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ReadyNas NV+ and rsync

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Setting up an account to backup a windows machine to my Nas I discovered an issue with the rsync setup.
I first enabled the rsync protocol in the readynas admin interface.
I then added a new user account and when I was testing I got the following error:
rsync -av myidr/ newuser@mynas:
newuser@mynas’s password:
Connection closed by 192.168.1.100
rsync: connection unexpectedly [...]

Un italiano a Londra

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Banca:
Aprire un conto in banca è un casino in Inghilterra. Ti chiedono una “proof of address” che è in genere difficile da avere se sei appena arrivato in città.
Se il tuo datore di lavoro ti fornisce una lettera di raccomandazione è molto più facile. Le banche consigliate sono CITI e HSBC. Io ho [...]

Connecto to a IRC channel on Adium startup

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

To make the script execute when Adium starts up:
Create and save an AppleScript with the following code:
tell application “Adium”
GetURL (”irc://myircserver.com#myircchannel”)
end tell

Edit appropriately and save it wherever you like.
With Adium in as the frontmost application, choose Adium > Preferences…
Select the “Events” toolbar item in the Preferences window.
Find and select the “New email notification” event in the [...]

How I spent a long weekend in Mountain View

Friday, September 11th, 2009

As it was my first time in California, I did some research to find out how to spend my long 3 days long weekend (labour day on Monday). I got a lo of suggestions which I summarized on my previous post and here I will narrate what I have actually done do that it can [...]

Things to do in Mountain View

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I’m in Mountain View for a couple of weeks and since it happens to be also labour day I asked people around on what to do during the week-end. I put the summary here so that other visitors in the San Francisco area can take a look at it.
By bike

Bike the Golden Gate Bridge (It’s [...]

Basterd Marcus - a London flat odyssey

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

As today I’ve not yet moved into my flat although I’ve been paying the rent for almost three weeks.
When I checked in, on the 11th of August, the flat was in disgusting conditions. It had not been cleaned at all and stuff of the previous tenant was still inside.
Luckily enough we had insisted that a [...]

Springframework 3.0.0 M3 build and maven 2 repo

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I built the latest version of spring 3.0 and deployed in my maven repo.
Feel free to use it but don’t make assumptions that it will be online in any future

Disable Skype’s mood message chat

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

It was driving me nuts!! After installing the latest 2.8 beta for mac I was getting one of those red notifications every time any of my contacts was changing his mood message.
Luckily you can disable it in the Preferences->Advanced->Enable Mood Message Chat.

Why debuggers are bad

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Debuggers are useful

They make you run an application and inspect variables while you a running the real thing
They make you debug code and quickly find bugs

You set a breakpoint somewhere, you run your application, it stops where you want and let you inspect variables and more.
Debuggers are bad

They make you debug code instead of writing [...]

Internet Explorer 6 is still there….

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Tonight I was looking at my blogs awstats and realized that IE6 is still the most used browser (at least in Windows).
Given the fact that my blog is quite technical and my readers have a tendency to use open source software as Firefox, this is pretty scary!!!
Internet Explorer 6 is bad and full of [...]


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