How to run Mac OS X on a generic PC

No need for hacked software

via How to run Mac OS X on a generic PC • Register Hardware.

Read More

NEW YORK - La News Corp., gigante delle comunicazioni che fa capo a Rupert Murdoch, potrebbe far pagare l'accesso alle notizie online a partire dalla metà del prossimo anno, ribadendo un'idea che lo stesso Murdoch aveva già annunciato lo scors0 8 maggio. Inoltre News Corp. potrebbe rompere l'alleanza con Amazon sul lettore digitale Kindle, se non si arriverà a una rinegoziazione degli accordi. Lo fa sapere Murdoch, il quale si è detto scontento delle relazioni tra Kindle e i lettori online dei suoi giornali, lasciando anche trapelare la possibilità di un accordo tra News Corp e Sony.

via Murdoch: faremo pagare le notizie online - Corriere della Sera.

Prendiamo spunto da questa notizia e facciamo qualche riflessione.All’inizio del web, i giornali hanno tentato di creare siti web in parte gratuiti ed in parte a pagamento.

Read More

Zopa (acronimo di Zone of possible agreement)  è un network peer to peer di prestiti on line, gestito da Maurizio Sella  (cugino di quarto grado dell’ omonimo ex presidente dell’ Abi, per i dettagli consultate questo articolo del Corriere del 12 maggio 2008).

Read More

At Gioorgi.com we evaluted a internet file system common gateway for connecting network resources. We compared two solutions: a webdav file system and an ssh-fs file system. The solution should be viable via MacOSX and Linux, but also Windows support will be a plus.

Read More

"After only 2 years since the previous version, now emacs 23 .1 is available. It brings many new features, of which the support for anti-aliased fonts on X may be the most visible. Also, there is support for starting emacs in the background, so you can pop up new emacs windows in the blink of an eye. There are many other bigger and smaller improvements, including support for D-Bus, Xembed, and viewing PDFs inside emacs. And not to forget, M-x butterfly. You can get emacs 23 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ or one of its mirrors; alternatively, there are binary packages available, for example from Ubuntu PPA."

via Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.

For the young readers, emacs is the oldest Open Source project out of there. And it has a lot to teach to the other integrated developement environments!

Read More

This magic CSS code is able to change the orientation of the printed page:

Read More

T r u e C r y p t

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux

Read More

After reading an interesting article on Erlang  and Java interoperability, I have decided to dedicate my spare time to Erlang.

O’Reilly has just published a wonderful book on Erlang, so I decided to dive into it.

Read More

Several years ago I had the need of keep in sync three computers.  After some questions on a java mailing list, a very smart guy suggested me Unison.

Read More

YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.

Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.

Read More