In the last years we’ve seen many SCM trying to replace SVNhttp://subversion.tigris.org/ which in turn replaced CVShttp://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ in many places. Githttp://git.or.cz/ "Git", Mercurialhttp://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ "Mercurial" are two examples of that. I never …
I remember the early days/years of Mac OS X where Apple supplied the Installer.app and probably every software out there used it to install itself in the system. Then some day i noticed that more and more apps ship as a dmg, which was a big confusing in the beginning. After the y…
This entire rant is based on the situation of computer education in Italy, I’d love to hear what it is like in your country.…
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Yesterday night I wanted to help a friend to get online through my Wireless-LAN. She got a brand new Windows Vista notebook. After half an hour or more we still didn’t get that PC thing online.…
I’ll keep this post for your own amusement. It turns out that there actually is a preference in the Tabs pane to disable these warning. I still think this should be the default and is not too easy to spot maybe a “never ask again checkbox” on the warning would suffice.…
I’m a Mighty Mouse user…this mouse simply rocks! Apple did a great job designing this mouse. It fits very good into a hand, looks very simple and is really useful. Apple always had a one button mouse. The Mighty Mouse still looks like one, and it’s configured as a one-button mous…
I just saw the post at red sweaterhttp://www.red-sweater.com/blog/343/service-scrubber about Service Scrubberhttp://www.manytricks.com/servicescrubber/, a tool that allows you to get rid of unwanted service menu items. I can’t tell you how much I missed such a tool and I instantl…
One of the most requested “features” for CodeBeachhttp://codebeach.org has been the ability to select some kind of CC licenses for submitted snippets and classes. The gist of it is being able to get an entry on the Credit.rtf file of the apps using code under said license. While …
Update 1: the author has responded with a public letterhttp://www.reversecode.com/ to this issue and is planning to open the source code of his application…