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(Italiano) Cambiamento climatico

Posted on Thursday May 18th, 2023 by admin
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Artificial Intelligence: sef-consciousness?

Posted on Saturday April 29th, 2023 by admin

Mechanical Thought It was primarily science fiction that determined what is commonly understood as “Artificial Intelligence”. Experts in the field do not think at all about “thinking machines” when dealing with AI, but the average person on the street probably … Continue reading →

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(Italiano) Scrivere applicazioni CGI in (x)Harbour – Parte I

Posted on Saturday July 27th, 2019 by admin
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Multilingual WordPress

Posted on Friday December 28th, 2012 by admin

After thinking that it would be nice to make available articles in English too, I tried to figure out how to accomplish the task. As a newbie of WordPress the first thing I thought was to simply post another distinct … Continue reading →

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Harbour and xHarbour

Posted on Thursday December 27th, 2012 by admin

“xBase  programming language” means a set of “dialects” derived ultimately from DBIII (in the 80s) and subsequent improvements (FoxBASE, Clipper, QuickSilver in the 80s and 90s, etc..). They all were languages dedicated to the management of databases and equipped with … Continue reading →

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xBase free compilers History

Posted on Thursday December 27th, 2012 by admin

In the mid 80s in the computer scenario the firm Ashton-Tate is one of main players among developers of business applications, experts and simple hobbyists. With DBIII, which is essentially a programmable database, it is possible to create in an … Continue reading →

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Opera 12.10: Window frame disappeared

Posted on Wednesday December 26th, 2012 by admin

Diversi utenti di Opera (tra cui il sottoscritto) si sono ritrovati dopo l’aggiornamento alla versione 12.10 senza la cornice più esterna della finestra in cui gira Opera (versione Windows). Dopo qualche ricerca ho scoperto che pare che il problema sia … Continue reading →

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Bulletin Board System

Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2012 by admin

Qualcuno forse ricorda ancora le BBS, ovvero gli antenati dei “forum di discussione” su Internet. Internet in effetti non c’era ancora, e nemmeno l’ADSL. Nonostante questi limiti fioriva una piuttosto vasta (per l’epoca) comunità di appassionati anche qui in Italia. … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on Friday October 26th, 2012 by admin

Dopo che un amico mi aveva chiesto un consiglio su come modificare le icone di un particolare tema di WordPress (erano azzurre ma lui le voleva rosse) ho cominciato a pensare che forse era il caso di dare un’ occhiata … Continue reading →

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