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Monthly Archives February 2007

WTF. How to set a blacklist for HAL? (no, this is not an howto, it is a question)

For my 21th birthday, my friends gave me a 4GB USB pen as a present. I never had USB pens with capacity >32MB, so this was a really appreciated present. But. But my FreeBSD system gets stuck and freezes when I insert it *and* HAL (not the Atheros’s one, the freedesktop.org’s one) is running. The [...]

Posted 28 February 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (4) °

Flu.

I’m sneezing and coughing every 40 seconds. No temperature yet, but I didn’t sleep at all last night. A cold lasts 7 days when you don’t take anything against it, a week otherwise.

Posted 27 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (2) °

“Alla mia nazione” (to my country) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the greatest men Italy had in the 20th century. I cannot describe him here well enough, so read the Wikipedia page about him. The following is a Pasolini’s composition about Italy. He criticizes with heavy words the way things go on in this country. In the end, he even [...]

Posted 25 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (4) °

Rugby 6 Nations: Scotland VS Italy

We played rugby the way rugby should be played or the way we should always play it. And we won. We made 3 tries in 8 minutes: 0-21. And it was us the first to be shocked. Our Fly-half (#10) Scannavacca put 7/7 balls between the H. I must admit I never consider him a [...]

Posted 24 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (2) °

On art, again.

I’m a fan of Andy Warhol and of pop art. Art should just show our world as seen by different eyes. Pop art is about taking ordinary objects out of contest but keeping the contest at hand’s reach at the same time. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me) An artist is someone who sees or adds [...]

Posted 24 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc § Photos ‡ Comments (2) °

Week end

Thanks God, it’s Friday. I’m feeling quite tired, because I didn’t sleep enough, not because I’m stressed, quite the opposite actually: I’m enjoying these days. And I played squash three times this week already, and I am playing again at 4.30 PM and tomorrow morning. Too much sport? I’m inherently lazy….May I accuse the modern [...]

Posted 23 February 2007 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (3) °

Italy today.

I’m tired of amateurs who vote (or better said, don’t vote) without any clue of the consequences. Fucking idiots, you’re eating our present and our future. And I would write many other things. But you won’t listen.

Posted 22 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (2) °

The reason I carry my camera with me every day

Photography needs you to be in the right place in the right moment, possibly with the right light. I had this chance today and I am happy because I didn’t miss it. (suggestion: click on the photos and see them large)

Posted 21 February 2007 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (3) °

FreeSBIE and tinyBSD and nanoBSD and…any other?

After having closed most mdmfs /mount_mfs related PR’s last week, I’m going to work on FreeSBIE again. Above all, I’m interesting in integrating tinyBSD’s and/or nanoBSD’s features that FreeSBIE may be missing so that I can ask for permission to import it in the base system and maybe remove nano and tiny, so that we [...]

Posted 21 February 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Am I still or spinning with the Earth?

Today I have many half ideas, but no complete one. Stop the world, I want to get off. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me) Everything looks so complicated, but I’m happy nevertheless. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me)

Posted 20 February 2007 † Matteo § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °