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Archive for August 2005

Podcast? Uhm…

For the first time, today, I’ve listened to a podcast!
And like all the teck junkies I haven’t limited myself to one podcast download, but I’ve decided to take three in a row.

of course, despite the image, I’ve used my laptop and not an iPod I do not have (yes, you have heard well!), with my [...]

Wengo: where Skype Fails!

Well well…
Thanks to my friend Frank and his post I’ve found OpenWengo, a new Voip phone application!

“What is the news? There are a large number of Voip apps!” you should tell me.
Well, OpenWengo includes some functionalities that hit the target for the perfect application!

It is OPEN SOURCE
It uses SIP: the STANDARD for Voip

Only these two [...]

WinFS in Beta1!

Rumors about WinFS, the new File System from Microsoft, were true!
No one was expecting the new file system before late 2006, but Microsoft suprises everyone with the news that WinFS will be available in its Beta1 before the release of Windows Vista!

What the expectances on this should be?
Well, from a mixed user like me (Both [...]

I am an Ignorant about Israel and Palestine!

I admit that I do not know well the history of Israel and Palestine.
I am one of those who heard about problems between Israeli and Palestinians since I have memory, but I am really an Ignorant on this (because I ignore the facts, who were who and who did what…)
But I have to tell you [...]

Logging Application Error: which style?

Hi all,
finally a different post. No recrimination, no politics and no social disease here :)
Today I am working on a small application written in c# and I have to decide how to manage the errors, warnings or whatsoever message I want to log for future release, bug fixing. Error Management in general…

Obviously I am not [...]

Google Talk: a new IM

What would you expect from a Instant Messenger?
Internet Calls, Video Calls, Outbound telephony…

Today Google released the beta version of Google Talk, that for now is only a AIMA (Another Instant Messenger Available), at least in my opinion.
Now I cannot test it, because I have a big Firewall that prevent me also from logging to GoogleTalk.
Google [...]

I don’t want to write of plane crashes anymore…

…but I do.
it is sad, but in less than one month another plane crashes. It’s the fifth, this time in Peru’.

For now the information talks about some stormy weather that could be the possible reason of this latest crash! The plane was a 737-200 of the Transportes Aereos Nacionales de la Selva (Tans). The news [...]

Le Verita’ Nascoste del 9/11 (What Lies Beneath of 9/11)

Hello Everyone!
Ciao a Tutti!
This time I have decided to write a post both in English and Italian. Why?
Questa volta ho deciso di scrivere un post sia in Inglese che in Italiano. Perche’?
I’ve found some information on 9/11 that hit me, and I think that reporting my thoughts and leave you the judgement is correct. Some [...]

Am I Dilbert?

Hard Day, Today!
After two weeks of vacation (I needed one more, but … ) today I’ve returned at my desk, finding the same things I’d left beind.
So, today I do not feel myself too tired, but a simple glance to the Tasks List, the Priorities and the Release Date of my projects I have felt [...]

Skype: how to change the game!

In Italy you can choose what telephone operator you want, but the prices are still unacceptable!
Once, when the first cellular phones invaded the market, a single minute of call from your home to a mobile phone was something like 1€ a minute. For a while all the operators (mobile or not) start a campaign to [...]

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