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After so many problems regarding studio registration, promotion, album printing, mastering, ..., me and my group decided to release our fantastic self-produced EP Resurrecturi under a Creative Commons Free License!
Yes, you can download the whole album for free, under some conditions regarding the modification of the songs and making profit with them.

Check more details about the license here.

There is a torrent of Resurrecturi on mininova.
There is also a Vuze download.

update:

Other trackers are hosting the torrent, check the links and use the ones with more seeders
mininova
vuze
isohunt
torrentreactor
torrentdownloads
mybittorrent
extratorrent
torrentdownloads
onlytorrents
btmon

Please spread this album on file-sharing programs like bittorrent and emule, it is legal and we encourage this behavior!

24 hours after the upload of the first torrent, we may say that there have been 361 downloads of the album! Great! The album has been uploaded using piratebay's open tracker, which was censored by the Italian Government in August because of "anti-piracy policies". Well, this album is 100% legal and more than 360 people can appreciate it for free thanks to this file sharing protocol..

update 2, http downloads
I also decided to put Resurrecturi on 3 file-hosting sites, to help those who are not able to use bittorrent. Please share those links, too! You can also send one single mp3 to a friend, as well as download the album from here and then share it on a p2p program just help us!
Download Resurrecturi from:
mediafire
rapidshare
megaupload

É con grande piacere che annuncio il lancio di www.trasportiamoci.it, nato dalla collaborazione di 6 persone (tra le quali il sottoscritto) interessate a risolvere problematiche legate al trasporto oranizzato.
Riporto qui parte della lettera che verrá presto inviata a quotidiani, enti e chi piú ne ha piú ne metta:

Nasce in questi giorni il sito www.trasportiamoci.it, una concreta risposta ai problemi del traffico, dell’inquinamento e delle gravose spese per il trasporto privato.

Il nostro sito offre la possibilità ai cittadini viaggiatori di accordarsi per condividere gli spostamenti in automobile, fornendo una bacheca virtuale di domande e offerte di spostamenti.

Cosa si vuole ottenere con ciò?

• Una riduzione delle vetture circolanti riempiendo i posti altrimenti lasciati vuoti e un conseguente alleggerimento delle emissioni di CO2
• Un risparmio per automobilisti e viaggiatori che, unendosi, dividono le spese di pedaggi e carburante
• Un servizio utile e pulito basato sulla coscienza ambientale e sulla cooperazione tra la cittadinanza

Il sito è intuitivo e facile da usare: offre la possibilità di cercare un passaggio (con una semplice ricerca da città a città) o offrire i posti lasciati vuoti a potenziali compagni di viaggio, il tutto per una nuova forma di viaggio, la condivisione e la cooperazione.

Il tutto gratuitamente, permettendo di contattare offerenti e richiedenti attraverso mail o telefono in tutta Italia, per strade meno trafficate e aria più pulita.

É sufficiente iscriversi

I'm very pleased to announce the final version of BD-theme! For those who don't know, BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress theme. It is written using the default Wordpress theme as php/XHTML base.
The theme is mostly inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout.
BD-theme exists just because I wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
You should probably see this theme in action on my blog, or on the testing site .
Anyway, here is a screenshot:

BD-theme is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict as well as valid CSS 2.1 (check the testing site against W3C validators)
It has been checked with all the most popular browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.x and Firefox 3.0.x, Google Chrome, Opera 9.62.
The theme is free software and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. You are free to use and/or modify the theme under the conditions of the license.
You can obtain the theme on its project page:
http://bd-things.net/projects/bd-theme/

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Someday two years ago I submitted a translation for an opensource project, gmail-notifier. It is a very nice notifier for Gmail accounts written in Python. I never received a response from the authors , neither I saw my translation appear in the project source, which seemed to be dead.
It was my first attempt to actively help a free software project, and I also felt demoralized because of the absent feedback.
Today I surprisingly noticed that the project is active again, and the authors cited my work and also included my translation in the source code. They "forced" me to forgive them because they released this version just for including the translations! They even published the list of the translators on their home page, telling:

In the last two years many people have contributed with the project by sending to me translations that I have never posted. The development of Gmail Notifier 1.7 is now starting, so I'm releasing this version just to include those translations and to say thank you to all the people that have supported the project.
The new translations are:
- Svenska
- Italiano (Daniel Graziotin)
- Nederlands (Dennis van der Staal)
- Deutsch (Marc Philipp, Eric Franco)
-Portuguese (Brazil) (Yguaratã C. Cavalcanti)
- Français (Thibault Martin-Lagardette)
- Czech (Václav Cermák)
- Russian (Aleksandr Chekanov)
- Polish
- Latvian (Kaspars Krampis)
- Esperanto (Abel Johannes)
- Arabic (Youssef Chahibi)
- Japanese (Satoshi Tanabe)

I took a screenshot as memory

They also included some thanks in the sourcecode.

A contribute to opensource projects is really rewarding, even if your work consists in modifying a handful of XML lines.

If you've got the time to do it, then make it!

I wish good luck to gmail-notifier team for the development of the 1.7 release, which will be written from scratch. I wish I had the time to contribute to the sourcecode, too, now that I'm able to handle some Python, but I believe I will help them to translate the program in Italian again

For job purposes I had to learn a lot of JavaScript, including AJAX related stuffs. Like every lazy (but intelligent) developer, I looked around for frameworks that could help me doing my work. I knew that prototype existed, but I never looked at it because of lack of interest. Well it's great, it's really great! Nowadays everybody should use frameworks, as their abstraction permits a rapid development without worrying about things like platform compatibility, in our case browsers. Prototype also has a very nice and clean syntax that overtakes functions not compatible with every browser.

In this post I'm going to report a very nice function I implemented for limiting Form input fields, like textarea and input of type text. You have to call it via onkeyup and onkeydown events. The function accepts 3 parameters: field, limit and counterDesired.
The first is the field object, you should use the keyword this for a value.
The second parameter is a limit value, the number of characters that the field should contain at maximum.
The third parameter is optional, false as default. It permits to add a visual counter after the field, like the one you see on YouTube, for example. You can either tell to the function to add the counter for you (put inside a <span> block) or to put it inside another block you've already defined. In the second case, the block must have an id of the form 'fieldID_counter'

This is the compact version, see below for some examples and the expanded, explained version:

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If you're trying the new Gnome's Empathy chat system with Fedora 10, remember that to make it working for MSN accounts you also have to install those packages:

yum install telepathy-butterfly.noarch telepathy-haze.i386 libtelepathy.i386

This will bring the "Connection Error" message away

I've never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I've always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system.
The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old and I don't have the time (*sic*) to play with it to make it work well. Lenny should be next to be released but I don't feel the very famous stability AND lightness of Debian distributions on this release, like I was accustomed in the past years. Is this because I own a Macbook? Maybe, but a Macbook Santa Rosa is nothing more than an Intel-powered notebook with some strange input devices and a strange non-bios system
Regarding Ubuntu, I believe that this distribution has become naff and really slow. See this Slashdot discussion on this topic.

Yesterday I stumbled to Scientechie review of Fedora 10, which convinced me to try it out.
The software shipped with Fedora 10 is aligned with the one provided with the other distributions: Gnome 2.24.0, kernel 2.6.27.5, NetworkManager 0.7.0 (svn) and so on. Read the release notes for more information.

Fedora 10 really surprises me, as it is the first Gnu/Linux distribution in many, many years that makes me feel again the great stability and performance of the Penguin. Therefore I'm writing this review that is also a how-to, as it contains some fixes for Fedora 10 and Macbooks.

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I've recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.27.7, and I realized that ndiswrapper and the wireless card were not working. So I stumbled on this discussion on the linux-kernel mailing list .
A guy named Jeff (write me for complete credits) wrote his personal ndiswrapper-1.54.
If you've got a 2.6.27.x kernel and you can compile modules, then download it, compile it and install it as usual (make and make install)

I've finally found the time to make the necessary fixes and improvements to the theme of my blog.
I decided to not name it a final release just because I could not test it with Internet Explorer 6. I believe that the differences with this beta release and the final one will just be some test with that browser and a better code cleanup Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Yes, this is the theme you're actually seeing in the blog.
You can go and download it!