Author: Paolo Redaelli

Wow – Pepper&Carrot

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A free, libre and open-source webcomicsupported directly by its patronsto change the comic book industry!

What a nice, fresh surprise is this Pepper&Carrot!

I’m actually looking for an artist to see if I can commission a set of drawing for a Role Play Game I would like to develop for my beloved daughters. I think I found the artist:

David Revoy

pepper-carrot-cover2_by-david-revoy

Publishing this really nice webcomic under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

As I plan to commission him a set of drawing I think I’ll release it the same way!

Font: Typewriter Cursive

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From Font: Typewriter Cursive | ‘i do’-it-yourself® well, I do feel exactly like the author of this page… this font reminds me of “Cammiamo insieme”, the small newsletter of my oratorio (sorry, no english version) of my childhood and the studying materials made by CUSL at Politecnico di Milano when it was in its old site, some underground rooms managed by students… cusl-polimi

 

If you actually want it you’ll find it at https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/script-12-pitch/

I’ve grabbed a copy of it bt I’m not sure it’s safe to use publicly as it seems it is actively sold online by its copyright holder.

If you want a cursive typewriter font that may be more free-as-in-freedom you may download this Olympia Script (found on http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/olympiafonts.html):

olympiascript

 

In the case they fade from the net, shere they are

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paolo@rigel:~$ sudo badblocks -n -s /dev/sdg
[sudo] password di paolo:
Ricerca dei blocchi non validi (test in moalità lettura-scrittura non distruttiva)
Controllo con un modello casuale: 24.33% done, 8:14:38 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)s)

It’s a long long way to check a 500Gb disk over Usb2 for bad sectors.

I used to carry this disk around. Last summer I plugged it into a TV to play some movie I had on it and it began making a horrible “tlack!”. Ok, I told my family, it’s going to break, let’s make something else.

Now I do really want to check it out, since I already formatted it at low-level and it didn’t show any error.

Are they really allowing this?

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I’m shopping for some books to update my rusting C++ proficiency coming to Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu) | Sutter’s Mill from the omnipresent Wikipedia entry.

I almost jumped when I read this:

Two language features that didn’t make it (yet)

Of the new language features I mentioned last time, only two didn’t make it into C++17:

  • operator. (dot) to allow smart references (in parallel with smart pointers) and much more. During final core language wording review, the authors discovered a problem that couldn’t be fixed in real time at this meeting, and was pulled back while the authors fix the proposal.

Gosh, allowing to redefine the dot operator is a mind blowing, bold move. I can barely think about the consequences.

Let’s spice up

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In the last two months I’ve been almost forced to use this humble EeePc of mine at work:IMG_20170428_084551 a humble netbook from 2010. It was cheap even then (199€ with Ubuntu!) that I have bought because of its portability, knowing it was a slowish machine. For my work flow it’s unbearably slow so I use the plain old remote X sessions, such as paolo@eeepc:~$ ssh -Xf laboratorio oocalc. On a plain LAN it’s almost perfect, while a VNC session is much slower.

I tried Xrdp but on Centos it has some glitches. So why keep trying to use when good old X-Windows is up to the task?

Well, I do acknowledge that in case of real remote session a plain X-session is the slowest thing on planet Earth while RDP seems to provide a better experience than VNC. Too bad I’ve been unable to make it work without passing trough a local VNC session which seems to me a workaround.