Archive for January, 2006

Gentoo: Wine is faster than Windows XP!

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

According to these tests, wine is faster than Windows XP in many tests.

Do you want to see my favourite Linux distribution?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

LinClips.com is a Linux resource which illustrates desktop Linux distributions through screencasting. Each distribution video clip is approximately two minutes in length. A Flash player such as Macromedia Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms is required.

You can watch the clips here.

Do you want to improve at Calculus?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Go here. Results guaranteed.

(the Colombaus’ phantom!!!!) :-O

A movie about trusted computing.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

A must watch! Here.

Gentoo: making your pcmcia ethernet card work.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I’ve written a short guide about making your pcmcia ethernet card work under Gentoo Linux.

Places where I travelled.

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

create your own visited country map

Beppe Grillo rocks!

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

The subtitles would have to be mandatory for law in the television programs and films (the DVD of my show 2006 will be subtitled in Italian). Read more here…

From a deaf: four reasons why I love firefox.

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

See this fantastic video!!!

upgraded to Wordpress 2.0!!!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Finally ;)

I followed the guide that I posted here some time ago and it worked fine!

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Out!!!!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Finally :)

Download it from here.

Screenshot from Ubuntu Dapper.

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

The logout window.
Logout window

Blind Stupidity.

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Here.

XFS is the best filesystem.

Sunday, January 8th, 2006
So what is the verdict ?
The author has concluded that XFS is the best filesystem in terms of performance and scalability though JFS has improved in some of the tests. And the surprise of all, ReiserFS is the slowest in most of the tests. But I think it would be prudent to read the article first and arrive at your own conclusions.

Entire article here.

What’s new in next Ubuntu release?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Here.

Linux installation for Windows users: ten things to know.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Linux is not Windows, and although there are some similarities, you must realize that there may be a few “new ways of doing things” to learn before you can be comfortable in Linux. Linux is an open-source clone of UNIX, a secure operating system (OS) that predates DOS and Windows and is designed for multiple users. The items in the following list generally apply to any UNIX-based *nix system, such as Linux and the various BSD’s. For the purposes of this article, assume that it’s all Linux.

More here.