Archive for April, 2007
A little piece of bits

I don’t know HOW but… I’m online. Someone, for my luckyness, doesn’t know the meaning of the words like “Security”, “Privacy”, “Protection”, “Encryption”, “Authorization”, “Identification”…
It’s not a post, it’s only to say that “I’m not dead”: I have only little problems.
- I’m now a London Citizen (I live at the 253 of Horn Lane, near North Acton Tube Station)
- I’m a Graduate of the Symbian BootCamp codename “Donatello”
- I don’t have a Broadband yet (but the Landlord says it will be there on Friday of this week)
See you soon.
Matrix Consulting sta cercando Te!
Matrix Consulting (www.matrixconsulting.it) cerca grafici e programmatori per creare un team affiatato per espandersi nel mondo del multimedia (siti, presentazioni, videogiochi, spot).
Gradita esperienza web e conoscenza dei principali linguaggi di programmazione (Java, C++, ActionScript, ASP, PHP, ecc…). Per i grafici è necessaria un’infarinatura di grafica vettoriale.
Cerchiamo personale di tutti i livelli di esperienza sia tirocinanti che professionisti.
Se sei interessato, Manda il curriculum ad antonio.clemente@matrixconsulting.it.
Ring or Fart?
Title: TootTone
Abstract: Turns the fart into mobilephone ringtones, very useful.
Thanks to Lelly for the suggestion.
ROTFL!!!
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Detronizator now on WordPress 2.1.3

Post of April the 3rd, 2007 (today) taken by the WordPress.org official blog:
WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10
By Matt. Filed under Security, Releases.We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.
As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
If you are on 2.1, it’s useless to do backups or something like it: the wp-admin/upgrade.php script will not touch the DB. So… update peacefully (and pleasantly). For the others still on 2.0.x: why not upgrade now?
DRM-Free Music on iTunes: it’s official!

Every (almost) web site is say the same thing: today is a big day for the freedom (of the music and the customers). The Jobs’s tought is now reality.
EMI (in the person of the CEO, Eric Nicoli) and Jobs, in a live blogging on Engadget, announce that, starting on May 2007, iTunes (and, probably, any other EMI music reseller) will sell music without any DRM.
Details can be found on:
- Engadget
- TUAW (here about pricing and upgrading of already bought music)
- Melablog (and here)
Only other 2 words:
- the quality is higher (256kb/s) but also the price ($1.29 per song). Instead, the price of the videos will remain the same ($1.99 per video). Not so good for the little wallets, but the first step in the good direction.
- And, what about other majors? Actually, no other majors has joined “this big step forward” but, as Jobs has said a lot of time, «Someone makes history, the others simply follow».
















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