Il buon Kÿñj segnala (sulla mitica mailing list di birra4) un originalissimo evento di marketing organizzato da Microsoft: la Windows 7 Week: Installation Fest. Attendo con ansia che qualche ridicolo LUG copi la bellissima idea di Microsoft ed organizzi una qualche iniziativa analoga chiamandola magari “Linux Install Party”.
Sono un Gentooisa. Lo so, e ne vado fiero.
I am a Gentooist
Qualcuno potrebbe pensare di me che sono un pazzo masochista, ma a me la compilazione dei singoli pacchetti che installo nel mio computer ispira fiducia.
Sono un gentooista. Lo ammetto.
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After a long while, I managed to finally get some vacation. So I am spending some wonderful days in the beautiful “Chiantishire”, La colline del Chianti, in Toscana. I am really enjoying it. My darling is living here and managed to organize for me a beautiful stay in the countryside, in a lovely farm where goats, horses, chicken, dogs, cats and people live together in harmony. We met in Pontremoli last weekend and spent in the surroundings some days, then get to Chianti and soon moved on to reach Perugia. On our way, we stopped at Lake Trasimeno, where we found nice (even not beautiful) accomodation in a house: just a room and a private bathroom for 35 € in the “suburbs” of Castiglione al Lago. In the evening we decided to enjoy the dinner in a local restaurant: there are a lot in the historical centre of the town and it was not easy to choose one. We eventually decided for “La Cantina“, which had a nice terrace and seemed quite nice, with good choice at reasonable fares. In fact, the dinner was fine. We had a appetizer of mixed special dishes from Umbria, my darling had a dish of fish while I choose a portion of “gnochi al formaggio e tartufo”. We choose a nice and tasty white chardonnay and, as a final touch, I had a fine dessert consisting in a green tea pudding garnished with lavender flowers.
Quite nice, isn’t it? Well, yes, if it wasn’t that the following night I could not sleep, I felt a rock in my stomach and I had to throw up 3 times during the night and the moring. I felt so bad, we had to head back to Chianti where I could have had a rest. Still today, I am feeling bad, having my regular and frequent dates with the toilet and feeling like someone punched me hard in the stomach.
I will not tell you the restaurant is bad, just they tried to poison me! 🙂
The rest of the week was calm and relaxing, and I am actually feeling much better, yet not perfect, and I don’t feel like coming back to work! I even learned how to make goat cheese and I am having a really wonderful time. It was since a long while that I was not so relaxed and rested!
I wish you joy and luck! And better food at restaurants!
Mitakuye Oyasim!
Somehow, Web 2.0 is winning over me (and over many other people). Recently, I discovered Facebook and, of course, I started using it.
Now, I am confused! Social Networking is nice, but a lot of myself is on the net. I’d love to write something about digital identity. Maybe in the next days I’ll find some time to do it.
By now, if you feel like, visit my profile on Facebook, looking for my name and surname! 🙂 You surely know it!
After a long month of hard work, I am finally able to drop a few lines about my last computer results. Not much, considering how busy i was with my regular job, but anyway something.
I bought this device almost 18 months ago (if i remember well) and I managed to let it work in the DVB-T mode. The main problem was not the Empia chip this stick is based on, but rather the Micronas DRX3975d DVB-T demodulator. This chip was not yet supported by any kernelspace driver. A really smart German guy, Markus (www.mcentral.de) managed to get the specs for this demodulator directly from Micronas and finally managed to write a working driver.
The story for tis driver is rather long, and includes a long debacle on the linuxtv mailing list: the topic was the choice Markus adopted of writing an userspace driver rather than a kernelspace one. I don’t have the competences to understand the real differences in these two points of view, but in fact Markus, right or wring in his decision, is the only one who managed to write a driver for this device. Finally, thus, I managed to compile the driver for my USB TV stick and watch digital video broadcasting television.
I followed few easy steps to install it on my Gentoo box, posted by Markus on the mcentral.de mailing list. Up to this point i was using the v4l-dvb-experimental kernel module Markus himself wrote and that can be found on the mercurial repository at mcentral.de
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