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This guy was always complaining about headaches. He would constantly be pounding his head into his fist and whimper to me that he felt like his head would split open. He took pain killers all the time, and for a long duration was addicted to a certain prescription pain medication. But none of that helped because as soon as the medication started to wear off, the pain would come right back again.

Finally, I had had enough of his complaining. I told him to stop pounding his head with his fist. Whaddayano! His headaches went away in a day.

Moral of the story: Don’t try to find workarounds for your problem. Fix the problem.

(via ./)

E’ ora di appendere la tastiera al chiodo

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Avast si e’ appena riaggiornato (da solo) e l’ha trovato…mi rimangio tutto…

Avast: file Ok

Kaspersky: Scanned file:   Invoice_01082008.exe  - Infected ******8.exe - infected by Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.dzz.

Che dobbiamo fare? Meglio non avere antivirus che un antivirus babbo…

Gianluca tu che sai…che si fa? Altri 40E al sig. Kaspersky?

Ho riportato la cosa ad Avast…

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ue, ci citano adesso :)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-676345.html

http://nhibernate.baccus.ch/

ommioddio ma allora qualcuno ci legge…

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Grandine

Ma la grandine a ferragosto noooo, suvviaaaa.

17 gradi a ferragosto neanche, dai.

DEVE essere un buffo scherzo.

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Time, originally uploaded by hayha.

E per capire che il tempo e’ piu’ importante riflettete sul fatto che “mentre sui soldi si puo’ sempre recuperare, magari guadagnando fra qualche anno quello che non si guadagna ora, con il tempo non si puo’ fare: fra qualche anno, non potremo riavere indietro il tempo sprecato ora”.

In memory of Randy  Pausch

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Studenti

Il  professore allo studente: ‘Lei ha un barometro. Come lo usa per
determinare l’altezza di un grattacielo?’.

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Perche’ si ogni tanto leggo lo spam, e le mail di phishing.

[subject: Ebay Informazia]

Ciao,
ho l’articolo che lei ha richiesto. Per i dettagli e per le immagini copia per favore la maglia di muggito e Incollarlo nel suo browser:

http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/[...]

Lei non puт trovare il prezzo economico di questo.
Fatemi sapere.
Ringraziamenti!
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Caro amico  e sconosciuto phisher, ti sono riconoscente, hai portato il buonumore nella mia giornata. Ma volevi forse dire “la maglia del mugiko?”

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(frase sulla lapide della tomba di Leonardo Sciascia, secondo la sua volonta’)

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rubber ducky, originally uploaded by massdistraction.

omg I love it

Tristess

Generate anche voi (pure se non avete scaricato una beneamata fava) il vostro certificato di adesione al downloaddey.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/it/worldrecord/certificate_form

Non dico spedire una tazza, ma perlomeno un certificatino custom agli utenti registrati, cosi’, pro-parte…

Tristess.

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“I love the mountains,
I love the clear blue skies,
I love big bridges,
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world,
And all its sights and sounds,

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Shattered Glory, originally uploaded by hayha.

Fare la spesa ispira

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Intossica 54 persone col suo vomito

Giappone, aveva ingerito del veleno

Un giapponese di 34 anni si è suicidato ingerendo un pesticida, ma prima di morire ha intossicato col suo vomito velenoso 54 persone

fonte: http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/articoli/articolo414676.shtml



Radiohead@Milan, originally uploaded by hayha.

WOW

BZFLAG is back

Remembering the days when we hacked BzFlag client to achieve super-tank powers…ok, it was my contribute to trolling tradition.
It’s even more enjoable now, and there’s even less trolling around.
Basically you drive a tank, and gotta take out other guys. Depending on the arena, you are allowed to jump.
I know, tanks don’t jump, but jumping and turning in mid-air is definitely a blast.
You have a full set of weapons, but to use them you have to find the right flag…

http://bzflag.org/

Give it a try…

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EEE PC ASUS 1000H meno per la generazione di dati sulla slot machine, a mantenere tre slot USB, supporta anche la Hi-Definizione Dolby suono. Inoltre, il built-in Webcam aggiornato a 1.3 megapixel camera, un 300.000 pixel fotocamera nome superiore, al fine di facilitare andare a lavorare a un video conferenza uso,  EEE PC ASUS 1000H anche built-in altoparlante e microfono, ma anche perché lo schermo aumenta, così oratori sono stati modificati verso il basso. 
Vale la pena di notare che un maggior numero di apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche PC 1000H potere, sono state dotate di un 6 Cell Battery, con 7,8 ore massimo la durata della batteria. (Transformer e la vecchia generazione non è comune!)

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Iron Eagle cover

After several years (like 20 years) I’ve got the Original Iron Eagle I soundtrack.

I’m happy.

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thespire, originally uploaded by hayha.

Back in 1989, roughly at the same time I had my first PC (one event that would mark my subsequent life) I was reading in my county house “Le scienze” (the italian Scientific America edition) and the introduction of a Pulsar astronomical article had a little poem in it.
It was “Brilla Brilla mia stellina…”. I already had a telescope and was deeply impressed by the wonders of Sky. I still remember the little poem, as I managed to learn it by heart, and it also marked my life in a twisted way.
Years later, I didn’t become an astronomer, nor I did become a scientist, but I still remember the old little poem. Thanks to the net I also found the original, untraslated version.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark;
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

(Jane Taylor)
Proof that we’re still willing to dream?

WWWWS.

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cul-de-sac



cul-de-sac, originally uploaded by hayha.

As the title says…

About automatic updates…

Automatic updates...

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Fusione fredda?

http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Tecnologia%20e%20Business/2008/05/nucleare-fusione-fredda.shtml?uuid=d215abee-2803-11dd-9bec-00000e25108c&DocRulesView=Libero

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Saw it yesterday night at 12:00 AM.

IMHO is awful. Save your bucks.

Note: I liked the Indiana Jones and the last crusade.

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Sunday Farming, originally uploaded by hayha.

A sunday in the farm.

hosted.ap.org has a story about a joint G and Yahoo partnership which already raised a few eyebrows.

Has I already stated before, this would be much worse than a Microsoft acquisition.

Simply like this:

that the deal would give Google almost 90 percent of the search advertising market and strengthen its influence over Internet users’ access to information.

Information may wish to be free, information may wish to be expensive, but you don’t want information from a single bucket.

(via ./)

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seems very interesting…

Say NO to early adopting

” Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc”


But it’s true that if no-one early-adopts, everyone would be early adopter, and…
Via ./

Shuttle Self destruction Panel

an officer manned these vehicle destruction switches in case the shuttle crossed the no-fly lines”

If something happens when it’s just off the pad, there’s only a couple of seconds [to react],” says Bryan O’Connor, a former shuttle commander and NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance.”

popularmechanics.com

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Ghiaccio-9 (Cat’s Cradle).

One of the finest.

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The Unforgettable Sky

Gotta blog this - what a wonderful photographer.

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Microblogging

Aggiunto a destra il feed per il microblogging di Twitter.
Non vanno i cell, o sarebbe piu’ interessante…

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    protected void cast_ifnotnull<H, T>(H from_here, ref T to_value) where T : System.IConvertible 
     {
         if (from_here != null)
             to_value = (T)Convert.ChangeType(from_here, typeof(T), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
         else to_value = default(T);
     }
    protected T cast_ifnotnull<H, T>(H from_here) where T : System.IConvertible
    {
        if (from_here != null)
            return (T)Convert.ChangeType(from_here, typeof(T), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        else return default(T);
    }

Non so. Non mi convince ancora.

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In questa pagina potete trovare l’elenco dei beneficiari.

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pbf comic

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L’alibi

Le tue dita fredde puntano sul mio cuore
Le tue labbra strette sono un taglio sottile
Stringo le mie spalle senza niente da dire.
Si alza la corrente e ora ti vedo svanire
Un punto all’orizzonte di una riva sottile
Le onde son già cariche di cose da dire.
Soffia sui miei alibi
Soffia sui rimpianti
Il vento soffia e scivola sul tempo che ci resta.
Soffia sui tuoi alibi
Soffia sui rimpainti
Il vento scorre e porta via il tempo che ci resta.
Dopo aver guardato affondare il tuo cuore
Dopo aver permesso al tempo di giudicare
Stringo le mie spalle senza niente da dire.
Piove sui miei alibi
Piove sui rimpianti
L’acqua scorre e scivola sul tempo che ci resta.
Piove sui tuoi alibi
Piove sui rimpianti
L’acqua scorre e svivola sul tempo che ci resta.
Piove sui tuoi alibi
Piove sui rimpianti
L’acqua scorre e porta via il tempo che ci resta.
Scorre sui tuoi alibi
Scorre sui rimpianti
Scorre su di noi
Scorre sui tuoi alibi
Scorre sui rimpianti
Scorre su di noi

(Subsonica)

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Heise-online.co.uk is reporting another sad-sad-sad XOR Story. It seems that some usb biometric pendrives are relying on the pc’software to unlock the safe partition, instead of bothering inside the chip itself.

“…the controller on the stick does not decide whether to provide access to the partition; the software running on Windows does. “

It seems that a simple open source utility, PLscsi, will unlock the safe partition, without superglue and latex biometric hacks.

“…You do not need to use superglue and latex to forge fingerprints if you want to access the data “protected” on these sticks from **** and ****

and finally:

“Conclusion: The fingerprint sensors in the products mentioned above apparently only serve one purpose: they mislead interested buyers. “

I don’t understand the point of these Snakeoils sellers. Nowadays, these tricks don’t stay covered for a long time. Sometime someone will find out and verbose it. And personally, I would never buy again from a company that resorts to these ugly commercial tricks, so it’s all-loss, on my opinion.
See my other post here and here, and thanks Heise-online.co.uk to uncovering this out.

[Source: ./ ]

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Gull, originally uploaded by mikieconn.

Senza parole

First of all read the not-so-QuickStart page from Hibernate.org. Update: another good source of info is Baccus.
After spending an half-a-day to make it work, I collected here some issues and fixes.
As you can read in the comments in the same page, the QuickStart tutorial doesn’t work out of the box. I think there are different issues: the main one is that probably it’s a bit outdated vs the current NHibernate version. But the comments in that page are indeed very useful. If you have problem running the Quickstart, have a look there. Credit for many solutions goes to the guys that posted their fixes on that page.

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Sembrerebbe, dalla pagina Info costi, che i megabyte dell’offerta siano diventati 100.
Bene!

Sono ridiventati 50…

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A very quick quickstart for getting your Adobe AIR or Flex SDK installed, and start coding right away.

Tools needed :

AdobeAIRInstaller.exe from http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/
Adobe AIR SDK from http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/.
A text editor.

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Per chi volesse utilizzare Naviga 3 con Gnome-ppp, ecco il wvdial.conf relativo. Da notare che Gnome-ppp non utilizza /etc/wvdial.conf ma piuttosto /home/<utente>/.wvdial…
Testato su Ubuntu Feisty con Lg U310, cavo usb, gnome-ppp v.0.3.23-1.
Non e’ necessario inserire user e password, quelli presenti sono placeholder ma necessari, non c’e’ bisogno di modificarli.

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Una Luna un pò italiana

Google Ansari X prize

L’Ansari X-Prize, il premio messo in palio da Google inc. e dalla X prize Foundation destinerà 30 milioni di dollari al team che riuscirà a proporre un valido progetto per un robot autonomo in grado di essere inviato sulla Luna, muoversi, riprendere e inviare immagini del paesaggio.
Fra i primi 10 team che sono stati selezionati, troviamo i colleghi italiani del Team Italia (pagina ufficiale del Team Italia), guidati dalla Prof.ssa Amalia Ercoli Finzi.
Il Team Italia e’ composto da elementi dei due Politecnici (Milano e Torino) e delle Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma e Federico II di Napoli, col supporto di alcuni tra i maggiori gruppi aerospaziali del nostro paese.
Mi piacerebbe vedere sventolare una modesta bandierina italiana sulla Luna.
Non resta che augurargli in bocca al lupo, o come da tradizione, Godspeed.

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard (John F. Kennedy)”

X prize logo

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Five days ago,a bit late, on 15th of February, it was the 20th anniversary of the death of Richard P. Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century and one of the most influent person in my life (indirectly, of course).

Vogliamo ricordarlo cosi’:

Richard P.Feynman

USB boot on Toshiba M30 series

(a lot of posts, tonight…)

Thanks to this post I finally discovered how to boot my Toshiba M30 from Usb sticks.

With the USB stick attached, simply go to the BIOS and it will be presented under Hard disks (not under removable devices…). Change the order, and it will boot.

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The fault is all yours… (j.k.)
but you can solve as described here
(that’s is, Ubuntu: System / Windows / Movement Key, and pick “Super” instead of “Alt”.)

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Year 2008, and still cheap encryption could bring a false sense of security.
./  has a story on cracking (not literally) and encrypted hard disk open.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Enclosed-but-not-encrypted–/features/110136

You may think you payed less and still got AES, and what you got was the old’and safe (pun intended) XOR.

It reminds me of  another XOR story so much, that I’m starting collecting it.
If you know more, please send them.

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Truecrypt 5.0a on ubuntu amd64

UPDATE: truecrypt-5.1a-ubuntu-x64 is now available from truecrypt.com so there’s no apparent need to compile your own amd64 deb (unless you’re so paranoid, of course).

I can confirm that Truecrypt 5.0a compiles and works on Ubuntu Amd64 Feisty fawn (7.04) using Heinzelotto 64 bit patch for Truecrypt 5.0 and wxWidgets 2.6.7.

No problems with ld neither this time.
buliwoof:
are you on Ubuntu? It seems to me we’re not using the same ld version or yours lacks some options.
Please check you have ld version 2.17.50 20070103 or newer.
For reference, my old article on patching and compiling is here

http://blog.napalmpiri.com/archives/57

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Oggi ho letto prevalentemente il QUARTO PROTOCOLLO (the fourth protocol), trovandolo veramente geniale e originale (salvo qualche sezione leggermente prolissa).

The fourth protocol

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I finally fixed the remain issue with the missing flash plugin on my amd64 base pc running ubuntu 7.04 Feisty.
I don’t want to upgrade right now, and swf-player wasn’t working for me.
I decided to follow the steps outlined here (in Italian, and it’s a wiki, so I’m not responsible for what you may found there!)

Come_installare_il_Flash-Player_per_Firefox_(AMD64)_su_Kubuntu

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Castellaro Lagusello lake, originally uploaded by hayha.

Ogni tanto pure io pero’ ne imbrocco una carina

Berlin



Berlin, originally uploaded by wisdoms.

Wisdoms si supera

Looking at the logs, there are various explanations for this issue. My was a little more stranger than usual: Flickr would say failed, while Wordpress would correctly show the test post.

I found my solution looking at the logs.

[client xxxxxxxx] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of ********* bytes exhausted (tried to allocate ***** bytes) in ****************/wp-includes/cache.php on line **

See also: http://www.ktulu.it/2008/01/12/fatal-error-in-wordpress/

The solution was simple; just add this line to your .htaccess file (assuming your can access it)

php_value memory_limit XX000000

where XX you can put your reasonable amount of memory (those are bytes).
Maybe you can tweak it raising it step by step. Simply writing down a large amount is not very healthy.
Anyway, 99% it’s your side fault, not Flickr fault.

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Say YES to user-replaceable battery

Apple and the war against the user-replaceable battery

by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes –

Apple has to be the most high-profile hardware manufacturer on the planet. Whatever it is that comes out of Cupertino is instantly put under intense scrutiny, and as a rule pundits are divided - some love Apple products, while others hate them. Me, I feel divided. Some Apple products fit in with my lifestyle perfectly, while others just don’t light my fire. But one design aspect of Apple’s latest product offerings bothers me greatly - and that’s the gradual eradication of the user-replaceable battery.

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Truecrypt 5.0 on AMD64 Debian & Ubuntu

I successfully managed to compile Truecrypt 5.0 on my Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit.
There are good reason to upgrade from 4.3a (5.0 is kernel version independent) and to avoid.

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No good company

microgoogle

I’m not against Microsoft, I’m not against Google, and I don’t work for them.

Google, is not going to come and rescue anyone but itself. Nor the poor Yahoo,neither the poor Flickr users.

Flickr powered by Vista(tm) is not pleasant. I can see that.

Going against Microsoft is not unreasonable, may sound very cool, but it’s starting to feel very common-place and old-fashioned.

The biggest problem, the way I see it, is not Microsoft buying Yahoo.
There’s no Good Company in this story, so our chances of a pretty ending are scarce.

Information, time has teached us, is valuable as much as you can find it when you need it.
Whoever has the search engine monopoly has the power to present the information the way he likes, and if it likes to.
Whoever buys Yahoo, will get a positive advantage against other search engine.
Maybe Microsoft buying Yahoo is not the scariest scenario.
What if…
And that’s very scary, way much more than Flickr being powered by Windows CE.
Maybe it’s not time to stand for Flickr, but time to go against anyone who gets the total monopoly of search engines. The World and the Internet we wish and we used to know may be much more important that our bunch of photos.
Just my 2 cents.

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Dopo anni di catene di S.Antonio del Cazzo, finalmente una catena carina.

La Follia decise di invitare i suoi amici a prendere un caffè da lei.
Dopo il caffè, la Follia propose: ‘Si gioca a nascondino?’.
‘Nascondino? Che cos’è?’ - domandò la Curiosità.
‘Nascondino è un gioco. Io conto fino a cento e voi vi nascondete.
Quando avrò terminato di contare, cercherò e il primo che troverò
sarà il prossimo a contare’.


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Yahoo! CAPTCHA is broken

In the last two days I’ve been receiving spam