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Logitech software still too low quality

Years ago I wrote about the Logitech’s LVUSBSta.sys driver that corrupted the USB and audio stack when installed. For a long time, I no longer bought Logitech because even if the hardware is mostly good, software was not. For a while I bought Microsoft devices, which usually worked without issues. Now Microsoft got out from […]

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All your emails are belong to MS

Microsoft is going to replace – again – the basic Windows email application. After Outlook Express and Windows mail, that despite some huge vulnerabilities were quite usable, the simple but adequate for a touch UI interface Mail in Windows 8, and the very limited and ugly Mail in Windows 10, it’s time of Outlook for […]

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Sandon Utensileria 1936-2018

Ho dedicato una pagina al ricordo dell’azienda di mio nonno e mio padre, la Sandon Utensileria, che dal 1936 per ottantadue anni ha rifornito le aziende di Milano e dell’hinterland, e non solo, dalla sede in via MacMahon a Milano.

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Use Ventoy to install TrueNAS when BIOS can’t boot from GPT partitions

Latest version of TrueNAS Core ISO files, after being been “burned” on a USB disk for setup, won’t boot on older motherboards with older BIOS predating UEFI. This is a bit strange since once installed TrueNAS can boot, and the installer will ask you nicely if you wish to boot the OS from UEFI or […]

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Telexfree: cosa significa la nomina di un “Trustee” sotto il “Chapter 11”

Dopo che una mia lettera riguardante il caso TelexFree è stata pubblicata nella rubrica “Italians” del Corriere della Sera, qualcuno mi ha scritto che TelefFree ha ottenuto il famoso “Chapter 11”. Vero. Ma come al solito gli artisti della truffa vi dicono solo parte della verità, quella che fa comodo a loro. L’ordine della Corte, disponibile qui, dispone di […]

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Alla larga dalle “piramidi” – attenti ai “con artist”, gli artisti della truffa

In seguito al crollo della piramide TelexFree, i loro promoter stanno tentando di convincere le vittime che il “business online” – nella loro accezione di “soldi facili e subito facendo poco o nulla” (il vero “business online” è tutt’altra cosa) – è sano e bello. Pertanto si sperticano nel darvi consigli interessati su come accertarvi della bontà […]

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Alla larga dalle “piramidi” – il caso TelexFree

La crisi economica degli ultimi anni ha portato, tra tanti problemi, anche al moltiplicarsi di “offerte di lavoro online” che promettono guadagni facili ma in realtà nascondo catene di sant’Antonio, chiamate anche “schemi piramidali” o “schema Ponzi” La differenza fra uno schema piramidale e uno schema Ponzi è che il secondo è “diretto”, esiste un […]

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Is the PC dead? No. But someone would like to murder it.

Many “news” about the imminent death of PC are appearing around despite its 30th birthday, replaced by smartphones and tablets. What’s true in that? Let’s look for a moment at the past history, and the personal computer revolutions. Before that there was centralized systems from which you could rent some processing time and highly proprietary systems using […]

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Sandon Utensileria 75th anniversary

On April 10th, 2011, Sandon Utensileria, the company established by my grandfather, Francesco Sandon, and his brother Luigi (later joined by the other two brothers, Felice and Fausto), celebrates its 75th anniversary of uninterrupted activity, even when WWII swept across Milano the warehouse was moved in a hayloft outside the city, and orders were dispatched […]

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Visiting CERN

On December 8th, a holiday in Italy, we woke up early in Geneva to visit the CERN centre.  After a rainy day spent visiting Geneva, the Moon was shining in the sky, telling us that beside some remaining clouds, it was going to be a sunny day. The CERN laboratories are nearby Geneva airport, just outside the city, and […]