My Firefox Plugins
Actually I’m a Firefox user and it seems to work fine (with NVidia, performance are better with this trick). I added a lot of add-on and I can’t remember all, so I writing a list of it just in case I’ll clean my Firefox configuration. The bold one are the most useful.
- DebugLogger
- Delicious Bookmarks
- Firebug
- Fission
- Flagfox
- FlashVideoResourcesDownloader
- Flashblock
- ForecastFox
- FoxyProxy
- Locationbar²
- Mugshot
- Pencil
- RAMBack
- Selenium IDE (only if you are developer and need quick webtest on your apps)
- Session Manager
- Stealther
- Stilish
- TrackMeNot
Linux Day 2008 report
wow, Linux day 2008 has finished and I’m still alive.
Linux day 2008, this is the first time Fedora is sponsorized as much as possible to all around Italy, and maybe we got a new ambassador.
This year I lived Linux Day in a different way, I was present (not at the same time) in two city: my day started in Lodi with LOLUG and terminated in Mantova (a not-so-near-Lodi city) with LUGman.
In Lodi I spent most of the morning to finish the opened tasks: made LTSP working, deployed Fedora USB station and prepared myself for wireless (in)security talk I did with Stefano (to be honest, he did the presentation and I only help him with demo).
The fedora KIT worked well and I finally saw it after planning, organizing for months. We can tune and improve it, but we started and now is more simple to manage. 
After midday I went in Mantova, and I realized how bad connected to Lodi is. ~150 Km. No Highways. The fastest path found suggested by GPS navigator was this: Lodi -> Piacenza -> Brescia -> Verona -> Mantova, completely pointless.
I decided to travel with my own route and I take more than 1,5 hours to go and about 2 hours to return (No way to reduce the travel time), fortunately my car is gas methane powered.
After arrived in Mantova I knew Pietro Calzoni and Fausto Picchi who were my fedora contacts in LUGMan. LUGMan’s Linux Day was organized in a quite different way, there wasn’t speech but only workshops. I had a table with a computer and the possibility to mix practice and theory.
My initial plan was to use the kick-ass-wonderful Lorenzo Villani’s Fedora presentation (we will provide the english version soon), but I preferred to spoke directly with interested people (a lot of people, 20-25 more or less), helped and showed them whatever they wanted.
I’d got a lot of questions: “What is the difference from Fedora and Ubuntu?”, “How is the Fedora community?”, “How I can have a polo like you?”, and so on.
I made 7/8 USB keys, I gave away all CDs. I spoke about many arguments: revisor, yum, packagekit, bodhi and koji, about the community (and the possibility to contribute without be a computer skilled person), the importance of being upstream (this was and always is the main point to explain why Fedora is better than Ubuntu).
I think our message “There is an awesome alternative to Ubuntu” was taken. We (fedora Italian Ambassador) are growing and we can reply to “$$ spent to burn CDs” with a lot of alternatives: Fedora USB kit is one of them.
Fedora KIT landed around Italy
Today all boxes has been delivered, so I can start to think about my Linux Day talk.
Every box contains, in details:
- 20 DVD Fedora 9 i686
- 20 DVD Fedora 9 x86_64
- Fedora posters (infinitive, voice, freedom)
- 1 USB Cable
- 1 Fedora KIT DVD
- 1 Fedora usb station poster
- Instruction paper
Thanks Gianluca Sforna for this wonderful photo and blog post.
“Fedora KIT” is near to be shipped
Posters (infinitive, freedom, voice and “fedora usb station” poster) and Fedora 9 DVDs are ready.
My PIII is right now finishing a lot of tests on “Fedora KIT” DVD.
Thanks to Lorenzo Villani who made the creation script. The “Fedora KIT” DVD basically contains a bootable Fedora with GNOME/KDE, the necessary tools to push Fedora on USB sticks (liveusb-tools and livecd-creator) and 4 live ISOs: fedora 9 kde, fedora 9 gnome, fedora 10 beta kde and fedora 10 gnome (thanks to my crazy-dirty-omgwtf patch to livecd-creator).
By the way, I’m a bit disappointed about LUGs, because when we asked who was interested to support fedora and receive a FREE (as free beer) box with gadget, more than 20 people answered (and we based our orders on that number), but now, we asked the mailing address to send gadget (and a implicit further confirmation), only 14 LUGS answered. This means that the others were not so interested.
As I told to Max, I will bring to Fedora Ambassador Day all the remains material and I will give to everybody is interested to
I have to say thanks to Lucia and Anna (my byte-code colleagues) for help me to manage orders and prices.
London calling…I’m coming
I just finish to prepare my baggage, my camera and a lot of documents and travel information papers. From tomorrow (October 10th) to next Tuesday (October 14th) I’ll be in London for a short holiday with my sweet 0.5.
See you next week
Symbolic 1.2.0 released \o/
Hey folks, after a lot of (hard) work and time, Symbolic 1.2.0 has finally been released 
You can download it here.
There is a lot of improvements and new features, in particular we simplify installation and configuration, and delay our release to moving the application server container from jetty (shipped with grails) to a customized tomcat5 instance.
New features and fix:
- Completed opensymbolic XML-RPC server functions
- Completed Scripts execution
- Added Kerberos Authentication
- Database personalization moved in configuration file
- RPMS Spec Changed
- Application server container switched to Tomcat
- Moving on OpenJDK as default JVM
- Create a Plugin Management Execution
- Multi Thread Symbolic Engine
- Created Grails Plugin (Func Grails Plugin) to integrate Func Communication
- Solved some minor bug fixes
- Migration to fedorahosted
- Updating documentation
We need tester, if you are interested to give feedback to us, you are welcome
Symbolic has a new home
Symbolic development website was moved from byte-code projects website to fedorahosted: the best place for an opensource project. Thanks to fedora admins we successfully import our git and trac database.
Update 06/10/08@09:38 The right development website is http://fedorahosted.org/symbolic and not http://fedorahosted.org/opensymbolic
Linux day 2008 (Italy) final rush /1
After many months of planning, doing meetings with Italian ambassadors and contributors it’s time to act. Why only now? Because a lot of task were blocked by the Fedora 10 theme selection.
Linux day, will be in October 25th, and, right now will be held in about 77 cities. Next week will start the final rush.
It’s the first time Fedora is promoted in Italy; I don’t know how many people use Fedora and I know only one LUG (the LUG I belong to: LOLUG) which has more than 3 Fedora users.
There are more than 200 LUGS (both Linux User Groups and Free Software Lugs) in Italy but only about 20 of them have shown interest in Fedora. I’ve noticed that even if they don’t count Fedora users among their active members they see Fedora as a new (and fresh!) player in distribution’s universe.
By the way, I my humble opinion, in Italy, there are four LUG’s type:
- LUG relatively new which mainly supports Ubuntu
- LUG with old background, composed by veterans hackers which use old glorious distributions, like Slackware, Gentoo, Debian…etc..
- LUG (IMHO) with a lot of contradictions because their members are old linux supporters but now MAC OSX supporters (and they consider MAC as UNIX as Linux).
- Other LUGs not present in the above types.
I repeat to avoid misunderstanding…this categorization is only my personal opinion.
Our main goal is to spread about fedora. We’ll provide (for free) to each LUGs interested:
- a box with all the stuff necessary to build a fedora usb key station
- a lot of DVDs
Our second goal, is to find some people interested and maybe recruit new fedora Ambassadors.
What we wish to receive from people who collaborate with us?
- a lot of photos
- videos (if possible)
- a report (which every ambassador must write)
- few statistics data (which will be presented during FAD, in November) about:
- how many people attend local event
- how many key burned
You probably are asking yourself how the organization’s status is. We have made a lot of headway but there is a lot of work to do.
We have a lot of DVD taken from FUDCon Brno which are enough to send about 20 DVD for each LUG.
By the way, I think we must bet only on fedora USB station, but DVDs are needed to make known Fedora for this first time.
For fedora USB station, we have 2 weeks to close all the tasks, and then send it. I will give you a report about work progression soon.
the circle is closed
I just added to my desktop the last release of my own best-application…
….now the circle is closed. My desktop will p0wnz!
RHCE Certification
Yeah!!! \o/
I’m so happy to write this post.
I did RHCE exam in Friday 19 September, and it was not so simple. The only problem I got was when, during troubleshooting, I destroy my grub installation but, after a lot of reboot-try it, reboot-try, … I fixed it and resolve the real problem in that machine.
I got my result on Friday night: I was talking by phone with my mother and while she asked me about exam result…I pressed “send and receive”…and…Wundabar: result: PASS!!!
Next step…RHCA!
Best congratulation with Paul for his RHCE
