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Monthly Archives February 2007

Passive Cooling, at last

Eventually, I took 5 minutes of my time and adjusted the sysctl values needed for passive cooling my amd64 machine (running i386 -CURRENT because of ndis(4) support). It identifies itself as: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2200.10-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = “AuthenticAMD” Id = 0xf7a Stepping = 10 Features=0x78bfbff AMD Features=0xe0500800 [snip] acpi0: Power [...]

Posted on 19 February 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

The sun as it is: bright and shiny.

I had a really nice Sunday. The sun shined and it wasn’t cold, so I took my motorbike to go to a planned meeting in the country near Padova. There, I had a nice experience and the talk I listened to was pretty interesting. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me) I may sound a bit misterious [...]

Posted on 18 February 2007 † Matteo § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (3) °

Choose your tea

Original uploaded by: Rionda (me) The photo is not sharp (remember: I need a tripod, buy me one!), the background more or less sucks, but I love these teas and this is my tribute to them!

Posted on 16 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc § Photos ‡ Comments (5) °

“with hat: PR-buster”

Now that I released FreeSBIE 2.0.1, I can wear my favourite hat again and work on PR‘s and on my TODO. I always have fun with bugs.

Posted on 16 February 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

Surprise!

Today I did something that suprised even myself, but I’m happy to have done it. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me)

Posted on 15 February 2007 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (14) °

5 things I would do if I hadn’t a flat internet connection

Cle’ passed this to me and I take it… I would be less lazy. I would have different hobbies: possibly in the open air. I would be less fat. I would not have many of my friends. I would switch off my computer at night. That’s enough: my life may be better in many ways [...]

Posted on 13 February 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (12) °

The best in the worst moments

Earl Grey Tea. No milk, no sugar, no lemon. When you feel down, the sky is grey and your life seems to be grey too. (Original uploaded by: elena777)

Posted on 12 February 2007 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (7) °

FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE available!

All, you may remember that FreeSBIE 2.0 was released on January 15th. It turned out it had some annoying bugs, one of which was especially serious, as it prevents USB mice from working. This fact led us, the FreeSBIE Staff, to develop a bugfix release, 2.0.1. All the bugs that have been pointed out were [...]

Posted on 11 February 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (2) °

A teory of (in)justice

Subtitle: Ok, the title is an hyperbole. Let’s say:”A teory of bad luck” Today is the first day I can use my new motorbike. In Italy you can get a driver licence for 125cc motorbikes when you’re 16 (and I got it). At age 18, you have to get a new driver licence for motorbikes [...]

Posted on 08 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (9) °

The Beatles’ Apokolokyntosis

Subtitle: if you don’t know what Apokolokyntosis is, look it up in Wikipedia. Since I’ve heard them the first time when I was 14, I’m in love with The Beatles. ATM, BMPx on my computer is playing “Love“, “their” last album. I put “their” between quotes because it’s not really a Beatles’album (again, read the [...]

Posted on 05 February 2007 † Matteo § Misc § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °