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Dad, may I play?

Dad, may I play with your computer?

Dad, may I play with your computer?

And I have to move to the humble, smallish and slow old eeepc.

At least I’m lucky enough of using vim and tmux so I don’t have to really stop. Just detach the session and reattach it into a new ssh connection.

Proficient with….

I was naïvely opening Linkedin when I saw this telling people I’m able to use “Microsoft Office” would attract up to 15% more views? Really, are they serious? I’ve been a proud user of StarOffice then OpenOffice then LibreOffice since… forever, or better since it was still called StarOffice… Yes, I’ve used Microsoft Office and…

Paolo Redaelli

I’ve been tweaking a little “Tutorial tour – Liberty Eiffel Wiki

After having been extensively using WordPress and Markdown for a while the syntax of MediaWiki feels almost alien…

Fool’s day

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Only on the fool’s day I could have done the foolishness of coming to work on hour earlier than usual for the sake of a.l bet with a coworker… 🙂

Torvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot

Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”

I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.

 

Paolo Redaelli

VoCore: Mini Linux Computer | Slashdot Deals

VoCore: Mini Linux Computer, Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet!

This is more powerful than my first Linux box, which was an Amiga 1200 with 16mb of memory and a 50mhz Motorola 68060 CPU! They can’t make it smaller, they’ve hit the size of an Ethernet plug!

 

They got an Elephant In the House

From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding…