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A bunch of articles covering various arguments, all of them (or most of them) related to programming and IT, documents and other stuff that I found interesting to solve some problems of mine and I want to preserve (so I'll found them again when I need them).

Informations, faqs, how-to and the like for programmers and ITs...

Last News (in reversed chronological order)

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945679fc1190dcca9c85a08bff44ab87.png Il Dottor Che Cosa?
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 21/03/2013 11:35, No messages
Dato che il 30 di marzo ricomincia la stagione...

ee9c490a2132716d9b8895926703485f.png Non li fanno piu' i dischi di una volta...
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 18/03/2013 10:54, 22 messages
..e non ci sono piu' le mezze stagioni...

ee9c490a2132716d9b8895926703485f.png The Magical Database
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 07/03/2013 09:20, 25 messages
Maybe I'm not writing tales, but I'm commenting a lot....

8fbc9ec474bed48d9b4181e1665c42e6.png The Customer-King
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 05/03/2013 08:03, 9 messages
Or the customer-pain-in-the-ass?

In section "Articles"

204619aa14a20d4cd8c134678c35bede.png Varnish come Cache e Proxy
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 06/02/2013 14:55, 1 message
Usare Varnish come Cache e Proxy

204619aa14a20d4cd8c134678c35bede.png Sendmail, SASL ed SSL su Slackware 13
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 15/08/2012 15:02, 4 messages
Riconfigurare Sendmail qualche volta fa scoprire cose strane...

89127fb3f0baffd01d22671837247fad.png Laptop Stand? Do It Yourself!
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 10/11/2011 19:54, 11 messages
I wanted a laptop stand...

204619aa14a20d4cd8c134678c35bede.png Windows Monitoring with Nagios and NSClient
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 21/04/2010 13:39, 1 message
How do you run personalized checks on Windows?

In section "FAQs"

c61238247b8d3038375c43909914ecbb.png The /proc filesystem
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 17/07/2010 08:52, 3 messages
Il file system /proc e' un file system creato e mantenuto a run-time dal Kernel di Linux

c61238247b8d3038375c43909914ecbb.png Database queies optimization
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 17/07/2010 08:51, No messages
Molto spesso l'efficienza di una applicazione, sia essa una pagina ASP/JSP/PHP o un vero programma, dipende dall'efficienza del sottostante database. Ma un database efficiente non serve a nulla se le query che facciamo sono il massimo dell'inefficienza. Come si puo' migliorare l'efficienza di una Query?

c61238247b8d3038375c43909914ecbb.png Practical use of search engines
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 17/07/2010 08:51, 2 messages
I Motori di ricerca Sono una delle cose piu' utili di Internet, ma pare che nessuno li sappia usare, un po' come l'elenco del telefono.

c61238247b8d3038375c43909914ecbb.png Serial connections between Linux and Windows
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 17/07/2010 08:50, 3 messages
Mi sono ritrovato a dover trasferire un nuovo kernel ed altra roba dal mio desktop al mio portatile, purtroppo pero' la scheda di rete del mio portatile non era supportata dal mio kernel attuale... che fare ?

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333c111815b7ed8fbac9e240abcf5444.png Temporaneo e' Random en
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 03/12/2012 08:00, 30 messages
e Random e' Temporaneo

333c111815b7ed8fbac9e240abcf5444.png Chi ha tempo... en
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 26/11/2012 08:00, 4 messages
lo fa perdere a me.

333c111815b7ed8fbac9e240abcf5444.png Sessantaquattrobit en
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 19/11/2012 08:00, 14 messages
Qualche volta ci vogliono tutti.

333c111815b7ed8fbac9e240abcf5444.png DOWN time... en
By Davide Bianchi, Updated 12/11/2012 08:00, 8 messages
Il minimo!

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Attention! the tales below are reported if they have been modified in any way in the past days, if there is a mistake and I fix it, the tale will be reported even if it's 3 years old. Got it? Keep your e-mails.

08bdd0dfb5054bb99ce1f32da8973626.png The end (of Evangelion) the Conslutants?
By Matteo Jurman, Updated 18/09/2012 11:58, 8 messages
Non c'e' mai un "End"...

08bdd0dfb5054bb99ce1f32da8973626.png Revenge of the Pisquani en
By BabboMatteo, Updated 25/04/2012 10:37, 7 messages
Poche principesse da quelle parti eh?

08bdd0dfb5054bb99ce1f32da8973626.png Sempre la stessa storia... en
By BabboMatteo, Updated 27/03/2012 13:27, 9 messages
Sempre la stessa storia

08bdd0dfb5054bb99ce1f32da8973626.png Babbo Natale ai tempi della crisi
By R.P., Updated 18/02/2011 13:25, 8 messages
E fu cosi' che...

Don't... just... don't

I'm not a genius (unfortunately), nor I'm infallible or onniscent, so if you find something wrong or some mistake in this place, please drop me a mail and I'll try to correct is ASAP. If you want to be ultra-cool and post also a brief correction, I'll worship you for the rest of my life... ok, no, let's make it 10 minutes...

I repeat that I keep this place going in my spare time, my job isn't to teach anything to anyone or to correct your mistakes or anything, so:

Who the hell are you anyway?

Davide Bianchi, works as Unix/Linux administrator for a "network security" company of Haarlem. Contacts: mail: davide AT onlyforfun.net , Jabber: davideyeahsure AT gmail.com,

 

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