Drivel: a journal client for the GNOME desktop.

Today I found this nice application. Drivel (A journal client for the GNOME desktop.) which I’am now using to post entries blog engines including Advogato, Atom, Blogger, LiveJournal, and MovableType (which allows to send entries to wordpress).

Hot-Babe

This is the description of hot-babe you can find on the program’s homepage.

Hot-babe is a small graphical utility which displays the system activity in a very special way. When the CPU is idle, it displays a dressed girl, and when the activity goes up, as the temperature increases, the girl begins to undress, to finish totally naked when the system activity reaches 100%.

It’s a very nice way of keeping control of your CPU usage, even if it occupies a little too much of your precious and useful screen surface. And in the end it’s also somewhat distracting.

Semi-transparent, unreadable window using Compiz (for the very first time, for the very first app)

(Italian version follows)

Today I tried to install ymol, a molecular visualisation and animation program for the X Window System, on my Ubuntu Edgy.

The compilation and installation was well, surprisingly when I launched the program i got a white windows, except for the title bar. To say the truth some parts of the window, in particular the menu bar become transparent. It was the first time it happened me, and I thought it could be correlated to Compiz. In fact when I compiled ymol on Dapper everything was OK.

Hello, salve

This is the first post on this blog, just to say what I think I’ll write here.

My nickname is Desmoteo, which finds its origins in the fusion between the Desmo distribution of Ducati’s engines, and my name, Matteo.

The Desmo at Work: no spring for the valve to return back. 

 

I live in Turin, Italy, the city of the 2006 winter Olympics games.

Most of all I’m interested in science, in particular physics and informatics, so I will bother you with posts about physics news and discoveries as well as news from the Open Source Communities. In some cases i will also try to write about (mostly Italian) politics and other arguments which irritate me, such as censorship and limitations to expression freedom, both in Italy and in other countries, or clerical interferences in the “Res Publica” perpetuated by certain “Vatican Talibans”. In this second case my posts will probably degenerate in a personal vent, so I apologize in advance.

I also apologize for my English, and in fact I’ll try to write in this language just to make some writing exercise.

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