Technology
How to Update Flash Player on Apple TV
The folks at Boxee recently updated their player to version 0.9.20.10710. The new interface is pretty slick and installers are now available for Ubuntu, Apple TV, OS X and Windows.
Unfortunately, after having installed it on Apple TV v3.0.2, it is not possible to play any TV Show due to an outdated Flash Player. No worries, [...]
Reiser4 Performances on Ubuntu 9.10
Since its debut in 2004, there is a lots of controversy on Reiser4, the game-changing file-system developed by Namesys. It has been available for Linux for quite a while and there are great reviews on the Internet, but most distribution do not include it as an option by default, including Ubuntu Karmic 9.10.
Since the performances [...]
Why Twitter Clients still lack Classification, Clustering and Ranking?
On Facebook the average user has about 130 friends and I believe that the average user of Twitter follows a similar number of people.
Considering one or two Tweets per day from each, plus 10 or more from accounts like CNN or ABC, it’s reasonable to think that you would have to look at 250 messages [...]
Facebook’s Email could really Take Down Gmail Supremacy
According to some statistics from Google, people spend 4x more times surfing the Internet than driving their car. However, when asked what a browser is, they had no clue. The first Internet users were hackers which spent most of their time on terminals, chatting through IRC, using Pine for their emails and a few newsgroup. [...]
Use shared_clone() to Share Variables among Perl Threads
Sharing variables across threads is generally very annoying in Perl. You have to declare the variable as shared before using it, and pay attention to the values you put in it.
Things get especially messy with multi-level hashes, since you are obligated to pre-declare each level as shared.
Luckily, there is a way to make things easier. [...]
Perl: if you chomp() to split(), skip the first
In Perl it is common to write a readline() while loop over a file to read its content in memory.
When the file contains tab-separated data, many use chomp() to remove the newline from each input line and then split(/\t/) to separate the values into an array.
Today, trying to improve the performances of one program I [...]
Prostheses Technology, the amazing progresses of last years
Losing my eyesight, my legs or arms has always been among my biggest fears.
I would love to be able to do research 24/7 in all the possible fields and help to improve the life of the less fortunates, but my knowledge in the medical field is very limited for now and I still have to [...]
Make your Wii play DVD and Nintendo Games
According to some statistics the large majority of Wii’s bought stop being used after about 6 months. Nintendo’s own statistics reveal that the revolutionary Wii Fit is used on average only 4 times by each customer. Pretty lame.
But I can understand them: at first, you love the games and the innovative controller, but then you [...]
Sockets Connection without Listen()
Today, invited by an apparently impossible condition that showed up on OneRiot’s servers I pushed my good friend Alessandro to prove me wrong. And as usual, in about 15 minutes, he did.
The odd condition was the following: server A was listening on a port and server B was connected to it. We turned off server [...]
