buone feste!

che dire, che gioia



[update]: fixato il link

comments again

allright, I've enabled comments again. If anyone knows a reliable source of captcha words (a webservice maybe?) please let me know.
filippo at esaurito dot net

dilbert goes outsourced

today's dilbert strip is really awesome! here it goes:



hint: asok work has been outsourced to india (and he's from india) on 5/30

dbus anyone?

okay, maybe I've underestimated the power of dbus. Today my liferea has decided to commit suicide and delete all the list of feeds. (not liferea's fault though, my laptop ran out of battery).
first idea: use liferea's cache to re-generate the OPML description of the feeds. bad idea and I need to re-learn XSLT.
second idea: extract the urls from the cache and semi-manually generate the OPML file. bad try since you miss the titles and such.
then when browsing liferea's faq I had an epiphany: Q: How to use DBUS to automatically add subscriptions?. just a simple commandline and I had all my feeds back!
next time think twice before blaming dbus (okay, the API is not stable yet but dbus' folks have a point in wanting to widespread it ASAP)

poor's man "streaming" server

for the impatient:

computer1$ pv <yourfilename> | nc -l -p 9812

computer2$ nc computer_1_address 9812 | mplayer -


for the others:

goal: you want to see a video stored on a remote computer, without transferring it locally. also without the fuss of fancy streaming servers and apache mods.
simple solution: fire up the wonderful pv (pipe viewer) in conjunction with netcat on the streaming computer, then, watch the remote video thru mplayer piped with nc.
there's a downside: you can't seek back and forward, but you can pause of course!

no more xmlrpc.php

I noticed many tries to POST xmlrpc.php into my webserver log. This looks like a php-worm so I added a mod_rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^.*xmlrpc.php$ http://www.awolmarines.com [last]
k thx bye

update: do not click the above link if you are homofobic/nazist/extremely sensible, awolmarines contains full nudity

my cyborgname

signs of god

(this should be dated a month ago, anyhow) I was drinking some water with a friend, I hitted^Whit my glass and some drops of water have fallen on the table. This was the result!

This is of course a sign that god believes in opensource and gnome (add here some gospel music and a bunch of people singing loud)