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This is my personal blog, a virtual space far from where I keep all those things of which I am uncomfortable and often need to take me back in another way. I refer primarily to libraries, scripts, procedures and techniques for solving all sorts of misfortune information, especially on UNIX and Linux. A part of my notes are published here in the form of blogs, everything else is not accessible to the navigation system because it is part of that body of knowledge that I offer in my capacity as IT professional. In any case this is a personal blog, why in here are photographs, quotes, writings and notes that nothing, absolutely nothing has to do with my profession. If you are interested in learning aspects - so to speak - accessories of my person and on the contrary you need my professional services, I invite you to visit my company's corporate website at http://www.tetragono.com , or send me a message through the page "Get in touch" . Happy surfing!

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I quote here a post appeared Blog Upmedia signed "Nightmare" and dated January 17. I found this article very simple and clear, so I carry almost entirely, except for some minor adjustments due to my shooting ipercorrettivismo incorrigible.

Short tutorial on how to install OpenOffice 2.3.1 on Debian Etch backports repository directly from. The latest version of office suite on the branch to "stable" Debian. Contrary to what is often read on the net, Debian Etch (the branch to "stable" Debian) represents an excellent solution for users desktop / office offering a very solid and productive. But sometimes for certain requirements you may sometimes use the software more "young" because of certain features which are essential. One of the most popular software for productivity is undoubtedly OpenOffice.org office management suite and more. The version in Etch is 2.0.4. Read the rest »

The function `gettext` is designed to allow the translation of the entire operating system GNU / Linux. Precisely for this reason it is 100% compatible with a large number of programming languages ​​and scripting languages: C, C + +, C #, Bash, Python, GNU clsip, Emacs Lisp, GNU Smalltalk, Java, GNU awk, Pascal, WxWidgets, YCP , Tcl, PHP, Pike, and others. Read the rest »

I often access a Linux server (of others) and found that the system time is completely wrong. Replace things is simple, if you do not forget that Linux is separately and that the system time clock hardware. It is therefore sufficient to adjust the system time with the command `date`, since the first reboot of the server system time would be automatically reset in synchronization with the clock hardware and nullifying the changes. Read the rest »

Working on UNIX / Linux tool to show the status of key processes is the `top`. Launched from the command line, top produces an output divided into two basic areas: the head shows general information on the system, while along the entire area below lists the processes that consume the most CPU. Read the rest »

A few weeks ago has spread the news of the acquisition of Gravatar by Automattic , the company behind WordPress . One of the most immediate consequences of this acquisition is a greater integration between WordPress and Gravatar, a service that is used to record an avatar "universal" to match your email address. The avatar that will appear automatically created every time you post a comment on any Internet site set up properly, without even having to register for the site you're visiting! Read the rest »

The most common Unix systems (Linux / Mac / BSD) are now widely used in graphics mode. There are also cases in which instructions from the terminal are much more effective and faster, because it can adapt to low-level computer. A detailed list of commands for each event, divided into categories, can be found at: http://www.linuxguide.it/linux_commands_line_en.htm .

After two release candidates was announced the final release of the-STABLE branch of FreeBSD! Even if it were not brought big news (for those we have to wait 7.0) there are many version updates and security that make it interesting this new release. Who wants to challenge themselves in the use of FreeBSD on the desktop, will appreciate the adoption of new versions of GNOME (2.20.1), KDE (3.5.8) and X.org (7.3). Improved dramatically - as we read about - especially on the hardware support front audio, network and acpi. Council reading this mini-guide to upgrade from version 6.2 to 6.3. Read the rest »