This photo of the Bastei Bridge is so beautiful and catchy that seems artificial, almost a model:
I must thank Peter Levi and his Variety, an automatic wallpaper changer, downloader and manager for the Gnome desktop
Fun, Mood
Almost a model
Category: Mood
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
― Clark Zlotchew
Mood
The lamentations of colord and gdm3
I recently installed a machine dedicated to transmit live Holy Masses from my parish and I discovered a subtle malfunctioning of the hardware that sometimes makes it unusable: the Solid State Disk becomes read-only. As you can imagine, almost everything stopped working. Also logging, of course. As I had to hunt it out and catch…
Mood
Riapritele!
Mood
Che sciatteria!
Da qualche anno racconto agli studenti di architettura come “metter le mani” su qualche calcolo di strutture in acciaio ed in calcestruzzo. Mi piace far prendere loro contatto con le Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni e la relativa Circolare interpretativa che in Italia hanno valenza di legge a tutti gli effetti, specialmente le prime. E…
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Fun, Mood
Un metodo infallibile
Ho trovato una maniera infallibile per respingere tutte, ma proprio tutte le telefonate indesiderate, quelle dove vogliono venderti qualcosa o farti sottoscrivere un contratto di qualche tipo. Chiamano da numeri sconosciuti, di solito verso l’ora di pranzo o verso sera. È un sistema semplicissimo e fin’ora ha sempre funzionato senza alcuna eccezione. Basta esordire con…
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Advanced Unix commands to boost your productivity
The more you learn the better you get
- vi or better Vim
- find
- awk
- alias
- netstat
Well, I can say that I do use them all except awk which I usually reimplement poorly using a combination of grep, sed and the like.
Mood
Literary Sources of D&D
Before this precious citations fade from the net I think it’s my “moral duty” to copy them here as they originally where on the now offline http://www.geocities.com/rgfdfaq/sources.html salvaged by webcitations.org. I never realized how deep Poul Anderson influenced D&D. Literary Sources of D&D Compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque
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