Code is Poetry (My technical discoveries. Hacks. News. Reviews)
May 9, 2012 1 Comment
Soon after switching to Mac I discovered that one of the myths that I lived with for many years, i.e. that Adobe Acrobat Reader is mandatory in order to view PDF documents, is no longer true.
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February 28, 2012 Leave a comment
Motion pictures publishers may have their reasons, but DVD region copy protection was always an annoying issue, of little value for users.
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February 18, 2012 Leave a comment
No questions about this, Apple designs are remarkable. Their products look great, are easy to use, and generally work great. The price? Yes, the price is high, but not prohibitively high.
What makes me angry is how they try to monetize even on small details, sometimes by bending the standards.
October 13, 2011 Leave a comment
There are few EDA programs that run on Mac OS X. One of them is CadSoft EAGLE PCB & Schematic software (v5), but unfortunately the integration with Mac OS X is minimal.
October 8, 2011 2 Comments
There are some packages that can be properly installed only with administrative rights. If you are like me, and run your account with regular rights, you might face some installation failures with poorly build packages.
September 4, 2011 1 Comment
There are moments when even Mac OS X has problems and needs to be started in special configurations.
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August 9, 2011 1 Comment
This is the text of an interview published on the 24th of November 1994 in Comunicații PC, a Romanian IT magazine.
July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
One of challenges many developers face is to be able to maintain different (old) products, built with various versions of the development tools, some quite obsolete.
The right answer to this challenge is to have different virtual machines with the complete environment. Unfortunately, due to crazy licensing issues, currently running Mac OS X as a virtual guest on a Mac OS X host is not allowed (according to some rumours, Lion will change this).
The next choice is to keep multiple versions of the development tools installed in different folders, but in this case extra care should be taken to avoid messing the PATH.
July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
Most of the time, hiding the system or configuration files is ok, it reduces the clutter and also the risk of inadvertently removing/changing them.
However, there are moments when we need to change, for example, the PATH, or some shell aliases, or some startup configurations. In other words, we need to edit such hidden files.
January 21, 2011 1 Comment
Being a lifelong Cisco fan, today I attended the Cisco Mobility Seminar, organised by Cisco Systems Romania.
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January 2, 2011 Leave a comment
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 25 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 31 posts. There were 74 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was June 3rd with 61 views. The most popular post that day was Editing Windows custom keyboard layouts.
The top referring sites in 2010 were lavirgil.ro, piticu.ro, livius.net, ilg-the-geek.blogspot.com, and mail.yahoo.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for rds rcs, itunes book metadata, zr24w mac, rds, and apple keyboard layout.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Editing Windows custom keyboard layouts May 2010
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RCS & RDS Digital Cable TV August 2010
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Using iTunes to manage PDF books June 2010
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Apple Romanian keyboard layout for Windows running on Mac June 2010
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Apple AirPort Express resurrection November 2009
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December 27, 2010 3 Comments
Stories about short battery life of the Apple Wireless Keyboard were present for some time, and Apple provided a firmware upgrade that apparently fixed the problem.
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December 27, 2010 1 Comment
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the once-static Web has evolved into the read-write Web, offering new opportunities for online interaction, collaboration, and learning (Richardson, 2006). The growth of such next-generation Web tools as blogs, social networks, and wikis is astounding, with new collaborative tools appearing online almost daily.
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December 21, 2010 Leave a comment
One of the challenges when starting a new project, especially in the IT industry, is designing and implementing an efficient system for managing internal information and communication.
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December 9, 2010 Leave a comment
Like it or not, sooner or later there will be no one to check our email accounts. Or to post updates on Facebook. (Unless, of course, high speed access will be available in the heavens too!).
Although it may be seen a bit macabre by some, death is also part of the Wheel of Life, and we should face it at least with acceptance if not with wisdom.
