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 …

… 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 …

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!

In context cu ce s-a intamplat pe la noi in ultima vreme, recomand cu caldura un super joc (in sensul clasic – adica nu online, nu pe calculator – ci pe masa). Jocul se numeste Kremlin. Cititi regulile si aplicati in contextul politic de azi … de-am avea si noi …

I’ve been trying to get all my communications into one place for a long time now, and went out and hacked all that could be hacked to get this. So, I tried:

Talk only of GTalk – this way I was able to get all my conversations into the gmail inbox. …

Well – in ultima vreme am accelerat putin ritmul, m-am mutat din caminul in care stateam intr-un apartament mic si placut, am fost in vacanta prin Bulgaria – Nessebar. Daca nu v-am zis deja – merita mers.  Neaparat.

E o insula micuta pe coasta Bulgariei in Marea Neagra (a mi se …