Author Archives: Nikso

Akismet on Tophost

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I was quite happy on receiving some comments on my blog. I soon realized it was all spam though!

Just a quick tip if, for some reason, you’re trying to make Akismet for WordPress working on Tophost (an italian hosting provider).

If your Akismet configuration tells you that it cannot reach the servers, go to your website Tophost cpannel, open up the PHP configuration screen and set “allow url fopen” to On.

It can happen that changing this or other settings has no effect. In that case, in the same screen, switch to PHP4 and than back to PHP5; than re-apply the “allow url fopen” setting.

Small talk about modern computing

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Do you know when modern computing started? You may have an idea. Mine was around the 80s. It was a romantic view; I born around those years and it was nice to think that computing was my age. I was wrong.

Modern computing never started. To be more precise, it had a false start around the 60s and proceeded to slowly froze away until apparent stagnation. Here is a story about few slices of those early computing times that amazed me.  Continue reading →

A blog? Really?!

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I myself cannot believe this. After more than fifteen years of lurking around in the Internet, I finally have my own website.

To be honest, I’m not sure how much this “personal site” thing is going to catch me. To be even more hones, I has few websites about Pokemons or Dragonball back in the Geocities times… but that’s another story.

I plan to publish on this blog of mine few things like my past projects and all the juicy news that I found around. I’ll especially try to focus on software stuff that I found fascinating and inspiring.

All this, of course, if I’ll ever find more time to do it.