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Monthly Archives August 2006

Geek Friend, Good Friend

A big thanks to flevour for having called me a “great friend” in his About Me page. We first met on the IRC channel of the local FSUG (he lives in Padova too) and our friendship has been going on both on the Net and in person, so I would say:“Hi, pal, and thank you!”

Posted on 27 August 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (2) °

Algorithms

Developing algorithms is an art and I’m still an apprentice. I spent more than 3 hours looking for an elegant algorithm for a task I considered complex. Some googling, and I found an elegant implementation of the algorithm I was searching. I’m a bit discouraged by this fact, although I probably shouldn’t be, but you [...]

Posted on 26 August 2006 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Look up "Coding" in the dictionary…

… and you’ll find: “One of the most popular ways for Geeks’ fun”.

Posted on 25 August 2006 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Texas Hold’em @ Home

This evening, starting at 8pm, a game of Texas Hold’em will take place at my house. We’ll be 8 persons, all friends/known persons, subscription quote is 10 euro. I never organized such games at home, but, well, I think that my living room can stand 8 persons. It’s not that it isn’t big enough, but [...]

Posted on 24 August 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (0) °

Answer to forth question

Many thanks to Oliver Fromme who answered my question about loader(8)’s forth, giving explainations about why .” didn’t work. He also gave me some useful links and I’ll read them ASAP.

Posted on 24 August 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

Game devel in Python

I seldom use Python, and not because I don’t like it, since IMHO it’s a really good language, but I don’t have much time during the academic year to think about a relatively complex project involving the use of some “nice” features such as network programming or XML mungling or whatever. Anyway, I found the [...]

Posted on 24 August 2006 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

FreeSBIE GMV Torrent

FreeSBIE GMV is also available via Bittorrent: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-GMV-20060809.iso.torrent .

Posted on 23 August 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

EuroBSDCon Organization

We’re a bit late (8 days) in getting in conctact with the speakers, but the schedule is ready.

Posted on 23 August 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

The role of Art and the supposed uniqueness of her message

Today..well, yesterday, I had a really good day. The main events of the day included studying with my “oxonian” friend Giacomo at the Department of History’s Library, a good do-not-do-anything afternoon, an aperitive with friends and a dinner with Giacomo and his father at one of the best old pub in Padova, the Osteria L’Anfora. [...]

Posted on 23 August 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (6) °

FreeSBIE GMV Mirrors

As of today, FreeSBIE GMV can be found at the following URLs too: http://gbit.fredbe.be/FreeSBIE-GMV-20060809.iso (1Gbps) http://fossil.drizzt.it/freesbie/FreeSBIE-GMV-20060809.iso (limited to 128KB/s) http://www.evilcoder.org/isos/FreeSBIE-GMV-20060809.iso (50Mbps) Please use these mirrors instead of the one on people.freebsd.org . Thanks. P.S. A *big* thanks to everyone who offers bandwidth for the ISO!

Posted on 23 August 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (4) °