
shot taken on July 2015 in Lara-Kundu, Antalya, Turkey
Few days ago my 10 years washing machine Beko WM3552M stops to work. Symptoms: it spins for 1-2 seconds and then nothing happens. The vacuum pump works, the same water heater. I was checking the PCB , it looks OK. So, I was thinking that probable are the carbon brushes. I’ve changed them and it … Read Full Article
When editing documents with Microsoft Word there are two small things that I do all the time: to group few lines together on the same page , in other words to be sure that the paragraph is not split between two pages when I modify the text above. to group few words together on the … Read Full Article
Eclipse and VIM are my favorite editors. For tasks that requires a lot of coding and especially for java Eclipse is the best, but it requires a lot of resources (CPU and RAM). When I have to modify just couple of lines, then VIM is the choice; I fix the code faster that Eclipse starts. … Read Full Article
Small tip for virtualbox: how you can enable copy (and paste) from host to guest and from guest to host. Most when playing with virtual machines you would like to copy pieces of code from host machine to guest OS and vice versa. By default after installing virtual box, this feature is not activated, but … Read Full Article
Since few weeks on my WP blog I’m receiving a lot of spam. Some bots are “commenting” on my post doing advertising for things like: xanax, valium, tramadol, diazepam. I already get tens of such comments, so I decided that I have to do something. At the beginning I was looking for some WP plugin … Read Full Article
It’s autumn in Romania, rainy days have come. The GPS satellites are hiding behind the clouds, and because of that Sports Tracker (on Android) shows me strange routes, see next picture. Today in Bucharest was a very cloudy day, and no chance to see any satellite . I’ve decide to enable the aGPS (assisted GPS) … Read Full Article
Very often from TCL scripts we may want to execute external commands. But not always they also available, sometime the command that we want to execute may not exist on the respective machine. One solution is to put the exec command in a catch { exect $your_command $arg1 $arg2 … } and then to check if it … Read Full Article
Few days ago I’ve installed VirtualBox from Oracle on my windows7 machine because I needed a linux where to play with apache webserver. The instalation was very easy (I assume that internet is available on the host system :D) Installed VirtualBox Created a guest machine for Debian Downloaded Debian Netinstall Image; it is a small … Read Full Article
One of the most difficult task to do in tcsh is to redirect the stdout and stderr into separated files. I’m not doing this very often, and because of this I always forget how to do it. Every time when I need to do such a thing I spend tens of minutes trying different combination … Read Full Article