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In these days I’m trying FaceBook, one the currently more popular social network websites.

It’s surely way better than MySpace, which success I really can’t explain, being such an ugly, bloated and unusable site, full of annoying pop-ups, messed themes and silly music at every step.

FaceBook offers the most obvious social functions, like sharing photo albums, messaging, browsing by similar tastes or nearby locations, and also a whole set of applications which interact with other external social network websites, actually bringing them into FB. Furthermore, there is a wide choice of games and amusements that you can use together with your friends.

It’s interesting to notice that you can find and interact people only if you already know their name or their mail address, so ideally only those already knowing you in some way may trace and find you. Also, the website guidelines state that you should use your real name and your real data, even if it’s quite easy to fake a believable AKA that can pass their checks.

Moving to WordPress

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I’ve decided to replace the News module being used until now with Xpress, WordPress for Xoops, the same that I’m using on UnixPortal. The reason is not the intention to move towards a blog oriented layout, but rather having a more versatile news/articles management compared to the one offered by the previous module.

With this new system I can finally display on the homepage the general info related to website and Community, while it was much more complex and difficult before.

Now that the site is open to the public I think it’s fair to give important information on the main page in place of a poor static page.

Public access!

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After thinking about it for long time, I’ve decided that it’s not worth to keep the website so private as it’s been until now. Starting from now it’s possible to access most of sections without registering or logging in. It’s still required to register and to log in with your password when you want to add content or download files.

I hope this will make easier to browse the site and also make it a more enjoyable experience.

New wallpapers gallery

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I’ve added a gallery full of desktop wallpapers. It contains various images related to celebrities, landscapes and various. It’s mainly oriented towards widescreen formats, but there is also some regular resolution image.

[url=https://www.lonestar.it/modules/xcgal/thumbnails.php?album=12]Click here[/url] for direct access.

UnixPortal

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UnixPortal is another of my projects that has been sleeping for long time.

I wanted to create a portal dedicated to the Unix OS world, that I’ve always loved. So I looked for an available domain name and I registered unixportal.net, also starting to work on a website that I decided to host on Tru64 platform, to make things in the unix way..

But then, partly for my usual laziness, partly because making linux things work in more strict and traditional unix environments is not that easy, project went on a halt and I haven’t spent any more time on it.

Now that I’ve found new will to work on this portal I decided to bring this other project back to life too, hosting it on linux so there won’t be weird technical difficulties.

So it’s with extreme pleasure that I’m announcing the birth of [url=http://www.unixportal.net]www.unixportal.net[/url], even if it’s still on the works.

My friend and colleague [b]Krash[/b] is helping me in managing it, since we two represent the unix-oriented side of our office 😆

If any of you should like to visit it, just click on the above link 🙂

It’s obviously a much more technical and specific website when compared to this, which is dedicated to community and more personal interests

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