Mihai “Mishu” Calian m-a impresionat din nou cu o piesa de-a lui. Am de mult timp in playlist Scrum si imi place la nebunie – mai ales cand aud versiunea live :), am dat de noua lui piesa – Viteza Sangelui Meu.
Pentru cei nerabdatori, ascultati aici – gratie Trilulilu.

I would like to congratulate Nicoleta Lupea and Dan Cristea for their achievements this year! I am really glad to see that Nicoleta and Dan have achieved the triple performance this year in winning the European, World and Oxford championships in the ESL (English as a Second Language) “league”.
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For those who are interested in both hardware and software, I would like to announce the Digilent Design Contest.
The contest is open to all university students and features in its 5th edition two tracks: the hardware design contest and the software design contest.
Digilent Hardware

VHDL digital design based …

In the past weeks I have been working on a distributed database management system, and have run into the difficulties of running certain tools (such as JVM or Ruby) from within a cluster of computers, without having root/su on the cluster machines.
Installing JVM and Ruby on a linux machine on …

So – installing OOo 3.0 on an Ubuntu AMD64 may not be as trivial as it seems.
In order to get it running, I had to go through a “couple” of steps:

Remove the previous installation of OOo:
> sudo apt-get remove open-office.org-core

Download OOo 3.0 from here and choose the Linux DEB version
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A couple of days ago I started using Chrome on a more regular basis, moreover I went with its Romanian flavour – keeping the interface in Romanian as well as its default download folder location set to something like C:\Users\Tudor\Documents\Descărcări. You can notice the two "ă" characters in the download …

After more than a week since I got back in Cluj I’ve managed to upload some of the photos I’ve taken in Italy, Portugal, Spain and at the Sziget Festival. As before, the photos are up using Dropbox. You can see the galleries as follows:

Milano – 1 day, just visiting …

A long long time ago in an Internet far far away, Yahoo used to allow (for free) POP3 access to the emails in your account. In those days when GMail did not exists, it used to be one of the best choices out there. After that, a critical period came …