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EU process on software patents restarted

Alessandro Crugnola general ,

Since first reading of this here I have been trying to follow it. It seems a great victory was published today:

Florian Mueller, manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign: “From the bottom of my heart I wish to thank all of those who made this possible, particularly the FFII, the Polish government, key parliamentarians in all political groups, and those companies and people who supported my campaign, especially in the days leading to this decision. “The NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign was brought into being with the support of three IT companies: 1&1 from Germany (world’s largest web hoster), Red Hat (premier Linux company) and MySQL AB (Europe’s largest open-source software company). Lobbying for a restart of the process was one of the initially stated goals of the campaign. ” “The Empires will strike back” in Mueller’s prediction. Even until the beginning of the committee meeting, such corporations as Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson and Alcatel had tried to thwart the plans, hoping to achieve the legalization of software patents in the EU at the earliest opportunity. “ read the full article

A big THANKS to alessandro for posting this important topic! 😉

Javascript quick reference

Alessandro Crugnola general , , ,

I was reading Christian Cantrell‘s weblog and i found a very useful link which display in the left sidebar of your firefox browser the javascript reference (css, dom, xsl, html, unicode tools).
In order to use check it out by saving this URL as a bookmark, and checking the ‘view in sidebar’ option in it’s properties: http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul
Also very very useful the unicode tools

http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul

American Red Cross Disaster Relief

Alessandro Crugnola general

More than 50,000 people have lost their lives in East Africa and South Asia in the aftermath of the earthquake and resulting tsunamis on December 26. The American Red Cross reports that emergency assessment and first-aid teams were on the ground quickly and are already working with local groups to support relief efforts. One hundred percent of donations made will go to the American Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

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See you in January!

Alessandro Crugnola general

Another year has gone! This time it seems to me faster than others… maybe because was my first as 30 old? Thanks to all who visited this site, supported me in any way.. and to all who worked with me during this year..

By the way, Merry Christmas to everyone, happy new year, and great things for the new year’s eve and see you next year again! Ah, don’t drink too much on 31st!! 🙂 I will leave for Poland ( Krakow, Katowice and Lodz ) another time 🙂

Gmail Drive!

Alessandro Crugnola general ,

I was told this freeware shell extension by one of my co-workers, and it works great. OS support is for all Windows platforms.
It creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google account and enables to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail directly from inside Windows Explorer. It literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop files to.
One of the things that I can suggest is; using file type icons would be better instead of system file icons in the virtual directories.
More details are here.
Link: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm