Paolo Donadeo — LifeLOG
A blog about my life, job and thoughts

I'm learning Sōchin (壯鎭). What the heck is Sōchin? It's a kata. It's a Karate-do thing. Never mind what a kata is or what Karate-do is, watch this video. :-)

And not, I don't even remotely resemble Valdesi.

Today Unix, or some other operating system deeply inspired by Unix, is pervasive: servers, embedded devices (notably Android, but it's only one) and the “revolutionary” Mac OSX is itself an incarnation of the ideas and works of Dennis Ritchie.

Dennis Ritchie worked on Unix more than 40 years ago, and my questions is: what will we use in forty years? Probably something Dennis Ritchie was working some months ago.

Thanks Mr. Ritchie.

…from Edsger Dijkstra: “Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”

Yesterday I was impressed by a privacy warning of Google+. While I was resharing a friend's post, Google+ remembered me that the original post had a limited visibility, and to take account of this fact. Click the image on the left to read the original message.

So Google+ starts it's journey with a strong accent to your privacy concern: you are invited not to tell everyone your business, because it's a valuable information, only Google wants to know... ;-)

In my previous post I expressed a strong opinion about Unity, the new graphic shell included in the latest release of Ubuntu, branding it as unusable.

Actually, I was wrong. My bad feeling was due to the novelty of ideas developed in Unity, and my the superficiality in testing it.

I don't know how Gnome Shell 3 compares with Unity, simply because I didn't tested the new Gnome Shell yet, but for sure Unity is a good project and represents a very interesting approach.

My checklist for today:

1. try the new Ubuntu shell, Unity: done. Verdict: unusable.
2. try Gnome Shell 3: done. Verdict: unstable.

This time I pass, let's see the next Ubuntu release if it will be more stable and usable.

I just learned that, if your DVD burner or the medium you just inserted into it cannot run at 16x speed, it's safe to burn at 17x.

You never stop learning!