I want no monuments

Un mini post per ringraziare tutte le persone presenti ieri al meeting di Maggio del JUG Torino.

Come al solito ho cominciato zoppicando (e questa volta più del solito! Stavo quasi per dire “ok, aspettate, ricomincio”. Ho evitato per un pelo…) ma il resto dello talk è andato credo abbastanza bene. Mi piace quando la persone che hai davanti intervengono, obiettano, commentano, perchè vuol dire che, gli piaccia o no quello che gli racconti, ti stanno seguendo.

Grazie ancora a tutti!

It’s really a bad thing to have such a shit pile they call the Vatican City in the very centre of my country, only a few kilometers away from the politicians.

Fortunately, our beloved European neighbors help us where our medias fail. Clothdamn! Watch this video from the BBC…

UPDATE: Google, as it has already done in China, censored the video. Another one came out. Thanks to Beppe Grillo.
Btw if you want to assure you a copy of that video, please use aMule, eMule or go to http://go.to/vatican-sex-crimes

La nuova vita a Torino comincia il 24 maggio, ore 18.30, quando terrò il secondo talk della mia vita.

Parlerò di Echo2, il mio amato toolkit ajax. Diversamente dal talk di dicembre a Milano, aggiungerò qualche riferimento a Echo-Core, la libreria di base che io e Concept abbiamo sviluppato e usiamo quotidianamente per lo sviluppo delle nostre applicazioni.

Se siete da queste parti, fate un salto, potreste divertirvi (almeno ci spero ;))

La locandina e di seguito l’agenda della serata

presso CSP spa Corso Svizzera 185, Torino
Fabbricato 1, scala H, 2° piano

Agenda:
18:30: check-in

18:45: JugTO Quickie: Web & HTTP the Ajax way
come funzionano le applicazioni Ajax
Carlo Bottiglieri

19:00 JugTO Seminar: Echo2: Rich Internet Applications the Swing way
come sviluppare Rich Client Application senza una riga di html o javascript, con il framework Echo
Federico Fissore

It’s quite unhappy to discover that your brand new printer is not working at all!

I’ve just bought a HP 1018, usb printer, plugged it into my laptop, downloaded and installed the modules (obviously NOT provided by HP, but rather by rick) and…. no, it wasn’t working.

My kernel was complaining with a “usblp0: error -110 reading printer status”… darn…

After a day of googling, I found this post pointing me to this old email.
So I’ve followed the suggestion: I’ve removed the EHCI module, retried the printing procedure and voilà: my printer greeted me with the CUPS test page! Ahh…

As an explanation, it may be that my laptop (as well as my dekstop, both quite old actually) are not really USB 2.0 compliant, or that maybe the printer itself is declaring the kernel to be, while not really being able to manage it.

And… yes, a whole day of googling… I’ve even thought that, probably, linux geeks just don’t print… they just read PDFs on the screen… oh btw, I’m one of them…

As I’ve started my freelance career, I needed a new server. For a tax issue, actually, but even to have more freedom in its administration.

So I’ve switched from a cheap virtual hosting with Tophost (that I thank) to a cheap virtual server with AreaServer.

To celebrate it, as you can see, I’ve even changed the wordpress theme. It’s very cool, isn’t it?

More to come, stay tuned…