Skype & Ubuntu 9.10

Lately I've wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to make skype 2.1.0 to detect my integrated microphone: all my efforts were to no avail. A colleague of mine had a similar problem with a different laptop. On Ubuntu forums somebody suggested that the problem can be fixed installing the package "padevchooser" to help configure your PulseAudio and select the proper Mic input. That worked great but I had to downgrade to version 2.0.

Experts say US must do more to secure the Internet

The government must take a more active role in securing the Internet, industry experts told Congress Tuesday, arguing that as businesses and governments rely more on cyberspace the prospect of a serious attack grows....

Language

In these days I'm involved in the translation process of the core of the jAPS (please note the lowercase 'j') framework into English and I'm revising the documentation of the plugins I'm responbile for. I must admit this is neither a fast nor simple task, I'm doing my best...

There are things that bring your memories back. There are experiences and reasonings that you make yours. Sometimes it happens to find them condensed in a post that I had to read breathlessly. Thank you Mark Pilgrim

Cyber attacks: one of the largest attack in the world

More than 75,000 computer systems around the world, have been hacked! The attach began in late 2008 and was discovered last month. The attack targeted proprietary corporate data, e-mails, credit-card transaction data and login credentials at companies in the health and technology industries in 196 countries.
The attack could be in process and is therefore still uncertain how much data is stolen...

News by
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/17/AR2010021705816.html?hpid%3Dtopnews

Or

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=7274&ID_sezione=38&sezione=News

I love KDE4

Hi! Since the beginning I used KDE 4 as my preferred DE. But, since Fate does not lack a certain sense of humour, I work everyday with GNOME. I'm looking forward to compile it from scratch in my Lenny box and -guess what?- the renewed KDE site is tempting me a lot! I bet I'll spend my sunday compiling...