September 2011 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Re: [nexa] R: Released Neubot 0.42

by Andrea Rossetti

Scusatemi, il mio BB (evidentemente posseduto da qualche forza aliena) questa mattina ha spedito un po' di mail a caso. AR ++++++++++++ prof. Andrea Rossetti (PhD) Filosofia del diritto / Informatica giuridica Facolta' di Giurisprudenza - Universita' Milano-Bicocca tel. (+39) 02 6448 4047 - +39 392 31 07 443 (Filosofia e Informatica) Giuridica: http://fildir.blogspot.com http://www.facebook.com/andrea.rossetti On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:52, Andrea Rossetti <andrea.rossetti(a)unimib.it> wrote: > > > > [Pm > Breve e con typos perché scritto con BlackBerry® > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simone Basso <bassosimone(a)gmail.com> > Sender: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:33:23 > To: <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Released Neubot 0.4.2 > > Released Neubot 0.4.2 > > http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.2 > > > Version 0.4.2 is the latest generally-available stable release of > Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6 and > Windows >= XP SP3. Of course, Neubot 0.4.2 is also available in > source format (.tar.gz and .zip). > > This release contains 143 patches. The diffstat says: 87 files > changed, with 3167 lines inserted and 1392 lines deleted. > > Here are the most relevant changes: > > o MacOS: automatic updates in the background. > > This implementation of the automatic updates is very > generic, in the sense that is based on the standard > UNIX API and does not leverage MacOS specific facilities, > such as launchd(8). I have patches to do that but they > are not ready for this release and they will go into > the next one; > > o Win32: disable autostart at the end of the install. > > Because the installer runs with high privileges and > so starts Neubot with high privileges too. > > (Of course Neubot will autostart each time you login > on the system and the _only_ difference is that it > is not started at the end of the installation.) > > I have scheduled some work on the Windows installer > for the coming weeks. I hope I will be able to find > a viable solution for this privileges issue too; > > o Ubuntu: new GUI, based on PyGtk+ and PyWebKit. > > The basic idea is to embed WebKit into a Gtk+ window > and to point it to Neubot Web UI. So, now you use > Neubot's own application instead of opening its Web User > Interface into the browser. I think this is more usable > and clear. > > http://www.neubot.org/improving-user-experience-under-ubuntu > > BTW I have plans to do something similar for MacOS and > Windows too; > > o database: add OS name and Neubot version to results. > > I've added them because they help data analysis. The > version is important because the behavior of the tests > may change over time, because of changes in the code > base. The operating system is important as well, because > every OS implements TCP/IP in a peculiar way; > > o net: undo the 262144-receive buffer optimization. > > Using a fixed-size buffer penalizes Linux, which has > very advanced buffer management strategies designed > for high bandwidth-delay product networks. > > (Having the version number and the OS name in the database > allows to track the effect of this change quite well); > > o www: if privacy settings are not set, the starting page > is privacy.html not index.html. > > We are modifying our installers to show privacy policy > and ask for permission to collect and share/publish. > The installer will also refuse to install if you don't > give the permission to collect the results. > > But the work is still in progress, and for now only > the MacOS installer is ready. Meanwhile, it will not > hurt to land users on privacy.html; > > o privacy: do not allow nonsense transitions once you > have set the permissions. > > There are two different changes here. > > 1. Once you have said that your are informed you cannot > step back and tell Neubot you're not informed. This is > pure common sense. > > 2. Also, once you've given the permission to collect your > results you cannot step back. This is to align with > installers, that are being modified to allow installation > only if you read the policy and give the permission to > collect the results; > > o speedtest: use just one connection, like bittorrent does. > > This is the first step to make the two tests more comparable: > of course comparing two connections with one _isn't_ fair, > especially with high bandwidth-delay products or when there > is more average congestion. > > More work is needed before we can say that the two tests > stress the network in the same way. Namely, we need to > change speedtest to work on a request-response basis, like > bittorrent does. So, this is just the first step in the > right direction. > > (And this is another case where saving the version number > in the database would be very helpful to track the effects > of the change.) > > o server: add support for a simple API to assess server state. > > This API is needed to implement a simple Nagios plugin, which > can say whether the server state is OK or not; > > o nagios-plugin: finalize it. > > Now the plugin uses the abovementioned server API to assess > server status and return something in the (OK, WARNING, ERROR) > domain. > > o more code rationalizations, bug and reliability fixes, > unit tests. > > The release candidates have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, Windows > XP SP3, Windows 7 and MacOSX 10.6. The main testing platform has > been my laptop with MacOS 10.6.8. > > Packages and source archives available here: > > http://www.neubot.org/download > > ChangeLog here: > > https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.2/ChangeLog > > Commit history here: > > https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.2 > > SHA256sums here: > > https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.2/SHA256 > > People that contributed to this release, with patches, testing > and/or feedback: > > Simone Basso > Marco Scopesi > Alessio Palmero Aprosio > Federico Morando > Juan Carlos De Martin > Matt Mathis > > Thank you for you attention, > Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso> > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

Sept. 20, 2011

R: piano piano gli approcci cambiano

by Fiorello Cortiana

Una bella iniziativa del Prof. Mauro Preda, Università Cattolica di Milano, www.artourguide.it ArtourGuide si configura come un portale molto simile ad un social-network su rete dedicata e protetta per tutti i luoghi d'arte, spettacolo e cultura, facile da gestire, con più modi di accesso, con strumenti di gestione e di ricerca tra i più evoluti. Per la realizzazione ha utilizzato http://www.boonex.com/dolphin con moduli modificati da lui, open-source sia lato server sia client : programmi in PHP e software VB.NET per il portale mobile . E' uno strumento in grado di creare un filo diretto interculturale e multilingua, grazie all'uso di nuove tecnologie (Internet, telefonia mobile, sistemi di navigazione satellitare), tra il visitatore / spettatore occasionale oppure esperto con i luoghi d'arte e spettacolo, promuovendo, tra l'altro una gestione organizzata ed ordinata delle visite ( -> attività del mobility è in preparazione una estensione per la costituzione di flotte, gruppi di visita ecc. Sintesi riepilogativa evento Titolo evento: ARTOURGUIDE (spazi d'arte, cultura e spettacolo) Location: Urban Center Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 11/12 Milano Data evento: 21 settembre 2011 Orario evento: 15-17 Comunicato stampa: ARTOURGUIDE è un hub virtuale e attrattore culturale, molto simile ad un social-network riservato a tutti i luoghi d'arte, spettacolo e cultura in grado di offrire al turista, visitatore/spettatore occasionale, oppure esperto, un nuovo modello di ricerca con la pianificazione di percorsi ottimizzati (importabili anche su navigatore satellitare) verso i luoghi d'arte, cultura e spettacolo, in grado di promuovere, tra l'altro, la mobilità sostenibile ed una gestione organizzata ed ordinata delle visite Interventi di: Sen. Fiorello Cortiana: descrizione ed analisi dello scenario attuale ed il ruolo delle reti ..... Prof.ssa. Paola Fandella e Prof. Claudio Borghi : presentazione della facoltà e corso del corso di laurea Prof. Mauro Preda con i suoi studenti del gruppo di lavoro del corso di Geografia Economica : Presentazione del corso di geografia economica e ARTOURGUIDE Descrizione del progetto ARTOURGUIDE Dibattito Ecco in anteprima il client per ArtourGuide . L'interfaccia è ancora rudimentale, a seguire ci sarà la gestione flotte (che condividono il medesimo percorso e che desiderano riunirsi), la programmazione per giorni e fascia oraria, la ricerca semantica e multilingua : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoO-NVNiwQ Mission - Dalla Competizione alla Collaborazione: Collaborazione significa migliore comunicazione e rapporto più stretto tra luoghi d'arte e spettacolo, con i visitatori e turisti, condivisione e coordinamento delle offerte. La Rete può giocare un ruolo fondamentale. ARTOURGUIDE si configura pertanto come una sorta di hub virtuale e attrattore culturale, un luogo d'incontro per la gestione e la pubblicazione delle offerte culturali ed artistiche. - Ogni luogo (museo, galleria, d'arte, ecc. ecc.) puo' creare in modo autonomo uno spazio ed una promozione delle proprie offerte in tempo reale. - La rete deve essere utilizzata come strumento - veicolo oggi indispensabile per ottimizzare i contatti nei tempi ed nei percorsi necessari nel mondo reale per l'incontro e la presenza fisica sul posto. Musei ed altri luoghi devono essere visitati di persona e non in ricostruzioni in mondi virtuali. ArtourGuide vuole promuovere la visita e la presenza partecipata ai luoghi d'arte cultura e spettacolo. - Immissione rapida delle offerte culturali e nuovo spazio di ricerca: La rapidità della Rete garantisce una comunicazione immediata dell'offerta e lo spazio diventa lo spazio complesso di ricerca dell'offerta culturale nel territorio. Lo spazio metrico utilizzato dai comuni navigatori satellitari, viene arricchito di più dimensioni, quali il tempo, il costo di viaggio, il prezzo del biglietto, ecc:. Per questa ragione, data la disomogeneità dello spazio dell'offerta culturale rispetto a quello metrico, affinché ci sia una distribuzione più equilibrata dei punti di interesse e ci sia una situazione di pari opportunità dei singoli luoghi nello spazio di ricerca, si è previsto di modificare lo spazio complesso (= spazio metrico & spazio economico) in modo tale da rendere rintracciabili anche le piccole realtà: la galleria dietro l'angolo, la chiesa non segnalata dalle guide, i luoghi poco accessibili ecc. ecc. · Promozione turistica: il sistema naturalmente multilingua offre la garanzia di trovare esattamente ciò che si vuole visitare. Per estensione il processo crea la base per la pianificazione del marketing territoriale partecipativo. In questo ambito la promozione dei beni culturali e dello spettacolo, si avvale, cioè delle informazioni che in "tempo reale" vengono immesse nel sistema. Si crea quindi una guida turistica dinamica.

Sept. 20, 2011

R: Released Neubot 0.42

by Andrea Rossetti

[Pm Breve e con typos perché scritto con BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Simone Basso <bassosimone(a)gmail.com> Sender: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:33:23 To: <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: [nexa] Released Neubot 0.4.2 Released Neubot 0.4.2 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.2 Version 0.4.2 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6 and Windows >= XP SP3. Of course, Neubot 0.4.2 is also available in source format (.tar.gz and .zip). This release contains 143 patches. The diffstat says: 87 files changed, with 3167 lines inserted and 1392 lines deleted. Here are the most relevant changes: o MacOS: automatic updates in the background. This implementation of the automatic updates is very generic, in the sense that is based on the standard UNIX API and does not leverage MacOS specific facilities, such as launchd(8). I have patches to do that but they are not ready for this release and they will go into the next one; o Win32: disable autostart at the end of the install. Because the installer runs with high privileges and so starts Neubot with high privileges too. (Of course Neubot will autostart each time you login on the system and the _only_ difference is that it is not started at the end of the installation.) I have scheduled some work on the Windows installer for the coming weeks. I hope I will be able to find a viable solution for this privileges issue too; o Ubuntu: new GUI, based on PyGtk+ and PyWebKit. The basic idea is to embed WebKit into a Gtk+ window and to point it to Neubot Web UI. So, now you use Neubot's own application instead of opening its Web User Interface into the browser. I think this is more usable and clear. http://www.neubot.org/improving-user-experience-under-ubuntu BTW I have plans to do something similar for MacOS and Windows too; o database: add OS name and Neubot version to results. I've added them because they help data analysis. The version is important because the behavior of the tests may change over time, because of changes in the code base. The operating system is important as well, because every OS implements TCP/IP in a peculiar way; o net: undo the 262144-receive buffer optimization. Using a fixed-size buffer penalizes Linux, which has very advanced buffer management strategies designed for high bandwidth-delay product networks. (Having the version number and the OS name in the database allows to track the effect of this change quite well); o www: if privacy settings are not set, the starting page is privacy.html not index.html. We are modifying our installers to show privacy policy and ask for permission to collect and share/publish. The installer will also refuse to install if you don't give the permission to collect the results. But the work is still in progress, and for now only the MacOS installer is ready. Meanwhile, it will not hurt to land users on privacy.html; o privacy: do not allow nonsense transitions once you have set the permissions. There are two different changes here. 1. Once you have said that your are informed you cannot step back and tell Neubot you're not informed. This is pure common sense. 2. Also, once you've given the permission to collect your results you cannot step back. This is to align with installers, that are being modified to allow installation only if you read the policy and give the permission to collect the results; o speedtest: use just one connection, like bittorrent does. This is the first step to make the two tests more comparable: of course comparing two connections with one _isn't_ fair, especially with high bandwidth-delay products or when there is more average congestion. More work is needed before we can say that the two tests stress the network in the same way. Namely, we need to change speedtest to work on a request-response basis, like bittorrent does. So, this is just the first step in the right direction. (And this is another case where saving the version number in the database would be very helpful to track the effects of the change.) o server: add support for a simple API to assess server state. This API is needed to implement a simple Nagios plugin, which can say whether the server state is OK or not; o nagios-plugin: finalize it. Now the plugin uses the abovementioned server API to assess server status and return something in the (OK, WARNING, ERROR) domain. o more code rationalizations, bug and reliability fixes, unit tests. The release candidates have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 and MacOSX 10.6. The main testing platform has been my laptop with MacOS 10.6.8. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.2/ChangeLog Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.2 SHA256sums here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.2/SHA256 People that contributed to this release, with patches, testing and/or feedback: Simone Basso Marco Scopesi Alessio Palmero Aprosio Federico Morando Juan Carlos De Martin Matt Mathis Thank you for you attention, Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso> _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Sept. 20, 2011

Re: [nexa] Commenti estensione Copyright

by Paolo Brini

Sept. 20, 2011

le due leggi fotocopia: qualche link

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Paolo Brini: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/d62gmb (in inglese) Marco Pierani: http://pierani.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/tensione-alla-camera-tra-pdl-e-lega… Stefano Quintarelli: http://blog.quintarelli.it/blog/2011/09/progetto-di-legge-per-cambiare-le-r… Fulvio Sarzana: http://www.fulviosarzana.it/blog/il-diritto-ad-internet-ed-il-parlamento-it… Guido Scorza: http://www.leggioggi.it/2011/08/02/gli-isp-sceriffi-della-rete/ In ordine alfabetico e scusandomi per eventuali esclusioni. juan carlos

Sept. 20, 2011

Released Neubot 0.4.2

by Simone Basso

Released Neubot 0.4.2 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.2 Version 0.4.2 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6 and Windows >= XP SP3. Of course, Neubot 0.4.2 is also available in source format (.tar.gz and .zip). This release contains 143 patches. The diffstat says: 87 files changed, with 3167 lines inserted and 1392 lines deleted. Here are the most relevant changes: o MacOS: automatic updates in the background. This implementation of the automatic updates is very generic, in the sense that is based on the standard UNIX API and does not leverage MacOS specific facilities, such as launchd(8). I have patches to do that but they are not ready for this release and they will go into the next one; o Win32: disable autostart at the end of the install. Because the installer runs with high privileges and so starts Neubot with high privileges too. (Of course Neubot will autostart each time you login on the system and the _only_ difference is that it is not started at the end of the installation.) I have scheduled some work on the Windows installer for the coming weeks. I hope I will be able to find a viable solution for this privileges issue too; o Ubuntu: new GUI, based on PyGtk+ and PyWebKit. The basic idea is to embed WebKit into a Gtk+ window and to point it to Neubot Web UI. So, now you use Neubot's own application instead of opening its Web User Interface into the browser. I think this is more usable and clear. http://www.neubot.org/improving-user-experience-under-ubuntu BTW I have plans to do something similar for MacOS and Windows too; o database: add OS name and Neubot version to results. I've added them because they help data analysis. The version is important because the behavior of the tests may change over time, because of changes in the code base. The operating system is important as well, because every OS implements TCP/IP in a peculiar way; o net: undo the 262144-receive buffer optimization. Using a fixed-size buffer penalizes Linux, which has very advanced buffer management strategies designed for high bandwidth-delay product networks. (Having the version number and the OS name in the database allows to track the effect of this change quite well); o www: if privacy settings are not set, the starting page is privacy.html not index.html. We are modifying our installers to show privacy policy and ask for permission to collect and share/publish. The installer will also refuse to install if you don't give the permission to collect the results. But the work is still in progress, and for now only the MacOS installer is ready. Meanwhile, it will not hurt to land users on privacy.html; o privacy: do not allow nonsense transitions once you have set the permissions. There are two different changes here. 1. Once you have said that your are informed you cannot step back and tell Neubot you're not informed. This is pure common sense. 2. Also, once you've given the permission to collect your results you cannot step back. This is to align with installers, that are being modified to allow installation only if you read the policy and give the permission to collect the results; o speedtest: use just one connection, like bittorrent does. This is the first step to make the two tests more comparable: of course comparing two connections with one _isn't_ fair, especially with high bandwidth-delay products or when there is more average congestion. More work is needed before we can say that the two tests stress the network in the same way. Namely, we need to change speedtest to work on a request-response basis, like bittorrent does. So, this is just the first step in the right direction. (And this is another case where saving the version number in the database would be very helpful to track the effects of the change.) o server: add support for a simple API to assess server state. This API is needed to implement a simple Nagios plugin, which can say whether the server state is OK or not; o nagios-plugin: finalize it. Now the plugin uses the abovementioned server API to assess server status and return something in the (OK, WARNING, ERROR) domain. o more code rationalizations, bug and reliability fixes, unit tests. The release candidates have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 and MacOSX 10.6. The main testing platform has been my laptop with MacOS 10.6.8. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.2/ChangeLog Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.2 SHA256sums here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.2/SHA256 People that contributed to this release, with patches, testing and/or feedback: Simone Basso Marco Scopesi Alessio Palmero Aprosio Federico Morando Juan Carlos De Martin Matt Mathis Thank you for you attention, Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

Sept. 19, 2011

R: Linux dopo 20 anni

by Fiorello Cortiana

http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/linux-20-anni-dopo- universita-impresa-e-pubblica-amministrazione-milano-4-ottobre-2011/

Sept. 19, 2011

R: Un nuovo riconoscimento internazionale a Rodotà

by Fiorello Cortiana

Nemo profeta in patria, per fortuna il mondo è piccolo e connesso, grande Stefano Fiorello -----Messaggio originale----- Da: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it [mailto:nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it] Per conto di meo Inviato: domenica 18 settembre 2011 11.36 A: a.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it Cc: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Oggetto: Re: [nexa] Un nuovo riconoscimento internazionale a Rodotà On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:50:12 +0200, a.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it wrote: > Sapete che già nel 2009l'Epic (Electronic Privacy Information Center) > di Washington aveva insignito il professore Rodotà con il suo > "International Privacy Information Award" in qualità di > "powerfuladvocate for the rights of the citizen", stavolta è > l'International Federation for Information Processing (http://www.ifip.org/ > [1]) a premiarlo... > > "L'InternationalFederation for Information Processing (IFIP) è > l'organizzazionenon profit leader nel settore delle tecnologie > dell'informazione edella comunicazione e delle scienze. La sua sezione > dedicata alleresponsabilità sociali dell'informatica assegna ogni due > anni unpremio internazionale ad una personalità che si sia > particolarmentedistinta per l'attività svolta in questa materia. > > Esaminatele varie candidature. l'IFIP ha deciso all'unanimità > diassegnare il premio per il 2012 al professor Stefano Rodotà per > ilsuo straordinario contributo alla consapevolezza delle > conseguenzesociali delle > tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione. > > Ilpremio sarà ufficialmente consegnato in novembre a Bruxelles > nelcorso della tradizionale conferenza internazionale dell'IFIP > su"Human Choice and Computing", dove il professor Rodotà terrà lalezione ufficiale". > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://www.ifip.org/ una volta tanto UNA SPENDIDA NOTIZIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulazioni a tutti e, sopra tutti, al grande Stefano Rodotà. Raf _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Sept. 19, 2011

Caso Yahoo, host attivo e dubbi

by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO

Ho letto la sentenza, ma la teoria dell'host attivo (almeno in questi casi) mi convince poco. Qui trovate il link al provvedimento... e qualche dubbio: http://goo.gl/D1I06 Buona domenica, Alessandro Mantelero

Sept. 18, 2011

Re: [nexa] Un nuovo riconoscimento internazionale a Rodotà

by Mariella Berra

Una bella notizia L'ho mandata agli amici Del Creis Mariella ----- Original Message ----- From: a.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 4:50 PM Subject: [nexa] Un nuovo riconoscimento internazionale a Rodotà Sapete che già nel 2009 l’Epic (Electronic Privacy Information Center) di Washington aveva insignito il professore Rodotà con il suo “International Privacy Information Award” in qualità di “powerful advocate for the rights of the citizen”, stavolta è l'International Federation for Information Processing (http://www.ifip.org/) a premiarlo... “L’International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) è l’organizzazione non profit leader nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione e delle scienze. La sua sezione dedicata alle responsabilità sociali dell’informatica assegna ogni due anni un premio internazionale ad una personalità che si sia particolarmente distinta per l’attività svolta in questa materia. Esaminate le varie candidature. l’IFIP ha deciso all’unanimità di assegnare il premio per il 2012 al professor Stefano Rodotà per il suo straordinario contributo alla consapevolezza delle conseguenze sociali delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione. Il premio sarà ufficialmente consegnato in novembre a Bruxelles nel corso della tradizionale conferenza internazionale dell’IFIP su “Human Choice and Computing”, dove il professor Rodotà terrà la lezione ufficiale”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Sept. 18, 2011