Steady-State Economy (an article published on &amp;#8220;The Oil Drum&amp;#8221;): one of its very observant passages was

What is the proper range of inequality — one that rewards real differences [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-poverty/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-poverty/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Calf-Point 0.4 is out</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/416449611/</link><category>English</category><category>trivial hacks</category><category>WordPress</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:36:18 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=600</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="/2008/08/21/calf-point/">This release</a> adds a modified version of <a href="http://pooliestudios.com/projects/iconize/">Iconize</a> (thanks to <a href="http://strange97.wordpress.com/">Maurizio</a> for having tuned the CSS files).</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~4/416449611" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>This release adds a modified version of Iconize (thanks to Maurizio for having tuned the CSS files).</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://perassi.org/2008/10/10/calf-point-04-is-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://perassi.org/2008/10/10/calf-point-04-is-out/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>100 Watt - Sertorio Renda</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/temporaneita/~3/413322040/</link><category>Italiano</category><category>Fai notizia</category><category>Rientrodolce</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Carlo</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:25:54 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://perassi.org/?p=574</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Voglio provare a scrivere un post particolare: la &#8220;recensione&#8221; di un libro che certamente suggerisco&#8230; del quale descriverò gli aspetti, secondo me, in qualche modo negativi che proprio non posso fare a meno di riportare.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bollatiboringhieri.it/scheda.php?codice=9788833918426">Cento Watt per il prossimo milardo di anni</a> ha un inizio straordinario e una prosa particolare, interessante: la descrizione dei tre flussi di energia fondamentali del pianeta, seppur breve, è molto chiara e certo utile (e su questo punto penso che ritornerò in un prossimo post) e sono certo tanti i motivi per cui vale la pena leggerlo che posso subito passare ai punti che mi hanno davvero lasciato perplesso. <img src='http://perassi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>A pagina 100, dopo aver descritto l&#8217;argomento centrale del breve volume, gli autori scrivono</p>
<blockquote><p>
Questi uomini figli della scienza si sono posti il compito di operare in modo tale che esseri umani memori del loro insegnamento possano esistere tra un miliardo di anni.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Questa è solo una speranza: nessuno, Sartorio incluso, ha oggi idea di come si possa transitare verso un modello di società sviluppata termodinamicamente non instabile; sappiamo che dobbiamo provare a trovare la strada verso questo sistema ma non è assolutamente detto che ci si possa riuscire&#8230; una specie animale (in particolare poi tra i mammiferi) vive alcuni milioni di anni: perché dovremmo riuscire a spingerci così nel futuro? Può essere una speranza, appunto (quindi piuttosto di &#8220;figli della scienza&#8221; direi &#8220;figli della nostra speranza nella scienza&#8221;): personalmente credo che ci estingueremo molto prima.</p>
<p>Da pagina 124 a pagina 126, gli autori, evidenti estimatori di <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright">Wright</a>, si avventurano nella descrizione di un modello (di sistema e di controllo) di una unità abitativa - di una semplicità imbarazzante - sentendosi competenti e autorizzati (forse dalla loro laurea in Fisica?) a dare consigli agli architetti e agli ingegneri. Onestamente, come ingegneri (o architetti) non abbiamo bisogno di suggerimenti su come fare il nostro mestiere da parte dei fisici&#8230; riusciamo anche senza di loro a ideare (e progettare!) la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_passiva">casa passiva</a>, la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/CasaClima">CasaClima</a> e, per i controlli attivi, anche qui non abbiamo bisogno di suggerimenti sulla domotica! Come il lettore avrà compreso, questa parte mi ha davvero seccato (e per me è raro).</p>
<p>Infine, a pagina 134, gli autori ci fanno calare dall&#8217;alto, improvvisamente, questa affermazione:</p>
<blockquote><p>
(&#8230;) le opere monumentali (per una cività) (&#8230;) possono essere indizio di decadenza.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Ammesso e non concesso che questo si sia verificato in un numero significativo di casi per civiltà del passato, alcuni riferimenti bibliografici sarebbero stati più che graditi!</p>
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