2004–2008
1,401 posts
2008 348
December 2008
- I’m glad I’m not a DBA
- Avoid LDPATH pollution
- Blockers abuse
- The mailing lists problem
- To-Do lists, tasks, what to do
- Reinventing the wheels for fun and….
- Library on a collision course! On the screen!
- Security mitigation strategies or, the only secure computer is the one yet to assemble.
- A couple of thoughts about package splitting
- Why a tinderbox is not enough (not even two)
- Debug code and debug information
- Software sucks, or why I don’t trust proprietary closed source software
- Filesystems — ext4dev fails
- Remote debugging with GDB; part 1: Gentoo
- Follow up on the tests; looking for CC-BY content
- RubyGems, CPAN and other languages
- When upstream lacks a testsuite
- I’d rather keep myself away from gems
- Have you tested that?
- Hacking the kernel
- Filesystems — take two
- Games reviews
- Again PIC, and executables this time
- FFmpeg, AppleTV and conversions
- Gentoo developer up for hire
- Looking for a todo webapp or service
- Filesystems
- Not feeling too well — a break
- Gentoo automation
- For elves, size matters
- Why foreign language bindings shouldn’t live with their parents
November 2008
- Multiple mini libraries, –as-needed and wrappers
- Google, code search, and sitemaps
- Nitpicking and improving
- Inconsistent Scalable Vector Graphics
- Switching to the native american
- Blocking old user agents
- Preparing for the new tinderflame run
- The disk problem
- I’m in yur ALSA… killing your dirties
- Misguided link and –as-needed
- Relationship between –as-needed and –no-undefined – Part 1: what do they do?
- Some more Gentoo activity
- Who wants to support largefile?
- For A Parallel World. Case Study n.4: jobserver unavailable
- Building the whole portage
- Problems and mitigation strategies for –as-needed
- GCC features and shortcomings
- Book meme
- Working with .NET, OpenOffice, and Mono
- Some thoughts about spam email
- No more breaks
- RFC: Cross-Referenced
- Booting from USB sticks, when it fails
- ruby-bombe and consistency
- On the road to Free Java – a story
October 2008
- Ruby, tests and specs
- Seamless access to files, IO streams, compressed files, …
- For A Parallel World. Theory lesson n.2: handling broken ebuilds
- The road to a Free Java is still very long
- About patches and contributions
- Let’s frag the bugs!
- Why strcasecmp() and similar functions should not be used when parsing data
- Reminding myself why I did chose Ruby for Ruby-Elf
- Macros versus static inline
- Redirecting URLs after Typo update
- Glib, byte swapping, and hidden documentation (and improvements)
- Autotools Mythbuster: the channel
- One thing Amazon UK could improve
- Blurring the separation between RDEPEND and PDEPEND
- About buildsystems and upstreams
- Fixing CFLAGS/LDFLAGS handling with a single boilerplate Makefile (maybe an eclass, too?)
- Graphing
- Ruby-Elf and multiple compilers
- Second hand games
- Dear Linux-based lazyweb, I have an LVM request…
- Autotools Mythbuster! You don’t want to canonicalise *that* (and I’m not referring to Ubuntu)
- Variables assigned and never used
- Ruby-Elf and Sun extensions
- Bitrotting
- More notes about the flags testing
- For A Parallel World. Theory lesson n.1: avoiding pointless autoconf checks
- My reasons for an eventual resurrection of Gitarella
- Supporting more than one compiler
- About the new dosfstools
- So, what am I doing with OpenSolaris?
- Extending libdaemon
- Monitoring a single server
- Good developers don’t necessarily create good build systems
- Atheros and drivers
September 2008
- Some design notes for unit testing
- Running git-daemon under an unprivileged user
- Blog face-lifting and still some problems
- OpenSolaris Granularity
- Renewing domains
- Building against non-installed libraries
- Unit testing frameworks
- Porting to Glib
- Finishing games tasks
- DocBook 5 and Gentoo
- Frontends to command-line or libraries?
- Quick post: had surgery
- Modernising XML technologies
- Silly time wastes: solving crosswords
- So, I need surgery…
- A question of names
- Testing the corner cases
- Leaving for the hospital
- uClibc testing
August 2008
- Respecting CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, reality testing!
- For A Parallel World. Case Study n.3: temporary files naming
- Updating a BIOS without floppies, Windows or CDs
- For A Parallel World. Case Study n.2: misknowing your make rules
- For A Parallel World. Case Study n.1: automake variables misuse
- Warnings, to keep from doing the wrong thing
- Parallel emerge versus parallel make
- Tagging on delicious
- Between Mono and Java
- About the new hospital
- The importance of an address book
- Caffeine addiction, coffee, and gallbladders
- Non-English political spam
- Some interesting possible side-effects of AGPL-3
- Just a note…
- Pills and schedules
- Same-ABI and any-ABI dependencies
- Some thoughts about Google Reader
- On patching and security issues
- CnM Minibook, xine, and GPL
- Webcams, linux, and VOIP
- xine license violated
- Outages, once again
- Yamato on its way
- Motion sensing, the new “cool thing”
- What did Enterprise do?
- About wireless and routers
- Enterprise down…
- Looking for a Nokia cable
- Caching results
- Autotools, targets and hosts
- Improving autotools-based buildsystems
- Locales, NLS, kernels and filesystems
- Health, again
- Outdated tools
- Flags and flags
- PAM, delays and hashes
- 3Com really needs better interface programmers
- Service announcement about disabled comments
- Ruby-elf and documentation
- Changing characters
- One more reason not to trust CMake
- You know that your health took a bad turn when…
July 2008
- My checklist when fixing packages
- Delegating
- It’s good to be home
- Again health status updates
- Health status update (dejavu…)
- Hospital again
- The odyssey of preserved-libs feature
- Shadow casting
- Dualhead, 16:10 and XRandR
- I’m running Gnome
- Linux 2.6.26 and iSCSI trouble
- Another take on alternatives for tar implementations
- Importing someone else’s code
- Russian spam
- Fedora 9 and VirtualBox
- About Nokia Chat
- Sun burns!
- An easy way for Italian companies to look silly to Free Software developers (and not only)
- System headers and compiler warnings
- Third term
- Blast from the recent past; two years ago
- Again about .la files (or why should they be killed off sooner rather than later)
June 2008
- A few risks I see related to the new portage 2.2 preserve-libs behaviour
- Bricolage Break
- Disk images
- rbot and Gentoo
- I bought a software license
- Debunking ccache myths
- My take on Genji: Days of The Blade
- I guess my next phone is not going to be a Nokia
- Why conditional patching and autotools rebuild is a Bad Idea
- Maintainer mode
- Please don’t build your examples by default
- Sub-optimal optimisations?
- Recognising glibc 2.8 failures
- Some more useful information about –as-needed
- Getting the news out
- Now this is a cool game
- What I think of the manifesto b…s….
- About bootstrapping
- About Ohloh’s “Journals”
- Silly Hardware Drivers’ Hunt!
- Making awstats run as an unprivileged user
May 2008
- Free time? Where can I get some?
- The importance of documentation in the work place.
- È Fassino ad offendere gli italiani…
- Looking for the name of a very old game (MS-DOS/C64 era)
- And yet again, I miss Borland’s compiler
- About code style and code execution
- Finding differences in XML files
- Blogging from the PS3
- Just a note about comment moderation
- How can someone miss a meeting?
- When you should use RDEPEND and when you should use DEPEND
- Sometimes you do need Linux-PAM, but mostly…
- Even little differences count
- Working late
- Il mio personale odio verso la pubblicità…
- Today’s mass filings
- Good reasons to mix declarations and code: unused variables
- Varying the scope
- Cleaning up the source code
- My take on compression algorithms
- xine’s new QuickTime demuxer
- Idiozie, poste ed Enel
- Gaming can be seriously cool
- Relax and sleeping problems
- Get me another cup of coffee, will ya?
April 2008
- Multi-core systems and modern desktop usage
- I consider AC_CHECK_LIB harmful
- Un film che tutti gli italiani dovrebbero vedere
- Get the thorn out
- Licenziamenti e flessioni
- My desktop publishing commentary
- Distributions and interactions
- Followup on autoconf 2.62 problems
- Se pagassero tutti…
- Remember: build fixes shouldn’t require a revbump!
- My hell: cabling
- What about those .la files?
- About gold and speed
- Some numbers about duplicate strings collapsing in ld
- New autoconf, new problems
- GMail and Viruses
- Amazon UK: you fail.
- Am I ready to move?
- Announcing bugs
- Back on Enterprise
- Torx screws and computer assembly
- Some insights on why a linker can be so slow
- Odio le Poste Italiane
- Google Summer of Code deadline extension
March 2008
- A few words from the cabling ladder
- How’s this year Summer of Code coming?
- Making everything a computer: an upgrade odyssey
- The story of a good API and a bad documentation
- Setups
- I’m baffled by the price of PS3 titles
- Cabling curse
- Digital light dimmers
- Looking for a wireless PCI card
- One green step forward, one green step backward (maybe)
- Some thoughts about internationalisation and common strings
- I hate suspended levels
- Credit’s given where credit’s due
- Summer of Code, Gentoo and other projects
- RDEPEND=”chem-substance/caffeine”
- Disappointed
- Logins and GnuPG
- What can I do with twenty floppy disk drives?
- Some words about global variables
- How to avoid unused functions to creep into final binaries
- Summer of Code ideas for other projects
- XML misuses
- Learning ADA and extending ELF analysis?
- Working under Windows, my personal hell
- Unieject moves to GIT
- Checking for page changes
- Private temporary directories
- Aggregating statistics
- Reducing the drift between Linux and FreeBSD (in Gentoo)
- Amending my SoC post
- Parameters handling and COWs.
- Some tips for both students and mentors for SoC (but not limited to)
- Some more about Summer of Code, on the Gentoo side.
- Summer of Code: is it all about the money?
- Many minor issues make a big issue
- A trick for Emacs 23 users: avoid app-emacs/nxml-mode
- Warning! Current FFmpeg Subversion will likely break all your builds!
February 2008
- My thoughts about Synergy
- Dear lazyweb, I need a gnuplot expert
- Donating to better causes…
- LED lights photos
- Should only libraries be concerned about PIC?
- About my previous post
- Ce l’ha il tuo utente
- Dual seat need development
- L’Italia dei piccoli sprechi
- LIT conversion
- Setting up a dual-seat system
- When you install a PAM service, you should install a PAM configuration
- The mess I found with PAM
- All your pambase are belong to us
- Capabilities and PAM
- Looking for a solution to get three monitors wired in…
- Proud to be European
- Using dwarves for binaries’ data mining
- I’m happy with my LED lightbulbs
- How many implementations of MD5 do you have in your system?
- Why would an executable export symbols?
- Increasing analyser performance through PostgreSQL
- Appassionati di retro-computing cercasi
- Flex and (linking) conflicts, or a possible reason why PHP and Recode are so crashy
- USB chargers and solar backpacks
- A case study: enchant’s internal Hunspell copy
- Looking for a Python coder with a Nokia phone
- A matter of libraries
- Merging the hardware data
- Dirty RSS and compiled pci IDs
- Ideas for Google Summer of Code
January 2008
- Random notes about xine plugins interface
- Another power outage
- More about Reader and PDFs
- My impressions about the Reader
- Some notes about multi-threading
- A good kind of cow
- Single point of mime detection
- Sometimes they come back
- A good reason to run autotools during src_unpack
- A few little updates
- Hidden visibility, programs and ebuilds
- My considerations about KDE4
- And what about imported libraries?
- What to do with shared code
- Why oh why, sqlite…
- A story about free software and free formats.
- A few statistics out of cowstats on media-libs libraries
- An hacky trick to run KDE4 applications in a KDE3 session without messing stuff up
- How could you force volunteer to do what they don’t want to?
- Service entry: looking for information about a “Yeti bot”
- Today: how to identify unused exported functions and variables
- Tech side overcomes differences
- xine, Matrox and audiobooks
- Introducing cowstats
- Some more details about tables
- Precalculating tables
- If you want to bitch, get your b****y facts straight at least
- Migrating from iPhoto to DigiKam
- I’m not an happy maintainer working with CMake
- Yai! More FFmpeg in xine!
- Sometimes the warnings can make things worse
- Looking for PDF books suppliers
- Proposal: reduce the size of system packages set
- Reminding a weakness of Prelink
- Some more about arrays of strings
- Talking about lights
2007 278
December 2007
- Looking for comments about Sony’s Reader (PRS-505) and Linux
- Migrating documentation
- The hard return to ruby-hunspell and rust
- New year’s resolutions
- My entry about the Oxygen cursors
- Yet again rbot
- Thinking nice of bugzilla again (and some rbot news)
- Backing off from FlySpray
- Call for translators for xine-lib-1.1.9
- Tips for localizers, even from Microsoft
- Another change over all the xine’s plugins
- Some news about my christmas lights
- Does Electronic Arts infringe LGPL?
- Christmas tube lights
- How to properly show that you care about a bug
- In APIs you should always accept the stricter pointer
- Array of pointers and array of arrays
- Status of xine-lib code reduction efforts
- Testcases are the way to go
- A correction about Qt4’s QtRuby
- Some more changes on rbot
- Now I know why there aren’t many valgrind frontends
- A word against ecompress
- Frontends and scripting languages
- Valgrind 3.3.0: good and bad sides
- Debating removing internal FFmpeg from xine
- I’m losing motivation
- Even more xine improvements today
- Optimising xine’s plugin interface
- Wine’s solutions
- I miss playing RTS
- Yes, again nxhtml
- Moving on with the nXhtml packaging
- LED lamps, part two.
November 2007
- Trying out Emacs’s Weblogger Mode
- Okay I’m in a power outage but…
- Happy birthday to me, sorta.
- Neptune hates me
- Problems running timidity++ with PulseAudio
- Proposing more USE flag documentation
- This PulseAudio bump was a massacre
- Boring power company
- Books and eBooks
- I should retire…
- Automating release
- Entertaining the idea of Affero GPL
- Let’s actually get some metadata!
- What I’d like for my birthday
- Bugs on random packages
- My personal crusade against C++ abuse
- A bunch of silly C++ libraries
- xine, monkeys, branches and micro-optimisations
- Users are just never happy
- One thing I’ll always envy Mac OS X for
- Finally on the new server
- The death of pam_console
- And still VirtualBox does not allow to run Solaris with networking
- A change in perspective
- Today is my day off
- Functional programming
- The long story of xine and the bugs
- One more thing in my TODO list regards PAM
- Stress relieving or stressing?
- What if GPL software couldn’t make use of OpenGL?
- Getting Kyocera Mita OS X 10.4 drivers work with 10.5 (Leopard)
- Hardware wishlist
- A sad day for my pokémons…
- Changes coming for shadow’s PAM support
- I think we might be a bit unfocused
- ADSL routers running open Linux in the next future?
- Why people insist on using /boot
- And finally… maybe the community voice was heard?
October 2007
- PulseAudio bump will be late
- Coming of PAM 0.99 in stable tree
- Patches for typo
- Claws and IMAP
- Today’s improved features is for… PulseAudio!
- Nostalgia of old games?
- Datemi un manuale del Bancomat
- Licenses mix
- So I’m back
- Sometimes one run is not enough
- It was the cable!!
- Sigh…….
- Status report on Enterprise and my wiring trouble
- Cabling new outlets
September 2007
- Restructuring my room
- And now I feel… decently, let’s say
- Honey… I’m hooome…
- I feel better, but…
- My faith in doctors starts to fade
- The nerd test
- New health status update
- Some more details on my health
- About my health problems
August 2007
- Mirror lights
- About the xine and libcdio interaction
- Burglar alarms, libcdio and ZeroConf (again)
- VHS relics
- Lithium batteries and disposable electronic.
- Stating that something is harmful, sometimes is harmful
- LiveCDs and ZeroConf
- An insider view of some future addition to the PAM documentation
July 2007
- Sometimes bad experiences let you learn something
- I’d like some luck with those drives
- Enterprise KO
- Environment- and Wallet-friendly
- Typecasting
- Forms, and forms and forms
- I’m not a roosters’ fan
- Italiani, popolo di presi in giro
- About my break
- Unexpected downtime
- One week break
- Argh! My E61!
- Some more PAM plans
- Package moves
- My thoughts on KDE4
- Rémi, just so you know
- I’m gonna go nuts
- You can finally ditch cracklib
- Again… PAM, I know I’m boring
- Semi-automatic PAM configuration adaption
- Writing PAM documentation
- PAM upgrade guide, finally!
- Realtime guide and some PAM updates
June 2007
- Jack bump and a realtime guide
- Refreshing break
- Yet another Solaris screwup
- Downtime
- Being driven crazy by lilypond
- Back to sound
- Enciclopedie
- Solaris on VMware: another one lost
- The long way for Java on Gentoo/FreeBSD
- About VirtualBox and Solaris
- JACK and proaudio software in Portage
- More improvements for Amarok (in Gentoo) and xine
- A possible solution out of Farragut’s trouble
- Stereotype or just common reality?
- Dying HD; blog disappearing?
- Synergy of frontend and backend
- Anger, and xine-lib’s mov support (plus a lot more xine stuff!)
- Hardware needs
- On adding new tools
- xine, removals and additions
- My pragmatic view on multimedia container formats
- xine and iTunes Plus
- xine proceeds
May 2007
- Flashing a DVD Burner
- Shedding a light on my return
- Just a few little updates
- UniCredit rischi un cliente.
- You shall not suspend
- Update on usb.ids
- Saving energy?
- New results from my elven script
- An ELF parser in Ruby
- One thing for which KDEPIM sucks
- OpenJDK, the Vulnerabilities, and You
- Suspending a PC
- GCC 4.3… it will be a bloodshed
- My fiddling with OpenJDK
- Avoid SpamAssassin 3.2.0
- OpenJDK and Gentoo/FreeBSD
- The relaxing method failure
- Proceeding with xine
- The mystery of the a52dec decoded samples
April 2007
- Audio conversion flies!
- Self-signed certificates on the E61: failed.
- usb.ids, is it still maintained?
- Laptop policies on a workstation
- A nice productive day
- Downtime and new UPS
- About libdvdnav and xine
- More progress for XDG support in xine
- Contributed code and FreeDesktop standard
- Discarica abusiva
- A little Summer of Code analysis
- Music overdose?
- The other big memory waste
- Spring cleaning in your $HOME: spamassassin with SQL backend
- Integrating FFmpeg in xine-lib
- The first improvement in xine with Mercurial
- Conversion to Mercurial done
- Millennium Bug all’italiana
March 2007
- Pahole and xine-lib
- Failures… maybe giving up?
- I *will* say “I told you that^Wso”
- Huge structures
- The distributed nightmare has ended!
- Trying again to get a better VCS
- xine on OS X, part two
- Being a developer is not a right nor a privilege
- Proper QA does not mean being perfectionists
- Portability of xine
- xine gets 64-bit Real binary codecs support
- Environment… no, not getenv()!
- Disappearence
- How much I value my mental sanity?
- Another webcomic… and nostalgia
- My distributed nightmare
- Serving community
- Why prefixed ID3v2 tags are extremely evil
- A suggestion for mobile internet users
- Ranting about Nokia’s development kits
February 2007
- Planned downtime
- Translating ebuilds, a proof of concept
- Internationalisation is important
- A misc weekend
- Sheer luck, or lack of?
- Virtualising C in Ruby
- What will I do next
- I’m tired of being insulted
- ALSA improvements part 3
- ALSA again: alsa-tools cleanup
- ALSA and disposable power tools
- PSU upgrades
- Okay, I exaggerated
- How to use GIT via SFTP only
- Rust is almost ready
- I don’t feel too well
- FreeType needed love, I gave it to it
- A/52 on-the-fly encoding for ALSA: step two: aften
- ZeroConf and VNC software
- A new step forward for XCB
- Kernel downgrade
- Darn my (miss of) luck
- New chapter in the ALSA mess
- Package undertaking
- The annoying thing about alsa’s ac3 plugin: FFmpeg
- Improvements in xine’s PulseAudio support
- Cyanoacrylate
- A little hint for ALSA hda users
January 2007
- Space ain’t cheap
- How to piss off a fellow maintainer for a whole year
- Simpler GuideXML editing for Emacs users
- Writing documentation
- Concerning the ALSA init script
- Craziness and ALSA (unrelated, maybe)
- Today in Gentoo’s KDE land
- I got scared
- Writing your own serial terminal
- Again the crazy overlays idea
- xine gets improved WavPack support
- Sometimes you’re saved…
- Negativity
- Again on Textile and Java
- How did it end with FAAD?
- Let’s talk about textile4j
- Okay, I need a few days of break
- Specifications, specifications, specifications
- Yesterday’s PAM problems are… today’s problems too
- Const…antine
- Shiny new KDE release
- Reality hacking
- Oops, I did it again
- Yes, yes, I know
- Introducing the Rust category
- New blog engine: Episode III
- Relax
- Maybe just two weeks
- New blog engine, second part
- Changing blog engine?
- Oh well, it’s rusty
- Thanks, and restart!
- Multichannel output
- A shadow lies upon all BSD distributions
- The big license mess, part 2
- Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause
- Another magic PAM debacle
- My little non-QA outcome
- Fixing broken autotools handling
- The ZFS tale
- Rip, rip, rip
- Dumping down
- Debugging debuggable
- New year’s proposals
2006 451
December 2006
- It’s not Gentoo-specific…
- Do I have a doc fetish?
- I love the European Union
- Moving from FLAC to WavPack
- I’m no Santa…
- The bad side of holiday season
- My holidays gift to xine: fixes
- Holiday time
- On licensing terms and playing it safe
- Let’s hear the community’s voice: the FAAD 2.5 licensing issue
- bash scripting tiny details
- 3Com Router Update: not an easy task
- Introducing autoepatch
- Bad bad knee
- Runabout and Intrepid
- What am I afraid of about the council
- [Rant] Council progresses
- Minimising alsa-lib
- New laptop, finally!
- The good and the bad news about my phone
- Sometimes blacklists are bad
- Azureus too
- Oops I did it again.
- Tomcat 5.5 on Gentoo/FreeBSD
- ALSA fun
- Debugging
- Xiph, I beg you, please do better releases
- My big headache
- Better usage of FFmpeg into xine
- Tips & Tricks: building the kernel as user
- Booting Gentoo/FreeBSD/SPARC64
November 2006
- Is it ALSA or HelLSA?
- Soldering iron
- Ejecting the mobile phone
- Pointless SVG eyecandy
- I love LEGO®
- What a beautiful font…
- Yes, I’m TiMid
- XCB on FreeBSD: case closed!
- Slowness
- SPARCing around
- Cleaning up the contrib
- Is xine dying?
- This week’s deadline
- Second approach failed
- Netbooting galore
- Organising myself
- The big harddisk D’OH!
- Bored, so… fortune-mod!
- I’ve joined the Gentoo/FreeBSD/SPARC64 team
- PulseAudio, EsounD and SDL
- My birthday is coming
- My idea about Syllable
- Experiments, not feeling well, and fixing
- OggFlac support… done!
- Working on a few things
- ProjectM is in portage
- Uncle
- Temporary downtime
- XCB on *BSD: many pthread-related problems
- The situation with XCB
- A new bunch of Gentoo/FreeBSD updates
- Updating to BETA3
- I’m not disappearing…
October 2006
- Another appeal for CJK improvements
- A possible trick with kbuildsycoca and KDE
- BSD flags and wanting not to work….
- No more envelopes!
- Introducing sys-auth/pam_console
- It’s funny when …
- Tiredness 2
- My personal birthday present…
- Prakesh building
- Why I don’t agree with not giving upstream’s package to the same person
- Too many overlays will bring us down
- Tiredness
- How not to update a library
- Third strike, I’m out for a while…
- About the arts/kdelibs patch …
- My own status update
- Let’s rebuild the world
- My thoughts about the GNU hash style
- That was a bad night
- My new addiction
- FedEx had a package for me
- Little annoyances
- A few more updates
- And… released
- Stress
- Decomissioning Defiant
- More problems for defiant
- HD dying
- Finally the stage has built.
- Give to Caesar what’s Caesar’s
- The long expected books post
- Catartic moment
- Changes coming for FreeBSD 6.2
- pam_userdb in the tree
- PAM mess, once again and forever
- The long run has started …
- New ALSA Herd
- Sound fixing….
- Should be careful…
September 2006
- Gli strumenti CASE per l’ingegneria del software
- Need for a dayjob
- xine’s fontconfig
- You really screwed yourself up when…
- Motivation?
- Why I don’t want too many overlays
- This is not the way to manage an Operating System
- Coverity scans and defects reporting
- New phone – looking for a new provider
- Shaving
- Profiling ruby?
- Moving Gentoo/Alt on Overlays
- Sometimes I think I’m wasting my time
- Status update on 6.2 upgrade
- FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 released, Gentoo work in progress
- Cell Phone wo sagashite(*)
- Tired
- Follow up on the FFmpeg insomniac work
- Insomnia, once again
- Planning the FreeBSD 6.2 update strategy
- Goodbye, lilo
- Giving up ALSA?
- This unappreciated ALSA work
- Finding the cause of xine slow-load
- When the tools don’t work
- New xine snapshot in portage
- Fixing xine’s minor issues
- Trying to ask before… new Amarok support
- About the radeon driver
- English .po files
- Oddissey of a taxpayer
- Again gitarella
- Mandriva made my evening
- In the land of KDE…
- If there was a “Most Useless Free Software Developer Award”…
- Massif Attack
- I don’t have 72 hours days!
- Dumped
- My new year resolution, anticipated…
- Why didn’t I use a Linksys DSL router?
- How can I feel bored, eh?
- Seems like I wasn’t the only one…
- The boundary of porting…
- Our handling of licenses
- Amarok release…
- FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory… debacle or simply unmaintained?
- Testing request
- Working on Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Consiglio “letterario”
- Okay so… now?
- My thoughts about QA and documentation
- I’m satisfied with myself: xine plays mp3 without mad
- Games
- Everybody’s crazy
- Some things just don’t change
August 2006
- Gentoo Updates from the Flame
- The problem with _my_ cable…
- What I was up to?
- I’m glad to be back
- Story of a broken stage
- My idea of a pre-release
July 2006
- The ICQ mess, part N+M+K+1
- [rant] The need for pre-releases, and the idiocy
- A few updates
- Unplanned downtime
- My thoughts on stable markings
- The Tao of Negotiation
- My break, Amarok, guides
- Documenting before break?
- Melting, making order, compiling
- An outage story and the pre-release
- The long build has started
- Why can’t we use –as-needed on Gentoo/FreeBSD?
- Working on the Java side…
- Heat and stagebuilding
- Something I hate…
- Looking for a new Hackergotchi
- From Gentoo/FreeBSD, some news
- PulseAudio in Gentoo, another update
- PulseAudio in portage, yuhuu
- Porting, and porting, and porting….
- Why I don’t like C for strings…
- Today is day of releases
- Insomnia
- ISP problems are lame
- Working on the infamous Wavpack…
- Problems with Kopete and ICQ
- Black out
- Finally, the release…
- Released ruby-hunspell
- Two months…
- Improvement continues
- Helping without coding…
- Cannot sleep…
- Writing ruby extensions: hunspell
- I have the stage
- My thoughts about ODF
- It’s good to share common technologies but…
- It’s not like I think other distribution sucks but…
- How many copies of FFmpeg…
- And there it is…
- Working on getting VLC ready…
- First impressions with the Radeon driver
- Don’t you hate when…
- Update from the Java front
- Update for my VLC users
- The road to Free Java is a long one…
- Cleaning up xine-ui
June 2006
- The shadow and pam-login conflict
- Fixing strict aliasing warnings
- The missing bumps
- Emacs and screen, screen and emacs
- Resuming work on Gitarella
- D for Destruction
- Autoconf debacle, part two
- The autoconf debacle
- Visibility, I’m not yet satisfied
- Too hot
- When having the sources helps
- Another nice trick… improving English of non-native programs
- Crazy idea… an alternative to CPU features useflags
- ALSA never stops to bother me…
- VLC’s nsplugin taking the way of the sea…monkey
- Moving site… maybe?
- Nonsensical hacks: why I find kdenewldflags stupid
- This depresses me: ALSA problems, once again
- Tired 2
- Cleaning up warnings
- Waiting … and waiting …
- Strict aliasing part 2
- My thoughts on graphics drivers
- Changes in VLC’s AAC handling in Gentoo
- Another keyboard problem
- Good news for unieject
- I’m back, almost
- The promised unieject news
- Shortcomings of our multilib/FHS filesystem layout
- My personal i18n: fixing xine-lib
- A few little changes and a few news
- I’m sorry…
- Happened while testing…
- Valgrinding
- Do we need an i18n project?
- My translation scandal
- Doing the translation job
- Preparing a new snapshot
- New unieject release
- My personal battle with keyboard and xorg: 7.1 stage
- Summing up the binutils trouble
- Gitarella does FastCGI, too
- In the land of media files
- No peace for me, another xine bug
- Gitarella can use memcache
- You wake up and… oh another bump
- Tip of the day: useful core dump names
- Unmasked!
- Ebuilds are done… mostly
- Refreshing the pam-login and shadow problem
- When your upstream need patching
- Ebuilds for KDE 3.5.3 are late…
May 2006
- What Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?
- Replacing gitweb
- Cleaning up the digiKam docs mess
- Fixing media bugs…
- There’s no such thing as Web 2.0
- Playing with visibility, once more
- My (late) Summer of Code Thoughts
- If you want to be smart, don’t try to be smart.
- Small and big updates
- I’m not dead and Thanks
- KDE 3.5 beta1 is coming your way
- XOrg and Baselayout
- Looking for iTunes audiobooks users
- Resurrecting electronics skills
- More modular X
- When you hit your head on the wall…
- Suggestions for a new router
- Another nice trick with localepurge
- Gentoo/FreeBSD “misc” problems
- External HD cases…
- Ready Kernel Go!
- Why it is a bad idea to record user settings during compile
- I’m no more impressed by Bazaar-NG
- Phasing out XMMS
- Temporary problems with comments
- Preparing a new box
- The great enemy
- Today’s little tricks
- Why documentation is important
- I’ll take a little break
- I want to cry, even more TagLib problems
- Hitting TagLib’s problems
- Going to change SCM
- And now, let’s test
- CMake, tests, headaches
- Clarification about secrecy and SoC
- I can’t stand secrecy
- JulTagger and multiple files
- Ruby, the new bindings and C++
- Blog problems
- Update to 6.1
- CUPS and Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Playing again with crosscompiling
- Little details that make you happy (maybe?)
- Updates on Gentoo/FreeBSD and crosscompilers
- Wireless working
- CUPS 1.2, problems and impressions
- Crosscompiling: the reverse
- Gamin… sigh..
- Strictness of the linker
- Fighting with kdelibs: confcache-geddon
- I need sleep
- RubyTag++ is alive!
- RubyTag++ finally loads
- The emacs problem
- Accessing UFS partitions
- Multimedia update
- Haskell on Gentoo/FreeBSD – Second part
- Murphy’s law
- Updating documentation
- Haskell on Gentoo/FreeBSD – Start
- About Google SoC and Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Updating to 6.1_rc1
- Little downtime
April 2006
- Stack Smashing Protection on Gentoo/FreeBSD – Part 2
- Big news from Gentoo/FreeBSD: SSP!
- A strange concept of Freedom
- My CMake impressions
- Six eyes are better than four?
- Restarting work on RubyTag++
- Backtracing
- On the Planet/Universe difference
- A day break
- My found and lost faith in tools of runtime debugging
- Is that an enemy, or can we use it instead?
- Waste of resources
- xine improvements part three
- xine fixes and improvements
- FreeBSD crosscompile, step3 cleared (mostly)
- Still problems with AAC and xine-lib (almost fixed)
- Aggregations and aKregator
- Blog moves…
- News from the Gentoo/FreeBSD world
- it.blog… io faccio blog italiano
- Powered by… Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Trying a move
- Fighting the PAM bugs
- Finally xine-lib is fixed!
- If you can’t sleep… bump!
- Still a few updates
- Doing the crosscompile work
- Today was a good day for sound
- I’m going to re-prepare a true G/FBSD box
- When I’d like to live somewhere else
- GCC and misc updates
- Proceeding the Init way
- Lots of updates, and good news.
- A “Thank You” to VMware folks
- Changes in bsdtar/libarchive handling
- Stagebuilding again
- New VLC in portage
- The case of the missing –as-needed
- My kdebase-meta
March 2006
- The one with xorg-server
- The xine-lib snapshot and fonts issues
- Intrusive debugging
- Finding random bugs
- Another multimedia update
- Build and rebuild
- Update on faad, sorry foser.
- New Kopete is coming
- CASE support in Free Software
- When both health and workstation hate you…
- Today’s foe: stripping packages
- Doing the cleanup
- A few news to KDE users
- When the CVS server^Wclient is annoying
- The QT mess
- KDE applications in portage
February 2006
- Porting KDE to modular X
- Providing a working pidof command
- VMware Image Released
- Another gnulib failure
- unieject moving again
- Minor glitches
- After stage cleanups
- Almost an year
- I need longer days
- flex is the new showstopper
- It was not GCC’s fault
- Where is the stage?
- New kopete
- New init system working
- Bad news for Gentoo/FreeBSD AMD64 waiters
- Almost ready
- Today’s report
- The odissey continue….
- Proceeding on 6.0
- Finally 6.0…
- New amaroK coming
- Porting on DragonFly
- Another move to bazaar-ng
- And VMware server it is :)
- Fixes needed
- I’m not dead yet
- Blowfish
- From the IME world
- Modules’ day
- Fixing warnings
- Recent changes in KDE eclass
- Tip of the day: local delivery with esmtp
- The use of shared libraries
- Cleaning up locals…
- Now testing: LVM2
January 2006
- Importance of warnings
- Another linking test
- Writing guides…
- Hack of the night
- I’m about to cry for the joy…
- VMWare, kernel and GCC 4.1
- Interesting compilers’ stats
- Bit of inactivity
- A gift to who?
- Continuing the TagLib bindings and other
- RubyTag++ – Status update
- G/FBSD and X.org
- TagLib Ruby bindings
- Tagging, amaroK, ruby
- Snapshot of amarok 1.4
- How to spend a night
- GCC4 and wxGTK/aMule
- How to annoy an ebuild developer
- Prepare yourself for new amaroK ebuilds
- Publishing my overlay
- Using bazaar on toucan (and bzr push!)
- The –as-needed fixing guide
- Today we present modular x patches to KDE…
- Fixing old C++ libraries
- –as-needed again
- FreeBSD 6.0 status update
- FreeBSD 6.0 is coming
- –as-needed last points
- –as-needed part 3 (and misc)
- 2005 status report
- Continuing –as-needed…
- The “as needed” return
- Hacking at kxkb
- My first “new year” within Gentoo
2005 213
December 2005
- Website cleanup
- New headphones…
- Holiday update
- Using Gnulib to improve software portability
- Wanting to learn Docbook
- Imported ATMOSphere rewrite
- An SVN hint request
- Gentoo/FreeBSD: looking for devs!
- Holidays and backlog
- The new amplifier and data entry
- Is ODT a true solution?
- apcupsd protocol
- Take over
- 32 bugs!
- Hints when using split debug
- Documentation update and the De-GNU-ification
- Gentoo/Alt Overlay no more available in SVN
- Trying out the debug info
- KDigest on hold
- The Flame of the week (month?)
- Overlay snapshots & DragonFly
- confcache 0.3.3 and tracebacks after installing libs
- Fedora
- Modular X porting
- KDE fixing spree
- Sigh another Korundum problem
- Laptop cleanup
- KDigest Ruby, Third Act
- Conversion status
- Rewriting in Korundum…
- libquicktime needs love
- The importance of documentation
- Avahi magic
- With canon you what?
- The hard(ened) jump
November 2005
- W32.Sober… spamassassin?
- sandbox porting… again
- Dream Theater
- Oh how useful is syslog!
- VLC updates
- Driving’s bad… little break
- Cleaning up misc patches
- xine-lib lifting
- Patches and documentation
- Playing with Modular Xorg
- Playing again with rbot
- Resuming the FreeBSD works
- confcache and crossdist workaround
- Wikipedia madness
- kaskpass and SSH
- For an ILS-free world
- Finalizing the Gentooification
- Happy! The Visibility stuff goes away!
- Another ALSA update
- I’m officially pissed off – The ALSA incident
- Gentooizing the iBook
- I’m crazy and you should know it!
- V180 and the cable
- virtual/tar proceeds…
- New site style… XSL help, please :)
- Sound update
- Italian Gentoo Day ’05
- I feel old
- When the default is useless
- When the new server have problems…
- Finally: xorg modular!
- Jobs
- The lovely NFS…
October 2005
- ALSA update
- Cleaning up sounds
- Updated articles
- Server di posta locale con Fetchmail e Dovecot
- New mob!
- daapd alternative
- Dying mobile
- Facilitare l’accesso ai propri servizi con DynDNS e dnsmasq
- Sound morning
- Webcomics
- Update from xorg modular
- daapd notes
- The tool that might become hell: Autotools
- Let’s hack
- Status update (1): Media
- Changing IMAP server
- Status Update (3): Myself
- Status Update (2): Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Flameeyes tip of the day: Be sure not to forgot to use quilt
- Maybe not completely useless…
- Another piece of documentation
- Video and Sound needs help
- Cross Dist Compiler
- I’m getting tired of TV
- Problems with sandbox and some GNU tests
- That is not working, man!
- ServoFlame needs help…
- After a day of documentation
- When you can’t even take a break
- Solaris, unieject, unreplied emails
- Installing Solaris, perhaps…
- Another status update
- Hey! I’m invisible!
- Preparing a new stage
- Announcing the winner
- Coordination
- Flameeyes Status Update
- Stray package looking for an upstream
- New language?
- A planet is not enough
September 2005
- With no line
- Gentoo/ALT reorganization
- YES! Finally!
- KDE vs GTK: who’s more portable?
- Something I really hate…
- KDE is there!
- I’ll tell you the story of a crashing arts
- Impressions about KDE 3.5
- Using the Trash transparently in more partitions
- After a dinner with friends
- Continuing hacking
- Making use of all you can
- The reasons
- Another piece less…
- [unieject] BerliOS
- Gentoo/*BSD
- Bye bye flamebot
- No more PHP for my site…
- Project space
- FreeBSD, NIH and RPM
- Remember the contest!
- Anime Rulez
- [Quest] Looking for developers…
- Gentoo/FreeBSD 6.0… delay (and Java…)
- Libtool galore
- No strange news neither here…
- New box
August 2005
- Gnome 2.12
- largefile…
- Little update on Gnome situation…
- Hackergotchi
- Gnome status update
- Best practices with autotools
- UTF-8 Forever
- Using the right tools: Quilt
- Getting GNOME working
- Internal vs Shared
- Learning Ruby
- Update on AMD64 porting
- No EuroBSDCon for me
- Java, rescue shell, profiles cleanup
- [Rant] The Java t…crap
- nVidia Drivers
- Real and virtual machines
- Moving toward 6.0
- emerge userland-gnu
July 2005
- Gentoo/FreeBSD vs Ports: xine for us
- xine and FreeBSD
- Linux emulation and pmake
- The report of my vacation was an exaggeration
- A little break
- Best practices for portable patches
- unieject: mount wrappers?
- unieject: second releases
- unieject: release and proceed
- unieject: autotooled
- Starting unieject
- Eject
- Lazy days
- Not-so-official Gentoo/FreeBSD artwork contest
- Another little step for Gentoo/FreeBSD
- About security of Gentoo/FreeBSD
- On the need for an x86 arch team
- Is upstream testing?
- Movies
- G/FBSD 5.3 leaves the scenes
- Bounty bugs?
- Manufacturers blacklist +1
- Gentoo Updates
- No Software Patents
June 2005
- Having backups
- New Version Bumps
- Introducing FlameBot
- And finally, the graphiX
- G/Fbsd status update
- Finally binutils works
- Gentoo/FreeBSD Stage Set
- The Curse of the Word Processors
- When Real-Life sucks
- Gentoo/FreeBSD 4th try rev.a
- Personal site update
- Software libero e sistemi operativi proprietari
- Venice Linux Party
- Server di posta locale con Fetchmail e Courier IMAP (rev 1.0)
- Codifiche, cosa sono e come usarle
- The bad rm -rf
- Come aiutare il software libero senza saper programmare
- Different distribution, different packages, different patches
- bsdtar on Linux
- And the keyboard lose the match
- I’ve killed X
- Working
- The importance of portability
- Moving on with porting
- Why our patches rocks
May 2005
- Benvenuti nel 21mo secolo. X non morde.
- Most likely problems in ebuilds porting
- The most common errors during gcc upgrade
- Fewer patches, fewer combos
- Another day with less bugs
April 2005
February 2005
2004 111
December 2004
November 2004
- Gnome Packaging
- Quattro di notte
- Only for geeks
- Basta che il bios non decida da solo…
- D-Odissey: The End?
October 2004
September 2004
- Quando si dice linea di tiro…
- Compressione desktop
- Non sono un integralista
- Primo giorno
- Che bella invenzione il DVD alias Fisionomista
- Tiriamo i fili…
- Un altro passo gnomico verso la rovina
- Di tutto un po’
- Musica
- Gecko
- Diritti d’autore
- Devo avere la sfera di cristallo…
- Quando il globale diventa ‘l’America’…
- X.Org X11R6.8
- [Elettriche] Puzza di plastica?
- X e DirectX
- Supporto tecnico
- [UO ma non solo] Stabilità
- Serata Saltata
- Lupi di mare
August 2004
- [D-Odissey] Morte di un portatile
- Ritorno al passato
- Libri
- Maleducazione
- Prolemi vi(s)tali
- Scegliere la propria strada
- Abbandonare Gentoo? Impossibile
- Universal Plug and Pray
- Peregrinazione filosofica
- Compilazione paradossale
- Linux Arcade
- Vorrei urlare…
- Un nuovo lavoro aka Persone oneste
- Nostalgia [Attenzione, Lungo!]
- Non tutti i lamer sono su Internet
- Italia, popolo di pecore
- Un’altra bella serata
- Di tutto un po’
July 2004
- Ancora paraocchi
- Altro giorno, altro bug…
- Sui prezzi dei CD-R
- Bloggando stanotte
- Mozzillone sforacchiante
- La madre dei lamer…
- Gnome’s washmachine? – Correzioni aka Che OS sono?
- Gnome’s washmachine?
- Bloating Format
- Senza linea…
- Duro lavoro – parte seconda
- Duro lavoro – parte prima
- Un’altra lunga notte
- Peregrinazione pura
- Un altro lavoretto + Konquering Blogger?
- Lavoretto? Lavoraccio!
- Una lunga notte
- D-Odissey: Atto finale?
- Chiamatela iella aka Linux Desktop
- Quella directory là devi metterla quaaa… è journaled?
- Una bella serata
- Chiamatemi scemo
- D-Odissey: Terza Parte – Della soluzione a dualboot
- Delirio di onnipotenza
- Riduzioni cinematografiche
- Metabolizzando
- Federa..Fodera…Fedora
- 97
- Dalle cinque alle undici
- Filtraggio assoluto
June 2004
- Nuovi sorci aperti da parte di Sun e Real
- Ancora peregrinazioni elettriche
- Peregrinazione elettrica
- D-Odissey – Secondo tempo
- Dalla cucina (e dalla camera) aka Serial ATA
- D-Odissey
- Dal museo: I videogiochi fanno male?
- Andata
- Nostalgia
- Paraocchi
- Piccola nota: KDE vs Gnome, n a m | n > m
- State fermi con quel frullatore!
- TFTP server
- Telefonia: passo in avanti?
- C-A-L-D-O
- Cena di classe
- La regola di Pettenò sulle ADSL
- Pb Sleep
- HP JetDirect
- Volete un cappuccino?
- Welcome to the real world
- Quinta ora
- Deframmentazione
- eXXXtended search
- Molto da fare.. aka Correttezza d’informazione
- Istigazione alla pirateria
- Aprendo il caffé — Confezione sigillata
- Basta che il bios parli!
- Overheat
- Sun is shining..
- Perdere un articolo…
- A proposito di sicurezza
- Una mattina in laboratorio con i driver HP