I just want to advertise his first (i hope the first of a long long sequence) disc.

It’s really particular. The first time i heard it i didn’t fully understood it, i needed 2-3 times to appreciate its details and realize how original it was.

Ok stop talking. Due to some shitty logistic issues (bastard company!!!!) it’s really difficult (probably impossible) to hold the real cd in your hand, but you can find and buy it on the web, even on iTunes.

Som links for the artist:
go taste
Stabbyoboy MySpace webpage
Stabbyoboy Virb webpage

Good Luck.

We don’t need your democracy.
Execute them kindly for me.
[....]

We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy.
[....]

I believe that you’re wrong
Insinuating that they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

Serj Tankian – The Unthinking Majority

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

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
8) 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

It was a Panasonic Aquos, 52 inches diagonal. Really impressive and huge,
elegant, smart….and…expensive of course! More than 4500 euros.

Connecting such monster to a normal analog source is a shame: images will be really a shit,
even worse than the normal crt tvs.
That’s why it was connected with a BluRay player, playing some new films trailers and parts…
using the 1080p resolution, the best possibile with actual technology.

I have to say i was so impressed of image quality, really incredible, even compared to a DVD source
(which was there for a comparison too)…

Sharpness, true real colors, details…never saw before like that.

But, more i was impressed, more i understood it was a so far reality for normal broadcasted tv programs.
It will use so much data bandwidth for every single channel…

And i was thinking about the “…digital tv of the future…” (as described by Italian politicians)
the DTT….it’s as old as wheels..
It’s not a marked complete break with the past, it’s just a stupid transition that will steal
money to ignorant (and not..) persons.
Too little bandwidth, ridicolous resolution, old compression algorithm…DTT has nothing really interesting.

HD is still more than a dream…of course much be refined…but basis are there at least.

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

Yes, after loooots of years, more than twenty, they are still on the wave.

Without selling their souls to the $$ dollar evil (ok, this doesn’t mean they don’t care about money),
resisting to corruption of pop/fake-rock bands’ music, after lots of “all the best” and live albums
they are back with “A Matter of Life and Death”.

What to say…this album is a pure Iron Maiden music, their own style has just been refined and cleaned.
Three guitars produce a wonderful solo in the “Out of the shadow” and a powerful in “The Legacy”.

What else…go and buy, it’s useless to describe with further words….

A short lyrics extract:

“My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy
The question of knowing of how then what I know
I’m able to see things
Things that I don’t want to see
The lies of a thousand souls,
Weigh heavy down on me”

from “The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg”

Up the Irons!