Sometimes reviewers have too many reviews to be done, especially if a conference has received many more submissions than expected, so they may be forced to rush a review and thus not understand the  contribution of a paper.

If this has happened to you, as it has recently happened to me, a good way to get out of depression is to read "We Are Sorry to Inform You" by Simone Santini.

 BitBang Festival netart, video e computer graphic, soggetti di frontiera dell’immaginario artistico contemporaneo che diventano punti di partenza per osservare l’evoluzione dei nuovi media, non solo in ambito artistico ma anche sociale e comunicativo.

Tema unificante di BitBang per l’anno 2008 è “DIGITAL LOVE - le declinazioni digitali dell’amore”.

L’evento avrà luogo presso il museostibbert di firenze (ingresso gratuito)

BitBang Festival sono presenti:

• Struttura: festival sulle arti digitali. Incontri, talk, video proiezioni e installazioni interattive con la partecipazione di critici, docenti universitari, artisti ed esperti di livello internazionale del mondo del multimedia. Giunge alla sua quarta edizione.

• Master Prize: premio istituito dal Master in Multimedia e riconosciuto dall’Università di Firenze attraverso una galleria espositiva permanente on-line, valutato da una giuria internazionale di docenti universitari, esperti e professionisti del campo del multimedia.

• BitBang Night: evento di chiusura della fase didattica del Master in Multimedia. In cui gli studenti hanno la possibilità di mostrare i progetti svolti durante la prima parte del corso.

I temi, i dibattiti e le immagini del festival BitBang vengono raccolti e pubblicati al termine della manifestazione nella terza pubblicazione di struttura

Nel caso capiti di scrivere codice C++ in qualche ambito nel quale gli errori non possono essere tollerati (per esempio per un aereo da caccia...) queste regole (PDF) presenti sul sito di Bjarne Stroustrup possono essere utili.

(via sua recente intervista su Computerworld)

L'installazione di default del pannello di controllo di MySQL non funziona sotto Leopard (ovvero non consente di avviare/fermare) il server MySQL.

Update: la miglior soluzione adesso è scaricare un prefpane fatto apposta per Leopard, altrimenti seguite le istruzioni riportate sotto:

La soluzione è piuttosto semplice ed è riportata sul blog Angry-fly:

1) Aprire il terminale e dare i comandi:

cd /usr/local/mysql/support-files

sudo mv mysql.server mysql.server.real

sudo touch mysql.server

sudo vi mysql.server   (se vi va bene usare vi, altrimenti arite il file con un altro editor)

2) Quindi usando vi (comando precedente) scrivere:

!/bin/sh

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server.real $1

e salvare il file.

3) Si assegnano diritti e proprietà al file con i seguenti comandi, dati sempre ne terminale:

sudo chown root:wheel mysql.server

sudo chmod +x mysql.server

The Web has changed the way we live, work, and socialize. Rapid development in technology and its applications, however, require fundamental changes in the Web of the future. Current Web connects every node to every other node in the cyberspace. The nodes in cyberspace are usually documents and hence the current WWW is usually a web of documents – or a Document Web. Advances in technology and requirements of emerging applications require formation of a parallel and closely connected Web of events, the Event Web, also. Event Web is essential for extending the reach of current WWW from only Cyberspace to the real physical world. Such applications of information systems increasingly contain vast amount of multimedia and sensory data and require more holistic pictures of evolving situations. Current information tools are very good in dealing with entities, objects, and keywords. To address the needs of information management in dynamic multimodal application environments, new concepts and techniques are needed. Strong and deep conceptual, engineering, computational, and human centered design reasons suggest events as a primary structure for organizing and accessing dynamic multimedia data. In this talk, I will discuss computational approaches to model events and their role in organizing information and experience management systems. Architecture, components, and challenges for realizing Event Web will be discussed considering some applications.

Ramesh Jain is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. Currently he is the Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. Before this he was at Georgia Institute of Technology, UCSD, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and other places. Ramesh was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and serves on the editorial boards of several journals in multimedia, information retrieval and image and vision processing. He served as the Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia. He has co-authored more than 300 research papers, co-authored and co-edited several books. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. Ramesh co-founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. He serves as advisor to many companies.

1. sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
2. sudo vi /etc/php.ini
3. search for mysql.default_socket (e.g. type / followed by mysql.default_socket)
4. add after the = the path to where the socket is really created: /tmp/mysql.sock
5. save
6. restart the web server

There's also another problem, as noted by other bloggers: the startup item package installs the scripts in the wrong directory //usr/local/MySQLCOM) instead of the one reported in the documentation (/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM).

The solution is to open a terminal and give the following command:
sudo cp -R /usr/local/MySQLCOM/ /library/StartupItems/