Dillo

Dillo 3.0 displaying the English Wikipedia
Original author(s)	Jorge Arellano Cid
Initial release	December 1999
Stable release	3.0.2  (December 5, 2011; 6 months ago  (2011-12-05)) [±]
Preview release	none  (n/a) [±]
Written in	C and C++
Operating system	Mac OS X, Solaris, Unix-like, DOS
Size	420KB dynamic[1] 1.3MB static[2]
Available in	English
Type	Web browser
License	GNU GPLv3
Website	http://www.dillo.org

Dillo is a minimalistic web browser particularly intended for older or slower computers and embedded systems.^[3] It supports only plain HTML/XHTML (with basic CSS rendering) and images over HTTP; scripting is ignored entirely.^[3][4] Dillo is available for Linux,^[3] BSD, Solaris, DOS / FreeDOS^[5] and Mac OS X. Due to its small size, it is the browser of choice in several space-conscious Linux distributions. Released under the GNU General Public License, Dillo is free software.^[6]

Chilean software engineer Jorge Arellano Cid conceived of the Dillo project in late 1999,^[7] publishing the first version of Dillo in December of that year.^[8] His primary goal in creating Dillo was to democratize access to information. Arellano Cid believed that no one should have to buy a new computer or pay for broadband in order to enjoy the World Wide Web.^[9] To this end, he designed Dillo to be small, fast, and efficient, capable of performing well even on an Intel 486 processor with a dial-up Internet connection.^[3][10]

Development[link]

Dillo was originally written in the C programming language with the GTK+ GUI toolkit. The first versions were based on an earlier browser called Armadillo, hence the name.^[11] Dillo 2, written with both C and C++ components and the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK),^[8] was released on October 14, 2008.^[6] Text antialiasing, support for character sets other than Latin-1, HTTP compression capability, and improved page rendering were all added.^[8] The move to FLTK from GTK also removed many of the project's dependencies and reduced Dillo's memory footprint by 50%.^[6]

Recently, Dillo-3.x has been released, using FLTK-1.3. Apparently (see Changelog) this change was prompted in part by the lack of an official release of FLTK-2, which stopped Dillo-2's inclusion in lightweight distributions for which it would otherwise have been suitable.

Jorge Arellano Cid is still Dillo's lead developer today.^[12] Dillo is funded by private donations;^[13] efforts to obtain public grants and corporate sponsors have been unsuccessful.^[14] Lack of funding led to a slowdown in development in 2006, and a complete stop in 2007.^[6][15] The project restarted again in 2008 and two months later received a €115 donation from DistroWatch.^[6][16]

Features[link]

Features of Dillo include bookmarks, tabbed browsing, and support for JPEG, PNG (including alpha transparency^[17]), and GIF images.^[18] Partial support for CSS was introduced in release 2.1. Settings such as the default fonts, background color, downloads folder, and home page are customizable through configuration files.^[19][20] Cookies are supported but disabled by default due to privacy concerns.^[21] While most web browsers retain the web cache and history after the program is closed, Dillo automatically clears them to improve both privacy and performance.^[22]

Dillo's bug meter reports errors Dillo encountered in the web page being viewed.

A developer tool called the "bug meter" is provided in the lower-right corner. When clicked, it displays information about validation problems, such as unclosed tags, that Dillo found in the web page.^[23] Unlike most browsers, Dillo does not have a quirks mode to improve compatibility with web pages that use invalid HTML. Instead, Dillo processes all web pages according to the published web standards.^[24]

In 2003, two Linux enthusiasts successfully ran Dillo on an Intel 486 processor and demonstrated that even with such meager hardware, Dillo could render http://news.bbc.co.uk/ in 10–15 seconds.^[25] Furthermore, Dillo can run on a variety of software platforms, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and some handheld devices.^[26] However, Dillo's developers have made little effort to make the browser work on Microsoft Windows. Arellano Cid stated that Windows goes against Dillo's goal of democratization by artificially increasing hardware requirements and software costs.^[27] Nevertheless, Dillo has been reported to work on Windows via Cygwin.^[28] Additionally, Dillo-Win32 was a project to port Dillo to Windows which is not currently under active development.^[29]

Dillo does not support JavaScript, Java, Flash, right-to-left text, complex text layout.^[18][30] Support for frames is also very limited; Dillo presents a link to each frame to allow the user to view them one at a time.^[31] A plug-in to add HTTPS support is likewise under development.^[32]

Reception[link]

Reviews of Dillo have praised its extraordinary speed, but noted that this speed comes at a price.^[18][33][34] The most visible cost is Dillo's inability to display complex web pages as they were meant to be. A 2008 review by Linux.com commented that Dillo's utilitarian user interface may be "intimidating" for new users as well, and pointed out the scarcity of plug-ins for Dillo.^[19] In all, Dillo's global usage share is less than one hundredth of one percent.^[35]

Dillo is, however, the browser of choice in several space-conscious Linux distributions, such as Damn Small Linux,^[36] Feather Linux,^[37] VectorLinux,^[38] antiX^[33] and Mustang Linux.^[33]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dillo

• Dillo homepage
• Dillo at Freecode

Vasco Rossi (born 7 February 1952), also known as Vasco or with the nickname Il Blasco, is an Italian singer-songwriter. During his career, he has published 26 albums (not including unofficial releases) and has written over 150 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists. He calls himself a "provoca(u)tore" (an Italian portmanteau for "provoking author") as throughout his career he has been regularly criticized over his choice of lifestyle and the lyrics in his songs.

Biography[link]

Vasco Rossi was born in Zocca, in the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna). His father, Carlo Rossi, was a truck-driver, and his mother, Novella, a housewife. It was his mother herself who decided to enroll him in singing school when he was a little boy, a choice that must have seemed rather peculiar within the mentality of a small village in the Apennines like Zocca. Nonetheless, Rossi fell in love with music and at the age of 14 began playing with his first band.

Rossi and his family moved to Bologna, Italy, where he studied accounting in high school. Upon graduating he opened a music club, Punto Club, and enrolled in university at the faculty of Economics and Business. In the meantime he supported himself by working as a DJ and founding, along with friends, one of the first private radio stations in Italy, "Punto Radio", with which he began slowly and timidly showcasing his own songs.

Encouraged by his friend Gaetano Curreri (now leading member of Italian rock band Stadio), Rossi released his first EP on 13 June 1977, which included the songs "Jenny è pazza" (Jenny is crazy) and “Silvia", and a full-length album in 1978, Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone ("What do you think a song is"). In 1979, he released a second album, Non siamo mica gli americani ("It's not, like, we are the Americans"), which included, "Albachiara" ("Cleardawn"), one of his biggest hits, and a ballad considered emblematic of Rossi’s poetic style. His most controversial album, Colpa d'Alfredo ("Alfredo's fault") followed in 1980; its title-track was censored from the radio and let loose bitter criticism because it contained some lyrics referring to women considered too explicit at that time. The controversy actually increased Rossi’s popularity, and he quickly saw himself famous on a national level, particularly after performing live on Domenica In, a popular Italian television program. The performance did not particularly please journalist Nantas Salvalaggio, who published a scathing article against Rossi calling him drug-addict. Rossi argued that Salvalaggio evidently did not understand his music and remarked how easy it is to criticize a still unknown artist who cannot defend himself.

In 1981, the album Siamo solo noi ("It's only us") was released. The title track, another signature song of his, would become commonly recognized as a generational hymn.

In 1982, Rossi took part for the first time in the Sanremo Music Festival, performing the song "Vado al massimo" ("I'm taking it to the max"). Here, he once again found himself under the harsh criticism, and came in last place in the festival. In April of the same year the album Vado al Massimo was released. The following year, he reappeared at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time performing “Vita spericolata" (Daredevil Life), probably his most popular song, and finishing in second-to-last place due to his apparent state of intoxication. The following album, Bollicine ("Little Bubbles"), published in 1983, was his sixth in seven years, and was the album that consecrated him definitively an idol of the new generation and an icon of Italian rock. The title track, whose lyrics are about Coke (but also demonstrate a clear assonance with cocaine), won the Festivalbar ‘83, and his tour that year was an enormous success.

To celebrate this positive period in his career, Rossi released his first live recording in 1984, Va bene, va bene così ("It’s alright, it’s alright this way"). In April, however, he was arrested on charges of drug possession. He was immediately granted provisional release from jail, but subsequently sentenced to 2 years and 8 months of probation. Shortly thereafter he released his next album, Cosa succede in città ("What goes on in town"), which became one of his weakest critically and did not reach past sales.

In 1987 Vasco Rossi’s ninth album, C'è chi dice no ("There Are Some Who Say ‘No’"), was released; the ever-increasing numbers of fans showing up to his concerts forced him to quit performing in clubs and normal-sized venues and begin the era of something for which he is known to this day—playing in and selling out big arenas and stadiums.

His tenth studio album, Liberi liberi ("[we are] Free, Free"), followed in 1989. The success of his 1989 tour brought the release of the live album Fronte del palco (a pun of the Italian title of Marlon Brando's film "Waterfront" which was "Fronte del porto", and thus meaning "Stage Front") and the organization of two concerts in 1990, one at the San Siro stadium in Milan and the other at the Flaminio in Rome.

Rossi's next album, Gli spari sopra ("The shots above"), released in 1993, went platinum ten times. The title track, which was a major hit, is a cover version of Celebrate by the Irish band An Emotional Fish. In 1994 he gave the unreleased "Senza Parole" ("Without Words") as a gift to members of his official fan-club.

In 1995, Rossi was again the star at San Siro with a double concert, Rock sotto l'assedio ("Rock under siege"), which protested the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Rossi invited a few Bosnian bands like Sikter, Lezi Majmune and Protest to perform but was heavily criticized by the press because the proceeds weren't given to charity, despite the fact they were never meant to.

In 1996, Rossi recorded a new studio album, Nessun Pericolo... Per Te ("No Danger... For You"), featured songs “Sally” and "Gli angeli" ("The Angels"), (the video of the latter was directed by Roman Polanski).

In 1998 Rossi rediscovered his singer-songwriter side, recording and releasing the album Canzoni per me ("Songs for me") with a softer and less “rock” sound, even remaking never-published songs written at the beginning of his career. The nature of the songs, however, did not impede Rossi from winning his second Festivalbar with the song, "Luna per te" ("Moon for you"). Given the low propensity of these songs to fit in his live show with the songs his fans had up to that time become accustomed, he decided to hold just one concert in 1998, accepting the proposal to be a guest star on the first evening of the new Heineken Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy. The evening is immortalized in both video and in the 1999 live album Rewind. A few days into the tour, Rossi’s inseparable friend, as well as guitarist and writer/cowriter of many songs and lyrics, Massimo Riva, died unexpectedly. He would be remembered and celebrated by Rossi and fans in nearly every concert that followed.

In 2001, Stupido Hotel ("Stupid Hotel"), was released, and Rossi won his third Festivalbar, this time with the song “Siamo Soli” ("We are alone"). In 2002 Rossi released his first official recording of remastered songs in their original version, Tracks, which was followed by three sold-out performances at San Siro Stadium in Milan. His album Buoni o cattivi ("Good or Bad Ones") was the most successful album in Italy in 2004.

On 12 May 2005, Milan’s IULM conferred an honorary degree in Communication Sciences to Vasco Rossi.

On 9 September 2005, Rossi released the double DVD È solo un Rock'n'Roll show ("It’s Only a Rock’n’Roll Show") with Andrea Lehotská, launching the concept of the ‘movieclip,’ in which all the songs from Buoni o cattivi (Good or Bad [guys])’ are used in a 2-hour long music video. Three months later, Buoni o cattivi live anthology 04.05 was released, a comprehensive box-set comprising a double CD and a triple DVD, recorded live from the record-setting Buoni o cattivi tour of 2004 and 2005. In December 2005 he returned to his home town of Zocca, , where his childhood friends and the rest of the community organized a tribute in his honor, including a photo display and other celebrations.

In 2007, he released the "Vasco Extended Play", that contains the hit single "Basta Poco" ("A Little Is Enough"). The EP topped the Italian FIMI Charts for 21 Weeks, making that the Italian best-selling single of 2007 thus far.

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Vasco Rossi

In late 2009, SingStar Vasco Rossi was released.

On 4 May 2010 the "Corriere della Sera" reported Vasco Rossi as saying the American and British governments had been responsible for preventing him and other Italian musicians from becoming known in those countries. “Just as Bob Dylan was banned from playing in China, for 20 years I was barred from London. … It’s one of the many ‘presents’ that America left us after World War II. To favour the sale of American and British music to Italy and discourage the export of our talents abroad.”

In June 2011 Rossi announced he would be retiring from touring and live work although would continue to work in the music business. ^[1]

During 2011, Vasco's lawyers threatened to undertake legal actions against popular Italian satire website "Nonciclopedia", the italian version of Uncyclopedia, arguing that the rock star was offended by the contents of the page about him. On October 3rd 2011 the website shut down after repeated inquiries from the police to the site's admins. The news promptly ran across the web via thousands of tweets, blogposts and eventually spread on some Italian newspapers. ^[2][3]

He is an atheist^[4].

Official discography[link]

LPs[link]

• <<..Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone>> (1978)
• Non siamo mica gli americani (1979)
• Colpa d'Alfredo (1980)
• Siamo solo noi (1981)
• Vado al massimo (1982)
• Bollicine (1983)
• Va bene, Va bene così (1984)
• Cosa succede in città (1985)
• C'è chi dice no (1987)
• Liberi... Liberi (1989)
• 10.7.90 San Siro (1990)
• Fronte del palco (1990)
• Gli spari sopra (1993)
• Nessun pericolo... Per te (1996)
• Rock (1997)
• Canzoni per me (1998)
• Rewind (1999)
• Stupido Hotel (2001)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks (2002)
• Buoni o Cattivi (2004)
• Buoni o cattivi - Live Anthology 04.05 (2005)
• Il mondo che vorrei (2008)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks 2 (inediti & rarità) (2009)
• Vasco London Instant Live (2010)
• Vivere o niente (2011)
• L'altra metà del cielo (2012)

EPs and singles[link]

• "Jenny / Silvia" (1977)
• "La nostra relazione / ... E poi mi parli di una vita insieme" (1978)
• "Albachiara / Fegato, fegato spappolato" (1979)
• "Non l'hai mica capito / Asilo repubblic" (1980)
• "Voglio andare al mare / Brava" (1981)
• "Splendida giornata Remix" (1982)
• "Vado al massimo / Ogni volta" (1982)
• "Vita spericolata / Mi piaci perchè" (1983)
• "Brava Giulia / Blasco Rossi" (1987)
• "Non mi va Remix" (1987)
• "Gli spari sopra (Hard Attack Mix) / Delusa (Mode Mix) / Delusa (Club Mix)" (1993)
• "Gli spari sopra (Celebrate)/Delusa (Rock Party Mix) /Se è vero o no/ L'uomo che hai di fronte (B. Mix)" (1993)
• "Senza Parole Remix" (1994)
• "Senza Parole" (1994)
• "Vasco Remixed" (1996)
• "Gli angeli" (1996)
• "Praticamente perfetto Remix / Io Perderò Remix" (1996)
• "Quanti anni hai" (1998)
• "L'una per te" (1998)
• "Io no" (1998)
• "Rewind (single)" (1998)
• "La fine del millennio" (1999)
• "Buoni o Cattivi (single)" (2004)
• "Come Stai (single)" (2004)
• "Buoni o Cattivi Remix" (2004)
• "Un senso (single)" (2004)
• "Anymore (single)" (2004)
• "E... (single)" (2005)
• "Cosa vuoi da me remix" (2005)
• "Vasco Extended Play" (2007)
• "Basta poco" (2007)
• "Il mondo che vorrei (single)" (2008)
• "Gioca con me Remix" (2008)
• "Colpa del Whisky Remix" (2009)
• "Sto pensando a te" (2009)
• "Ad ogni costo" (2009)
• "Ho fatto un sogno" (2010)
• "Eh... già" (2011)
• "I soliti" (2011)
• "Manifesto futurista della nuova umanità" (2011)

DVDs[link]

• Rewind (1999)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks (2002)
• Vasco Rossi @ S. Siro 03 (2003)
• E' Solo Un Rock'N' Roll Show (2005)
• Buoni O Cattivi Live Anthology (2005)
• Fronte Del Palco - Live 90 (2006)
• Gli Spari Sopra Tour (2006)
• Vasco@Olimpico.07 27.28 giugno sold out (2007)
• Vasco Rossi. Il mondo che vorrei. Live (2008)

References[link]

1. ^ End of the road for rockstar Vasco Italy for Beginners, 27-06-2011
2. ^ "Vasco, ti presento l'Effetto Streisand". Attivissimo.blogspot.com. 2009-03-02. http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2011/10/nonciclopedia-sospesa-avrebbe-diffamato.html. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
3. ^ "Vasco fa chiudere Nonciclopedia La rete: «Mito di cartapesta»". Unita.it. 2008-09-20. http://www.unita.it/culture/vasco-fa-chiudere-nonciclopedia-br-la-rete-mito-di-cartapesta-1.337942. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
4. ^ Il gionale, 11th August, 2011.

External links[link]

• Official website

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Mia Martini
Born	Domenica Bertè (1947-09-20)September 20, 1947 Bagnara Calabra, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Died	May 11, 1995(1995-05-11) (aged 47) Milan, Italy
Cause of death	overdose
Other names	Mimì Berté
Occupation	Actress, Composer

Mia Martini (born Domenica Bertè; 20 September 1947 - 12 May 1995) was an Italian singer.

Early life[link]

Born Domenica Bertè in 1947 in Bagnara Calabra (province of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy), she moved to Rome with her sister (Loredana Bertè) and her friend Renato Zero.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

She recorded her first records as Mimì Bertè, but she soon decided to change her name to Mia Martini.^{[citation needed]}

Her biggest hits were "Piccolo Uomo" (little man), which was recorded in several languages, "Almeno tu nell'universo" written by Bruno Lauzi, which has been covered by several Italian singers including Mina and Elisa, and "Minuetto".^{[citation needed]}

She represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest twice: in 1977 with "Libera" (13th out of 18), and in 1992 with "Rapsodia" (4th out of 23).^{[citation needed]}

Death[link]

In 1995 Martini was found dead in her apartment at Cardano al Campo (province of Varese), near Milan after overdosing on painkillers.^[1]

Discography[link]

As Mimì Berté[link]

Singles[link]

• "I miei baci non puoi scordare" / "Lontani dal resto del mondo" (1963)
• "Insieme" / "Let me tell you" (1963)
• "Il magone" / "Se mi gira l'elica" (1964)
• "Ed ora che abbiamo litigato" / "Non pentirti dopo" (1964)
• "Non sarà tardi" / "Quattro settimane" (1966)
• "Coriandoli spenti" / "L'argomento dell'amore" (1969; Withdrawn single, released in 2000 as part of compilation "Mia...Mimì")

As Mia Martini[link]

Singles[link]

• "Padre davvero..." / "Amore...amore...un corno!" (1971)
• "Gesù è mio fratello" / "Lacrime di marzo" (1971)
• "Credo" / "Ossessioni" (1972)
• "Piccolo uomo" / "Madre" (1972)
• "Donna sola" / "Questo amore vero" (1972)
• "Minuetto" / "Tu sei così" (1973)
• "Il guerriero" / "Bolero" (1973, Release cancelled)
• "Inno" / "...e stelle stan piovendo" (1974)
• "Al mondo" / "Principessa di turno" (1975)
• "Donna con te" / "Tutti uguali" (1975)
• "L'amore è il mio orizzonte" / "Sabato" (1976)
• "Che vuoi che sia...se t'ho aspettato tanto" / "Io donna, io persona" (1976)
• "Libera" / "Sognare è vita" (1977)
• "Per amarti" / "Se finisse qui" (1977)
• "Vola" / "Dimmi" (1978)
• "Danza" / "Canto alla luna" (1979)
• "Ti regalo un sorriso" / "Ancora grande" (1981)
• "E ancora canto" / "Stai con me" (1981)
• "E non finisce mica il cielo" / "Voglio te" (1982)
• "Quante volte" / "Solo noi" (1982, two editions)
• "Bambolina" / "Guarirò guarirò" (1982)
• "Spaccami il cuore" / "Lucy" (1985)
• "Almeno tu nell'universo" / "Spegni la testa" (1989)
• "La nevicata del '56" / "Danza pagana" (1990)
• "Chica chica bum (remix)" / "Chica chica bum (instrumental)" (1990, Release cancelled)
• "Stiamo come stiamo" (with Loredana Bertè) / "Dormitorio pubblico" (L.Bertè) (1993)

Albums[link]

• Oltre la collina (1971)
• Nel mondo,una cosa (1972)
• Il giorno dopo (1973)
• È proprio come vivere (1974)
• Sensi e controsensi (1975)
• Un altro giorno con me (1975)
• Che vuoi che sia... se t' ho aspettato tanto (1976)
• Per amarti (1977)
• Danza (1978)
• Mimì (1981)
• Quante volte... ho contato le stelle (1982)
• Miei compagni di viaggio (1983)
• Martini Mia (1989)
• La mia razza (1990)
• Mi basta solo che sia un amore (1991)
• Mia Martini in concerto (da un'idea di Maurizio Giammarco) (1991)
• Lacrime (1992)
• Rapsodia Il meglio di Mia Martini (1992)
• La musica che mi gira intorno (1994)

Compilations[link]

• Mia (1976)
• Il meglio di Mia Martini (1984)
• Ti regalo un sorriso (1985)
• Mia Martini 1996 (1996)
• Mia Martini - Le origini (1996)
• Mimì Bertè (1996, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Indimenticabile Mia (1996, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Mi canto español (1997, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Gli anni '70 (1998)
• Semplicemente Mimì (1998, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Sorelle (1999, including previously unreleased tracks)
• I Miti Musica - Mia Martini (1999)
• Mia... Mimì (2000, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Mimì Sarà (2000, including previously unreleased tracks)
• Dolce amare (2000)
• Canzoni segrete (2003, including previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions)
• Per sempre (2003)
• E parlo ancora di te (2004, including previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions)
• La neve, il cielo, l'immenso (3 CD box set, 2005; including previously unreleased tracks, alternative versions and songs previously unavailable on CD)
• Liberamente Mia (2007)

DVD[link]

• In Concerto (in concert 1982, recorded for Italian language Swiss television; also released on VHS)
• E ancora canto
• Per aspera ad astra (also released on VHS)

References[link]

External links[link]

• RAI biography

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Giampaolo Morelli (born Naples, November 25, 1974) is an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is particularly known for his television work; among his roles is as the titular character in the L'ispettore Coliandro series.

References[link]

• Article about Morelli
• Giampaolo Morelli at the Internet Movie Database

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