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Italy trying to censor the internet by blocking access to The Pirate Bay

Aug 14th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: News

The Pirate Bay website allows users to search for and download BitTorrent files (”torrents”), small files that contain machine-readable information necessary to download the data files from other users[1] thought a peer to peer application like µTorrent.
It seems that most Italian ISP have been trying to block access to the Pirate Bay website since this [...]



Samsung CLX-3160FN linux driver (tested on CentOS 5)

Jul 24th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features

Samsung sells the Samsung CLX-3160FN network printer as Linux compliant. It is indeed packaged with their Unified Linux Driver on CD. Just in case you didn’t receive it, the whole package can be found on their download center. However, using this original driver will result in poor print quality, especially for text documents. So the [...]



List of supported languages by the wp-syntax plugin in WordPress for code highlighting

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: WordPress

The following languages are supported in the lang attribute:
abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, apache, applescript, asm, asp, autoit, bash, blitzbasic, bnf, c, c_mac, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, cpp-qt, cpp, csharp, css, d, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, eiffel, fortran, freebasic, genero, gettext, glsl, gml, groovy, haskell, html4strict, idl, ini, inno, io, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, latex, [...]



Find the Windows XP product key from the original CD

Jul 11th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: Features

The product key is available in a file on the original WinXP cd:

Insert and browse the WinXP CD.
From the root of the CD, open the folder named “I386″
Find the file named “UNATTEND.txt”
The last line of the file includes your product key



WordPress permalink on CentOS 5 tutorial

Jul 11th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features, WordPress

The installation of WordPress is simple and straightforward. Really. So I’m not going to detail the installation process, which is well documented here. However, the permalink feature does not work out of the box on a standard CentOs 5 distribution. Some changes have to be made in the apache configuration files to enable mod_rewrite in [...]



Restaurant in Marbella

Jul 11th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: News

It’s not difficult to find a restaurant in the historic center of Marbella, but things get a little more complicated when you are trying to avoid the tourist traps.
La Fonda de Marbella is no such place. It’s well decorated, the food is excellent, the service is just right and prices are very reasonable (menu around [...]



Backup/Restore Scalix mailboxes

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: Scalix

This script backups all Scalix mailboxes at once, and keeps the last three backups in a single compressed file. It’s inspired by an script found on the Scalix Wiki.