Mar
22
The Father of Fortran is Dead
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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
Mar
20
So you have lost a $38 Billion file
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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
Mar
20
P2P Denunciati 11 utenti italiani
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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
Mar
20
Beryl 0.2.0 is out
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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).
Mar
19
Htop enhanced Top
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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.
Mar
19
FAT patent not approved in Germany
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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
Mar
19
Do you know how your mouse works?
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Do you know how your mouse works?Take a look at this animation.The answer is simple many little japaneses that move it
Mar
15
If you are not polyglot use Polyglot 3000
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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
Mar
15
Remote exploit discovered for openbsd
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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
Mar
15
P2P: 4000 italiani identificati
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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 [...]




