At the beginning of the 21st century I started to hear about Bluetooth. I didn’t know back then I would end up to saturate its band with my home devices. Here is the configuration I have at home: The devices I use are the following: Nokia BH-109: Bluetooth headset which can connect two devices at [...]
In case you are setting an error.php page in Joomla! to customise the “404 Page Not Found” error page, remember to add the following lines in your your template index.php page, before the DOCTYPE line: if($this->error->code = ’404′){ header(“HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found”); } ?> The reason is that when a request is made for a [...]
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the [...]
Ed ecco a voi la nuova galleria fotografica di Littlecamels.com! Mau si starà già mangiando le unghie dall’invidia appistoia. Informazioni per gli smanettoni: ho integrato Gallery2 in WordPress tramite il WPG2 plugin, impazzendo e impazzando non poco per farlo funzionare come volevo (Gallery è un applicazione veramente completa per la visualizzazione di gallerie fotografiche, e [...]
Almost a year ago I was talking about free software, that is, how to be legal with your computer application licences and still not to pay anything. So I decided to write a separate page about the free software I use in my laptop, because I know I’ll need that list to reinstall all of [...]
Sunday evening I was listening to a radio programme in Podcast with my laptop. At a certain point it froze. Nothing working. Hard shut down and straight to bed. The next day the horrible truth: starting the computer, black screen and just few lines: Windows cannot be started: missing file in C:\windows\system32 I got it [...]
Update (9.4.2009): Whiterussian has been superseded by Kamikaze, therefore the information given in this post are to be considered out-of-date, and most of the links are dead anyway. Please refer to openwrt.org for up-to-date information. Need to run a WRT54GL wireless router in client mode? I’m so happy I made it myself work, that I [...]
Computing post, engineer's style Question: I use an e-mail program to read my e-mail and I'm pissed off of getting every half an hour the announcement "you've got mail!" just to see that it is a spam message. Is there a way not to see these spam messages at all? Answer: Yes, there is. At [...]
Long time since the last nerdy post. Here below follows a list of useful programs that I have installed and actively use on my computer. Most of them are open source, so this could be useful for those who don't want to buy software, you'll realise that nowadays it is possible to do almost everything [...]
Ultimamente sto diventando un po' Wikipedia-dipendente. Cerco di controllarmi, ma è troppo affascinante. Wikipedia è un'enciclopedia libera. Ciò significa due cose: non costa niente (è su internet e più essere liberamente letta) chiunque può modificarne il contenuto, o aggiungere nuove voci. Se il primo punto può risultare abbastanza chiaro, forse il secondo lo è un [...]
