Paolo Conti - WebLog

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 […]

Well, I’m used to virtualization technology, remote desktop management and all this kind of stuff, but Synergy is something that amazes me. And in these days, find something that impresses me, is quite unusual
If you are familiar with the dual monitor concept, you know the level of productivity you can reach with this […]

The little task of the day: create a cdrom ISO image (for Windows) and put into it a website browsable from the CD (with no internet connection).
I’ll use Linux as a client, of course So, fire up your favorite terminal shell and run:

# mkisofs -J -o image.iso /path/of/data

Note: the flag -J assures the […]

Well, I’m actually using Kubuntu (I prefer KDE over GNOME); anyway the distribution is the same.
I have installed VMware Server into my brand new Core 2 Duo laptop and I have found the well know clock/time problem affecting the guest OS: the time into the virtual machine is running much slower or faster than the […]

I was a great fan of Kmail email program, but recently I have to use Mozilla Thunderbird (manly because now I’m cross platform AND cross OS: Kmail is only for the Linux/KDE flavor). Thunderbird is powered by a great spam (junk) mail filter: you can enable it from the account’s options for each account.
The cool […]