Tag: english

October 7, 2010 / / personal

A little discussion about the teacher fail that is issued at failblog.org. The question The post shows this math question: It took Marie 10 minutes to saw a board into…

September 11, 2010 / / technology

I had a hard time getting the Intel Wifi 5100 AGN, which is displayed using lspci as “Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection“. A lot of people are…

September 10, 2010 / / technology

Sometimes I take some serious risks. Like, suddenly, I get the urge to install Ubuntu on my office’s laptop. A Dell Latitude E6500. But, there’s a Windows 7 installed, consuming…

July 20, 2010 / / technology
April 24, 2010 / / personal

Oh no! My computer is infected by a massive amount of trojans! O-M-G! Panic panic I’ve seen it: they’ve been scanning my hard drive, scanned some exe’s and dll’s and…

April 11, 2010 / / personal

I’m shocked. Lately, I receive a lot of spam on my blog. Not automated, but just some under-payed drug addicts from Poland and the Ukraine who desperately need some cash…

April 8, 2010 / / technology

At the office, a lot of people are using MS Excel. And they’re using the ability to fetch external data into Excel. This external data is read from an Oracle…

March 24, 2010 / / personal

This week I’ve borrowed a Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM lens from a colleague and I have to say that I like the possibilities of it. Sure, it’s a fixed one,…

February 22, 2010 / / technology

Just for my own reference. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException is a build error, saying that you’re using a class that doesn’t exist, so the build fails. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is a link error at runtime,…

February 13, 2010 / / personal

When I have pasta for lunch – spaghetti, macaroni, … – I always finish with some dry pasta and put a little sugar on it. Some people like it, some will throw me a disgusting look. I’m with the first group…