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Author: Paolo Redaelli

Wonder Boy or Monster Boy?

I already posted one a video of Wonder Boy. Now on the same “plot” or genre there’s Monster Boy and the cursed kingdom, “created in cooperation with series creator Ryuichi Nishizawa” Wonderful. Even if proprietary. And for “plain old computers” is served throught Steam. Ok, it runs on Linux too. Bi-wonderful. So I finally installed…

Borders

I do like Gutenberg, the “next-gen” WordPress editor. Yet it is still in its infancy as there are many little graphical customization that its basic blocks does not allow for. Neither the old editor allowed them, I must acknoledge, but you could switch to the HTML code and add a <div style="border: red double thick;">…

Alfin Poste chiude la posta.

  Secondo voi una società che si chiama “Poste Italiane” e che ha avuto per più di un secolo il monopolio della posta in Italia non avrebbe come “missione aziendale” nel XXI secolo di offrire servizi di posta elettronica? Ovvio che sì. Ed in fatti Poste Italiane con la diffusione dell’email ha offerto per anni…

how old is your linux installation

I was just wondering how old is my Dell Precision. So I asked DuckDuckGo “how old is your linux” and it told me to to read how old is your linux installation on documentacoes.wordpess.com sudo tune2fs -l $( df -h | awk '$NF ~ "/$" {print $1}' ) | grep created Filesystem created: Wed Nov…

Oh, debug symbols

I forgot how big an executable can become when you compile it with debug symbols. I was recompiling IfcOpenShell. For a moment my 16Gb, 12core machine froze. Well, an executable of six hundred, thirty five millions of bytes! paolo@rigel:/mnt/dati/paolo/src/IfcOpenShell/build/Linux/x86_64/install/ifcopenshell/bin$ file * IfcConvert: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,…

Nice mail discoveries

Holy my! For the first time in years, someone wrote 2 decades, OpenBSD Mail Server Bug Allowed Remotely Executing Shell Commands As Root. So I was curious to find it out on my Debian machine: apt search OpenSMTPD Ordinamento… Fatto Ricerca sul testo… Fatto mblaze/unstable 0.6-1 amd64 utilità UNIX per lavorare con Maildir opensmtpd/testing,unstable 6.6.2p1-1…