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As I promised, BD-incollo 0.1 is finished and the source code is available in the project page under the GPL 3 license.
Every MUST requirement has been done and just two MAY requirements could not be developed in just 6 days. But They will surely be in the next releases.
Sourcecode is well commented using xP standards and there are few comments where necessary, but is should be clear. If not, drop me a mail.
I will write a map that describes the source code tree tomorrow!
The conclusions of this experiment are that Django is really a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines! I spent more time playing with templates and CSS than with the whole python coding! It's a valid alternative to Ruby on Rails, and built on a programming language I really like.
Go and grab the code!

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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Cnet ha da poco postato un articolo che denuncia da parte dell'High Technology Crime Investigation Association l'uso dei browser alternativi (come il grande FireFox, o il veloce Opera) come impedimento per le indagini investigative. La stessa Cnet prende a mio avviso un po' in giro Exploder, scrivendo:

Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited,[...]
Investigators know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they know how to read those files

Insomma, Exploder é un browser lento, non supporta bene XHTML, si inventa tag suoi e non supera nessun test CSS. Neppure la futura versione 7 non é in grado di superare l'acid test.
In veritá nessun browser la supera del tutto, ma se FireFox arriva a rappresentare almeno il 90% dell'immagine creata, Explorer 6 rappresenta solo i colori della faccina che se vede creare, andando a disegnare sullo schermo un bel quadro impressionista di forma quadrangolare. Explorer 7 fa la stessa cosa, e questo significa che questi (3? 4?) anni di sviluppo sono serviti alla m$ solo per agiungere il tabbed browsing...

... E non fa nulla per garantirci un po' di privacy ... La sicurezza in piú dei browser alternativi sta semplicemente nella diversa organizzazione dei file, i loro nomi e la loro localizzazione.
Grazie al cielo esistono alternative..
Cosa devo ancora scrivere per farvi passare tutti a FireFox? Ah si, le sue estensioni per aumentare la privacy! http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/privacy e https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&category=Privacy%20and%20Security