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Wireless pains

rengolin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:27:11 +0000

One of the good characteristics of human beings is to be able to understand other people’s pains. To impersonate them, feel what they feel and know how bad/good to them was something you did....

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Lame excuse

rengolin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:45:19 +0000

While EA seems to have understood how to play the game, the Swedish court (and the European legal system) not only fails to get it, but also came with a lame excuse to reject the pirate bay...

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Net neutrality

rengolin — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:20:04 +0000

Since the early days (millions of years ago), the human race is being watched. Not by any sort of god or alien race, but by itself. During the cave age, human-apes lived in groups. Either on trees or...

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FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco

rengolin — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:32:49 +0000

The long dispute with Cisco has finally come to an agreement. For me, that means two things: first, they’re not trolls sucking money from the big corps for stupid patent infringement, as some...

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Spam is good for you

rengolin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:19:03 +0000

Spam is good for you, at least better than you may think. Spam accounts for three quarters of all emails sent worldwide and some even attached carbon footprint to it (and here one of the reasons why...

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Opt-out

rengolin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:02:01 +0000

Apparently, users are so dumb that they don’t even know what opt-out means, so Microsoft just wants to be really sure anyway… Dear Windows Live User, We are contacting you regarding your...

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MySQL down the drain?

rengolin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:54:57 +0000

Almost 10 years ago, MySQL became a great open source database, part of the LAMP platform (Perl, not PHP) and had everything to compete with the big players in the next few years. It was then that...

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When refactoring goes wrong

rengolin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:20:19 +0000

Recently I had to implement a very simple feature that would cross the barrier between a few components. As any good software, the communication between the components is done via public interfaces,...

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Ready to send Exchange Server to trash?

rvincoletto — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:18:03 +0000

I’ve been testing a few options to replace Exchange+Outlook without losing functionalities users are used to. Until now my best solution is this one. Please let me know what do you think and...

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How green can you get?

rengolin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:09:44 +0000

Recently the whole family has been engaged in a complete greenification and organification. We prefer regional organic food (fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products) than regular ones. We recycle...

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