Wednesday, 20 February 2008

documents documents and documents

ahh the exams session has finished FINALLY
and i can publish all the stuff i wrote

let's start with the big one
Techniques and Solutions for Storage Encryption
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2095558/Techniques-and-Solutions-for-Storage-Encryption
for the Computer System Security course: it concerns with current and available implementation of the modern storage encryption technology, presenting some benchmark test for performance impact.

other homework reports

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2095506/Digital-Systems-Design-Homework-Report
my homework report for the Digital Systems Design

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2095407/MicroprocessorBased-Systems-4832bit-division-algorithm
previouse homework of Microprocessor-Based Systems, team with Alberto Grand

and then we have a bunch of homework essay by my classmates! happy reading
by Alberto Grand
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2096981/Intrusion-Detection-and-Prevention-Systems
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2096937/Block-Cipher-Modes-of-Operation-and-CMAC-for-Authentication
by Vittorio Picco
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2097000/Secure-Sockets-Layer-for-Virtual-Private-Networks
by Vittorio Picco and Lorenzo Peraldo
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2096960/Authenticated-Encryption-GCM-CCM
by Lorenzo Peraldo
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2097169/AntiSpam-Techniques

Thursday, 3 January 2008

Peer guardian 2 and Nintendo WFC

while in christmas holidays i had time to play with the Nintendo WFC!
I set up my mac airport, share the network connection and configure the dhcp (actually this was the most difficult part)
It didn't work! the AP was found and everything but i continuously got disconnected!
And the wifi was working as i tested the connection with programs like SvSIP (fantastic) and DSorganize browser

Then i remember that i'm behind a gateway in which is installed peer guardian 2 (privacy is important) and that poor guy is blocking the outgoing connections!
Apart from discovering that the WFC service make numerous connections to foreing server, like
GameSpy (nomina sunt consequentia rerum)
IGN Entertainment
Nintendo Of America Inc (well, that's ok)
and a couple of others, all this connections are required for the WFC to work, and so we have to allow them!
the problem is that nintendo servers are quite a lot! luckily there's this one guy, "fakhir" from the Phoenix Labs, who took the list of all the nintendo services and put it in one file, updated as soon as new servers are discovered

you have to add this url: http://mirror.thesynapse.org/phoenixlabs/lists/nintendo.php
into the Allow list and things will start working!

actually for me it didn't work completely, because i had to add a range of ip server from ign (from 207.38.8.28 to 207.38.11.11), but I'm sure they'll get them added in the list quite soon!

happy new year btw :)

Saturday, 22 December 2007

and from Tibia too!

wait, there is more!
Alberto Tibaldi (nick'd Tibia) wants to give you his own special christmas gift!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/928448/Fisica-dei-Materiali-per-lElettronica

I'm not even sure on how to translate it, anyway it's about electronical and physical stuff, so way out of my bounds :P
but it should be foundamental to anyone who's studying those subjects! the doc is very well written, fluent, coherent and with lots of formulas!

enjoy :)

Thursday, 20 December 2007

just before Christmas

and here i am yet again!
this time with Christmas gift for everyone!

for the studying guys, i finally completed the OpenSSL - User Manual and Data Format and published to Scribd as usual! Actually i did so some days ago, but they were preliminary versions of the document! so here is where you can learn all about openssl digests and ciphers (sort of)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/915895/OpenSSL-User-Manual-and-Data-Format


for the cinema guys, i wanted you to enjoy this special short about the Ulysses' Syndrome! Originally it should have been done with the guys of the first short, but then we realized that it was too big for us! so we put it off and started something else (that eventually turned up even worse). Later on i met some very skilled people with whom i was able to complete the short!
At any rate, before calling off this project, we shot some scenes with the guys of the first short, and one particular sequence of disastrous events was awfully funny!

and here it is! enjoy :D





Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Saturday, 8 December 2007

some Latex finally!

so finally i have time and will to upload some stuff about the previous courses!
and this time we used Latex for writing documents (proud reason 1) and moreover we wrote in English (proud reason 2) so everyone will be able to understand our docs!

Alberto Grand was my group partner this time and we worked together for both the tasks pubblished (and i must say we made a pretty good team)!

so here we go with the documents:

Information Theory and Codes - Link
This file is the public (and clean) version of two different homeworks about Information Theory first, and Coding Application second. They were very nice to do as they allowed to understand many unclear stuff of the course, moreover the professor (Michele Elia) was very kind and helpful to us.

Computer Architecture: SnARM - a Snake game implementation for ARM - Link
And this second file describes the implentation details and general instructions for our version of the Snake game developed for an embedded ARM board (more specifically it was a NXP LPC2292). It was fantastic to develop the code and test it directly on the embedded system and the result was pretty satisfactorly! The professor (Matteo Sonza Reorda) liked our project very much and so we thought maybe it could be useful for other people to see our work, expecially for the display handling

Remember that this file is distrubuted with a Attribution, Noncommercial, ShareAlike Creative Common licence (you can read what this means here: link to licence)
so fetch the files here: http://quicklook.altervista.org/stuff/snarm.zip
(i'm borrowing some space from the quicklook site :P)


what now? months and months of silence? well probably yes, but don't worry!
next time, i'm going to speak about OpenSSL ;)

Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Quicklook Plugin Database - The first project

yo! that's been quite a while since i had time (and will) to post!
in the meantime my Mac has finally arrived and I already had time to play with it a little!
Actually I had some problems with it at first because i got a defective iMac, the ones with random screen freezes, and i had some troubles to install the fix (basically i didn't know how)
However after a completely new format and reinstall like the WW (tm) that is the "Windows Way (tm)" everything run swiftly!

So now, after i've played with some of the new functionalities of Leopard i really liked the QuickLook function! It may seem useless at first but after you come to use it you really find it necessary! and one of its main feature is the plugin expandability (plain html)
however i noted that no site was fetching the plugins developed and that files were just scattered on the web! So what shall we do? here:

http://quicklook.altervista.org


yep, that a site, coherently made with iWeb :D
I chose the template since for now they are very few (only 5 were listed) but i plan to use mysql and other stuff to make it more interactive along with the number of plugins available!
This post title is "the first project" because it's an original intent for Project Symphony: a collection of eterogenous works that cohexist like in a symphony!

Monday, 5 November 2007

Ulysses' Syndrome

Hey there! I'm celebrating the good result of the first exam of the master publishing the short movie I directed last summer (actually the shots were took in summer 2006 but we could only edit them in summer 2007)

This is Ulysses' Syndrome! happy watching!




stay tuned for the backstage :D



All the projects here are under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence! You can use and distribute them as you like (just quote the author so he knows his work is not useless)!

If you wish to get in touch with me write at projectsymphony@gmail.com