Our jokes aren’t like your jokes

Posted on January 7th, 2010 at 22:25.

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Here’s another one from Intel’s “Sponsors of tomorrow” which I think is actually the geekiest from the series.

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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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How to install Oracle Database 10g XE and OC4J on Ubuntu

Posted on December 17th, 2009 at 22:58.

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Starting to work on my diploma project my setup required that I installed Oracle 10g XE and OC4J. For a while now Oracle has started to offer *.deb packages and to host a repository for Debian-based Linux distributions, which means that they have gained the maturity to be used in enterprise environments. The installation of [...]

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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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Linux Prodigy

Posted on December 9th, 2009 at 0:34.

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Starting today I will try to show on my blog an interesting IT ad every week. For the first video, I’ve chosen an extraordinary Linux ad made for IBM back in 2003 by Ogilvy & Mather. The only word that comes through my mind is impressive! Some of the “actors” and their words: John Wooden [...]

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What Linux has offered me until now

Posted on December 6th, 2009 at 19:55.

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I’ve started using Linux since the 6.10 release of Ubuntu. More precisely the Edgy Eft release. I remeber that at that time I’ve been actually using Kubuntu. The learning curve was a bit steep, as it was really something new for me. And every time I would experience troubles I left Linux to rot away [...]

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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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Linux Identity Starter – Ubuntu Family 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted on November 25th, 2009 at 17:00.

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Recently I’ve finished my work for the latest issue of the Linux Identity Starter magazine which talks about the large Ubuntu family, reached at the 9.10 release. Marking the important evolution of the latest release from Canonical, this issue contains several interesting articles about setting up an Ubuntu environment, offering you the chance to know [...]

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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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