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Flickr is having a massage

Which means … it is offline. Maybe it has to do with the post on February 19 where the caching servers went down … I don’t know…. We’ll see and I’ll post results here.

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The quest of cross compiling

I own a Dreambox 500S which is in fact a box with a 250 Mhz PPC processor. It runs, of course, Linux, kernel 2.6.9. Because it is so small, so power efficient, I plan to use it to make some cron jobs 😉 So, here I start with some links: http://penguinppc.org/embedded/#toolchain http://kegel.com/crosstool/ http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/doc/crosstool-howto.html I’ll post […]

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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 […]