Ceci n'est pas une pipe

Exactly one year ago at this time published my first post on this blog. ... Applause!

What say, I never had the ambition to become who knows what to do, but despite all this my little personal space has had a discreet investigation.

In a calendar year I managed to collect over 70,000 visits with 470,000 page views. In recent months I have logged an average of about 400 independent accesses per day. I uploaded 209 post and I received 76 comments by surfers. Through these pages I came into contact with new people and have concluded a dozen contracts with new companies. Read More »

Sometimes you open the drawer of your desk looking for a lighter and found a box of twenty years before. Just twenty years correct. I think things are.

I have no nostalgia for that age who remember the dark often with too much tenderness. Only that gives you an imperceptible dizziness suddenly revise the calligraphy of one of those complicated friendships that teenagers are confused by something so large as to take an almost epic.

I always kept by cure this subject and now that has become almost a museum piece by me before the meeting by chance, quite by chance, as something that is believed to have thrown but it was saved only because we have not hit the trash waste .

It is worthwhile to take stock of twenty years that separates me from the afternoon where it was recorded this tape? Of course not, obviously. But that moment so far in one way or another remains trapped between the thousand things of this day, a red wire - wrote then, in those letters so interminable and sentimental sgrammaticate - which holds together two worlds miles away. Rather, a red thread that twenty years long, after all, does not take anything together. But meanwhile it is there to remind you've lived so much and yet you have to live. Just never lose curiosity and ability to let surprise, even from one thing to anything like that before you can find when you open the drawer of your desk looking for a lighter.

I and the Commodore 64 are children who can not play here with great satisfaction an article in the Messenger they have stumbled today. Then one wonders why I prefer to work from the command line than with any graphical interface. My sweetie says that numerini green sooner or later I will go crazy and end up in a plastic Porta a Porta is the fate of almost all information technology consultants. Whether you are right? I do not know. And now I do not have time to think about these things have to go back to my numerini green ...

The Commodore 64 is much more than a computer. Everyone knows the millions of fans who, throughout the world, remember with nostalgia the family beige-colored machine, which made his entry into the American market at the end of 1982 and then to know a rapid spread also in the Old Continent. Navigating the network you find that many of those children of the eighties, who perhaps had convinced his parents to buy a C64 rate, still have imprinted in the mind every detail dell'affascinante machine: its historical games like Super Mario commands Basic language as the "SYS64738", today became the favorite nickname internet more nostalgic. Read More »

I happened often having to play around a server UNIX / Linux with a management VirtualHost Apache jeopardized by years of uncontrolled use of servers from system administrators not ordered. The result is usually a large number of users with home directory structured differently from one another.

In particular, in a recent case I found a hundred people of whom some portion was DocumentRoot in your home directory, others had us under / var / www / users /, which I recommend because it avoids have problems with suexec in precompiled versions of Apache.

To fix a chaotic situation so I decided to do everything correctly under / var / www / users / and I was presented with the need to create directories missing and their symbolic links to various home directory. I did it with a simple script in bash, that if the public here can also be useful to someone else. It took me a while 'output to make the code clear who is also the first arms with the bash.

Warning! On line 18 is made a copy of a fast-cgi in the directory / var / www / users / ivan /. Obviously, you have to replace ivan with the name of a user on your server.

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  #! / bin / bash 

  echo "initialization script ..." 

   $ ( ls / home / ) ; do for i in $ (ls / home /); do 
    echo "I'm processing '$ i'" 
    -L / home / $i / public_html ] ; then if [-L / home / $ i / public_html]; then 
      echo "The symlink / home / $ i / public_html already exists' ... jump!" 
    else 
      echo "The symlink / home / $ i / public_html does not exist: I try to create it ..." 
      -d / var / www / users / $i ] ; then if [-d / var / www / users / $ i]; then 
        echo "The / var / www / users / $ i there, I just have to link ..." 
        ln -s / var / www / users / $i / home / $i / public_html / Bin / ln-s / var / www / users / $ i / home / $ i / public_html 
      else 
        echo "The / var / www / users / $ i NOT exist, now creo ..." 
        mkdir / var / www / users / $i / Bin / mkdir / var / www / users / $ i 
        echo "Copio the FAST-CGI ..." 
        cp / var / www / users / ivan / fast-cgi / var / www / users / $i / / Bin / cp / var / www / users / ivan / fast-cgi / var / www / users / $ i / 
        echo "System permissions for the directory created ..." 
        chown -R $i : $i / var / www / users / $i / Bin / chown-R $ i: $ i / var / www / users / $ i 
        chmod 700 / var / www / users / $i / Bin / chmod 700 / var / www / users / $ i 
        echo "I create the symbolic link ..." 
        ln -s / var / www / users / $i / home / $i / public_html / Bin / ln-s / var / www / users / $ i / home / $ i / public_html 
      florence 
    florence 
  done 

BUC (Just One Click) is an Open Source software for the Linux SiciLinuX Group, developed by Matthew endorsement in collaboration with Valerio Billerica, capable of transforming bash script in real applications with easy graphical interface. The program essentially is nothing but an "interpretation" can read files with a. Mc, or of special XML files that contain within them a set of scripts bash. In this way your skills in programming bash can be exploited to achieve real applications with graphical interface.

More information on the official website of the project, at http://buc.opensource.tk

Carryover here the translation of a post in my opinion very funny published by Linus Torvald on his personal blog - yes, also the time to take a personal blog, he ...

I do not know you, but I always believe that nature has to give you a hand. I have done lasik eye, for example, and are absolutely satisfied.

Not that I ever regret bringing glasses, but I could not even recognize my children in the pool even at a distance of two meters. Let us be clear. Swimming against the children of others and make him the tickle is not considered a socially acceptable behavior. At least in the United States.

This brings me to another that I would help give the kind: I've never been able to find a sport that really excite me. Of course, playing pool, which is technically a sport, I think. After all, this is always to move a ball here and there. Even scuba do is fun, but I think that if we take as an aerobic exercise you're something wrong (the best part of scuba is when you look around letting float - doing the minimum possible exercise).

Let us be clear, I I'm seated and immobile as a vegetable for 99% of the time. My job is sit in front of a computer and, in moments of relaxation, the last thing the world that I go to do is run here and there. Once practiced a little 'swimming, and for about six months I managed to get three quarters of an hour of pool almost every day, and this helped me, but even though I like to swim at some point it had reduced to an account of the tanks.

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A message to reassure all those who in these days are looking for me online and begin to murmur that I happened is a disgrace. Nothing serious, just deeply immersed in work and I can not allow distractions due to some very close deadlines. I apologize primarily with Oscar: just came back from stagnation on your server and you do some straight to do everything that I asked you.

In the meantime, to deceive the wait, you can always visit the site DoppelMe and create your own avatar! This is a free service that allows you to create your own alter ego to be used on the Internet. It is really idiot proof and does not require even a registration required. The avatar you see the side I have done so in less than a minute believe. Trinket people, trinket ... a presto!

As the annual edition of Bergamo Linux Day stands out for its exceptional organizational skills and wealth of seminars offered. The event will be held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bergamo.

Citing the official website of the initiative, remember that the Linux Day is a national demonstration organized in local events which aims to promote Linux and free software.

For more information and reservations, see the official website of BGLUG (Bergamo Linux User Group) at http://www.bglug.it.

Until a few years ago, installing Windows XP was common practice choose to format the main partition with the FAT32 file system type. This mainly for reasons of accessibility of data from obsolete operating systems (Windows 98) or "alternative" (for Linux to read and write access to NTFS partitions was introduced with a lag, for obvious reasons).

Capita still find old workstation with the FAT32 file system. Lapsed reasonable justification for keeping this kind of choice in such cases I make the conversion from FAT32 to NTFS, since this is a safe, tested and that brings undoubted benefits at operational level, first of all ability to handle volumes larger than 32GB (maximum limit for FAT32).

The conversion operation is extremely simple. Simply open a DOS window and issue the following command:

Convert X: /FS:NTFS /V /NoSecurity

• X: is the drive where we want to convert (for example: C:)
• / V shows to view the details of each transaction (verbose mode)
• / NoSecurity can not restrict access to files converted to NTFS

Will be asked the name of the volume that make the conversion. If the volume did not name, date sent without entering anything. The rest takes place in an almost automatic. Here's an example of the simple step through which pass:

Conversione Partizione Win XP (C)
Il file system è di tipo FAT32.
Inserire l'etichetta di volume corrente per l'unità C:: Win XP
Impossibile eseguire la conversione. Il volume è utilizzato
da un altro processo. Smontare il volume per eseguire
la conversione. TUTTI GLI HANDLE APERTI NEL VOLUME
CESSERANNO IN QUESTO MODO DI ESSERE VALIDI.
Forzare lo smontaggio su questo volume? (Sì/No)

Answer Yes (S) to the latter question. The system will warn you that you dismount the volume because in use and ask if you want to schedule the operation to the next reboot. Again, respond positively and restart the machine.

As I said, the operation is extremely safe and tested, but - as they say overseas - "shit happens," and advice to make a preliminary backup if, for example, you just cut the light while carrying out the conversion filesystem.