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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

I am still fighting my little personal battle against mindless-forwarding in chain-letters (I call that Wild-CC) and top-posting in e-mails.

Today I've had another confirmation (as if I needed any) that top-posting is a bad way to reply to a message.

If you want to communicate on a LAN with your friends/coworkers, there's no need to use a server: a possible solution to the Serverless Messaging problem is Link-Local XMPP.

Since Jan. 13^th, 2010 Xorg version 7.5 has landed to Debian unstable; one of the most notable additions to it was the XInput2 system, which incorporates the MPX efforts. So I hooked up a second USB mouse to my machine and started playing with it.

In linux kernel development there are informal, and yet quite solid, conventions which apply when sharing patches and collaborating during the —public and undisclosed— phase of code peer-review.

As some of you may know, all the communications about kernel development happen via e-mail, and there are some tools to ease the task of preparing and sending patches; these tools allow some degree of customization, or “branding” like I am calling it in this case.

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So, I wanted to learn how to type with all ten fingers properly, and I needed a learning aid in order to train my hands to not cross their own half of the keyboard.

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Keyboard divider with 6 on the left hand (for printing)

Keyboard divider with 6 on the right hand (for printing)

Keyboard divider with 6 on the left hand

Keyboard divider with 6 on the right hand

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Merry Xmas everybody!

And enjoy your meals!

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If you use the Vim editor, sooner or later you run into the concept of text buffers.

Hemm, The irony is delicious, not sure about the ironing, actually.

I was reading a very interesting article by Nemo, inspired by another one about the same matter: automatic spelling correction, when an old idea of mine came out again.

When setting up the git repository for VRM I wanted to preserve the project development history, but I hadn't used any real VCS tool back then, I just used to make timed backups with a scheme like this:

$ ls -1
vrm-0.1.py
vrm-0.1_237.py
vrm-0.2.py
vrm-0.3-beta-2006-03-28.py
vrm-0.3.beta-2006-05-11.py
...

Someone at google must be singing this song in their head, mustn't they?

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