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NASA just released a 35 minutes tour of the International Space Station. Feel free to check it out following those links:

YouTube Part I

YouTube Part II

YouTube Part III

YouTube Part IV

Simply… amazing.

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.

Blaze has launched its MegaDrive handheld console, which contains games such as Sonic and Knuckles, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Ecco the Dolphin.

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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!

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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Do you know someone on this planet who can manage to destroy a 399€ jewel in less than a hour? Now you do. I just tried to update the BIOS of my new, flaming, MSI Wind U100 Black when I found out power wasn’t plugged. So I thought “what’s the problem, let’s just plug it in”. I wish I had never done that: keyboard suddenly stopped working. I tried rebooting to Windows XP (a pure DOS environment is required for BIOS updates) but, sadly, nothing changed. Keyboard was not working, no keystrokes where detected, I wasn’t even able to get into BIOS, since DEL key wasn’t working as well. But, before getting too despaired, I tried to unplug Wind’s power sources (yes, even the battery!). After a few minutes, I turned it on again and keyboard was working again.

I hope you will find this article useful, it could save your heart from breaking in case you encounter this very same issue

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The first release candidate version of world’s most famous open source web browser, Firefox 3, is officially available for download. It looks like those irritating memory leaks are finally fixed. For a comprehensive look at what’s new in this version, check  this page. You can download Firefox 3 RC1 by following this link

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Quite odd for a “so called” advanced country, isn’t it?

Eh si, sembra strano, ma non c’è. Vuoi per una legge approvata dal governo appena passato, vuoi perchè chi è arrivato si è adeguato a quella legge senza pensarne una modifica nel futuro prossimo, il Ministero delle Comunicazioni, uno dei più importanti, secondo noi, ma al tempo stesso anche secondo l’economia mondiale per il valore aggiunto di sviluppo che le Telecomunicazioni portano con sé, non c’è.

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You would be surprised by the amount of people searching for “ftp dreambox” words in the box at the top of this page. Hey, that’s it, just to “finally make you happy”:

1) Download an FTP client (FileZila is recommended)
2) Create a new connection profile using your Dreambox address (192.168.x.x for example), root as username and dreambox as password (some firmware have no default password set for this, so just leave it empty)
3) Connect!

Easy, isn’t it?