Author: Raffaello Tesi
Raffaello Tesi is a a telecommunication engineer, web developer, translator, interpreter, transnantional coordinator, language teacher, tourist guide, cyclist and a wannabe for what concerns the rest.
Running a Linksys WRT54GL in client mode
Update (9.4.2009): Whiterussian has been superseded by Kamikaze, therefore the information given in this post are to be considered out-of-date, and most of the links are dead anyway.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 decided to write down the […]
Read moreScanners can play Beethoven
Scanners can play Beethoven – That's scary!
Read moreSnus, snus, snus!
[lang_en]For a more objective analysis on snus, see Wikipedia.[/lang_en][lang_it]Per informazioni più accurate, vedi la voce snus su Wikipedia.[/lang_it][lang_fi]Lisätietoa nuuskasta löytyy Wikipediasta.[/lang_fi]
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Spam, spam, spam!
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 least for two e-mail […]
Read moreMy cubicle
For those of you working in a cubicle 🙂
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November rain
Well, at the moment I should say November snow, since here the temperature has gone below zero, and doesn't even consider the possibility to get back on the plus side. But the November rain I'm talking about is a feeling of darkness, gloominess, a late autumn which the weather is just a mirror of. It's the feeling that shuts your […]
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Golem! Rise and walk!
Yesterday I went to the Iik! Horror Film Festival to see the original version of the film The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), a film of 1920 about the mud creature. I really liked it, although the subtitles were only in German, which isn't really the language I'm the best […]
Read moreDead Poets
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman: […]
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Sembra talco ma non è…
… serve a darti l'alle gria!
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