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2018-01-23T19:35:00.001+02:00

New Rule: Social Media is the New Nicotine | Real Time with Bill Maher (...

2017-05-13T10:55:00.001+03:00

Fed Up Film "SUGAR MORE ADDICTIVE THAN COCAINE"

2017-05-12T19:08:00.001+03:00

Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

2017-05-08T21:48:00.001+03:00

Lomnický Štít - panoramic video may 2017

2017-05-03T19:01:00.001+03:00

Kakastarély - Creasta Cocoşului

2017-04-19T20:14:00.001+03:00

French Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

2017-04-17T17:23:00.001+03:00

Vârful Igniș - Iarna

2017-02-12T17:47:00.000+02:00

CRS-8 | First Stage Landing on Droneship

2016-04-10T21:22:00.001+03:00

Sign The Petition For TYT To Host A Democratic Debate

2016-03-26T11:01:00.001+02:00

Bill Maher’s Petition to Get President Obama on Real Time – January 15, ...

2016-01-16T19:10:00.001+02:00

Windows 10 ICS Internet connection sharing.

2015-12-17T00:12:00.002+02:00

do the usual stuff and if you get IP Routing Enabled NO in ipconfig /all do this

Start Registry Editor (REGEDT32.EXE) and go to the following subkey:

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip
      \Parameters

From the Edit menu, choose Add Value.
Enter the following values:
Value Name: IpEnableRouter
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
Exit Registry Editor and restart Windows NT.

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Vettel’s debut in Fiorano

2014-12-01T19:50:00.001+02:00

Sosto Zoo

2013-08-29T22:40:00.000+03:00

New puppy in the house: VTR1-25SAT3-128G

2013-08-27T22:38:00.000+03:00

I bought another SSD it's a VTR1-25SAT3-128G, so far so good, here's are Crystaldiskmark results:

The results are lower than what I can find on the internet, but I think that is because my fairly old chipset (880G/SB850)..

SSD Secure Erase Performance gain - is it a myth?

2013-08-27T22:21:00.002+03:00

I was reading some articles about secure erase and it improves the performance of the SSD's.. so I tried it.
I made a backup with clonezilla of my system SSD mentioned in the previous post and I reran Crystaldiskmark, here are the results:

The only difference between the two runs regarding the SSD was that this time I had more free space because I moved some stuff to my new SSD.

So... read is practically is the same Write is better but maybe because the more free space.. strangely the 4K write/read was better before.
What do you think?

OCZ Agility 4 64G review after 1 year

2013-08-16T00:22:00.001+03:00

I bought this SSD (AGT4-25SAT3-64G) 1 year (+2 days) ago, It's functioning OK, which means I had 0 BSODs or failures..

I'm not much of a benchmark guy and I use this ssd as the system drive so I'm not sure how relevant this benchmark will be, but I made the same benchmark for my "storage" hdd too which is a ST3250820AS.

OCZ SSD:

Seagate HDD:

SSD Boot video #1: clean user: no startup programs

SSD Boot video #2: normal user: many startup programs

Here's a tutorial which I followed when I bought the SSD: THE SSD OPTIMIZATION GUIDE REDESIGNED

mplayer2 on opensuse from source quick guide

2013-08-09T19:01:00.001+03:00

sudo zypper in python3 make gcc autoconf automake libtool yasm freetype2-devel fribidi-devel fontconfig-devel libXv-devel mesa-devel libpulse-devel

cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build

git clone git://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2-build.git

cd mplayer2-build

./init

make -j`nproc`

cp ./mplayer/mplayer ~/bin/

Summer cleaning

2013-08-08T11:55:00.000+03:00

Being in Macedonia in that hot temps doesn't do any good to my R600 laptop, since I have it (6/xx/09) I didn't clean it.. I mean inside.. The temperature reaching 40°C, makes the CPU and of course the whole thing real hot, in the hotel rooms we have AC but, still I felt that something is wrong because the CPU temp reached 70°C. Currently I'm home and made some time to clean in the inside, honestly I surprised of the lack of dust inside, only the ventilator had some dust inside, but as it turned out that wasn't the main problem, the problem was the bad contact between the cooler and the CPU and the strange contact patch rubber thing between the CPU and cooler, so I bought some thermal paste + removed that rubber thing and we'll see what the sensors will tell when I go back to Macedonia, now it's ~40°C idle.. ~60°C playing a video for ~10 minutes. To the touch is much much better and here at home I don't have AC. Here are some pictures of the inside:

Growin' Up

2012-12-08T18:29:00.001+02:00

Since I had my first computer I was a linux user too, mainly because it was too bad for playing games, of course that doesn't meant that I wasn't playing games even if it meant I had to play on low FPS, with time going by games became more and more resource hungry, so I basically switched to linux(opensolaris) mode, with the hope that sometime I (we) will able to play decent games on linux. When I got my new computer it was straightforward what OS to install so I could play the games the most I like and try new ones, but I stuck with Valve games and occasionally some NFS. Strangely with Steam coming to linux I don't feel the urge to install linux.. I'm trying to figure out why that is.. (to be cont.)

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus first impressions

2012-11-24T17:00:00.001+02:00

I finally bought my first android device.. It's an ace plus. I choose this phone because of many reasons:
- price
- size
- software

Price: I could have waited a few days and buy a "better" (i.e. Bigger, s advance) phone but i really currently this size is perfect for me, also if i had the money for the s advance i probably would had the urge to wait for more money to get an s2, because I had both in my hands at the same time and they are like Stan and Pan. I just need to wait for that Jelly Bean update.

AMD Videocard + HDMI = Green Screen

2012-10-20T17:32:00.001+03:00

Recently purchased a cheap (€5.5) 3m HDMI cable for my PC to be able to move my monitor further.
For some reason the screen had to much green, I thought that the cheap HDMI cable was the cause, so I tried to adjust the green channel with AMD VISION Engine Control Center aka CCC, at some degree i was able to correct it but wasn't perfect. I blamed the cheap cable .. there are cables out there for 4x+ the price, but to be honest I wont pay that much for a cable and I'm not sure if worth it, maybe if you're using it for audio too there are some major differences. Anyway, I google'd a bit and found out that it can be solved with just a few clicks! You just need to change the Pixel Format in CCC:

My Digital Flat-Panels → Pixel Format: the default format for me was YCbCr 4:4:4 I changed it to RGB 4:4:4 (Full RGB) and it was perfect.

I hope this helps you out.

Dota 2 recording session

2012-10-02T13:48:00.001+03:00

Breaking News!

2012-07-18T02:00:00.000+03:00

No, I don't have something big going on. I just want to tell you that from time to time I wonder why don't we hear about Breaking News' "aftermath"..? Some examples:
- Japanese disaster.. how are they re-covering.. how's their economy surviving..
- BP oil spill.. are they still cleaning it up? ...
- Chilean miners, how the incident affected there the laws for example?.. etc- ..It's a shame that we don't hear much about these incidents anymore, or at least in mainstream media.

Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix Qualifying - Thoughts

2012-03-17T20:06:00.000+02:00

I'm done.. do we even need a race after this qualifying? I'm saying this despite it wasn't the result that I hoped for.

You can check out the official results here.

Don't know why but I'm happy for Grosjean.. maybe because it means that Kimi will have a chance too to show some good pace. The difference between Grosjean and Schumacher was .034 secs.. wow...

I guess if Ferrari would have been a Japan team we would have seen some harakiris there... I'm sorry for Massa I wont be surprised if he wont make the end of the season in the Ferrari.