Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Mood

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…

Unfinished

I found this photo on the website of professional association of architects of Monza and Brianza. It makes me feel sad: I personally designed the concretes used to built that unfinished tower.  Then I found this petition asking to demolish it. Then I don’t feel sad. Sadness turns into anger.

Unpure bliss

I kept having annoying glitches here in my own self-hosted WordPress network so I thought to uninstall the package from the distribution (Debian), installing the pure package from wordpress.org itself. At first I was having the impression of pure bliss.