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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them: You will never find such as these on your path, if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your spirit and your body. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter, if you do not carry them within your soul, if your soul does not set them up before you. Pray that

Written by Richard Stallman Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to Mono; any free implementation of C# would raise the same issue. The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using ... More

I wanted to show an excerpt of my posts. Wordpress has a built-in excerpt feature. To enable it you've to edit your index.php (wp-admin>Appearance>Editor) changing the_content() in the_excerpt. But this doesn't show the "more" link: to view the full post you've to clic on its title. But I want the link "more". Google-ing a little bit, i found re-reloaded excerpt. Hot to use it? Install it as any other wp plugin and then replace the_content with one of the following strings: <?php the_excerpt_rereloaded(); ... More

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Today I reinstalled Ubuntu on my computer. I have a laptop with two hard-disks, so I decided to install Windows on the primary hd and GNU/Linux on the second one. About 25 minutes and "installation completed", but grub isn't there! Why? The installer puts GRUB on the mbr of the disk in which you're installing Ubuntu (the second one in my case) To boot GNU/Linux I need to put GRUB on the primary hd: let's see how!

1. Boot your live distro from its cd or

Yesterday I had to resize 38 photos. But what to do? I aked me "Is there an automatically way to resize all the photos?" Google helped me to find imagemagick. I installed it with a simple: sudo apt-get install imagemagick How-to use it:

1. Open (via terminal) the directory in which the images are saved. (you'd better backup them because they will be replaced by the resized images, so the original ones will be deleted)
2. Type this command mogrify -resize *.*
3. Wait for a few minutes and take a

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.