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It is died John W. Bakus IBM developer and team leader of the deam that has invented Fortran (Formula Translator).Via Punto Informatico

Imagine you are reformatting your HD for a clean reinstall and realize that for mistake you have formatted a $38 Billion dollar file.This is what seems to be happened to the Alaska revenue office.Via Slashdot

Prosegue l’offensiva contro lo sharing in Italia: coinvolti solo grandi uploader di musica, film ed altri materiali. Sequestrati cinque server, decine di computer ed altro materiale.Via Punto Informatico

Has been released a new version of Beryl the 0.2.0 that after the last stable version 0.1 adds many news like new plugins (Thumbnail,Snap,Opacity,Group) and new window decorators (Heliodor,Acquamarine).

Are you bored of the same and old Top?Htop is for you.Htop is an interactive process viewer Top alike with some enhancement like the graphic interface (it uses ncurses) and the possibility to use your mouse to kill processes and obviously some better functionality.At this link you will find a quick comparison.

While in America all the patents at the base of the filesystem FAT have been accepted in Germany the German Patent Federal Court has rejected one of them in Germany saying that is not based on inventive activity

Do you know how your mouse works?Take a look at this animation.The answer is simple many little japaneses that move it

If you are not polyglot and want to know what language is the text you have you can use Polyglot 3000.The program can recgnize more than 400 languages.Via LifeHacker

Has been found a new vulnerability in OpenBSD versions 3.9 and 4.0 in the ICMP6 packets management.We must say that is effectively an important bug but we must also have to say that it is the second in the last 10 years. Via SlashDot

oma - Sono 3.636 i nominativi che Telecom Italia dovrà fornire entro 15 giorni alla società discografica di Hannover Peppermint Jam Records Gmbh, nomi di utenti Internet italiani e clienti Telecom che, secondo l’azienda tedesca, tramite le piattaforme di sharing hanno posto in condivisione un gran numero di brani musicali protetti da diritto [...]

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