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Vladimir Putin (you) put your head in place

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I was reading an article appeared today in the online Dragosei Fabrizio's Corriere della Sera . He captured the subtitle, which I find simply chilling: The newspaper anti-Putin "put your head in place." The article briefly summarizes Dragosei what happened a few days ago in Sardinia, where our next President of the Council entertained the illustrious and powerful friend.

You read sentences from the unmistakable tone: "It will not be closed, but will instead head to the newspaper last Friday in Sardinia provoked the ire of Putin", "News categorically denied that brought Silvio Berlusconi, [...] to aim the machine gun in the hands atteggiate journalist "," Putin's reaction prompted the editor of Moskovskij Korrespondent, to suspend immediately and lay publications director. "

With embarrassing evidence from the story leaked all over the climate of fear and secrecy that prevails in a country radically undemocratic. The underlying reasons for Putin might also be good, do not rule it out: bring stability and prosperity in the country instead of letting it tear the interests of the former communist intelligentsia is certainly a noble goal, but the means by which the former head of the KGB is trying to pursue it because they are less alarming.

The article closes Dragosei so emblematic: [...] the vast majority of Russians did not even hear talk about the whole affair. The TV have completely silenced. As they flew over the question of Natalya, the response of Putin and Berlusconi's machine gun.

Well, let's talk about us, then. Us that we still have the material and intellectual tools to do it. Moreover, it is just gossip, and gossip like so much to us Italians. Or not?

Slackware 12.1 closer

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The highly anticipated release of Slackware Linux 12.1 is almost upon us: "We now have the Slackware 12.1 RC2 milestone Reached. We're beyond updating packages or fixing minor cosmetic bugs at this point (actually, We had Hoped To Be That past with RC1, but there Were still items in need of attention). What we have here now has proven to be stable for our testers, Unless I know some real Showstoppers are found we'll be releasing this as Slackware 12.1-final soon. "As we read in the changelog, the Linux kernel has been updated to version 2.6.24.5, glibc recompiled with ad hoc. Were introduced patch for xine-libs due to a possible security hole. Everything else is well explained, as always, the changelog officers.