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)

When I announced BD-incollo 6 days ago, I also mentioned that I would have launched the service today. I really did that, and I'm very proud to announce the first site that runs BD-incollo.
http://incollo.com! Very easy
Incollo.com is a collaborative debugging tool like Pastebin or other similar services, but it's slightly different from it. And it's different from other Pastebin clones even written using Rails or Django.
Here are the most exciting features:

• It's Fast. Very Fast
• Written thinking about usability
• A very clean interface, a minimalist design that gives space to the code (as it should always be)
• It's possible to search through pastes, like in a forum
• A Paste is not deleted after 30 days or something similar. A paste is deleted after it is no more interesting! It's deleted after 60 days of no visualizations
• The system is anonymous. It won't store your information! Paste whatever you want but please use your brain! A Paste may be reported to the administrator!
• You don't really have to play with options and there are no required field other than the Paste itself. You may paste a text and directly hit the submit button
• Quite every page is XHTML 1.0 compatible
• It works well and has nice urls, thanks to Django
• Compatible with every browser (tested with Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Mozilla Firefox 3, Apple Safari, Google Chrome)
• Resolution friendly! Liquid design that adapts to every monitor resolution (tests from 1024x768)
• Developer friendly! Every functionality of incollo.com can be used with max 2 mouse clicks and without a mouse scroll!
• Tested with lots of pastes, quite every source code should be perfectly viewed (this does not happen with every pastebin clones I've tried)
• Uses Pygments for code highlighting
• Languages supported: ActionScript, Assembly (various), Boo, Befunge, BrainFuck, C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, D, Delphi, Dylan, Erlang, Haskell (incl. Literate Haskell), Java, JavaScript, Lua, MiniD, MooCode, MuPad, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Python (incl. console sessions and tracebacks), Redcode, Ruby (incl. irb sessions), Scheme, Visual Basic.NET, Django/Jinja templates, ERB (Ruby templating), Genshi (the Trac template language), Myghty (the HTML::Mason based framework), Mako (the Myghty successor), Smarty templates (PHP templating), JSP (Java Server Pages), , Other markup, , Apache config files, Bash shell scripts, BBCode, CSS, Debian control files, Diff files, Gettext catalogs, Groff markup, HTML, INI-style config files, IRC logs (irssi style), Makefiles, MoinMoin/Trac Wiki markup, Redcode, ReST, SQL, also MySQL, Squid configuration, TeX, Vim Script, Windows batch files, XML

This is an example of Paste with Incollo.com:
http://incollo.com/7dca5011

You are really welcome to report any bugs or leave a feedback! Remember that this is my very first Django project, and I created it in about 6 days!

Of course, I'm already beginning to think about new features

BD-incollo is a collaborative debugging tool like pastebin but written using Django.
Why did I write another pastebin clone?
Pastebin is (sometimes) slow, and I'm not (yet) interested to categorize pastes or to associate them to a user. Pastebin is free and the code is available, but is a single php file, and not a Django project!
There are already other services there, even written using Django, but no one is free software. BD-incollo IS free software. Well, BD-incollo has been written after those Django pastebin clones, so i could learn from their mistakes and write a better one! Everybody is welcome to grab the code and modify it, or even to submit suggestions!
Report feedbacks, feature requests and bugs on the issue tracker.

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Features

• Copy, Paste and store a text / source code to the system
• Decide to colorize the syntax of the Paste
• Share it using its URL
• Download it as plain text
• View it as plain text
• Search something interesting through other pastes!
• Report abuses to site admins

Interesting Stuffs

• Fast, really fast!
• It works well and has nice urls, thanks to Django
• A very clean interface, a minimalist design that gives space to the code (as it should always be)
• Compatible with every browser (tested with Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Mozilla Firefox 3, Apple Safari, Google Chrome)
• Resolution friendly! Liquid design that adapts to every monitor resolution (tests from 1024x768)
• Developer friendly! Every functionality of BD-incollo can be done with max 2 mouse clicks and without a mouse scroll!
• Tested with lots of pastes, quite every source code should be perfectly viewed (this does not happen with every pastebin clones I've tried)
• Uses Pygments for code highlighting

Download

• 2008-09-30 - version 0.1.
• 2008-09-24
  • Software Requirements
  • Use Case Diagram
  • Class Diagram

License

BD-incollo is released under The Gnu Affero GPL version 3! This is different from the license of the contents of the blog

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see < http ://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >.

Just released the code for the 0.9 version. Changes from the experiments of 0.8 are listed on the project page, but the most important ones are that the theme is now fully compatible with

• Internet Explorer 7 and 8
• Mozilla Firefox 2
• Mozilla Firefox 3
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari

And there are lots of visual improvements, too. Go to see them on the project page, and grab the code, too!
Obviously, coding for the 1.0 release has just started, and you will see the changes in the theme applied on my blog.

Ieri sera prima di andare a dormire ho fatto il mio consueto salto su Slashdot per leggere le ultime notizie, e per la prima volta posso dire di essere rimasto inorridito da un sito che tratta argomenti geek..
Il più popolare motore di ricerca / tracker BitTorrent al mondo, piratebay, è stato bloccato in Italia! . Lo segnala torrentfreak.com, un decreto ha obbligato i provider italiani a bloccare i vari domini appartenenti a the piratebay (il sito è raggiungibile attraverso più domini), nonchè l'indirizzo IP vero e proprio. Dopo la chiusura del rimpianto Colombo-bt, tra i più promettenti tracker europei e ovviamente primo tra gli italiani, l'Italia è stata colpita da un fenomeno che fin'ora si è visto solo in regimi dittatoriali: la censura. Mi vergogno tantissimo per questo, mi sentivo nauseato già quando la Cina bloccava siti come Google e Wikipedia, ma era pur sempre un regime comunista / circa dittatoriale..
L'italia (almeno in teoria) è una repubblica democratica...giusto? Nonostante questo viene limitata la nostra libertà di navigare in Internet. BitTorrent è si un sistema di file-sharing, e si, tantissimi file scambiati con questo sistema violano il copyright. Ma gli altri? Tutte le persone che lo hanno scelto per condividere il loro lavoro (musica, libri) con licenza Creative Commons? I creatori di distribuzioni Gnu/Linux minori che si appoggiano a BitTorrent per non sovraccaricare i loro server e permettere a tutti di contribuire al download della loro opera?
Non è il sistema da penalizzare, ma chi lo usa in modo errato.
Immediato il controattacco dei famosi pirati, che hanno creato un nuovo dominio per noi italiani, Labaia.org, nonchè cambiato indirizzo IP dei loro server, consentendo il funzionamento alla maggior parte degli utenti dello Stivale.
Ma quanto durerà? Poco, per questo la soluzione migliore è di passare a dei server DNS "anarchici" e non dipendenti da provider o stati.
Parlo di OpenDNS, un servizio gestito dalla comunità di server dns per non essere legati a quelli influenzabili dai governi.
Per chi non ci capisce niente, un server DNS non è altro che un servizio che consente a chi digita "www.google.it" nel proprio programma di navigazione Internet, di essere trasportato al server che ospita quel sito richiesto, in quanto trasforma il nome di dominio in indirizzo di rete numerico legato al server. Google.it diventa 66.249.93.104 (provate entrambi, il risultato è lo stesso). Bene, con piratebay è successo che i DNS dei nostri provider di telefonia non consentivano più questa operazione, anzi bloccavano tutto.
Passare a DNS indipendenti è un grande passo avanti per non cadere vittima della censura.
Per chi sa come cambiarli nel proprio router o nel proprio computer, i dns di OpenDNS sono:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Per chi vuole saperne di più, l'indirizzo da visitare (con esempi di configurazione per i router più famosi / sistemi operativi) è https://www.opendns.com/start
Se hai paura, ed è giusto che tu ne abbia, corri al riparo.

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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