Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way. I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu: %s/saucy/wily/gc :wq apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on…
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The Barbie commercial you have to see – The Washington Post
Some days ago I saw this link on Slashdot : The Barbie commercial you have to see – The Washington Post that caught my attention: A new ad campaign is finally making Barbie some feminist friends. I’m father of two daughters, a civil engineer and a long-life programmers and Software Libero user so I was quite…
Mood
Kano – The Computer anyone can make
This is Kano. Let your kids build, learn and create using a computer they make themselves. Kano – The Computer anyone can make the best gift you can make to your children!
How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each? [note] This is not meant to be answered by those who “hate one and love another” or those who haven’t used both.
Sorgente: What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?
That’s so funny!
Mood
A Song Of Regret – YouTube
Song of regret
(Peter Sinfield – Angelo Branduardi)Winter’s frozen moments
Will melt once more to spring,
Birds with peppered feathers
Return once more to sing…
But so high soars the mountain
That though I climb and climb
She always hides her flowers from me…In long ago’s lost garden
The apple trees will bear
A thousand fruits of red and green
But not one will I share…
For constant must I travel
And in some far off land
Lie down once more remembering…
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p class=”text6″>Every time I meet this wonderful song by Angelo Branduardi I cannot help but stopping everything I’m doing and stand still listening to it.
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…
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…
Mood, Software Libero
No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free
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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by the almighty 6510 which has a transistor count of around 3,500. From: AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
Mood
Look, dad!
I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“, as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…