Tema: esclusione delle liste del PdL in Lazio e Lombardia, per irregolarità nella presentazione.

Luogo: sito “club della libertà” del PdL.

There’s blogging nowadays and everyone has to be writing stuff on the web all the time about what they have been doing. Sometimes even to the cost of not actually doing it properly.
Payments from a big site, advertising, visibility or pure ego satisfaction are the reasons behind the proliferation of not-very-good information.

I try not to blog about anything I am not an expert on, but many people seem to be desperate about writing a post and having it linked to newsfeeds aggregators, to the point that they don’t care if they are publishing, well, bullshit.
In the free sofware community, but probably everywhere, this new trend is somewhat harmful, because people browse the web looking to fix problems or to learn about and improve their open source OS and they need to find sound technical information. (more…)

5 login manager themes based on the Machete trailer. Exctract in /usr/share/gdm/themes.

computerweekly.com posted about MS and its legal troubles in the UE:
An internal e-mail from Horacio Gutierrez, associate counsel in Microsoft corporate and legal affairs department, leaked to industry newsletter Microsoft Watch, tells all the company’s Europe, Middle East and Asia staff that it is making every effort to meet the Commission’s requirements on documenting the protocols.

“I can assure you that we are continuing to work day and night with over 300 dedicated engineers to create documentation which is complete and accurate to satisfy the European Commission”, it says

But now that finally the deadline is passed and still MS failed to comply, here is what Free Software Foundation Europe thinks:

If we are to believe Microsofts numbers, it appears that 120.000 person days are not enough to document its own software. This is a task that good software developers do during the development of software, and a hallmark of bad engineering,” comments Georg Greve, president of the FSFE. “For users, this should be a shock: Microsoft apparently does not know the software that controls 95% of all desktop computers on this planet. Imagine General Motors releasing a press statement to the extent that even though they had 300 of their best engineers work on this for two years, they cannot provide specifications for the cars they built.

Bill Gates seems fundamentally a good person and probably most of Microsoft’s employees are too, but it seems that from 9 am to 17 pm they really forget about rules and morality… Maybe MS actually has the key for Artificial Intelligence