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Interview in theinvestormagazine.com

Ana Maria Gavrila from The Investor contacted Avira Romania because she needed some expert opinions about the software market’s future in Romania. And I answered. The “interview” (with quotes because I never discussed with her) is in the Romanian language and was not yet published online. I have the scanned pages with the interview here. […]

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Super optimized search

While I was looking on various sites for some Christmas presents, I performed some searches 🙂 On some of the sites I found what I was looking for, on some … well .. .not 🙂 The funny part is that I searched for something and got back something that had absolutely nothing to do with […]

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Conceptronic CHD3LAN NAS Server

I bought from eBay a brand new Networked Attached Storage server without HDD for 51 euro. Cheap and nice toy.. but … The company from which I bought it, advised me to upgrade the firmware via the web interface. And I did, poor me 🙁 Needless to say that the box is dead now. During […]

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I’ve made an website

No, I didn’t change my job 🙂 I just helped some friends who own an italian delicatessen shop to make a presentation of the shop. The site is here http://www.feinkost-messina.de. I made all the photos with my Olympus E-500 and the 14-45mm lens. There is also a slideshow made with Microsoft’s XP Powertoys.

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More Skype exposed

I found recently a very interesting article about P2P networks and Skype. This comes as a completion of the other article about Skype exposed posted here in June: Here is a permalink It is written by some guys from Cornell and Google. Here is the article. The most interesting thing is (copied included links): “Garfinkel […]

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To IEEE or not to IEEE, that’s the question

Yes, that’s the question: To continue being an IEEE member or not  ? Of course, if I say YES, I have to pay about 140 euro.(+ Computer Security & Privacy which is an extra service) If I say NO, I don’t, but I will not receive anymore the IEEE Spectrum Computer Security & Privacy So, […]

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Blogging from FLOCK

Flock is a very nice web browser that supports: – blogging – flickering and many others things which I didn’t yet discover. It is small and much faster then Mozilla based browser. This is the website:  www.flock.com Note: Flock is  based on Firefox 1.5.0.7 Blogged with Flock