Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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took a little time to write about.  Pain takes time, and words are slow. For everyone who lived the computer revolution and watched mesmerized Macintosh products in shops, enough said. Now people are excited and are repeating the old mantra. I wonder if they understand what they repeat. I wonder if this excitement will last. … Leggi tutto

Walter Bonatti (1930-2011)

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I’d like to remeber Bonatti freely quoting Stefano Benni, an italian writer.

“Walter Bonatti died today. Others were Great. He was Unique”

young Walter_Bonatti ad Askole
(photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

And two marvellous quotes from the man himself:

“La realtà è il cinque per cento della vita. L’uomo deve sognare per salvarsi ”
Reality is five percent of life. Men must dream to save themselves.

“I would have liked to have climbed the Eiger. I once got about a third of the way up in a couple of hours when the rockfalls began, so I came back down. You see, the real essence of mountain climbing – of really knowing and loving the mountains – is not getting to the top. It’s having the humility and self-awareness when necessary to be able to stop 100 metres from the summit and make it down alive.”

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weird problem with iscsicli

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Same as here In XP, 2003, Vista you could do: iscsicli listtargets t and you’d get the result in the same window. If you did iscsicli listargets t > foo you’d get the results in the file foo. With Windows 7, it runs the command in a separate window (which blips on and immediately off), … Leggi tutto

Western digital messes with my boot

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As previously metioned here, I had boot issues with my new Motherboard, and my external Western Digital USB hard disk. But it’s really a motherboard fault, or not? It turns out other cheap USB enclosures dont’ endanger my boot like the WD hard disk does. A little google-fu revealed that it’s indeed Western Digital fault, … Leggi tutto