Posted in Arhiva on februarie 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night I stumbled upon a couple of screenshots of Rhapsdoy DR2 running under Bochs, and that brought along a couple of long-forgotten memories into my head. So a quick list then.
BeOS
When I used it: a couple of years ago, not very long before Be Inc. went into oblivion. I first used BeOS 5 Personal [...]
Posted in Arhiva on februarie 13, 2008 | 1 comentariu »
Se dă următoarul sistem termodinamic:
Măgarul are examen la chimie (mâine). Este vorba, mai precis, de Chimie Generală, un curs care include noțiuni (interesante) de electrochimie (cam o treime din material), iar restul e format din lucruri excitante pentru chimişti
Măgarul nu este chimist
Măgarul are o aversiune generală vis-a-vis de reținut formule
Măgarul nu prea a dat pe [...]
Posted in Arhiva on februarie 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I know it’s an axiom, but I just got a little bit nostalgic. Some hefty years ago when I started programming, I had a (very crappy) 14″ screen. I was using Turbo C, so there was 80×24 for me, and when I moved to using Emacs under X11, the screen estate seemed huge. But still I [...]
Posted in Arhiva on februarie 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Ok, so I’ll admit: I enjoy my share of functional programming, but I haven’t written a single purely-functional program that was longer than a few hundred lines. Sure, those few-hundred-lines would have meant a few thousand lines in any imperative language of your choice, but as we all know, the real work is in your [...]
Posted in Arhiva on ianuarie 30, 2008 | 4 Comentarii »
Tocmai m-am întors de la examenul examenelor, ciuma ciumelor, examenul la care în ciuda muncilor de sisif la care m-am înhămat de vreo săptămână-ncoace eram 99% sigur că nu iau 6 nici dacă-l dau în două rate. Am luat 9, ocazie cu care am descoperit vreo câteva lucruri interesante despre rezolvarea integralelor duble (i.e. mi-a [...]
Posted in Arhiva on ianuarie 2, 2008 | 3 Comentarii »
One stereotype I often hear about open source programs is that they are badly documented. Ok, they generally are. I actually gave up trying to use Mono for this reason, after being forced to use GTK’s C documentation simply because nobody bothered to write Gtk#’s. But there are odds and ends in this. Both Gtk and [...]
Posted in Arhiva on decembrie 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve spent the last three days fiddling with OS X Leopard (I was too curious not to try it), and my feelings towards it are rather mixed. Basically — but without making it a full-blown review, and in no particular order, they would be:
The newfound consistency is a wonderful idea, but I don’t really fancy [...]
Posted in Arhiva on noiembrie 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Intr-un glorios final, mi-am bagat picioarele in ea de asteptare si am dat pur si simplu un telefon la iStyle sa intreb daca exista totusi un Mac Mini pe stoc. Initial incercasem sa iau de la magazinul Apple online, unde astept de vreo luna jumate (18 octombrie mai exact). A durat cred ca… 15 minute? pana [...]
Posted in Arhiva on octombrie 16, 2007 | No Comments »
You may want to check this outMy friend has a thing for little beads (that’s mărgeluţe in Romanian — roughly margelutze). Enjoy! (And order :-D).
Posted in Arhiva on septembrie 28, 2007 | 3 Comentarii »
A lot of people don’t know that Lewis Caroll (actually, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also a mathematician. And although I enjoyed reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at least three times until now, I needed this note to the light.
