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Broken Promises

Posted on December 25th, 2009 at 19:20.

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The series is already a classic. You can watch more on www.apple.com/getamac. This one is called “Broken Promises” and as one who has tried Windows 7 I can tell you that the ad is not far away from the truth.

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Put your latest tweet as Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 1:27.

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Twitter became a trend nowadays when almost everything important is being found out via this social-networking micro-blogging service. And now with Google’s real time search-results that includes tweets too, Twitter is recognised as a powerful platform by even the Internet’s giant. Since your (and mine too) online presence might include a few tweets a day, [...]

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Our rockstars aren’t like your rockstars

Posted on December 16th, 2009 at 13:35.

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The ad for this week is one for Intel. This new advertising campaign for Intel doesn’t feature a product anymore, its focus being on Intel’s culture. Taglined “Sponsors of Tomorrow”, the campaign showcases Intel’s engineering achievements rather than the products it makes. The people responsible for this new ad series are Venables Bell & Partners, [...]

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I have moved my feed

Posted on December 12th, 2009 at 17:28.

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My new blog feed is now accessible through the following two addresses: http://feeds.cotescu.com/raducotescu http://radu.cotescu.com/feed (redirect to the first link) Please change your RSS links accordingly. Thank you!

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New toys for Linux

Posted on December 11th, 2009 at 16:13.

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Google Chrome Two days ago, on December 9th, Google has launched the beta version for its Chrome browser for Linux and Mac machines. For the ones having Chrome already installed in Ubuntu by using the google-chrome-unstable package, they can switch to google-chrome-beta without loosing any of their settings. For the ones wanting to install the [...]

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Google Wave invitations

Posted on December 1st, 2009 at 23:11.

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Like all the g33k5 out there, I have a Google Wave account. I haven’t really got the chance to use it since I had no one to talk to, except Vlad, from whom I originally got the invitation (Thank you, dude!). Anyway, opening my Wave account this evening, more out of curiosity and to dust [...]

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Mobile enhanced support

Posted on November 26th, 2009 at 16:25.

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Today I’ve added mobile devices enhanced support to my blog for those of you who reach to my geek corner this way. Currently, mobile support is on for the following user agents: iphone, ipod, android, dream, cupcake, webos, incognito, webmate, opera mini, blackberry9530, blackberry9500, blackberry8100 If you own a mobile device whose user agent is not [...]

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Yahoo! phishing attempt

Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 0:48.

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Since I have this domain, one of the main concerns was to use Google as my mail provider instead of the mail server that was offered by my hosting provider. It’s not that I do not trust them, but the availability of Google’s servers is something more precise than every other average data center can [...]

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Adobe Reader in Ubuntu

Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 22:41.

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For those of you who want to install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu, there are two solutions available: install it using the repositories or download the application from Adobe. If you’ve had problems opening PDF files in Firefox after you’ve installed Adobe Reader you will also find how to fix them.

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Linus Torvalds and Windows 7

Posted on October 24th, 2009 at 0:09.

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These two pictures will go epic: Linus has a great sense of humor. Brilliant! Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer doing a similar thing? via Chris, Patrick

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Windows 7 review from a Linux user

Posted on September 8th, 2009 at 18:23.

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Starting with August 21st I have installed Windows 7 on my home desktop, right after installing Ubuntu 9.04 with custom packages so that I could obtain the maximum hard disk performance gain for Linux. Being a student at an Automatic Control and Computers Faculty has its advantages, one of them being the MSDN AA membership [...]

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Python and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 at 18:01.

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If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better [...]

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Resetting Windows passwords for every user

Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 22:13.

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I am sure that you all wondered sometime how can a Windows password be broken with physical access to the machine. I know this isn’t quite hacking, but it is a useful thing in many situations: you have forgotten your administrator password; a zealous/envious system administrator didn’t want to give you the passwords after he [...]

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