"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking." -- Richard Stallman
You can contact me in different ways (replace 'at' with '@' and dot with '.'):
my JID is gscrivano at gmail dot com, but rarely you can find me online.
My email address is: gscrivano at gnu dot org.
My IRC nickname on freenode.net is giuseppe.
The GNU Project was launched to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is completely free software. http://www.gnu.org.
GNU MyServer is a powerful and easy to configure web server with a lot of built in features. Visit the official site http://www.myserverproject.net if you are interested.
The goal of the GNUzilla project is to provide a completely Free version of the popular mozilla source code. Visit the official site for more information: http://gnuzilla.gnu.org.
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
GNU Gcal is a program for calculating and printing calendars. Gcal displays hybrid and proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendar sheets, respectively for one month, three months, or a whole year. It also displays eternal holiday lists for many countries around the globe, and features a very powerful creation of fixed date liststhat can be used for reminding purposes.
The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system.
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. But I use it for a lot of other things too, read about it here if you don't know about: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.
The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The biggest difference from the UNIX kernel is that hurd uses a microkernel; at the moment it works on gnumach but probably it will be developed on a faster microkernel, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html.
Hurd extras is a project to host developing translators or software specifically for GNU Hurd. Visit the savannah page if you are interested: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdextras/.
A* (A star) is a pathfinding algorithm http://code.google.com/p/a-star/.
You can also be interested in my ohloh.net profile page.
If a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems, it is also true that a programmer is a device for turning beer into programs. If you want to buy me a beer (from a small cup to a train of it), you can do it using paypal:
HTTP Digest scheme for APT This patch enables the HTTP proxy digest scheme in the debian APT packages manager, I had to write this to allow debian users at my university to use apt behind a proxy with the digest scheme.
Force autocompile .el for Emacs This patch enables auto compilation of .el files in emacs if they are newer than the respective .elc file. Define force-auto-compile to a non nil value in your ~/.emacs to enable it.
MyServer threads model A paper describing the GNU MyServer threads model.
The MyServer development model The agile development model used for the GNU MyServer web server.
Brain Fuck intepreter A Brain Fuck interpreter written in Python.
Hack for Freedom A modified version for Manowar's Fight for Freedom.
A nice suggestion An interesting suggestion from the Microsoft website.
My LinkedIn profile.
My GPG key.
Navegadores.org An interview for Navegadores.org
hax.cosenzainrete.it/?p=390 An interview for HAX.
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