NeXuS VUS (Very Unuseful Stuff)

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 avere a disposizione un piccolo server casalingo che metta a disposizione in continuazione tutta una [...]

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Still translating, please be patient.

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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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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 still uses Windows on embedded devices.

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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 specs of the system:
* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
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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 your bookmarks and check quite often.

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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 nice program to listen/manage/download podcasts.
VirtuaWin: virtual desktops on Windows. Not perfect but by far better then the [...]

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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 GUI components, such as the directory selection modal dialog, will not run properly.
Second, it is necessary [...]

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Via orangegeek

Presentation Zen website

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Da TuxJournal via Ziobudda:
Per molto tempo gli accaniti sostenitori del pinguino, in particolar modo del file system Reiser, hanno sostenuto a spada tratta l’innocenza di Hans Reiser sulla triste vicenda che l’ha visto coinvolto. Purtroppo, però, ha appena confessato l’omicidio della moglie.
Anche Reiser si è sempre dichiarato innocente ma qualche giorno fa è arrivato [...]

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