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  1. Jurnal de corporatrist

    Plouă și e frig. În biroul open-space cu zeci de persoane, instalația de aer condiționat decide că e prea cald și începe să bage aer rece. Trag o înjurătură și nu mă pot hotărî dacă să-mi iau geaca pe mine sau doar să-mi pun căciula. Fac o paralelă între amintirile …

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  2. Controlul umiditatii aerului

    In zilele de canicula, cei de la meteo anunta ca ne vom simti inconfortabil, pentru ca indicele de confort termic va depasi valoarea de 80. Ce este acest indice ? Se poate determina pe baza unei formule, care depinde de temperatura si de umiditatea aerului: ICT = (T x 1,8 + 32 …

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  3. Thougths

    People are hypocrites. They tend to forget the bad things of the past and then they idealize the past as a time when everything was all sunshine and rainbows. Happens to me, also.

    Did you notice on social media, at least in my country, how people now admire the cars …

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  4. Depression

    from the US Army Survival Manual

    Depression is closely linked with frustration and anger. The frustrated person becomes more and more angry as he fails to reach his goals. If the anger does not help the person to succeed, then the frustration level goes even higher. A destructive cycle between …

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  5. On clothes (and looks)

    They say the clothes make the man. That's probably half true. You don't have to wear expensive clothes but you'll really want to dress to impress.

    Clothes do make a difference, not just how you look, but also how you feel. Have you ever made this experiment: grow a week-old …

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  6. Things to do after installing Xubuntu on a desktop

    You can find these on the Internet and there are plenty more. I will mention them here mostly because of my need to have them centralized someplace. 1. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and at the bottom of the file add on 2 new lines: vm.swappiness=15 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure …

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  8. Esti orastian daca...

    February 27, 2014 ...ştii ce a fost şi unde a fost FNC-ul.

    February 27, 2014 ...ai fost cel puţin spectator la "tenis cu piciorul", în curtea blocului

    February 27, 2014 ...ai jucat fotbal între blocuri printre maşini şi ai lovit în plin una cu mingea apoi ai fugit cu toată …

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  11. eBook si DRM

    Imi place sa citesc si citesc cat de mult pot, daca am timp. Imi plac in mod special cartile despre istoria Romaniei, si aici un loc aparte il ocupa cele despre evenimentele din decembrie 1989 si despre regimul comunist.

    Cumpar carti de cate ori gasesc ceva care imi place si …

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  12. Back on track

    It's 2 AM and I can't sleep (it seems to happen quite often lately) so after remembering I still have this blog and finally having a functional operating system on my ancient computer I thought it's time to write. I ditched Windows XP. My student license for XP got lost …

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  13. Caps Lock notification in Xubuntu

    If your keyboard lacks visual lock indicators, especially for Caps Lock function, you can use a small hack to have a notification whenever the Caps Lock key is pressed. Here are the basics:Have a shell script execute each time Caps Lock key is pressed. Have the shell script query …

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  14. Lighttpd with virtual hosts and subdomains

    I set up this domain a while ago and I preferred to use lighttpd as web server. Why? Maybe for personal reasons: it was used on my NSLU2 and I found it pretty straightforward to configure. At the beginning I set it up to setup both ctrl-alt-delete.ro and www …

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  15. Revisiting the past

    The recent turn of events seem to have awaken my depression. Well, just partially, I guess. I remember being a child and having no worries. I remember reading childhood books and then just letting my imagination wander.

    I remember reading the science magazines of the times and wondering at what …

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