Ceci n'est pas une pipe

Today ends a year in some fundamental ways. Personally it was a period of profound change, especially on the professional level. But the same wind of change has gone through all of the 2008, I believe. There are things that were initiated during the unfolding of these twelve months and shall be designed to have a significant impact on the lives of many, many people. The economic crisis - that finally no longer dares to deny - has dropped the opaque veil of the decomposed mass media euphoria that has long invaded the rooms of our homes, imposing the image of a reality that is really nothing more nor the world in which we live, or what we want to live. I do not know if you noticed, but now it is much harder to distract people's attention from the facts and the real problems, suddenly seems that everyone wants to return to a clearer language. Who knows what this next phase transition does not make it all more aware - at least for a while '- the value that commitment, seriousness and determination in everyday life. It happens more often to cross the road with people tremendously successful, professionals seeking new ways to put into play - without cheating - themselves and / or their companies. Not everyone is still willing to discuss their own certainties, of course ... But let us hope that the new year bring with it everything that we really need: the confidence and desire to change things.

Happy 2009!

I do not know if you noticed the new look of this blog. I went blank. Mainly to give a little 'more breathing room post. Then why account invade the left column. I like it. I'm still working, to be fair. I've had influence from minimalism of the new blog MarcoGNU . Honor is due!

If they hear all sorts of Microsoft products and I - despite being totally opposed to jihad promoted by certain extremists of Open Source - I spent occasional words of condemnation against this or that application license plate Redmond. Today, however, lose three minutes of my time to give Internet Explorer the honors of war! What I play in this post is the window of error returned by Internet Explorer on a PC which is equipped with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. The reasons why the browser suffers from this limitation - the inability to download files larger than 4GB - are known and in a sense entirely motivated (but who would ever want to download the ISO of a DVD with the Internet Explorer?!?) but the last line of this warning deserves a commendation:

Please use a different browser or a download manager

Guys, this is the moral and intellectual honesty! Do not you agree!? Use a different browser ...! Sure would be nice if the same thing happen when you visit any website. A small warning should always notify the user that Internet Explorer could be affecting the display of the page that is going to open because of failure to comply with W3C standards. But you imagine? I open Computer Point and IE tells me:

Attention, to make sure a correct view of this page, we recommend using another browser.

Who knows, maybe, maybe, one day ...

As widely announced the highly anticipated release 11.1 of OpenSUSE was uploadata on official repositories at 15:00 today. With the unfailing and invaluable contribution of Novell , which has provided additional repositories and mirrors to cover the wave of requests in the first hours, you can already download a copy of the new operating system without any significant problems. Less than a quarter of an hour from the official release a copy of the iso NET was already on my old laptop and right now it is being installed on a test machine. The main new shine:

• Rewriting of the license agreement (it is now possible redistribution)
• sw and open source microprogram the main support
• CDROM for additional sw owner
• proprietary Agfa fonts-fonts with Liberation replaced
• Firefox 3.0.4
• OpenOffice.org 3.0
• Gnome 2.24.1
• KDE 4.1.3
• Mono 2.0.1
• Replaced Sun Java with OpenJDK

For the few who do not know what it is:

OpenSUSE is a free operating system based on Linux and works on your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the net, manage e-mails and photographs, work, watch video and listen to music and have a lot of fun!

I quote online edition of Corriere della Sera:

A setting of the Internet Zone security level to "high" would be allowed in these days of security vulnerabilities in more than a few, but nothing really conclusive for a risk that Microsoft saw the program a real highway to the exit, involuntary, of your passwords, user IDs and other sensitive data from your computer in favor of "fishermen" malicious data of others on the Net According to Trend Micro, a company that processes online safety, have been so far about 10 000 Internet sites "modified" - or created ad hoc - to exploit the opportunities of theft dates from Explorer flaw. As several experts have suggested up to 19 now is better to continue browsing using other browser. Then from Redmond should solve the problem. At least until the next, inevitable, alarm.

Nothing new under the sky, let's say I needed an excuse to post here with the very nice JPG logo Explorer stormed by bacarozzi.

I admit it weighs, but every time it ends. Two weeks after the fateful day I have not the faintest idea what to do at New Year. Yet there are those who remember me - almost every day for at least a month - which end up deferring to stay home or, worse, to repair some bad fall-back party. So, on the underlying reasons why the approach of holidays and special occasions do not turn on any light bulb in my head indagherò then: now I urgently need a brilliant idea. If you're passing through and have something really special to report me for New Year's Eve, commented on this post or email me from the page Get in touch !

Preferences:

• sophisticated but exotic menu
• entertainment suitable for copying thirties
• elegant but not too formal
• within a radius of 200 km from Bergamo

Unbreakable Health and immeasurable luck to anyone who give me the straight right ...

From 16:00 on Wednesday, December 10 Montagna.TV officially opened the competition "Riccardo Cassin, a century of history" . This is a quiz dedicated to the great climber Lecco, who next January 2, 2009 will be 100 years old.

For the first 30 places will be given a copy of the new book "Riccardo Cassin, a hundred faces a great climber," autographed by the author. The contest will close on 20 December., So there is still a little 'time to participate.

E 'available the new calendar Eldalië made ​​with the best works presented at the Competition of Fine Arts Award "Palantir of Tol Eressea".

Calendar year returns based on the visual arts competition is held annually by Eldalië. The twelve calendar pages have been collected the best paintings presented in the second edition of the Tolkien Palantir exhibited at the Festival took place between April and May 2007 in Buccinasco (MI).

Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm
Price per copy: 10.00 Euro
Shipping: € 2.50

From this year, as well as postal, you can pay using PayPal. For collectors of the 2008 copies are also available.

To receive more information and / or reserve a copy of the calendar, write to arte@eldalie.com

Source: Press release by Frederick Fram email.