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iPad – a nice device, but, not for me

ionut — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:50:19 +0000

I was expected to run MacOS and not iPhoneOS.

NO webcam
NO photocam
NO voice (skype and friends)
NO usb
NO card reader
NO MS Office (for some people)
NO terminal/console (sometimes I need ssh)
NO flash
locked in AppStore (so, NO firefox, opera, chrome)
NO multitasking
glossy screen for reading books (no way)
NO GPS
NO great deal for money
….

so, it is a HUGE iPhone without phone part.

I prefer to carry with me my macbook pro (13″), or a cheap netbook, which I can use it for everything and I can do what I want on it.

Opera 10.10 vs Firefox 3.6

ionut — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:10:24 +0000

The screenshot says everything … (the same number of tabs)

click on image for a large version

dd command “progress bar”

ionut — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:45:16 +0000

I am using sometimes

1 2	$ sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdd1 $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd1

and I would like to see the progress of dd command. So, do the following:

1. open a new terminal/console and type:

1	$ sudo killall -USR1

2. open the terminal/console where your dd is running and you will see something like this:

1
2
3

2242867712 bytes (2.2 GB) copied, 396.007 s, 5.7 MB/s
5625297+0 records in
5625297+0 records out

Anyway, your dd command will continue without any problem.
That’s all!

Registering new DNS Nameserver with Godaddy

ionut — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:54:27 +0000

After you have the domain from Godaddy it’t time to change the default parking option in order to put your nameservers for domain. First you need to register your new nameservers with them and only after that to change the nameservers for your domain, otherwise you will see a nice “ERROR DETECTED” message. So, here is what you have to do:

Your Account  --> Domains --> All My Domains --> (select your domain) --> Host Summary (add)

Enter ns1 and its ip address click OK, and do the same step for ns2 with its ip address.

Now you are ready to put and to use your new registered nameservers for your domain.

That’s all.

Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 ready for download

ionut — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:05:15 +0000

If you still didn’t see, is already here:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/

or you can download DVD iso image from here:

http://www.mirrorservice.org/…/8.04/release/

I am sure that you can find the others mirrors, to download Ubuntu.

Good luck.

Already in Loughborough, UK

ionut — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:53:15 +0000

Yesterday, after about three hours flight with Wizzair (by the way, I hate this company, they asked 30 Euros because we had 2.80 kg over 20 kg which they allowed free of charge to carry with you), we arrived in Loughborough, UK, our new “home” for next 2-3 years. Our parcels which we sent them from germany also arrived. Two of them were sent by UPS, and I was surprised to see that they were like after the second world war (I hate UPS, too). Trying to ask some information about opening a bank account in UK, I came to Barclays Bank. The office worker was very nice at the beginning, but when he saw that we are from Romania, then something went wrong. He asked me for passport, identity card, driver license, and in next 2-3 minutes, he phoned somewhere to verify the documents, and finally told me that maybe is not possible to open an account to Barclays. And, I have to mention that only I wanted to ask some informations regarding what I need to open a bank account, nothing more. So, I have to say, that, I HATE BARCLAYS BANK with their “clever” office workers.

Hamburg by night

ionut — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:40:16 +0000

We had two nice days in Bremen. Maybe we were lucky, we missed the train connection in Hamburg, our train arrived 20 minutes later and the train to Dresden was left. So, the people from DBahn (German National Railways) decided that we have to sleep in Hamburg or Berlin and to continue our trip next day in the morning. We said that we prefer Hamburg, InterCity hotel, near to the main train station, having the possibility to visit the city some hours in the night. Was very nice, the hotel was pleasant, thanks DBahn for this opportunity.

Truecrypt 5.0 on OpenSuse 10.3

ionut — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:27:45 +0000

I tried a few days ago to install the new version of truecrypt, 5.0, on my system. So, I downloaded the sources and I compiled them. It didn’t work. Today I asked for help on #suse irc channel, there are nice guys ready to help you if you need. A link where is explained what you have to do, the patch, in order to install it, here . Now you have installed truecrypt also with graphical interface . A screenshot:

Enjoy.

How to create a favicon for your site

ionut — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:36:46 +0000

Favicon is a 16×16 bitmap in Microsoft icon resource file format. There are a lot of tools available to create a favicon.ico. I used GIMP, which is available for any linux/unix system or can be downloaded from http://www.gimp.org and can be also used on windows. So, first step is to rescale your image to 16×16 pixels and save your rescaled image in pnm or ppm format. Using the command line utility ppmtowinicon which is part of Netpbm package you can obtain the favicon:

ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico

The other method is to use convert command which is part of ImageMagick package. Since almost all Linux distributions install ImageMagick by default, all you need to generate your own favicon.ico is a shell access to a Linux box:

convert file.jpg -resize 16×16! favicon.ico

All you need now is to copy favicon.ico in your web site root folder and add to your webpage next line, to the section:

That’s all.