Pamflet epoca de aur
Ah, nostalgici ai Epocii de Aur, acei oameni care privesc înapoi la zilele de „glorie” ale României ceaușiste, când laptele și mierea curgeau — dar numai dacă stăteai la coadă de la 4 dimineața. Ei își amintesc cu drag de „bunul simț” și „ordine”, de parcă toate …
read moreAn unexpected move: after all these years with Xubuntu I'm going to switch to Linux Mint. Pretty much because I'm tired of so-called LTS versions that are supported for three years instead of the regular five years for regular Ubuntu. Another reason is that Linux Mint is a bit more …
read morePlouă și e frig. În biroul open-space cu zeci de persoane, instalația de aer condiționat decide că e prea cald și începe să bage aer rece. Trag o înjurătură și nu mă pot hotărî dacă să-mi iau geaca pe mine sau doar să-mi pun căciula. Fac o paralelă între amintirile …
read moreIn zilele de canicula, cei de la meteo anunta ca ne vom simti inconfortabil, pentru ca indicele de confort termic va depasi valoarea de 80. Ce este acest indice ? Se poate determina pe baza unei formule, care depinde de temperatura si de umiditatea aerului: ICT = (T x 1,8 + 32 …
read morePeople are hypocrites. They tend to forget the bad things of the past and then they idealize the past as a time when everything was all sunshine and rainbows. Happens to me, also.
Did you notice on social media, at least in my country, how people now admire the cars …
read morefrom the US Army Survival Manual
Depression is closely linked with frustration and anger. The frustrated person becomes more and more angry as he fails to reach his goals. If the anger does not help the person to succeed, then the frustration level goes even higher. A destructive cycle between …
read moreThey say the clothes make the man. That's probably half true. You don't have to wear expensive clothes but you'll really want to dress to impress.
Clothes do make a difference, not just how you look, but also how you feel. Have you ever made this experiment: grow a week-old …
read moreYou can find these on the Internet and there are plenty more. I will mention them here mostly because of my need to have them centralized someplace. 1. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and at the bottom of the file add on 2 new lines: vm.swappiness=15 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure …
read moreStumbled upon this on an internet website: echo "The mail message" | /usr/bin/mail -s “The subject” user@example.com
read moreFebruary 27, 2014 ...ştii ce a fost şi unde a fost FNC-ul.
February 27, 2014 ...ai fost cel puţin spectator la "tenis cu piciorul", în curtea blocului
February 27, 2014 ...ai jucat fotbal între blocuri printre maşini şi ai lovit în plin una cu mingea apoi ai fugit cu toată …
read moreIt's already old news, but I'm glad it's being done.
read moreDaca vreodata o sa aveti nevoie in Romania sa treceti o masina de pe numele unui sot pe numele celuilalt sot, inarmati-va cu multa rabdare. Acest lucru este destul de complicat, si probabil procedurile difera de la un judet la altul. Informati-va la serviciul de inmatriculari, cereti informatii nu telefonic …
read moreImi place sa citesc si citesc cat de mult pot, daca am timp. Imi plac in mod special cartile despre istoria Romaniei, si aici un loc aparte il ocupa cele despre evenimentele din decembrie 1989 si despre regimul comunist.
Cumpar carti de cate ori gasesc ceva care imi place si …
read moreIt's 2 AM and I can't sleep (it seems to happen quite often lately) so after remembering I still have this blog and finally having a functional operating system on my ancient computer I thought it's time to write. I ditched Windows XP. My student license for XP got lost …
read moreIf your keyboard lacks visual lock indicators, especially for Caps Lock function, you can use a small hack to have a notification whenever the Caps Lock key is pressed. Here are the basics:Have a shell script execute each time Caps Lock key is pressed. Have the shell script query …
read moreI set up this domain a while ago and I preferred to use lighttpd as web server. Why? Maybe for personal reasons: it was used on my NSLU2 and I found it pretty straightforward to configure. At the beginning I set it up to setup both ctrl-alt-delete.ro and www …
read moreThe recent turn of events seem to have awaken my depression. Well, just partially, I guess. I remember being a child and having no worries. I remember reading childhood books and then just letting my imagination wander.
I remember reading the science magazines of the times and wondering at what …
read moreNow that Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS is out since a couple of months I have started to perform a pilot upgrade in order to sort out any possible issue when it will be time to migrate the other PCs in the house. Especially my wife's laptop is subject to …
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