Recent am descoperit serviciul de VoIP oferit de Romtelecom: VoceOnline.
Mi se pare cea mai avantajoasa solutie de telefonie cu Romania din strainatate.
Pros:

Numar intr-o retea fixa in Romania, in formatul 0373-3XX.XXX
Preturi foarte mici de sunat in Romania (aprox. 80 de minute pentru 1 euro)
Costul de a fii sunat din Romania …

I’ve been fighting with a very ugly issue on my system for the past 2 days now. I’m running an Ubuntu box, having 2 accounts: (i) one local user and (ii) a LDAP user. Most of the time I’m logged in as the LDAP user and do all my work from there. Yesterday …

… or everything in CLI
For a long time now I have been trying to get the “perfect” working environment on my desktop (in this case, Ubuntu). My requirements for this are simple:

Everything (well, almost everything) should be grep-able (documents, presentations, tasks, mails, chats)
A tiling window manager – as screens on …

In the past days I was busy writing up an (actually typesetting) an exam for the course I was TA-ing during Autumn. Although not very time consuming, I realized that knowing a couple of tricks might make you a lot more productive! Here are some of the tricks that I …

It’s been a while since I didn’t write some C/C++ code, and as it turns out, I will be starting work on a C++ project.
So before going into the actual project, I took up some tasks:

Get some reading done on C++ to brush up things
Get the dev environment working

The two …

New year, new contests.
As last year, I’d like to spread the word about the 2010 Digilent Design Contest.
We would like to remind you that only 8 days are left to register for the 6th annual Digilent Design Contest, organized within the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, sponsored by Digilent,  Xilinx and
Imprezzio!
The …

Taking the TED model but in an independent fashion (TEDx), we had this autumn a TEDx event in Bucharest.
I’m really sorry I could not attend, but luckily, the videos are now online at tedxbucharest.com.
Among the speakers: Bogdan Naumovici, Dumitru Popescu and Mircea Toma.
Enjoy TEDx and TED!