I just upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and just found that with the provided kernel the boot is incredibly long (more than 5 minutes).
After a bit of upgrading to the last-last kernel available to date (2.6.22-32) with no aid, I decided to have a look around and see what other people were experiencing.
The hidden apostrophe against Openoffice
I had this strange problem importing a regular .csv file into Openoffice.
A field in the file would not be recognized as a number, no matter what I would do during the import process.
This happened chossing ‘Sheet from file’ as well as cutting and pasting into a sheet.
The ‘ is not visible into a cell but is present only in the formula field.
A simple find and replace will not help. Nor it will help setting a the cell format via Format Cell
A Gnuplot tutorial
Gnuplot is a free, handy software to plot mathematical functions. It runs on various system 
(on Windows, too)
Ubisoft new DRM cracked in *1* day
Infoaddict reports Ubisoft new DRM scheme has been cracked (in a day). Legit user will live with the hassle of having to be connected to Ubisoft servers in order to play, while pirated copies can play without particular restrictions. A rather peculiar way to raise profits from game sales…
Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs
Via Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, LEDs as last centimetre problem solutions. Read the full technical report (PDF: 530.9 kB)
mounting iso in XP
via Godshell.com An unsupported way to mount ISO images in Windows XP from Microsoft: the Virtual CD Control Panel. It worked for me, and the download it’s from the Microsoft site. Disclaimer: try at your own risk.
XOR story RELOADED
Security firm Syss reports what allegedly seems to me another case of XOR story, speaking of a false sense of security. In an article from H-Security, the reports a serious weakness in some Secure-pendrive certified with the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certificate: During a successful authorisation procedure the program will, irrespective of the password, always … Leggi tutto
In memory of Cristina Castagna
Cristina Castagna (23 Dicember 1977-18 July 2009) La montagna in questo momento è lontana, ma il tuo ricordo non si affievolisce. La strada da fare è tanta, ma intravedo una stellina che brilla e che ha già tracciato il cammino Ciao grillo,
One Beautiful Day, Porto Venere
One Beautiful Day, Porto Venere, originally uploaded by hayha.
Lest we forget
Italian Engineering, when we mean it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngrL98H0vs]