Mardy (Posts about labor)http://mardy.it/categories/labor.atom2024-02-02T20:11:14ZAlberto MardeganNikolaBack to Maemo!http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/back-to-maemo.html2023-01-08T22:48:52+03:002023-01-08T22:48:52+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>New year, new job. After <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/12/leaving-canonical-again.html">leaving
Canonical</a> I'm back to working on the same
software platform on which I started working back in 2006: <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/maemo.org">Maemo</a>.
Well, not exactly the vanilla Maemo, but rather its evolution known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_OS_(Russian_Open_mobile_platform)">Aurora
OS</a>,
which is based on <a href="https://sailfishos.org/">Sailfish OS</a>. This means I'm
actually back to fixing the very same bugs I introduced back then when I was
working in Nokia, since a lot of the middleware has remained the same.</p>
<p>At the moment OMP (the company developing Aurora OS) is mostly (or even
<em>exclusively</em>, AFAIK) targeting business customers, meaning corporations such
as the Russian posts and the railway company, whereas the consumer market is
seen as something in the far away future. Just in case you were curious whether
there were any devices on sale with Aurora OS.</p>
<p>I should also explain why I've refused several very well paying job
opportunities from Western companies: it's actually for a reason that has been
bothering me since last March, and it's a very simple one. The fact is that
because of the sanctions against Russia I already had to change bank once (as
the one I was using fell under sanctions), and in these months I've always been
working with the fear of not being able to receive my salary, since new
sanctions are introduced every month and more and more banks are being added to
the blacklist. That's why I've restricted my job search to companies having an
official presence in Russia; and to my surprise (and from some point of view, I
could even say <em>disappointment</em>) the selection and hiring processes were so
quick that I received three concrete offers while I was still working my last
weeks at Canonical, and I joined OMP on that very Monday after my last Friday
at Canonical.</p>
<p>I mean, I could have rested a bit, at least until the Christmas holidays, but
no. ☺ Anyway, I'm so far very happy with my new job, and speaking Russian at
work is something totally new for me, both challenging and rewarding at the
same time.</p><p>New year, new job. After <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/12/leaving-canonical-again.html">leaving
Canonical</a> I'm back to working on the same
software platform on which I started working back in 2006: <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/maemo.org">Maemo</a>.
Well, not exactly the vanilla Maemo, but rather its evolution known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_OS_(Russian_Open_mobile_platform)">Aurora
OS</a>,
which is based on <a href="https://sailfishos.org/">Sailfish OS</a>. This means I'm
actually back to fixing the very same bugs I introduced back then when I was
working in Nokia, since a lot of the middleware has remained the same.</p>
<p>At the moment OMP (the company developing Aurora OS) is mostly (or even
<em>exclusively</em>, AFAIK) targeting business customers, meaning corporations such
as the Russian posts and the railway company, whereas the consumer market is
seen as something in the far away future. Just in case you were curious whether
there were any devices on sale with Aurora OS.</p>
<p>I should also explain why I've refused several very well paying job
opportunities from Western companies: it's actually for a reason that has been
bothering me since last March, and it's a very simple one. The fact is that
because of the sanctions against Russia I already had to change bank once (as
the one I was using fell under sanctions), and in these months I've always been
working with the fear of not being able to receive my salary, since new
sanctions are introduced every month and more and more banks are being added to
the blacklist. That's why I've restricted my job search to companies having an
official presence in Russia; and to my surprise (and from some point of view, I
could even say <em>disappointment</em>) the selection and hiring processes were so
quick that I received three concrete offers while I was still working my last
weeks at Canonical, and I joined OMP on that very Monday after my last Friday
at Canonical.</p>
<p>I mean, I could have rested a bit, at least until the Christmas holidays, but
no. ☺ Anyway, I'm so far very happy with my new job, and speaking Russian at
work is something totally new for me, both challenging and rewarding at the
same time.</p>Leaving Canonical, againhttp://mardy.it/blog/2022/12/leaving-canonical-again.html2022-12-03T10:03:58+03:002022-12-03T10:03:58+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>For the <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2017/04/looking-for-new-adventures.html">second time</a>, I'm being shown
the door at Canonical. Well, technically, this time it was me who handed over my
resignation, but that was only after I was told in very clear terms that I
would eventually be fired. No timeframe was given, but since I don't
particularly enjoy the feeling of checking my e-mail every morning to find out
whether this is the day when I'm being fired, I decided to take the initiative
and leave myself.</p>
<p>The reason? Those who know me well might suspect that it's related to some
complications with that fact that I'm living in Russia, or maybe with some
remarks I might have made about the war in Ukraine or about other current
events, since <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2019/09/principles-and-privileges.html">I tent to be quite outspoken and
provocative</a>. Nothing of all that: it's about my
<strong>refusal to get vaccinated</strong> against COVID-19; unfortunately, it has now
become apparent that I'm not the only one leaving, and other employees who have
refused either to get vaccinated or to disclose their vaccination status are
also being shown the door (including people who have been in the company for
more than 10 years). This has sparked some internal discussions in the company, and
several different point of views have been voiced: from those who welcome this
policy and would like to see it extended to flu vaccinations (which makes a lot
of sense, since once you've accepted to renounce your freedom in order to
protect the weak, you should accept it for all transmissible diseases), to
those who voiced concerns about the legality of this move, or would have found
this reasonable one year ago but not in the current situation as restrictions
are getting lifted and the current variants are less scary than the previous
ones; those who pointed out that being vaccinated has little impact on
transmissibility of the virus; that we are mostly a remote company and we could
instead have exceptions to allow unvaccinated people (or people with a weak
immune system) to remotely attend the few in-person meetings we have;
that as long as there are no vaccination mandates for plane flights and other
guests attending the same hotel premises where we meet, mandating employees to
get vaccinated might not help a lot; and whether this is a decision that a
company should make, or shouldn't it rather lobby the politics to have it
mandated at state level. I think there's merit to all these arguments, but I'm
personally not particularly interested in discussing any of them, since my
point is another.</p>
<p>Before talking about that, though, let me clearly set one thing straight: I
hate lies, and <strong>Canonical's management is lying</strong> about this matter. The
vaccination mandate measure is being justified on the grounds that it allows
employees to travel (something that I've been able to do as unvaccinated
throughout the last two years, even when restrictions were at their peak) and,
most importantly, to protect our weaker colleagues. This is what I find most
disgusting: using genuine feelings like love and compassion to justify
repressive measures. No, dear Canonical, this has nothing to do with protecting
the weak; not only because a vaccinated person can still spread the virus (and
our employees know this from first-hand experience), but also because, if this
was the real reason, then you'd accept people who have recently recovered from
COVID-19, since <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e545/6563799">immunisation after recovery is not worse than that of
vaccination</a>; but you
don't, as I was explicitly told by HR that any previous infection is irrelevant.
It's also significant that you didn't establish clear rules about how often
one needs to get vaccinated, since all recent scientific literature on vaccine
efficacy shows that this is not a minor detail. Why not just be honest with
ourselves, and admit it's <a href="https://www.enr.com/articles/52481-us-announces-revised-vaccine-mandate-rules-for-federal-contractors">just for
business</a>?
Being open about the fact that having a fully vaccinated workforce can grant us
access to more business deals would not change a lot in the practical life of
the (ex-)employees, but at least we won't feel that the company is treating us
as fools while embellishing its image with fake care and compassion. Or, if
there are other reasons, state them, because these ones don't stand up to logic
scrutiny.</p>
<p>Another thing that doesn't match (though maybe this is a timing issue, so I
cannot for sure call it out as a lie) is the fact that HR claims to have an
exemption process through which one could opt-out of the vaccination for
religious beliefs. Well, I was explicitly told in very clear terms by HR that
no exceptions would be made on either moral or religious grounds. But maybe
this has changed since the time I was told this (mid October) and now?</p>
<p>Here, finally, let me state why I believe that such a mandate is wrong. The
first thing I want to put on the table is that even though I see very little
reason for this mandate (given all what we know about the virus mutability and
infectiousness, the shortcomings of the vaccines, etc. — by the way, if you are
into science I suggest reading <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/">this
article</a> which raises
some questions you won't hear in mainstream media and has a comprehensive
bibliography for further study), I recognize that in principle there are very
solid reasons for vaccination mandates, for example in the case where a virus
is extremely lethal, its symptoms otherwise uncurable and the vaccine is 100%
safe and highly effective. But even in that case, while getting vaccinated
myself, I would still oppose a mandate. Why? Because of freedom, which trumps
everything. The choice is never between a healthy life and freedom: if there's
no freedom, there's no life worth living. Even if some decision has very solid
reasons behind it, this doesn't automatically make it a good decision.</p>
<p>Let me make a few examples: if a company (I'm talking about companies here, but
the reasoning could be extended to states as well) decided that smokers will be
fired, or that those who drink alcoholics will be fired, or that you cannot eat
meat, or that you must take a pill whenever your head aches, or that
transgender people must undergo gender reassignment surgery, or that
everyone should wear a black band on their arm whenever a relative of a
colleague dies, or that employees' households must use the product made by the
employer, or that they have to excercise sports for at least two hours per
week, etc.; I would be categorically opposed to every single of these
impositions, despite recognising that there are reasons behind each of them,
and that I even dream of a world in which some of their goals are attained
(could we just all be fit and healthy?!). Because I think that personal freedom
is more important. You can always find good reasons to justify this or that
action; surely, if we think back at the fascist and totalitarian regimes of the
first half of last century, we must acknowledge that they were supported by the
(overwhelming?) majority of the population. An effective propaganda machine
could convince the population on this and that matter, but ultimately it's the
population who <em>reasoned</em> and accepted that storytelling. Nowadays the
situation is different, but the mechanisms are the same, except that propaganda
has become way more effective (<a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/11/the-idiotism-of-software-developers.html">or have we become
dumber?</a>) and aligned over the
same direction, thanks to the globalisation process.</p>
<p>I'm well aware that societies are made of rules and therefore inevitably
restrict personal freedom: Western societies, for example, forbid nudity in
public places, and that's something I accept because it's part of my culture;
it's a rule deeply entrenched in our history, and I don't feel it as a burden.
I'm convinced, however, that the evolution of human society should be that, as
we become more conscious, we should be moving towards more free societies, with
fewer rules and more tolerant for diversity.</p><p>For the <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2017/04/looking-for-new-adventures.html">second time</a>, I'm being shown
the door at Canonical. Well, technically, this time it was me who handed over my
resignation, but that was only after I was told in very clear terms that I
would eventually be fired. No timeframe was given, but since I don't
particularly enjoy the feeling of checking my e-mail every morning to find out
whether this is the day when I'm being fired, I decided to take the initiative
and leave myself.</p>
<p>The reason? Those who know me well might suspect that it's related to some
complications with that fact that I'm living in Russia, or maybe with some
remarks I might have made about the war in Ukraine or about other current
events, since <a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2019/09/principles-and-privileges.html">I tent to be quite outspoken and
provocative</a>. Nothing of all that: it's about my
<strong>refusal to get vaccinated</strong> against COVID-19; unfortunately, it has now
become apparent that I'm not the only one leaving, and other employees who have
refused either to get vaccinated or to disclose their vaccination status are
also being shown the door (including people who have been in the company for
more than 10 years). This has sparked some internal discussions in the company, and
several different point of views have been voiced: from those who welcome this
policy and would like to see it extended to flu vaccinations (which makes a lot
of sense, since once you've accepted to renounce your freedom in order to
protect the weak, you should accept it for all transmissible diseases), to
those who voiced concerns about the legality of this move, or would have found
this reasonable one year ago but not in the current situation as restrictions
are getting lifted and the current variants are less scary than the previous
ones; those who pointed out that being vaccinated has little impact on
transmissibility of the virus; that we are mostly a remote company and we could
instead have exceptions to allow unvaccinated people (or people with a weak
immune system) to remotely attend the few in-person meetings we have;
that as long as there are no vaccination mandates for plane flights and other
guests attending the same hotel premises where we meet, mandating employees to
get vaccinated might not help a lot; and whether this is a decision that a
company should make, or shouldn't it rather lobby the politics to have it
mandated at state level. I think there's merit to all these arguments, but I'm
personally not particularly interested in discussing any of them, since my
point is another.</p>
<p>Before talking about that, though, let me clearly set one thing straight: I
hate lies, and <strong>Canonical's management is lying</strong> about this matter. The
vaccination mandate measure is being justified on the grounds that it allows
employees to travel (something that I've been able to do as unvaccinated
throughout the last two years, even when restrictions were at their peak) and,
most importantly, to protect our weaker colleagues. This is what I find most
disgusting: using genuine feelings like love and compassion to justify
repressive measures. No, dear Canonical, this has nothing to do with protecting
the weak; not only because a vaccinated person can still spread the virus (and
our employees know this from first-hand experience), but also because, if this
was the real reason, then you'd accept people who have recently recovered from
COVID-19, since <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e545/6563799">immunisation after recovery is not worse than that of
vaccination</a>; but you
don't, as I was explicitly told by HR that any previous infection is irrelevant.
It's also significant that you didn't establish clear rules about how often
one needs to get vaccinated, since all recent scientific literature on vaccine
efficacy shows that this is not a minor detail. Why not just be honest with
ourselves, and admit it's <a href="https://www.enr.com/articles/52481-us-announces-revised-vaccine-mandate-rules-for-federal-contractors">just for
business</a>?
Being open about the fact that having a fully vaccinated workforce can grant us
access to more business deals would not change a lot in the practical life of
the (ex-)employees, but at least we won't feel that the company is treating us
as fools while embellishing its image with fake care and compassion. Or, if
there are other reasons, state them, because these ones don't stand up to logic
scrutiny.</p>
<p>Another thing that doesn't match (though maybe this is a timing issue, so I
cannot for sure call it out as a lie) is the fact that HR claims to have an
exemption process through which one could opt-out of the vaccination for
religious beliefs. Well, I was explicitly told in very clear terms by HR that
no exceptions would be made on either moral or religious grounds. But maybe
this has changed since the time I was told this (mid October) and now?</p>
<p>Here, finally, let me state why I believe that such a mandate is wrong. The
first thing I want to put on the table is that even though I see very little
reason for this mandate (given all what we know about the virus mutability and
infectiousness, the shortcomings of the vaccines, etc. — by the way, if you are
into science I suggest reading <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/">this
article</a> which raises
some questions you won't hear in mainstream media and has a comprehensive
bibliography for further study), I recognize that in principle there are very
solid reasons for vaccination mandates, for example in the case where a virus
is extremely lethal, its symptoms otherwise uncurable and the vaccine is 100%
safe and highly effective. But even in that case, while getting vaccinated
myself, I would still oppose a mandate. Why? Because of freedom, which trumps
everything. The choice is never between a healthy life and freedom: if there's
no freedom, there's no life worth living. Even if some decision has very solid
reasons behind it, this doesn't automatically make it a good decision.</p>
<p>Let me make a few examples: if a company (I'm talking about companies here, but
the reasoning could be extended to states as well) decided that smokers will be
fired, or that those who drink alcoholics will be fired, or that you cannot eat
meat, or that you must take a pill whenever your head aches, or that
transgender people must undergo gender reassignment surgery, or that
everyone should wear a black band on their arm whenever a relative of a
colleague dies, or that employees' households must use the product made by the
employer, or that they have to excercise sports for at least two hours per
week, etc.; I would be categorically opposed to every single of these
impositions, despite recognising that there are reasons behind each of them,
and that I even dream of a world in which some of their goals are attained
(could we just all be fit and healthy?!). Because I think that personal freedom
is more important. You can always find good reasons to justify this or that
action; surely, if we think back at the fascist and totalitarian regimes of the
first half of last century, we must acknowledge that they were supported by the
(overwhelming?) majority of the population. An effective propaganda machine
could convince the population on this and that matter, but ultimately it's the
population who <em>reasoned</em> and accepted that storytelling. Nowadays the
situation is different, but the mechanisms are the same, except that propaganda
has become way more effective (<a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/11/the-idiotism-of-software-developers.html">or have we become
dumber?</a>) and aligned over the
same direction, thanks to the globalisation process.</p>
<p>I'm well aware that societies are made of rules and therefore inevitably
restrict personal freedom: Western societies, for example, forbid nudity in
public places, and that's something I accept because it's part of my culture;
it's a rule deeply entrenched in our history, and I don't feel it as a burden.
I'm convinced, however, that the evolution of human society should be that, as
we become more conscious, we should be moving towards more free societies, with
fewer rules and more tolerant for diversity.</p>Patre, pro le secunde vicehttp://mardy.it/blog/2007/10/18/patre-pro-le-secunde-vice.html2007-10-18T00:00:00+04:002007-10-18T00:00:00+04:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Le N800 habera tosto un fratre! Le N810 ha essite <a href="http://press.nokia.com/PR/200710/1160660_5.html">officialmente annunciate</a> heri, e immediatemente photos e characteristicas technic ha apparite in plure sitos; pro le italianos, io signala <a href="http://www.technews.it/nokia-annuncia-il-nuovo-n810">technews.it</a>. Vide lo pro photos e recension!</p>
<p>De facto, mi secunde filio non ha ancora nascite: illo non es ancora disponibile in le botecas, ma on non debera attender multo. Optimisticamente, illo essera commercialisate ante Natal, assi que illo potera esser regalate al amantes del technologias. Le precio non es definite; il pare que le version american costara 479 dollaros, equivalente a circa 340 euro, ma il ha nulle information official circa le precio in Europa.</p>
<p>Le novitates plus importante de iste modello es, a mi aviso, le presentia de un claviero (it: <i>tastiera</i>, en: <i>keyboard</i>) e le navigator GPS.</p><p>Le N800 habera tosto un fratre! Le N810 ha essite <a href="http://press.nokia.com/PR/200710/1160660_5.html">officialmente annunciate</a> heri, e immediatemente photos e characteristicas technic ha apparite in plure sitos; pro le italianos, io signala <a href="http://www.technews.it/nokia-annuncia-il-nuovo-n810">technews.it</a>. Vide lo pro photos e recension!</p>
<p>De facto, mi secunde filio non ha ancora nascite: illo non es ancora disponibile in le botecas, ma on non debera attender multo. Optimisticamente, illo essera commercialisate ante Natal, assi que illo potera esser regalate al amantes del technologias. Le precio non es definite; il pare que le version american costara 479 dollaros, equivalente a circa 340 euro, ma il ha nulle information official circa le precio in Europa.</p>
<p>Le novitates plus importante de iste modello es, a mi aviso, le presentia de un claviero (it: <i>tastiera</i>, en: <i>keyboard</i>) e le navigator GPS.</p>Vamos OpenSource!http://mardy.it/blog/2007/03/18/vamos-opensource.html2007-03-18T00:00:00+03:002007-03-18T00:00:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Le 9 de martio le management de Nokia ha approbate le publication de <a href="http://mission-control.sourceforge.net">mission-control</a> como <a href="http://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libere">software libere</a> sub licentia <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">LGPL</a>, e <a href="http://naba.co.in">Naba</a> ha immediatemente initiate le operationes pro le distribution de mission-control in le sito de <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>. Le passo successive ha essite <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2007-March/000471.html">annunciar le nova</a> al personas qui pote esser interessate.</p>
<p>Io scribe iste articulo super <a href="http://mission-control.sourceforge.net">MissionControl</a> perque io etiam ha contribuite a su realisation, e lo mantene activemente. Il es difficile explicar al non-informaticos (e a vices etiam al informaticos!) qual es le functionalitate de mission-control, perque illo non es un programma autonome, ma un componente del architectura <a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org">Telepathy</a>. Pro dar un information partial, incorrecte ma suggestive, io va dicer que illo es le "coordinator" del canales que le programmas de communication (chat textual, o con audio e video) necessita pro le transferimento del datos. Mmmm... no, vos non debe comprender; io lo ha scribite solmente pro dar le impression que le paragrapho es complete. :-)</p>
<p>Le programmatores qui labora con Telepathy ha immediatamente initiate a utilisar mission-control, lo que me rende felice (e occupate a solver le errores que illes me signala!).</p>
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<p>Cambio de thema: ante alicun dies io scribeva que le hiberno ha finite... ma heri e hodie le temperatura ha retornate proxime al 0 grados e durante que io scribe iste lineas le neve cade intensemente a uniformar le colores del jardin. Le photos ha essite prendite a distantia de 40 minutas — si, io sape que pro un nordico isto es perfectemente normal, ma pro me le nive es ancora le joco del infante que io porta intra me (e etiam foras, a vices ;-) ).</p><p>Le 9 de martio le management de Nokia ha approbate le publication de <a href="http://mission-control.sourceforge.net">mission-control</a> como <a href="http://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libere">software libere</a> sub licentia <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">LGPL</a>, e <a href="http://naba.co.in">Naba</a> ha immediatemente initiate le operationes pro le distribution de mission-control in le sito de <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>. Le passo successive ha essite <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2007-March/000471.html">annunciar le nova</a> al personas qui pote esser interessate.</p>
<p>Io scribe iste articulo super <a href="http://mission-control.sourceforge.net">MissionControl</a> perque io etiam ha contribuite a su realisation, e lo mantene activemente. Il es difficile explicar al non-informaticos (e a vices etiam al informaticos!) qual es le functionalitate de mission-control, perque illo non es un programma autonome, ma un componente del architectura <a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org">Telepathy</a>. Pro dar un information partial, incorrecte ma suggestive, io va dicer que illo es le "coordinator" del canales que le programmas de communication (chat textual, o con audio e video) necessita pro le transferimento del datos. Mmmm... no, vos non debe comprender; io lo ha scribite solmente pro dar le impression que le paragrapho es complete. :-)</p>
<p>Le programmatores qui labora con Telepathy ha immediatamente initiate a utilisar mission-control, lo que me rende felice (e occupate a solver le errores que illes me signala!).</p>
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<p>Cambio de thema: ante alicun dies io scribeva que le hiberno ha finite... ma heri e hodie le temperatura ha retornate proxime al 0 grados e durante que io scribe iste lineas le neve cade intensemente a uniformar le colores del jardin. Le photos ha essite prendite a distantia de 40 minutas — si, io sape que pro un nordico isto es perfectemente normal, ma pro me le nive es ancora le joco del infante que io porta intra me (e etiam foras, a vices ;-) ).</p>Mi filio ha nascite!http://mardy.it/blog/2007/01/09/mi-filio-ha-nascite.html2007-01-09T00:00:00+03:002007-01-09T00:00:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Finalmente! Heri, le 8 januario 2007, mi filio ha nascite! Le doctor <a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4126339">Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo</a> annunciava heri durante le CES in Las Vegas le nascita del <a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800">N800</a>, le nove <i>internet tablet</i> que porta in se un parte de me — quatro menses de programmation!
Pro celebrar le evento, heri on ha habite un party in le officio, e totes ha recepite in dono un exemplar del N800: finalmente etiam io ha un filio a crescer!
Le distribution del N800 ha jam initiate, al minus in le Statos Unite, e forsan etiam in Europa. Ma qui se cura? — io ham lo ha! :-)</p>
<p>Jam desde alicun dies ante le annunciation official, alicun blogs e sitos de informatica reportava alicun rumores circa le N800, obtenite per fontes non official. Le cosa le plus amusante pro me es leger le commentos del visitatores de iste sitos: illes non cognosce le <i>device</i>, ma illes pote scriber paginas e paginas de suppositiones e recensiones "a distantia". :-)</p>
<p>Alicun ligamines:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sito official: <a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800">http://www.nseries.com/n800</a>
</li><li>Le annuncio in <a href="http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1839207&r=Telefonia">Punto Informatico</a>
</li><li>Un <a href="http://hardwaregadget.blogosfere.it/2007/01/ces-2007-presentato-il-nokia-n800-linternet-tablet-successore-del-770.html">recension in un blog</a>
</li></ul><p>Finalmente! Heri, le 8 januario 2007, mi filio ha nascite! Le doctor <a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4126339">Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo</a> annunciava heri durante le CES in Las Vegas le nascita del <a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800">N800</a>, le nove <i>internet tablet</i> que porta in se un parte de me — quatro menses de programmation!
Pro celebrar le evento, heri on ha habite un party in le officio, e totes ha recepite in dono un exemplar del N800: finalmente etiam io ha un filio a crescer!
Le distribution del N800 ha jam initiate, al minus in le Statos Unite, e forsan etiam in Europa. Ma qui se cura? — io ham lo ha! :-)</p>
<p>Jam desde alicun dies ante le annunciation official, alicun blogs e sitos de informatica reportava alicun rumores circa le N800, obtenite per fontes non official. Le cosa le plus amusante pro me es leger le commentos del visitatores de iste sitos: illes non cognosce le <i>device</i>, ma illes pote scriber paginas e paginas de suppositiones e recensiones "a distantia". :-)</p>
<p>Alicun ligamines:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sito official: <a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800">http://www.nseries.com/n800</a>
</li><li>Le annuncio in <a href="http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1839207&r=Telefonia">Punto Informatico</a>
</li><li>Un <a href="http://hardwaregadget.blogosfere.it/2007/01/ces-2007-presentato-il-nokia-n800-linternet-tablet-successore-del-770.html">recension in un blog</a>
</li></ul>Ultime die de labor del anno!http://mardy.it/blog/2006/12/29/ultime-die-de-labor-del-anno.html2006-12-29T00:00:00+03:002006-12-29T00:00:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Le retorno in Finlandia ha essite tranquille, a parte alicun problemas minor in le aeroporto: mi spuma de barba, que io portava in mi baggage a man, esseva sequestrate perque illo eccedeva le quantitate maxime admissibile. Isto es a causa del <a href="http://www.enac-italia.it/SecurityInformative/Informativa.htm">nove mesuras de securitate activate in le aeroportos del Union Europee</a>, que previde que le quantitate de liquido presente in cata contenitor non pote superar le 100 centilitros (mi flacon esseva de 200cl). Benque io non comprende totalmente le senso de iste restriction, io es felice de haber contribuite al lucta al terrorismo.
Le altere problema incontrate, es que quando io arrivava in mi appartamento io observava que mi valisa esseva rumpite; fortunatemente non in maniera tal que alicun cosa poteva exir, ma certemente le aqua pote entrar — e io debera considerar iste eventualitate, le proxime vice que io va utilisar le valisa. Le causa del ruptura non es certe, ma io suspecta que le responsabiles es le terroristas qui labora in le aeroportos.</p>
<p>Le dies sequente io ha retornate al labor in Nokia, cuje officios es inusualmente vacue: le major parte del empleatos es in vacantia, e le passos del presentes face echo in le corridor — especialmente illos de mi boss. Como consequentia de iste desertification io non recipe ulle signalation de problemas o requestas, lo que, juncte al facto que mi software es in un stadio stabile, implica que io es quasi disoccupate. Non a caso, io ha scribite iste message del labor, quando mi die laborative verte a su termino... De facto, isto es le ultime die laborative del anno 2006 e, cosa ancora plus importante, de hodie io pote esser certe que io es un empleato Nokia a tempore indeterminate: io esseva empleate le 28 de augusto, con un periodo de proba de quatro menses que ha expirate in gaudiose silentio! :-)</p><p>Le retorno in Finlandia ha essite tranquille, a parte alicun problemas minor in le aeroporto: mi spuma de barba, que io portava in mi baggage a man, esseva sequestrate perque illo eccedeva le quantitate maxime admissibile. Isto es a causa del <a href="http://www.enac-italia.it/SecurityInformative/Informativa.htm">nove mesuras de securitate activate in le aeroportos del Union Europee</a>, que previde que le quantitate de liquido presente in cata contenitor non pote superar le 100 centilitros (mi flacon esseva de 200cl). Benque io non comprende totalmente le senso de iste restriction, io es felice de haber contribuite al lucta al terrorismo.
Le altere problema incontrate, es que quando io arrivava in mi appartamento io observava que mi valisa esseva rumpite; fortunatemente non in maniera tal que alicun cosa poteva exir, ma certemente le aqua pote entrar — e io debera considerar iste eventualitate, le proxime vice que io va utilisar le valisa. Le causa del ruptura non es certe, ma io suspecta que le responsabiles es le terroristas qui labora in le aeroportos.</p>
<p>Le dies sequente io ha retornate al labor in Nokia, cuje officios es inusualmente vacue: le major parte del empleatos es in vacantia, e le passos del presentes face echo in le corridor — especialmente illos de mi boss. Como consequentia de iste desertification io non recipe ulle signalation de problemas o requestas, lo que, juncte al facto que mi software es in un stadio stabile, implica que io es quasi disoccupate. Non a caso, io ha scribite iste message del labor, quando mi die laborative verte a su termino... De facto, isto es le ultime die laborative del anno 2006 e, cosa ancora plus importante, de hodie io pote esser certe que io es un empleato Nokia a tempore indeterminate: io esseva empleate le 28 de augusto, con un periodo de proba de quatro menses que ha expirate in gaudiose silentio! :-)</p>Nove amicohttp://mardy.it/blog/2006/11/22/nove-amico.html2006-11-22T00:00:00+03:002006-11-22T00:00:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div style="float:right"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/1/308_large.jpg"><img src="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/1/308_large.jpg" width="250px"></a></div>
<p>Finalmente io ha trovate un companion de appartamento! Heri io recipeva un e-mail que informava super le possibilitate de prender in proba alicun apparatos electronic, a scopo de studio. Si, <em>studio</em>!
Io ha examinate le varie possibilitates, e ha decidite que le objecto de studio plus interessante pro me es le <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_Lite">Nintendo DS Lite</a>. Io non sape pro quante tempore io pote usar lo — e non mesmo sape <em>que</em> io deberea facer con illo. Infortunatemente il non ha jocos, le unic cassetta disponibile es illo del navigator Opera (le DS ha un systema de connection Wi-Fi) ma illo es in lingua japonese e io non ha succedite a configurar le accesso al rete. Deman io probara in officio, ma in omne caso le cosa plus importante es que Andreea (99% del lectores pensara que isto esseva un error de dactylographia) sembla disonibile a prestar me alicun joco. Ah, le importantia del amicos... ;-)</p><div style="float:right"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/1/308_large.jpg"><img src="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/1/308_large.jpg" width="250px"></a></div>
<p>Finalmente io ha trovate un companion de appartamento! Heri io recipeva un e-mail que informava super le possibilitate de prender in proba alicun apparatos electronic, a scopo de studio. Si, <em>studio</em>!
Io ha examinate le varie possibilitates, e ha decidite que le objecto de studio plus interessante pro me es le <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_Lite">Nintendo DS Lite</a>. Io non sape pro quante tempore io pote usar lo — e non mesmo sape <em>que</em> io deberea facer con illo. Infortunatemente il non ha jocos, le unic cassetta disponibile es illo del navigator Opera (le DS ha un systema de connection Wi-Fi) ma illo es in lingua japonese e io non ha succedite a configurar le accesso al rete. Deman io probara in officio, ma in omne caso le cosa plus importante es que Andreea (99% del lectores pensara que isto esseva un error de dactylographia) sembla disonibile a prestar me alicun joco. Ah, le importantia del amicos... ;-)</p>