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fighting against crappy init systems

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I hate both sysvinit and bsd style init, the why it’s obvious 🙂

after seeking for some time for a non-crappy init system some days ago i read on Roberto Alsina’s blog about runit, based on daemontools.

I didn’t know about it, but i suddenly felt in love on it, it has everything i wanted from an init system: parallel sevice startup, service supervision and explicit dependencies between services.

Now i’m trying to make a ready-to-run(tm) package for slackware, i’m pretty at a good point.

Stay tuned 🙂

mambo et alii

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Maybe i will get a new webdesign-related work. Since phpwet is still not ready(and maybe it will never be, for that matters:),we decided to use mambo, it’s quite simple to use, but it doesn’t totally convince me.
Why the hell all these gigantic cms produces crappy html?
btw, the html produced by mambo is less bad than many others(phpnuke, ezpublis, xoops, sorry dudes, but i don’t like them:), but as many others its layout is made by inserting a table for(;;){into another table, into another table, into another table}
Another option was drupal, i must say the html that it generates is absolutely beautiful, but i feel its admin interface(and so, the structure of the underliing databse) very cryptic, but intriguing in some ways. At the moment i didn’t had time to study it more so we had chosen mambo, but i will make furter investigations, to discover if i love it or if i hate it 😀
Back to mambo, i am making a template that should simplify the layout of a mambo generated site a little bit simpler(only a pity that not everything can be themed), i should be able to publish it in a day or two.

Physics and phpWet

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Yesterday i passed my (fortunately)only physics exam (the electromagnetism part), i thought i hated it more, ain’t bad, after all…
btw, i hope i will graduate someday….
On other absolutely-non-relevant news the wonderful phpwet now sould have the archive feature a little bit less broken, so now this site has a news archive! wow 😛

an huge new year

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A trite new year wish to everybody, if that matters.
This only remembers me how i’m late in my life, but let’s hope the new revolution around the sun could bring some goodThings(tm) to everyone.
So, let’s everybody get drunked!!

Ah, and this year the Bubuti will come, btw.

First post

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“Vidi poi salire dalla terra un’altra bestia, che aveva due corna, simili a quelle di un agnello, ma parlava come un drago. Essa esercita tutto il potere della prima bestia in sua presenza, e costringe la terra e i suoi abitanti ad adorare la prima bestia, la cui ferita mortale era guarita. Opera grandi prodigi, fino a fare scendere fuoco dal cielo sulla terra davanti agli uomini.Per mezzo di questi prodigi, che le era permesso di compiere in presenza della bestia, seduce gli abitanti della terra, dicendo loro di erigere una statua alla bestia, che era stata ferita dalla spada, ma si era ripresa. 15Le fu anche concesso di infondere un soffio vitale alla statua della bestia, in modo che quella statua potesse perfino parlare e far mettere a morte tutti quelli che non adorassero la statua della bestia. Essa fa si che tutti, piccoli e grandi, ricchi e poveri, liberi e schiavi ricevano un marchio sulla mano destra e sulla fronte; e che nessuno possa comprare o vendere senza avere
tale marchio, cio? il nome della bestia o il numero del suo nome. Qu? sta la sapienza. Chi ha intelligenza calcoli il numero della bestia: essa ?, infatti, un numero d’uomo. E il suo numero ? seicentosessantasei.”
(apocalisse 13,11-18)