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Monthly Archives December 2006

As fast as a sloth

FreeSBIE 2.0′s development goes on, slowly due to my exams, but still on. All the major and most the minor issues seem to have been solved although I still have some doubts about our backup&restore plugin and our X.org configuration system. Tonight I’ll take screenshots of the running live system: they are needed for the [...]

Posted on 10 December 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

Winter session, first exam

Lessons ended yesterday, and this afternoon I have the first exam of this winter sessions: Automatic Controls’s Fundamentals. Next week I have two more exams, then one on the 19th. Last one on January 8th…. I don’t look forward to this month.

Posted on 07 December 2006 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Sailing

Nothing is better than sailing. Yes, I can go on and write a long post, describing what I feel while sailing, what I feel after, why you never get tired of sailing, even if few activities are as tiring as sailing. But I won’t write a long post. I only wanted to say that nothing [...]

Posted on 06 December 2006 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Ice Cup Sail Race 2006

On Saturday afternoon my mobile rang and I was surprised to read “Ambrogio” on the monitor. He’s the father of my closest friend Giacomo, who is studying in Oxford. Ambrogio told me that Giacomo was flying back to Italy and invited my to go to the airport with him to pick Giacomo up. As a [...]

Posted on 04 December 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (0) °

Writing FreeSBIE 2.0 Release Notes

We’re approaching the release and no release is ever completed before Release Notes for it had been written. Being the FreeSBIE 2.0 release engineer, it is up to me to write them and I’m writing them. Slowly. Wait FreeSBIE 2.0 for Christmas (if 6.2-RELEASE will be available before Christmas) or later. =)

Posted on 01 December 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °