Germano Mosconi (1932 – 2012)

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Germano Mosconi,  a well-known television personality, died today. We’d like to think that he’d finally discovered who’s that ‘mona che sbatte la porta’ (the prick that shuts the door loudly). Drawing by xoxtanianxox (Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License)

Cannot delete/modify protected access point on Symbian S60

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I suspect there’s an issue between Wefi and Whatsapp on Symbian (specifically S60 3rd edition, tested on Nokia e51). I cannot unfortunately recover the Wefi version as I disinstalled it. That’s precisely how troubles began: with Whatsup always running, Wefi failed to delete the Automatic-Wefi access point during uninstall. Turns out that this access point … Leggi tutto

Ubuntu oneric ocelot 11.10: adding a favourite lancher when you can’t use Keep in launcher

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Sometimes in the new Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot 11.1 launching a program and selecting ‘Keep in launcher’ is not enough. This may happen if your program requires special startup parameters, or simply because it requires a terminal to run in, ala’ Matlab. Creating a launcher on the desktop is not simply as right clicking to ‘create launcher’ as it was in older versions.
I wandered a while before finding my answer here (thanks to Bruno Pereira), as others where that useful to me.

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