Leonardo Maccari

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Sono ingegnere informatico, dottore di ricerca all'università di Firenze nel dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni. Per lavoro quindi mi occupo di tecnologie, in particolare di sicurezza delle reti, per interesse mi piace sconfinare negli aspetti sociali legati al copyright ed al software libero. Qui trovate qualche informazione in più, qui alcune presentazioni che ho fatto ultimamente.

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A promising research field: paper folding!

Yes, sometimes you really need to write many many words in a very limited space. A normal person starts to use tiny fonts, tries to abbreviate words and the result, frankly, is terrible. But a researcher doesn’t stop at the first obstacle. A researcher analyses, synthesises, experiments and at the end finds a new way [...]

That's what patents are for...

Too often lately we read opinions trying to spread doubts on the sense of patents in our society. There is, indeed, a whole line of thought that tries to show that the patent system is completely screwed and ill-by-design. I decided to fight this dangerous view providing a set of examples that will definitely show [...]

Qtextended keyboard made unpredictive

I’ve chosen not to spend much more effort on the matchbox keyboard, since it seems quite unamendable. On the other side the Qtextended predictive keyboard is nice to see and more rich of features. It just needed to be made unpredictive!

So I patched it in order to be used without prediction. The patch was quite [...]

Qt-extended un-predictive keyboard

As I did for Qtopia, I’ve recompiled my un-predictive keyboard for qt-extended-improved. It is a patched version of the matchbox keyboard that comes with Qt but it’s unusable without a stylus.I’ve changed the layout from last time I touched it :

I found out how to suppress the hints bar, that never had any real use [...]

Update

This keeps working even with Gutsy Gibbon, withouth recompilation.

Just watch out for the following:

Kalendar must be not running when syncing
GPE calendar and contacts must be not running in Nokia 770
Nokia 770 goes in power safe mode quite soon, so it might happen that in the middle of a sync, if there is a period of [...]

Nokia 770

GPE PIM sync

GPE PIM is a suit of calendar/contatcs (and more) application for nokia 770, which natively lacks one. I’ve been able to make it sync with various other programs in kubuntu feisty (any ubuntu or debian unstable should work), since there is not much docs about it I’m writing here some notes. Basical [...]