Monthly Archives July 2007

Back to the amd64

After eight months, my main machine runs FreeBSD amd64 again, instead of FreeBSD i386. I had to run i386 due to missing bits in ndis support on amd64, but everything works now. There were some troubles finding the correct amd64 driver (.inf + .sys) for my broadcom chipset, but nothing a rapid search on google [...]

B.S.!!

So, I got my B.S. in Information Engineering, with a note of 100/110 which is the best I could have due to the mean of my notes (25/30). I got the maximum bonus for my thesis about Cryptography and that’s why I’m so happy.
Now it’s time for some holiday: my motorbike want to make some [...]

Living in some kind of happy limbo

I’m half on holiday and half waiting for Tuesday 17th, when I’ll discuss my thesis on cryptography and graduate. Wow.
This means I cannot enjoy my free time as I like to, since there are always things to do: having the thesis printed, talking with my advisor, writing the presentation, preparing what I have to say [...]

Digging in the photo archive

Digital photography has the advantage of taking how many photos you like. This fact, together with cheap hard disk space, often leads a photographer (or someone like me who pretends to take some good photos once in a while), to keep every photos she/he takes, even the bad ones.
At the same time, we take so [...]

Holiday, or something similar

I finished writing my thesis and am waiting for my advisor to correct it. Graduation date is July 17th and afterwards I’ll be on holyday until October.
My first day off was actually Sunday: Elena and I had a trip on the hills near Padova (Colli Euganei) with my motorbike: we visited Arquà Petrarca, where one [...]