It has been a while since I changed look to my blog, so I’m trying some new theme. Also, the Works and CV pages have been updated, and a page on CFD, with some details on my work is coming.

OpenOffice.org is the reference office suite for the open source community, and its adoption has been increasing (see here and here, for example) thanks to its complete implementation of the standard ISO OpenDocument format and the good compatibility with commercial formats.

OpenOffice.org offers the possibility [...]

Alda Merini was a very prolific Italian writer and poet. You can read more about her on her website, wanted by her daughters to remind of her.

Happy holidays to everyone reading my blog!

Today I’m stuck at home, since there are no buses and the university is closed due to inclement weather. In these pictures you can see how much snow it came in one night!

Skype is provided pre-packaged for openSUSE for 32 bit systems. However the RPM can be used without difficulty also on 64 bit systems, since openSUSE transparently manages bi-architecture packages. Unfortunately the 32 bit RPM does not install all the dependencies it needs to work correctly, and you have to fix them by hand [...]

The lastest version of openSUSE has just been released today. The list of updated packages can be found on DistroWatch. The release candidates of this release were extremely promising, and hopefully will be able to make me forget the bad experience had with openSUSE 11.1. I’ll try it during [...]

Last week my DELL® XPS M1330 broke: all of a sudden I could only see a white screen with vertical lines, and soon after only a grey screen, without any boot activity. The problem was that the nVidia 8400M GS video card broke. I bought this laptop in Italy, and I have a [...]

Ekee is a graphical LaTeX equation editor that allows the typeset equations to be dragged and dropped to OpenOffice.org or saved as high quality images to be used in other word processors and presentation softwares. Packages for openSUSE 11.1 are available in my home repository on the openSUSE buildservice [...]