Category Archives: my software

Introduzione ad Hadoop

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

Italiano   Introduzione Hadoop è un sistema di calcolo MapReduce distribuito per processi di tipo batch estremamente scalabile e in grado di maneggiare terabyte o petabyte di dati senza colpo ferire. Il modello di calcolo MapReduce deve il suo nome … Continue reading →

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Ricetta di Calibre per Punto Informatico

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

Italiano Le ricette di Calibre (in inglese “recipes”) sono dei piccoli programmi che permettono di scaricare notizie dai siti più disparati per poi leggerle sui lettori ebook. Calibre ha una ricetta incorporata per Punto Informatico, creata da Gabriele Marini; funziona … Continue reading →

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Calibre Utils

Posted on November 24, 2010 by

English A week ago I bought a new “toy”, a Sony E-Book Reader, and so far I am extremely satisfied with it. I’m using Calibre to manage my virtual library: the Sony Reader preferred format is EPUB and Calibre deals … Continue reading →

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JDarkRoom Debian/Ubuntu package

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

English I like to use “darkroom” styles editor ever so often; I mostly use PyRoom, with rather satisfactory results. Today though, while looking at David’s blog, I found out about another editor of this kind, JDarkRoom, that has some nice … Continue reading →

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Plymouth Wheat

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

English This is a simple Plymouth theme (the graphical animation that you see while the system is booting), based on the Ubuntu 10.10 standard one. It features a nice green wheat background, that’s just the Ubuntu 10.10 wallpaper “Life by … Continue reading →

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PAES

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

English PAES (Parallel AES or Paolo’s AES) is an OpenCL implementation of AES. I wrote it as thesis for my master degree and its goal was mostly to explore OpenCL peculiarities, ranging from application design issues to software tricks or … Continue reading →

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Montecastrilli Screensaver

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

English Just a simple slideshow screensaver for Gnome; the pictures it shows are about Montecastrilli, the little town where I currently live. This is a “light” version of the screensaver, despite its 8Mb; I have one version for my own … Continue reading →

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LITTLE

Posted on July 25, 2010 by

Italiano LITTLE è un piccolissimo linguaggio di programmazione imperativo interpretato che ho sviluppato per un esame universitario. Un esempio di programma LITTLE è il seguente: program gcd # Calcola l’MCD di due interi begin input a input b while a … Continue reading →

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OpenCV slideshow

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

English Do you ever get, while giving a presentation, that uncanny feeling that something’s missing? Well, of course, you just need my color-powered slide changer! Thanks to this gimmick you can change slide just by showing a green object to … Continue reading →

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Televideo

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Italiano Perché aprire un browser per consultare il Televideo RAI? Perché magari è già aperto, inoltre il sito di Televideo offre anche alcuni ottimi approfondimenti sulle notizie del giorno! Tuttavia, data la frequenza con cui lo consulto, ho voluto scrivere … Continue reading →

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