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	<title>Dedication to DIY and programming</title>
	
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		<title>Calculate the approximate time passed since an event</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2012/01/15/php-function-to-calculate-the-approximate-time-passed-since-an-event.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, on the comments/articles section you need a function to calculate the aproximate time that passed since an event. For example .. on a user profile page you write the last time when the user logged in : 2 days &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2012/01/15/php-function-to-calculate-the-approximate-time-passed-since-an-event.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to resize a fixed size disk in VirtualBox</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2012/01/13/how-to-resize-a-fixed-size-disk-in-virtualbox.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The solution is simple .. you can&#8217;t But here is a hack &#8230; we clone it to a dynamic size disk and then resize that disk Elegant .. right? vboxmanage clonehd WinVista_x32.20gb.vdi vista_32b_30g.vdi 0%&#8230;10%&#8230;20%&#8230;30%&#8230;40%&#8230;50%&#8230;60%&#8230;70%&#8230;80%&#8230;90%&#8230;100% Clone hard disk created in format &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2012/01/13/how-to-resize-a-fixed-size-disk-in-virtualbox.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to run a batch (.bat) file in Wine</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/21/how-to-run-a-batch-bat-file-in-wine.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to run a .bat file to install an old (free ) game in Wine so after a little research &#8230; here is the solution for this : wine cmd.exe and then, on the command prompt (opened automatically in &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/21/how-to-run-a-batch-bat-file-in-wine.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linking Arduino with Proccesing</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/15/linking-arduino-with-proccesing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in the previous post I bought a 3-axis accelerometer and I want to plot its data using Processing but first .. how do I link Arduino with Processing ? After around 30-35 minutes of try-fail and reading &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/15/linking-arduino-with-proccesing.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino + Processing erroring out on Ubuntu when trying to use the Serial library</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/14/arduino-processing-erroring-out-on-ubuntu-when-trying-to-use-the-serial-library.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a 3-axis accelerometer and I wanted to play with it using Processing. I thought it was really simple but it seems I was wrong as on Ubuntu 10.04 there is an issue with Processing software and a small &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2011/02/14/arduino-processing-erroring-out-on-ubuntu-when-trying-to-use-the-serial-library.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>JQuery – Search box with default text</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to do a search box with a default text that automatically clears when clicked on ? Here is the code for it : JAVASCRIPT [Show Styled Code]: $(&#034;#src_txt&#034;).live(&#034;blur&#034;, function(){ var default_value = $(this).attr(&#034;rel&#034;); if ($(this).val() == &#034;&#034;){ $(this).val(default_value); &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/11/14/jquery-search-box-with-default-text.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Android – Jokes Catalog #1 – My first application</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/11/12/android-jokes-catalog-1-my-first-application.html</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/11/12/android-jokes-catalog-1-my-first-application.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started last week to play with Android SDK (I got a HTC Dream .. a really cool device) and it is a little bit hard because I didn&#8217;t worked with Java before but I hope I&#8217;ll read these lines &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/11/12/android-jokes-catalog-1-my-first-application.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>YUM error on CentOS 5</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/05/27/yum-error-on-centos-5.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 07:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a VPS running CentOS 5 and I was always running yum to update its software. This went ok until few days ago when &#8220;yum update&#8221; brought this : There was a problem importing one of the Python modules &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/05/27/yum-error-on-centos-5.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cellular Automata – Conway’s Game of Life in HTML 5</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/01/14/cellular-automata-conways-game-of-life-in-html-5.html</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/01/14/cellular-automata-conways-game-of-life-in-html-5.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to do a school project involving automata so, after searching what this means .. I came to &#8220;cellular automaton&#8221; and then to the &#8220;Conway&#8217;s Game of Life&#8221; on wikipedia. I remember doing such a project on RentACoder few &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2010/01/14/cellular-automata-conways-game-of-life-in-html-5.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Christmas Holidays :)</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/12/24/happy-christmas-holidays.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Christmas Holidays to everyone Hope to see you all well in 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>How to prefill the Twitter status box (“What are you doing?”)</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/24/how-to-prefill-the-twitter-status-box-what-are-you-doing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a website where I need to prefill a certain message in the &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217; textarea from Twitter. Here is the solution &#8230; redirect the user to : http://twitter.com/home?status=YOUR_URL_ENCODED_MESSAGE for example : http://twitter.com/home?status=this%20is%20a%20test Hope this will &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/24/how-to-prefill-the-twitter-status-box-what-are-you-doing.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to use the DS18S20 and DS18B20 temperature sensors with Arduino</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/23/how-to-use-the-ds18s20-and-ds18b20-temperature-sensors-with-arduino.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought from FunGizmos few DS18S20 temperature sensors to test for my small robot project and last week they finally got into my hands but only today I had the time to try them out. To connect the sensors to &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/23/how-to-use-the-ds18s20-and-ds18b20-temperature-sensors-with-arduino.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Arduino language file for GeSHi</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/18/free-arduino-language-file-for-geshi.html</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/18/free-arduino-language-file-for-geshi.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, from now on all the code from this blog will be on tutorialpedia. I started writing some Arduino tutorials so I needed a syntax highlighter for the code I wrote, the best choice was GeSHI but &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/18/free-arduino-language-file-for-geshi.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino : how to use the Serial port</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/17/arduino-how-to-use-the-serial-port.html</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/17/arduino-how-to-use-the-serial-port.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you really need to use the Serial port (UART or USART) of Arduino to communicate with your computer (or other devices) for debugging or readings. Arduino uses digital pins 0 (RX, receive) and 1 (TX, transmission) for Serial communication &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/17/arduino-how-to-use-the-serial-port.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino’s “Hello World!” : blinking a LED</title>
		<link>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/09/arduinos-hello-world-blinking-a-led.html</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/09/arduinos-hello-world-blinking-a-led.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trimbitas Sorin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As in all programming languages .. you start with a Hello World! code so you can see the basic structure for that language. Because Arduino can&#8217;t just print &#8216;Hello World!&#8217; (in fact it can but using an external device, like &#8230; <a href="http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2009/08/09/arduinos-hello-world-blinking-a-led.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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