Paolo Redaelli
Time to install a proper plugin manager for my modular, infinitely-ductile Vim: Vundle, the plug-in manager for Vim http://github.com/gmarik/vundle
June 2015
Growing your VirtualBox Virtual Disk
Most people simply had to deal with proprietary software that more or less runs exclusively on Microsoft OSes. For example when I bought my Dell laptop I used the Microsoft…
RedPhone
I can’t believe I still haven’t install RedPhone from Open Whisper Systems : free-as-in-freedom, licensed under GPLv3
It’s actually over
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil“. For a convenient definition of “evil” it seems when you read news such as this: The default behavior of hotword, a new, black-box…
No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as…
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by…
The amazing JavaScript
Javascript, HTML5 and the browser in all its incarnations are quickly becoming the new amazing way of developing applications for the “plain and simple end-user”. On the MacBook Pro Javascript…
Look, dad!
I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“, as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“.…
Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
Awesome. Quite awesome. Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop is really awesome. Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.We call it clientless…
Big G or Big Brother?
Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the…