iPhone, ringtone how-to

June 7th, 2009

If you want some custom made ringtones, chose your MP3, convert to M4A, rename the file to M4R then drag it in iTunes and sync. That’s it.

Under linux I’m using for the conversion stuff soundKonverter, but you can choose your preferred software… :)

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Dichiariamo guerra a IE6 (un browser uscito nel 2001!!!)

February 21st, 2009

Si tratta di una protesta partita in Norvegia, dove uno dei siti piu’ popolari del paese finn.no (una specie di eBay locale) sta cercando di far uscire di scena Internet Explorer 6, un “nonnetto” del web, che non ha piu’ senso supportare.

Ho semplicemente tradotto il “banner” in Italiano e lo metto disponibile qui per il download. (basta copiare il codice HTML sul vostro sito web).
Il banner, una volta inserito sulle vostre pagine, ha questo aspetto:

Stop IE6

Ulteriori informazioni sulla campagna le trovate qui.

Xdebug and XAMPP

February 11th, 2009

If you have to use Xdebug but you don’t want to “going crazy” with manual building from sources or with pecl, you can download a binary version of Xdebug from the ActiveState website (get the PHP Remote Debugging archive for your OS and use the binary version according your PHP version).
Nice gift ActiveState! :)

NTFS 3G slow with VMware

January 13th, 2009

If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

Strange behaviour with keyboard in Vmware Server 2.0 & Linux?

December 17th, 2008

If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code:

How to install OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 on Linux

December 10th, 2008

I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write a little step-by-step guide here on this blog…

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex + Firefox & Flash player 10 sound

November 14th, 2008

To fix the ALSA/flash player problem:

# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

VMware Server 2.0 + Sound/ALSA + Ubuntu/Linux

October 28th, 2008

The new version of my preferred virtual machine environment is out, I’m using it, but the problem with audio device/ALSA is still present.

The new web interface (new??? I remember the “same” interface with the old GSX…) adds some cool features, but the way to fix the ALSA problem is the same of the previous version…

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Install Freevo 1.8.2 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

October 9th, 2008

Since the Freevo packages are out from Ubuntu repositories, I’m stuck with Freevo 1.7.2. This is annoying because some plug-ins, like last.fm are not working anymore…

I know, the correct way to fix this, is to build some set of .deb packages, but I have no experience about building .deb from source, so I’m going to write this little how-to about a manual (from source) installation.
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Synergy, incrementare la produttività

September 8th, 2008

Tipicamente utilizzo la tecnologia di virtualizzazione, l’amministrazione remota e tutta una serie di tecnologie correlate, ma Synergy è stato in grado di impressionarmi. Ed in questi giorni, trovare qualcosa che mi impressioni, è decisamente raro :)

Se siete famigliari con il concetto di doppio monitor, dovreste sapere di quanto questo setup aumenti la produttività: uno schermo più grande vuol dire più applicazioni aperte allo stesso tempo, nessuna perdita di tempo a cercare applicazioni perse sulla barra di avvio, ecc…

Synergy è un programmino client/server, multi piattaforma ed open source: permette di condividere una tastiera ed un mouse tra diversi computer (Mac, Windows, Linux/Unix) tramite la rete (TCP/IP).

In sostanza, usando Synergy è come avere un sistema multi monitor tradizionale ma con diversi sistemi operativi dietro ogni monitor. Basta scrivanie piene di mouse e tastiere, con Synergy una tastiera ed un mouse saranno sufficienti per controllare tutti i vostri personal! (senza dover spendere un quattrino con “stupidi” switch KVM).
Oltre a questo, Synergy permette di condividere anche la clipboard!

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