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In this page are available all the articles I wrote (or of which I’m one of the authors), in some cases the articles are university notes; some of the things I consider more interesting are marked by a star icon at the margin. Unfortunately a large amount of material is in Italian language.

Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”

Captioned version of the “last lecture” of a computer science US professor. Diagnosed with a terminal illnes and just a few months left, Randy gave a fantastic last lecture titled “How to achieve your childhood dreams”
http://www.xelon.it/articoli/sottotitoli-randy-pausch/

Brief tutorial about using rsync on windows, linux and mac

Notes on how to use rsync to manage multi-platform backups
http://www.xelon.it/articles/rsync-mac-linux-windows/

Am I Behind NAT documentation

Documentation about the inner working of the service amibehindnat.com, description on how to use a Java applet to find out the local IP of a connecting host (you’ll find also some example source).
http://www.xelon.it/articles/find-local-IP-java-nat/

Pathneck

Documents on features and inner working of “pathneck”, a tool to find bottleneck on a network path, only in Italian.
http://www.xelon.it/appunti/pathneck-traceroute-bottleneck/