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June 2014 - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Quick fix xfig bug. Ok, so I am a computer dinosaur. I still use xfig for much of my drawings, although I recon it is a program from the old century…. Unfortunately, after the recent upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, a nasty bug surfaced in xfig: a crash whenever you try to draw point-dashed lines. Fortunately, the launchpad user madHamish […]. June 26th, 2014 Tags: linux. The perfect lens kit…. June 24th, 2014 Tags: lens.
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Computers - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Notes on upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. I know that the standard policy in Ubuntu is to offer the upgrade from an old LTS to a new one when the new LTS reaches .1, i.e., 16.04.1, but well…. I upgraded my 14.04 in several machines, and I can signal these almost show-stopper problems (workaround exists for all of them, though):. May 30th, 2016 Tags: linux. Xkcd color list for LaTeX users…. To use […]. They have...
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software for Linux - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Software, especially for Linux O.S. Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. January 18th, 2010 Comments are closed.
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January 2013 - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Macro lenses are expensive… all of them? I have recently bought a new lens, on ebay, for around 100 , the famous Vivitar 100F3.5 Macro. They are quite right when they say it’s plasticky, noisy, and light; but I have to say that it autofocuses quite well on my Sony Alpha A55. And the performance… look for yourself. Click for bigger size. January 10th, 2013 Tags: macro.
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Python text files utilities - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Python text files utilities. Reading matrix of numbers in text files. Often, you need to manipulate files built like these:. Time current voltage 0 0 1 1 0.3 0.9 2 0.5 0.7 . I have a little utility, txtmatrix.zip. That let you input and manipulate files like that. For example, you can select and print just the time and voltage values like that:. Reading text files from Python. January 26th, 2010 Leave a comment.
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gksyn: a gkrellm panel to control synaptics touchpads - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. A gkrellm panel to control synaptics touchpads. Recent GNOME panels use gconf to control the touchpad behaviour, so that gksyn do not work anymore. I suggest you use instead the very nice touchpad indicator. Plugin to control synaptics touchpad behaviour. If you click again on the “Auto” label, the touchpad will be put in a continuos “Off” status. This could be handy when you have an ex...In the summer of 2005, Pi...
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Off topic - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Http:/ www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/design-around-the-world-metro-maps/. March 12th, 2010 Tags: ruzzini.
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Books - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Inherit the Stars: re-reading an old book. Thanks to my new kindle, I was re-reading Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan, which is available for free at Baen. I was especially fond of this book when I was a teenager, for the crisp image of how the scientific thinking works towards the finding of solutions to apparently impossible problems. Well, obviously […]. March 11th, 2011 Category: Books. Per ora, ho trasferi...
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Python and OpenOffice - Romano Giannetti's blog
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Wallpaper slideshow for Gnome3. Romano Giannetti's blog. Rlog: computer, cooking, thinking. Reading OpenOffice Calc sheets. Is a module that enable you to read a OpenOffice.org Calc file as a big “matrix”. The file you need is oocalcr.zip. Uncompress it in your current directory or in your python library path, and then import it. As an example, converting a oocalc file to a csv is:. OOCalcRead(file name, trim=True, strip=False). Strips blanks for each cell. Python Module to read OpenOffice Calc sheets.