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Recently I am getting annoyed by an Internet Service Provider Company from Italy that I was using more than 2 years ago. They made me crazy at that time: I was calling the support and they were very rude and incompetent. They was charging me the double price for the service, so after some time, […]

Who designed Windows Mobile should be killed, but very slowly…
I have an HTC3300 with Windows Mobile 5.0, and as a phone, my Nokia 3210 was much better. Also my Palm Tungsten T2 was much better to handle contacts, TODO lists, calendar, notes, etc. Actually I continue using the Tungsten T2 as PIM, because of how […]

I am managing for a friend a well known blog that talks about politics and freedom in Italy. That blog is continuously target of spam, but there are filters doing a fantastic job.
Also there are many people that just write insults or about fantastic conspiracy theories… I was thinking that it would be nice to […]

Always dealing with optimized code of incredibly slow and buggy applications…
Some of my favorite quotes against premature optimization following.
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason — including blind stupidity. – William A. Wulf
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of […]

In our working environment it happens quite frequently that the wireless router make some mess and you have to change your MAC address to get access to the network again.
On Windows I was using MAC Makeup tool.
On Linux no tool is needed. Just write at the terminal:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
sudo ifconfig wlan0 […]

It is so much time I abandoned this website that actually I also forgot the password… The reason is that, since long time, I was not doing anything much interesting. But things are changing. Not changing the client, but finally I got some good assignments; the Sun is shining again and I got a new […]