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Firefox: parole chiave e Google maps

Friday, May 8, 2009 12:03 No Comments

Conoscete la funzionalità “Aggiungi una parola chiave a questa ricerca” (o “Add a keyword for this search” in inglese) di Firefox?
Uso delle ricerche tramite parola chiave in Firefox
Praticamente potete premere su un qualsiasi campo di testo delle pagine web che visitate e scegliere la voce succitata.
Firefox vi chiederà di associare una “parola chiave” (o “Smart [...]

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VMware Server 2.0 e Mozilla Firefox 3: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid

Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:05 No Comments

Usando VMware server 2.0 con Firefox 3 quest’ultimo si arrabbia poiché il certificato rilasciato dal server è self-signed.
Nonostante il comportamento corretto sia mostrare una smart page per segnalare l’errore e permettere di aggiungere un’eccezione (visto che di default browser.xul.error_pages.enabled è true nella configurazione di Firefox), non so perché, viene mostrato un popup (messagebox, alert, …).
La [...]

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VMware Server 2.0 su Windows 2008 – Error opening the remote virtual machine

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 23:06 No Comments

Ho di recente installato VMware Server 2.0 (che da un po’ viene rilasciato gratuitamente, come versione di base rispetto alla Infrastructure, l’ex ESX).
La versione server di VMware ha un’interfaccia puramente web (se non per la configurazione dello stack reti) e un client Java avviato direttamente da HTML.
Nel mio caso il server che ospita VMware non [...]

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Sid’s software list 2009

Saturday, February 7, 2009 10:28 1 Comment

Hey, quest’anno è passato davvero in fretta! Sono di nuovo qui a redarre una lista del software che uso regolarmente o che giudico utile. Non è una lista narcisistica, è solo che mi è estremamente utile come riferimento e tanto vale ho pensato di renderla pubblica. Eccoci qui.

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Installing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express in Windows Vista or Seven: Error 29506.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 14:47 29 Comments

This is a problem about privileges. Probably the installer performs the latests tasks without using elevation.
Solution is very simple: run the installer from an elevated command prompt.

Click Start.
Type “cmd” end press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and accept the elevation.
Execute the installer from there (just type path and filename).

This works on Windows Vista and, of course, on Windows 7.
If [...]

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Sid’s recommended software list 2008

Monday, March 10, 2008 22:34 1 Comment

means non-free software.
means that has settings to be backed-up.
means that is being tested.
Basic software

Microsoft Office 2007

Office Word 2007 Word processor
Office Excel 2007 Datasheet processor
Office Outlook 2007 For appointments, contacts, tasks and e-mail
Office Powerpoint 2007 For presentations
Office Access 2007 A simple database application
Office OneNote 2007 [...]

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PGP Whole Encryption – A catastrophic bug!

Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:46 11 Comments

I am using (actually I am evaluating) PGP Whole Encryption for a while:
I created a passphrase synchronized with the Windows account of the user “Sid” for the main volume of the laptop.
Some days ago I changed the password of the “Sid” user of my home server (Windows 2003 Enterprise) via Remote Desktop (that password used [...]

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Sid’s recommended software list 2007

Sunday, December 2, 2007 4:03 No Comments

This is the software I am currently using on Windows Vista, or I would be using if only a had it:
means free software.
Basic software

Microsoft Office 2007

Office Standard Student Edition 2007
Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint
Office Access 2007
A simple database application
Office OneNote 2007
For managing all the documents
Office Visio 2007
For creating diagrams
MOBackup
For making *complete* Outlook backups
Jeyo Mobile Extender
To [...]

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Appunti del corso di informatica di base

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 16:43 No Comments

Di seguito gli appunti del corso di informatica di base che ho tenuto tra il  17/09/2007 e il 24/09/2007 a Monfalcone per conto di Randstaad.
Gli appunti si riferiscono all’uso di Windows XP e di Office 2003.
Click here to download: Appunti del corso di informatica di base (198.8 KB)

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Sony Walkman NW-E serie SonicStage replacement

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 16:41 No Comments

I recently bought a Sony Walkman NW-E105 MP3 player.
However, SonicStage is an horrible application: it is slow, hard to use, and sometimes erases some files because of some mis-sincying.
After some google-search, I found these 2 replacements for SonicStage:

NW-E00x Mp3 File Manager (OpenSource, available @ SourceForge)
Which is quite good, but a little bit tricky. However, [...]

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