Jun 182011
 

languagesI’ve found this funny article by Mike Vanier.

This is an update to an old series of jokes about computer languages being like cars. I’ve added some more modern languages to the list. Any suggestions are welcome!

  • Ada is a tank. A butt-ugly tank that never breaks down. People laugh uncontrollably if you tell them you drive Ada, but really, do you want to be driving a sports car in a war zone? [from Amit Dubey]
  • Assembly Language is a bare engine; you have to build the car yourself and manually supply it with gas while it’s running, but if you’re careful it can go like a bat out of hell.[From “Subterfug” off digg.com:]Assembly Language: you are the car.

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Jun 152011
 

promogestI’ve received from Francesco Meloni a PR about Promogest a management program for small business totally released under GPL, and so I gladly present this software to you.

PromoGest is a management program for your business. Developed by PromoTUX a leading Italian company in the industry.
Written using open source software is licensed under the GPL. The basic version is freely downloadable and freely usable without any license restrictions. It handles superbly customer lists, supplier and all the generation and movement of documents. For specific features or to customize the print model will, however, necessary to activate specific modules.
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Jun 092011
 


ipv6 ready OK, i’m 1 day late but now also http://linuxaria.com is IPv6 ready.

1 day late for what ?

Yesterday was the WORLD IPV6 DAY, but i’m sure that you have noticed it, i saw a lot of news about it in many Tech-related news sites.

Now linuxaria.com is hosted on a VPS on Linode and i must say that the setup it’s been “enough” easy, the more problems i got come from nginx, mainly for my lack of knowledge of IPv6 and this web server.
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Jun 072011
 

yakito At the moment my favourite way to do (simple) elaborations and conversions of multimedia file is FFMPEG. But i understand that is not exactly the most user-friendly tool around, so if you don’t want to open the terminal and read the man page of FFMPEG perhaps you could take a look at Yakito.

Yakito  is a free and open media files converter, using the benefits of the project FFMPEG to achieve maximum compatibility with most multimedia formats and codecs.Unlike other solutions, Yakito is not intended to be a simple frontend interface to manage an installation of FFMPEG, but uses this engine to convert/encode video in an independent  way (FFMPEG it’s integrated in the executable itself, so it’s transparent).For this it relies on Jave , another free software project.
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