IBM Launches Linux-Only Mainframes
Any positive new about Software Libero is a good new.
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Proprietary software, Software Libero, Web
Both aren’t “liberi”
Chrome – one of the most widespread browser – is proprietary software with Chromium being is “open source” base. According to Debian #Debian Bug report logs for “786909 – chromium: unconditionally downloads binary blob” Chromium even when built from source code still try to inject binary blobs – proprietary software – on your system without…
Games
Dune 2 – Online (browser verion)
Browser version of classic game Dune 2. Dune 2 online can be played in every major browser.
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Creating vector icons with Inkscape is fun and easy.
Once you got proficient with Inkscape, of course. I forgot how much time is required to become actually productive with a new graphical tool.
Javascript, Mood
Fat, obese npm
I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…
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nativeDroid2 – material design theme for jQuery Mobile
material design jQuery mobile theme – nativeDroid is free for private and commercial projects. A clean jQuery Mobile Theme inspired by the native GUI of mobile devices. From : nativeDroid2 – material design theme for jQuery Mobile
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Sorgente: Gratuito a Tutti i Costi | MadBob
Come tutti ben sappiamo, purtroppo, negli anni si è ampiamente diffuso il binomio “software libero = gratis”
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Forse sarebbe opportuno provare a sopperire a questo luogo comune del software libero “gratuito a tutti i costi”, per dare maggiore risalto alle sue effettive proprietà, ed optare per una strategia di comunicazione anti-ciclica. Mentre tutti regalano (o almeno fingono di regalare, ma il risultato percepito è lo stesso…), si dovrebbe porre l’attenzione sul fatto che il software libero – in qualità di software, e dunque prodotto ingegneristico per la cui produzione sono necessarie risorse – abbisogna di supporto, certamente di carattere tecnico (patch, traduzioni e documentazione sono sempre molto gradite) ma anche e soprattutto di carattere economico.
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Mood
xkcd: Matrix Transform
Sometimes a little joke on coordinate transformation made using a matrix is needed. Sorgente: xkcd: Matrix Transform Yet it’s only a simple rotation. There’s no translation neither skew…
Amiga
Amiga Boing Ball Animated GIF – Amigalog
Nostalgia effect in all its glory….. While designing the theme for Amigalog.com I decided to include all the Amiga logos inside the page layout: the typeface logo, the rainbow check mark and the unofficial Boing Ball. For the typeface logo I used the Bodoni font[a], the closest font to the one used in the original…