OpenDNS. A Safer, Faster and Smarter DNS network, open to any user: you only need to change your DNS configuration to:

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

If you need other info, take a look at the FAQ page.

I experienced a speed improvement in name resolution and the anti-phishing system works great and transparently. It’s a very good initiative.

Il mio amico Nemo, che ha appena finito il suo ultimo esame, Teoria dell’Informazione, ne ha resi disponibili gli appunti da lui stesi: un PDF che, per il fatto che è scritto in LyX, è anche piacevole alla lettura, oltre che importante per l’argomento trattato.

Un grazie da tutti gli studenti (ma non solo) credo gli sia dovuto .

Free space for new music

Here the official page.

Rediscover musical diversity with Mixed Tape.
Always a treat: every ten weeks, Mercedes presents an exclusive, free-of-charge selection of new MP3s – currently Mixed Tape 11 with brand new sounds from around the globe.

A moving experience – not only in your Mercedes-Benz.

This is not advise: I can’t buy a Mercedes right now…

Red Hat, finally, opens its Knowledgebase:

Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians.

A “sink without bottom” (translation of the italian meaning-full expression “pozzo senza fondo”) of sources, knowledge, solutions about Linux.

Source, OSSBlog.

Mi permetto di segnalare queste interessanti (se pur brevi) interviste pubblicate da Teleblogo a:

• Richard Stallman
• Diego Saravia
• Sergio Amadeu
• Claude Martin

Qui il post su Teleblogo.
Inutile inserire link ai video: trovate tutto su Teleblogo.

Ah, bellino anche il video Gnocchi opensource di Juan Carlos Gentile, sempre al suddetto post.

Apple to offer speedy lecture podcasts
… The education arm of the Apple computer company in Europe is developing a pilot of a new system of recording and rebroadcasting lectures within an hour of the professor packing away their notes.

The forthcoming QuickTime 2 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology, a development program to be launched in Europe in the spring, will allow the lecturer to record their own “performance” - their slides, notes and details of student assignments as they deliver them live to the students in the lecture hall.

Once the lecture is over, the technology behind the system can turn the content into suitable files and automatically upload them to Apple’s iTunes network or connect it to RSS feeds that students, and others, can subscribe to.
…

Source, Melablog and EducationGuardian.co.uk