Monthly Archives: July 2007

4 things I hate about FireFox under Linux/Gnome

speed: try using Google spreadsheet, it’s simply impossible. On Windows it works smoothly. integration: try having to change your proxy settings times a day… FireFox can’t read proxy info from GNOME settings UI: Save/Open dialogs are not the native GTK ones crashes: hey where’s my firefox? it’s gone, without telling me anything… and this happens [...]

hey PHP guys, do you remember unicode?

While we all are waiting for some real news about PHP6… I found a funny bug in PHP5.2. As you all know PHP5 does not support unicode natively, thus you’ve to use the mbstring module and let the module overload all the functions dealing, doing this will allow you (example) to substring a text without [...]

iloveubuntu.com: this is trademark violation

Ubuntu trademark is clear, and the iloveubuntu.com website (intentionally not linked) is violating it, hope Canonical will make that great joke stop. UPDATE: this post would be a provocation, ’cause you know I’m a bit sceptic about free software and trademarks. I also know about ie7.com and many others, same story here and there. :)

Linux for the Italian parliament?

Every member of the Italian parliament can now ask to replace his Windows workstation with a Linux one. Many people say that this is a revolution but I can’t completely agree. Thinking to the medium age of the members and their familiarity with the PC, how many of them will ask for Linux? A prevision? [...]

Evolutionary energy

While the orbo machine demonstration has been postponed again (and I’m going to postpone also my comments about the machine), I’d like to point out some other interesting projects: Massive Yet Tiny Engine hydro-sonic pump and the best Italian website/forum about the MEG (Motionless Electromagnetic Generator) and free energy. …google for more info… hey, remember [...]