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Alessio Placitelli
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20 Years of Tim Schafer!
Sep 29th
This is how Tim Schafer got into game industry: luckily enough he didn’t get the engineering job he applied for!
Google Calendar e telefoni Windows Mobile
Sep 4th
Did you know you could synchronize your Windows Mobile device with Google Calendar without using any third party application? Amazing, isn’t it? 
Simply follow this link:
MITO: open source medical imaging software
Aug 10th
My internship at the ICAR institute (CNR) gave me the opportunity to work on some interesting projects, one of them being a software named MITO (Medical Imaging TOolkit). MITO, as stated by the project website, is an opensource software architecture for advanced Medical Imaging. I’m always proud of the projects I work on, even more if those projects are contributing to the opensource cause and managed by some public funded research institute! You can find out more by following the links below.
Creative Zen: A section in the INF is invalid
Feb 5th
I hate when Hard Drives fail. Ok, I’m a paranoid so I backup everything but… reinstalling everything just sucks. And if you have a bad Karma, a device that worked may not install anymore. That’s what happened to my Creative Zen which refused to work on a Windows XP sp3 fresh installation! If Windows tries to scare you with an error message stating that “a section in the INF file is invalid”, simply download and install the following file:
Don’t thank me:) Donate to myCreative Fansite
ISS Tour
Jan 24th
NASA just released a 35 minutes tour of the International Space Station. Feel free to check it out following those links:
Simply… amazing.
VC++ 2008 and CUDA (NVIDIA)
Nov 23rd
Let me guess: you just wrote your new, shining CUDA application to unleash all the horsepower of your GPU and you are getting some compilation errors in Visual Studio. Some really weird errors. Something like:
1>CUDA_myfile.cu_generated.c
1>C:\Programmi\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\vadefs.h(52) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘string’
1>C:\Programmi\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\vadefs.h(61) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘string’
1>c:\cuda\include\vector_types.h(426) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘type’
1>c:\cuda\include\vector_types.h(427) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘type’
1>c:\cuda\include\vector_types.h(428) : error C2054: expected ‘(‘ to follow ‘operator’
1>c:\cuda\include\vector_types.h(428) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘type’
1>c:\cuda\include\vector_types.h(430) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘}’
1>C:\CUDA\bin/../include\cuda_runtime_api.h(79) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘string’
1>C:\Programmi\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\crtdefs.h(485) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘string’
Right? This is your lucky day. After some struggling, I figured out the solution to this weird issue! Simply right click on the file in the “Solution Explorer” then selectd “Properties”. Now choose “Compile as C++ Code (/TP)” in “Configuration Properties->C/C++->Advanced->Compile As” and apply the changes. Compile your project and.. it should work.
New MegaDrive console launched today
Oct 13th
Blaze has launched its MegaDrive handheld console, which contains games such as Sonic and Knuckles, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Ecco the Dolphin.
Zelda Marathon: Child’s Play fundraising
Aug 3rd
I’m sorry I couldn’t post this news earlier but it’s better now than never, isn’t it? Since the 31th of July, the Mario Marathon Team in collaboration with Cameron Banga and the Four48 Team, is playing through every single Zelda game available (yes, each one of them from The Legend of Zelda to Zelda Twilight Princess) in an awesome 70 hours gaming marathon to help Child’s Play charity raise some funds. Check out the live webcast on their blogs and don’t forget to donate!
Tired of windiff?
Jul 25th
Well, if you are, consider yourself lucky to read this blog. I was tired of windiff, and I started looking for something more interesting, which could also be integrated with my versioning control environment (TortoiseSVN). I stumbled upon WinMerge, a very nice opensource software which has all the features from windiff plus a sober, functional GUI. Last, but not least, it perfectly integrates with TortoiseSVN. In a few words, a MUST have.
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