Progbox, citizen media at its best!

11 giugno 2008 - Fonte: http://mondolinux.netsons.org

On its homepage, Pete Savage introduces and describes Progbox as:

Welcome to pr0g80X.vid, an almost monthly show about technology, Linux, open source and many other topics. The format of the show usually contains a news section, book review, showcase of small open source project and two large tutorial/howto sections.

While Pete is not wrong in describing the show as such, I would like to point out that Progbox is so much more. For me, Progbox is a shining example of citizen media at its best; somehow, Pete has managed to produce a show which is not only entertaining and easy viewing, but preferable viewing over...

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Bastrama is a command-line tool to manage backup files

10 maggio 2008 - Fonte: http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com/

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Bastrama is a command-line tool to manage backup files that are stored on random access memory (e.g. hard drives).

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It implements an infinite grandfather-father-son strategy by deleting a defined subset of the backup files, therefore saving storage space while still keeping some of the older backups in case something went wrong (and needs to be restored from) a long time ago.

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How To Spell Check All Fields In Firefox

10 marzo 2008 - Fonte: http://www.universefirefox.com

Firefox has a really useful built-in dictionary that underlines a misspelled word, so you can see at a glance whenever you have typed something wrong.

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But you might have noticed that when you type a wrong word into the email subject (in Gmail for example) or any single line element, it doesn’t work.

Yes, the default setting corrects and spell checks all multiple lines areas, leaving it to you to find errors in single lines box such as titles, subjects, tags…
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eSnips: risorsa in comune per SeekMp3, Woonz e Groupzz

7 febbraio 2008 - Fonte: http://www.generazione-internet.com

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Oggi ho letto un interessante articolo sul blog di Go2Web20, nel quale l’autore ha pubblicato il risultato di una piccola ricerca personale: ha scoperto che i motori di ricerca di files mp3 nella Rete SeekMp3, Woonz e Groupzz, oltre ad avere lo stesso player online e a permettere il download diretto della musica, possiedono la stessa risorsa dalla...

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How idiot are you?

16 gennaio 2008 - Fonte: http://fripp.wordpress.com

Sempre su segnalazione del mio mentore, continuiamo sulla scia dei test idioti.

You are a Philosopher! Hmmmm… You’re an idiot because you constantly think about the meaning of life, and why exactly we’re all here. You more than likely have thought up a complex explanation, but most people think you’re wrong (and you probably are).

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