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Backups happens to be useful

…but setting up a valid and working backup infrastructure is usually a PITA. So, after having read some positive reviews about Tarsnap, I’m going to set it up for my personal files.

Posted on 27 November 2009 † Matteo § English § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

A seguire molti feed, prima o poi ci si azzecca…

…nel mio elenco di feed di Google Reader ho almeno una settantina di feed RSS. Uno in particolare sono contento di averlo, ed è quello di Sara Lando (Bruko). Ho scoperto Sara Lando per vie traverse qualche anno fa, quando ancora si chiamava solo Bruko, poi l’ho persa per un po’ nei meandri dell’Internet e [...]

Posted on 26 November 2009 † Matteo § Italiano § Misc ‡ Comments (5) °

Rain sound

I love to work with my window open while it is raining. The sound of rain on the leaves, on the roofs, on the ground, is a natural counterpoint to the electromechanical typing clicks. The cold breeze that enters the window from time to time makes me shiver like a low voltage shock. I sneeze, [...]

Posted on 27 June 2009 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °

On blogging habits

I was skyping with my gf today (Yes, I have a gf! Yay!), and she asked my why I haven’t posted anything on my blog lately. My last blog entry is from May 2nd, which, in my opinion, is not so far in the past, but still, it is far enough to make someone asking [...]

Posted on 19 May 2009 † Matteo § English § Misc § Personal ‡ Comments (9) °

Self description

It took me a while, but I eventually updated my About Me page. =) P.S. I have at least 5 more ideas for blog posts but I’m lacking the brilliant idea to make them interesting.

Posted on 11 March 2009 † Matteo § English § FreeBSD § Personal ‡ Comments (2) °

Dell’inverno e delle scale

Dopo una settimana a Providence, posso rilasciare un primo bilancio: fa freddo. Anzi, fa molto freddo, almeno se si sta all’aria aperta. È talmente freddo che qui a Providence c’è la stessa temperatura che c’è a Padova, solo che è in gradi Farenheit. Questa l’ho rubata a Fabio, e so che non tutti l’avete capita, [...]

Posted on 17 January 2009 † Matteo § Italiano § Misc ‡ Comments (7) °

Code tools

This is mostly a follow-up from yesterday post: ATM, to write code for my little project, I’m using Eclipse+PyDev+Subclipse+SVN on my MacBook Late 2008. These tools seem to help improving my productivity.

Posted on 24 December 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

Writing code when you are a theorist

Despite my involvement in the FreeBSD and FreeSBIE projects, I do not think of myself as a coder, nor a “system” guy in general. I’ve always been more attracted by theory and I followed a mainly theoretic courses path during my M.Sc. . My thesis is about theory in data mining but involves some experiments [...]

Posted on 23 December 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (2) °

Dijkstra e le riforme

Sulla porta del mio ufficio nel dipartimento di Computer Science di Brown University è attaccato un cartello. Dice Please adopt an Italian student. Our government does not let us study. La scritta è presa da una foto vista su flickr: una studentessa partecipava ad una manifestazione tenendo ben in alto un foglio A3 bianco con [...]

Posted on 04 December 2008 † Matteo § Italiano § University ‡ Comments (6) °

On the naming of computers and its evolution

Like many geeks, I have my own style in naming the machines I have access to. This may sound strange to people not used to live between a chair and a monitor but, according to many, you may really want to give a name to the non-animated thinking being (please note the double absurd of [...]

Posted on 03 December 2008 † Matteo § English § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (8) °