Blogging the days...

Googleing and reading Slashdot I found this nice site MD5CRK . At this moment our P2P Framework is using MD5 as hashing algorithm, perhaps we should change, but I'm worried about performance hits. On the bright side, spring is in the air. My street is filled with pink and white petal trees emanating a very nice smell. I've been thinking and realized that the rising rents might be a result of the unstable market, but then again how come it's Bologna-only?

I have some problems in life with paying the second part of the tuition. The "nice" guys at the University administration that deals with reducing the tuition on grounds of financial status got something wrong so now I have to fight them. As usual in Italian bureaucracy they don't give you enough time to complain and the story is just too cliche... Plus the rents in Bologna sky-rocketed since the introduction of the Euro. In the recent news, it was pointed out that there is a number of apartments that may be rented but are left unused. Why do I get suspicious and think that it's a artificial way to keep raising the rents? At this point in time my only hope is that the next major (the candidate for the Left is the former CIGL leader Conferati, aka Chinamen) will try to unblock this fast paced race that is leaving the middle class (if there is any left) in great troubles.

Today the funerals for the Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski were held. Condolences to his family in their hours of sorrow.

I've been installing Gentoo these past two days. After two unsuccessful tries this one hit the spot. It loads quickly, has a beautiful framebuffer console, accelerated Ati Radeon drivers for X, and a nice bootsplash to boot (pun intended). I've had some problems including a installation bug parting from stage1 with groff but all problems find solutions on the excellent forum that this community has. I'm a owner of a ASUS P4P800 DeLuxe motherboard. It's a sweet motherboard but it has some issues with Linux. Mainly no official support from VIA in releasing the sources for the Raid VT6410 controller ( forum ), integrated sound (forums at gentoo help, this one is a bit off topic but shows pieces of code that hits the right spot), integrated LAN 3c940 ( haven't made it work yet but reportedly the sk98lin drivers should work if one includes "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support" when you compiling the kernel). One nice thing about gent...