“Smart: inchiesta sulle reti” di Frédéric Martel, è un libro uscito da poco che mi sento di consigliare. “Internet non appiattisce affatto il mondo. Semmai è il mondo a nutrire la Rete di complessità, diversità, ricchezza, tanto che sarebbe opportuno parlare ormai di reti, al plurale. ” La scrittura è molto scorrevole ed è …
Al giorno d’oggi si hanno tanti account, con tante password. Più una password è diversa dalle altre meglio è. Ma come proteggerle, evitando di segnarne sempre il meno possibile? Sotto MacOSX c’è il Keychain, ovviamente incompatibile con windows e linux. Grazie a questo articolo, ho scoperto che emacs ha una serie di integrazioni con i …
Sulla carta, acquistare la chiavetta TIM da 7 o 12Mps a 100 euro per un anno sembra una offerta allettante. Per non saper nulla di informatica però, devo dire che il mio rapporto idilliaco con Tim è durato solo 4 mesi….
Volete utilizzare il tag canvas di html5 anche su IE6 ed IE8? Google ha la soluzione… Modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera support the HTML5 canvas tag to allow 2D command-based drawing. ExplorerCanvas brings the same functionality to Internet Explorer. To use, web developers only need to include a single script tag in …
After working with unix for years, we noticed it is difficult to get a very uniform approach to unix management. Often different Linux distributions share very little, configuration is different every time. Worst, some good unix tools (like cron, syslog, etc) can be used in a distributed environment, but are very difficult to configure, very …
Mastering clusters of Unix machines part2: the right tools Read More »
One day, we have the need to create a fast cluster of linux machine, specialized and easy to segragate in different networks (for better security). We need web servers, integration servers (running java hudson), huge developer machines (running for instance eclispe) and so on. It was not easy to find a good environment. This research …
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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.
As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the …
Evolving concurrency, like memory management did Read More »
Hi World. I didn’t lost a bit of grip on edge news, altrought now I am married! In the first days of May we read about a new serach engine, called WolframAlpha. The idea behind WolframAlpha are interesting, so we will take a close look to it. Slashdot is following the engine very tightly (“Wolfram Alpha Launches …
After my past experience with bad hosting provider, I am happy to say I have find a very good hosting service. If you need VPS hosting, Rimuhosting is a very good choice. After about two years with Rimuhosting, I can summarize their feature here: They have a very good entry-price for a virtual hosting System …
