Category Archives: Information Technology

Non specific news on Information technology

P!=NP has been proved?

Via Slashdot “Researcher Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims proof that P != NP. The 100-page paper has apparently not been peer-reviewed yet, so feel free to dig in and find some flaws. However, the attempt seems to be quite … Continue reading

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Mini-server casalingo

Vista la necessità di dirottare la maggior parte delle finanze verso un altro progetto particolarmente importante, di cui spero di parlare presto, mi sono però concesso una ulteriore folle spesa. Tale spesa è dettata dalla necessità, sempre più reale, di … Continue reading

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New toys

Still translating, please be patient.

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Stopping Qt compilation

Today I tried stopping Qt complation on my Windows maching (using MS compiler). Here are the last few lines of output.

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Blue-screen on an electronic dictionary

I should not be astonished by this kind of things anymore, but when today I saw the Blue Screen of Death on an electronic dictionary (a very common device, here in Korea), I could not but smile! Looks like someone … Continue reading

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Pandora!!!

Holy crap! I did not know about the project Pandora. It is millions of times better than the crappy GP-32! WTF, they already sold out the firs production batch (3000 units)! I will have to wait Christmas… Here are the … Continue reading

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Study online

MIT releases publicly it’s classes since a long time, under the initiative OpenCourseWare. To MIT have nowadays followed both the campuses of Berkley and Stanford with the initiatives Webcast and Stanford Engineering Everywhere. These are websites to absolutely keep in … Continue reading

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Interesting gratis/free/open source Windows programs

Sometimes I have to work on Windows, so why not do it in the most pleasurable way? KDE 4.01 for Windows: still not totally stable, but Kate works like a charm, as well as Umbrello and Dolphin. RSSRadio: a very … Continue reading

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Matlab 7 (R14), Ubuntu 8.04 and GCC 4.x

I recently had the necessity to install Matlab on a Linux machine running Ubuntu 8.04 and I have encountered a few quirks here and there. First it is a good idea to run unset LANG before running Matlab, otherwise certain … Continue reading

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Presentation Zen

Via orangegeek Presentation Zen website

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