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Time for a new FreeSBIE ISO image

So, RELENG_7 was branched and it seems a good idea to release a new ISO image of FreeSBIE based on it.
It also looks like people want it (thank you, Julian ), so I think it is a really good idea.
I must admit I’ve not a lot of time to work on it, so I’ll [...]

Posted 16 October 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (5) °

USB Pen Working!

In a previous post, I asked how to set a blacklist for HAL because my USB pen didn’t work on FreeBSD.
I tried again today and it works flawlessy. *YUPPIDUUU*

Posted 01 October 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Update about Flash on FreeBSD with gnash

Back in May, I wrote a post about Flash on FreeBSD using gnash.
Now that gnash-0.8.1 is in the ports tree, I have to say that the greasemonkey+mplayer hack is no longer needed to watch YouTube videos.
Everything works great using gnash alone.

Posted 27 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (5) °

GPG key expired and updated

My GPG key expired on Sunday, so I renewed it today (by changing the expiration date). Download it.

Posted 20 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Once in a while: todo list update

Now and then (more then than now) I remember to update my ToDo List.

This afternoon I was too tired to work on actual code, so I dive in the list of RPC-related PRs and assigned some of them to me.

Posted 18 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Recipe for a good devsummit

While having some rest from auditing of the RPC code (src/lib/libc/rpc/), I give you the correct recipe for making a good FreeBSD Developers Summit.
Ingredients:

A nice and quiet place in the countryside, two hours away from Copenhagen (any other city will fit) and ten minutes away from the absolute nothing
Bandwidth, both wireless and wired, because Attilio’s [...]

Posted 18 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °

Traveling to Copenhagen

Ok, I’m leaving from home at 11.45, with flight departing at 14.10. Landing in Copenhagen is planned at 16.15. Attilio will already be there and we’ll meet at the airport.
We will move to $WHERE_THE_DEVSUMMIT_TAKES_PLACE tomorrow morning by train+cab.

Posted 16 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °

Moved to gnome2-lite

After more than 3 years (may be more..) I moved from xfce4 to gnome2-lite on my laptop. Desktop wil follow if the experience with gnome during the EuroBSDCon DevSummit will be a positive one.
Sad? Not too much.

Posted 13 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Things that come back

Today, many things appeared again in my life:

I have a watch on my wrist: the present from my parents for my graduation. It’s a Rolex Air-King which belonged to my father and then to my mother. I stopped wearing wrist watches when I started using the keyboard for more than few hours a day, 4 [...]

Posted 04 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

EuroBSDCon 2007: I will attend…sort of..

Ok, since my omonymous friend Matteo is getting married on Saturday 15th September, I won’t attend the conference, but I already booked my flight to Copenaghen on the 16th to attend to the DevSummit on Monday and Tuesday. I’ll be back to Italy on Wednesday 19th.
*YYYUUUPPIIEEEEEE!!*

Posted 23 August 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °