As usual, as every year, it has been full of news, good or bad.

Once i want to be just optimist, despite everything shitty happened this year, in the world, in Italy, some job issues, some personal issues, with three lovely persons left us to reach the heaven.

Despite all, we’re still here, enjoying all the smallest things we’re lucky to have.
Despite all we’re not alone, we all have a person close to us ready to give a smile everyday. Most of time is enough, it’s a reason to go ahead.

Things may go worst, but who cares, we’ll be there to fight.

Goodbye 2007, 2008 is here. it will not find us unready.

Enjoy guys.

You could be happy, i hope you are
Snow Patrol

i started to count…1…2…3….
then i evolved in….
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Wanna patent a number too?
we’re going mad. Take care of serious things guys, don’t seek poor single persons

and…as the Digg’s creator wrote…

if we have to lose…fuck…at least let’s lose by trying and fighting….

Reachable at

http://piazzadelpopolo.patriziobassi.it or
http://www.patriziobassi.it/piazzadelpopolo/

mi vergogno di essere uomo

lasciatemi solo

restate lontani non voglio vedere nessuno

rabbia e disgusto è quello che provo

e continuo a morire

castelli

che crescono su quello che distruggete

tutti contro tutti nella competizione

che voi chiamate società

rabbia e disgusto è quello che provo

e uccidono ancora e ancora

vi odio!!

rotolate su questo pianeta come tanti maiali nel fango

rabbia e disgusto mi fa schifo restarvi vicino

by SKRUIGNERS

much better now, lots of space. I think i’ll be here for the whole 2007….

What else..I’m waiting for adsl line to be up, they told me it may take up to 3 weeks…

let’s see.

I have lots of projects/idea in my mind, which i can take care of only during the weekend, but if i don’t have
internet access it’s pretty hard.

The first is to shutdown Blight Zone as it’s unused now.
Next i’ll talk with Zed (XChat maintainer) because 2.8.0 release introduced a systray, so i’ll ask him if he wanna
integrate my plugin in the main branch.

The main idea is to create a forum/blog with my friends where to flame and discuss of everything.
Let’s see how much support i’ll find.

Ciao!

ciao!

Nothing to add….

Ops…just one…i bought a new desktop pc, i should get it tomorrow, this means in 2007 i may restart some development.

Merry Xmas All!

I tried to use some multimedia applications like MPlayer and all films were not fluid,
audio jittering and so on….cpu usage always at 100%…
During some internet investigation i found some optimization tricks about MPlayer, and after recompiling
it manually from sources with cpu-specific flags i found it sooooo faster,
films were fluid with only 50% cpu usage!

So i thought: why not recompiling the whole system to have more speed?
I started manually but i soon realized it was impossible to manage without a package manager.
However the speed gain was important even if not like in MPlayer’s case.
I can say something between 20 and 30 per cent.
(ok, now someone can start a flame about that. On Pentium2 and after on upgraded Pentium3
the performance gain is really important. Maybe not as on fastest cpus, of course, this is a gcc trouble too,
which is not yet ready to do a perfect optimization, Intel compiler is much better but not opensource)

I started to wrote tons of bash scripts, and in the meanwhile i found Gentoo Linux was my distro!

I installed it in December 2003 and i’m still using it on 2 pcs now (p2 was upgrated to p3 500 and a notebook with celeron 650mhz);
i’m really satisfied of both, even if hardware is so old and slow.

Now i’m going to change my desktop with an Intel Core 2 Duo machine.
Desktop life will be different after that! ehheeh

My main problem is now to migrate my desktop data to the new pc.
I know can you do a low level copy of partition, this is just a 20 mins problem.

The main problem is the arch. I need to migrate from x86 to x86_64 and this is a bit tricky.
I’m now studying some solutions to the problem, but as to Gentoo FAQs, it’s impossibile to
migrate, and they suggest to do a fresh install.

I really don’t believe this. Nothing is impossibile.
For me it’s not enought to migrate my home and my /etc config directory, i want to migrate all
flawlessy.

These are my plans at the moment:

1) boot with a 64bits gentoo minimal livecd (50mb cd)
2) download a portage-snapshot and stage3 pack and install them, having a minimal environment
3) with quickpkg create binary packages of critical dev tools such as gcc, binutils, libtool (any other needed? guess not).
4) low level copy of old desktop harddisk –>> will overwrite 64bits software from stage3
5) reinstall back 64bits packages of point number 3, ignoring some profile stuff, uninstalling old x86 ones
6) compile a 64bit kernel with 64bits native tools
7) reboot with the new kernel and not livecd complete profile migration to x86_64 (maybe may be needed in point 5..)
9) emerge -e system and reboot
10) if all starts properly, emerge -eD world

I think it’s an acceptable procedure.
there are some points which i’m insure, but i suppose lots of unplanned problems may pop out.

I read x86 to x86_64 migration is impossible due to differences in the Gentoo installation process,
but i saw noone…..apart normal x86_64 options in kernel and similar arch specific….

Let’s see in some days, i’ll have new pc at the end of december, but having little time
i need to think about all that before

If works i’ll write a detailed howto, be sure

After facts described here and here, this story ended.

How?
I got a full refund, but not cash…a discount – voucher for next products.

Better then nothing. I bought a Majestic 277USB.
Yes, just another italian product.
I chose that becouse of USB port, so i can plug and usb pen or external hardisk.
Really confortable…..if worked!
I hoped this product had a better quality….but seems i was wrong.

The device had problem with all cd/dvds, only audio was played, no video at all.
Motivation? i don’t know, the cable was right, the audio played fine, the medias
were a normal DIVX 5.0, a classic XVID 1.0 and a standard DVD (MPEG2).
They should be all supported, so i’m sure the problem is there.
The rendering should be done by the same DSP chip for audio decoding, so i suppose the problem was with
the link from the DSP processing to the SCART output, or, maybe easier,
in the connector itself.

I took the dvd player back again and got a second voucher.
I will spend in something else, more stable…more quality.

No need to hurry

Good! Even if it’s for a short time, sunday i’ll be here again.

But…no problem