Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Software

Timeo Smart-TV et dona ferentes

Veramente belli ed istruttivi gli appunti di Gabriele Merli come per esempio questo «Windows – Dispositivi fantasma nelle risorse di rete – Gabriele Merli» leggendo i quali rimango sempre più convinto che mai e poi mai una smart-tv entrerà in casa mia. Beh. a dirla tutta varrebbe anche per tablet e telefonini su cui non…

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I want to dive a little into WordPress codebase but modern PHP is quite a different language from what I’ve learned – albeit a little – way ago, so long ago that WordPress didn’t even existed then. Beside reading the obvious official documentation, I’ve discovered that the almighty O’Really seems not to have a recent book on PHP, or a book about recent PHP either. As books from Packt publishing quite often turns out to be “quite shallow”, I’ve been looking for info the good old way, namely IRC channels. They told me these little gems:

Well, they really look the right documentation for me.

X2Go, remote desktop faster than VNC

Sometimes VNC feels too slow, expecially other slow links. Enters X2Go – everywhere@home! X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This is not to be confused with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection,…

Let’s chat!

I’ve been lingering on OTFC #debian-it IRC channel and the almighty Elena of Valhalla made me discover the importance of maintain control over our communications that nowasdays are oftn channeled into various chat, social network and the like. So I’ve read her article «Modern XMPP Server» and Enrico Zini’s «Modern and secure instant messaging» discovering…

tmate • Instant terminal sharing

Today I discovered tmate • Instant terminal sharing  while issuing apt-cache search mate terminal. The Debian/Ubuntu repository told me1 that tmate provides an instant pairing solution, allowing you to share a terminal with one or several teammates. Together with a voice call, it’s almost like pairing in person. The terminal sharing works by using SSH…

Hellish 

Hell must be full of Microsoft servers that must be administered and reinstalled over and over again. I thought of being non proficient in Ms administration since I tried for two full days to install SQL server 2008 on a freshly installed Windows server 2008. I discovered that a whole-life all-Microsoft professional is no better…