tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42611672572423769122024-12-19T05:30:47.525+02:00pieces of my life's puzzlejohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-76957189292822130942012-10-09T18:31:00.000+03:002012-10-09T18:31:28.864+03:00

So last time i tried to install gentoo a couple of years ago, and there was no point at doing it (at least this is what i used to think), now i'm installing it for about a week (a few hours a day). So what happened : i happens to e that i'm one of those old guys who hates unity, gnome 3, kde and i just wanted to find a platform to move away from ubuntu 10.04. so here are my conclusions about

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Java Reference Objects : http://www.kdgregory.com/index.php?page=java.refobj

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Randomness ... here i am trying to focus on something... wanted to focus on some programming project and failed ... now just trying to focus on something so here a new dose of random bullshit : while fighting myself to gain some ground against my insane nature a find myself in the loser situation, and somehow the mix of all things that matter to me has managed to throw myself in the chaos of

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Oh, V, everybody's broken, it is our attitude towards it that makes us different, some just ignore it, others are drowning in it (maybe it is my case). You say people are attracted to more unbroken/happy people, i dont think so, i think we are attracted to people that can heal our scars or we can heal theirs. You say happiness should come from inside, cause the outside world will not offer you

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so here is 1 experience with ebay used lens (i am sure that you can find very nice used lens on ebay, i got 1 good at least) but i will talk here about not so good experience : so i needed a wide f 2.8 lens so i was bidding / watching and i got a 24 mm AF 2.8 Nikon, as amazon states it costs 400$, now i paid on ebay 120$ (and because i was watching too many i havent noticed that aperture is not

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the days will pass and dream will fade next time when we will c again you will be shining bright old friend

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-12766560057380344022010-06-26T00:59:00.007+03:002011-07-12T21:18:14.870+03:00

what the fuck is love about ? i guess we should depict 2 different aspects 1. loving somebody 2. falling in love To love somebody it is important, that means you care about people, and if you have some luck the other people care about you. So it is a really nice thing, you help each other , you learn to rely on each other, you make favors, you feel pain when the loved people feels pain, you

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hi all, so a few months ago i was contacted by some recruiter (from google), he asked me if i was interested to work at google, and i said yes. (of course i said yes it was like "oh my God so the last period of time i spent doing 'don't know what' was not in vain, it all has a purpose, my life has a purpose", cause this is google man, not some average company with average programing job, this is

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-32264588718189307422010-05-03T18:55:00.000+03:002010-05-03T18:56:19.678+03:00

Youth is given only once and even then it is lost.

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depression is when you have to many thoughts too little time and too little to say about your life, you wish you did more in life but everything is falling apart, despair happens everyday all around us, and sometimes you fill with darkness and ... UDO - In the darkness Why am I here now What have I done Running on empty- I got nowhere to run Can't get an answer Can't get it right Just

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so this is it one year of blogging and here are the results : http://builtofire.blogspot.com/ visits : 534 page views: 861 average time on site : 94 seconds total posts : 26 http://nokia5800software.blogspot.com/ visits : 780 page views : 1086 average time on site : 48 seconds total posts : 7 Adsense for both blogs : page impressions : 1700 total clicks : 7 total earnings : 1 $ Conclusion

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When you will loose your arrogance, you will find me. The best is the enemy of the good. (Voltaire)

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-74788811287534500792009-12-07T12:30:00.010+02:002010-01-04T10:54:05.275+02:00

So i received a wdtv live, i needed a media player from long time ago. the choice was between asus o!play(100$) and wd tv live(120$). i picked wdtv live because of the ram 256 vs 128. here are some pictures of it : modding : so this is what i found so far: b-rad.cc firmware for wdtvlive (internal flash) (Note : you have to take the wdtvlive firmware and not wdtv (wdtvlive.ver file present),

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Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery But today is a gift that why it is called "present".

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so what is life after all ? after reading "A brief history of time" by Stephen W. Hawking you get the idea that life is part of the universe, and that there is more in this universe. so the idea i want to say about is the following : imagine the world is the battlefield of between order and disorder, and each living "things" fights by one side or by the other, and the forces that are guiding

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-42066135925358758842009-08-27T12:20:00.003+03:002009-08-27T12:33:37.516+03:00

So in the last time i was playing a with vlc (working actually) so here i got a few tips and tricks for all: Stream a file over the network in realtime using multicast: vlc file.avi :sout-all ":sout=#std{access=udp{ttl=1},mux=ts,dst=226.0.0.10:1234}" Then you can open it with : vlc udp://@226.0.0.10:1234 Adding .srt subtitles to a video , hardcoding subtitles, burning subtitles : Note

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Here is a nice article about DNA, H1N1, and geeks : "The Influenza virus is quite fascinating. Allow me to ramble on… Comparison to Computer Viruses : How many bits does it take to kill a human? " source : http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353

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Here is a script to use vlc to transcode videos stored in a folder : #!/bin/sh DIR_TRANS='transcoded' mkdir -p $DIR_TRANS for filename in `ls *.mp4` do vlc $filename ":sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=1200,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=256,channels=2}\ :duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=$DIR_TRANS/$filename}}" --play-and-exit done

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A while ago we ordered a gadget, my wife's decision. I got delivered 2 weeks ago on 15 of July at 12 , it was expect to arrive in the beginning of august. The specialized personnel helped us to unpack the fragile gadget. So here is what we got : a baby girl of 2.7 kg and 48 cm. When unboxing she was demonstrating her voice and it was the sweetest sounds of life. Happy birthday Milena.

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Sunday 12 July 2009, i had the luck to be at Alice Cooper concert/show, so i got only good emotions, THE LEGEND is still alive i say. i still can't come back to life after the show, and i just cant understand how did i managed to live until now without this. so here i got these videos using nokia 5800: TODO anyways it was good, the man still rocks, and we were rocked good that

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-29683394966150533262009-07-03T14:43:00.006+03:002009-07-03T16:53:56.849+03:00

light and darkness ... it takes a spark to turn light into darkness and a different spark to turn darkness to light anyway both things are possible, but the thing that defines the wiseman is the ability to keep the light on. Normal people always change their states, life is complicated they say, and you get angry you get lost... somewhere on the path i lost myself too many times, and i wish it

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-74767403701748444592009-07-03T10:57:00.002+03:002009-07-03T10:59:59.684+03:00

So this is the best link i found until today that explains the linux network programming in c. http://www.tenouk.com/cnlinuxsockettutorials.html also there is information about winsockets. Many thanks to the author.

johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18124997833505124205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261167257242376912.post-399051246771614072009-06-23T12:06:00.003+03:002009-09-09T12:31:24.545+03:00

Do you know what day was yesterday ? It was Miele's day. Yesterday we were forced to buy a new vacuum cleaner (because our 1.5 years old Black and Decker died unexpectedly 5 weeks ago). Anyway i read so many reviews and user reviews and ratings that i just had to made a post in my blog about this. So yesterday we finally made it ( found the courage to pay for Miele with Hepa filter and

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my friend said i'm a hypocrit, not that he thinks so, i call it openmindness, but probably i'm just getting old... so eurovision was a surprise this year (2009), there were many nice songs : 1. Patricia Kaas : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1oxY6_qKBg 2. Sandra Nurmsalu : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF24kGXudpk&feature=related ... and some others, but these i liked the most ... wish you

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ah ebay, the next best thing ... so many interesting things to have (but wait Buddha said that wanting things is bad...) anyway it is been 1 month since i am browsing eBay, and the only thing i can say is that i have seen many interesting things there. (eBay is one of the reasons i want posting my blog since 3 months) Really i get the feeling that eBay brings the people together (or maybe it

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