Andrea Olivato’s Blog

This is just a quick & (very) dirty trick to run Google Chrome on Gentoo Linux using a precompiled debian package instead of compiling the enormous source tarball.
Step 1. Download the Deb
Get your browser to Developer Download page for Linux x86 and accept Google Terms of service.
Step 2. Unpack the unpackable
Open a terminal emulator and [...]

I own a very old IBM laptop, 64 MB of memory 533Mhz Intel celeron 5Gb HD, running ubuntu 9.04 alternate with fluxbox and custom kernel. Unfortunately this laptop doesn’t have any way to connect to internet but the old 56K modem. The pcmci port seems broken (also I don’t think spending 50€ for a pcmcia [...]

As the most important thing both for professionsts and companies on the net is “being talked about“, find and monitor buzzes is essential too. Professional analytics applications like Trackset Conversionlab help a lot, crawling the net and finding news, reviews, forum messages and more, containing the website, the brand or some specific keywords chosen by [...]

LangID is a free web 2.0 service which allows users to identify in which language a text was written by submitting it in different ways.
It is possible to query LangID via direct input (type or paste the text), via upload ( pdf,doc,xls … ), mail and even via Twitter. The twitter and email bots should [...]

Yes, since I was able to run Dropbox on Fluxbox I’m quite exhausting it, trying to sync most of my work settings with my home computer.
As I prefer using Epiphany to Firefox, I needed to find a way to easily sync my bookmarks but unfortunately the symbolic link made from epiphany folder to the Dropbox [...]

While continuing to share datas beetween my two workstations using Dropbox, I started getting worried about data safety. Looking at DropBox wiki I found this interesting page in which I highlighted  the part that attracted me.
DropBox guys are suggesting to use a simple file-per-file encryption very easy to achieve in any Linux environment thanks to [...]

I use Skype both from work and home with the same account and a lot of times I received some links at work and forgot to save them on tomboy or send it by mail, so when I got home I could not find them.
Today I found a simple but rough solution to share my [...]

During the last few days I enjoyed myself destroying my gentoo gnome installation upgrading from 2.24 to newer 2.26 which is not included in default portage. I installed it from gnome overlay and as I was resolving dependancies and compiling a lot I decided to enable support for pulseaudio. I added the use flag to [...]