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Winter is coming fast and we all know that during a windy day there are a lot of chances of you (or me) being left in the dark because either a tree fell over the electric wires in your neighbourhood or worse: your town is left in the dark for a few hours (let’s hope […]

30 years ago Apple aired its “1984” commercial during the Super Bowl, teasing the Macintosh personal computer. Two days later on Jan. 24, cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs officially unveiled the device at the Flint Center near Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. And here it is:   From Mashable

Here’s a robot from Ishikawa Oku’s physics lab at the University of Tokyo that plays rock, paper, scissor and always beats the human, every single time. Because the team that built it gave it a superpower.   An innocent human is invited to sit opposite the robot. Instead of going “Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!” as […]

EDC stands for Every Day Carry – for desk jockeys that may mean a combination of USB drive, smartphone  and laser pointer, but even we computer-sitters sometimes need a slightly more rugged set of essentials like this little collection provides. The components are surprisingly small and simple to describe: “Tiny, multiuse tools. Comes with […]

In this post I will guide you through all the steps on how to install a hybrid Counter-Strike 1.6 server on a Linux powered server (ubuntu server in my case). A hybrid Counter-Strike 1.6 server is a Counter-Strike 1.6 game server that allows Steam clients (legit Steam accounts) and non Steam clients (non Steam game […]

This is a simple tutorial to help you find the driver for your wireless card if you’re using Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.   The simplest command to get this information is to use the lspci command: lspci lspci | less lspci | grep -i intel lspci | grep -i wireless   Sample output: […]

Let’s say you have a very large MySQL database and you are moving it to a new server ( or just moving your whole website to a new web host ) and of course your cannot import it from phpMyAdmin. This is a tutorial to show you the easiest way to import a very large […]

GShutdown is a tool for Ubuntu which performs and schedules system shutdown, logout and restart. To install it open up a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt-get install gshutdown After installation you can find GShutdown under Applications -> Accessories. And here it is: As you can see it’s really simple to use. Just […]

  In this post I’ll explain how simple is it to optimize your MySQL database directly from your website / website administration panel ( if you have one ).   Usually people I know optimize their MySQL database from “phpmyadmin” if they have it.   Why optimize ? Well, in case you just deleted a […]

We all know that developing a website in CakePHP is very easy and also fast. Here’s how to create a multilingual website fast. First open app/config/bootstrap.php and set the languages you want available for your website: Configure::write(‘Config.languages’, array( ‘ro’ => array( ‘language’ => ‘Romanian’, ‘locale’ => ‘rum’, ‘localeFallback’ => ‘rum’, ‘charset’ => ‘utf-8’ ), ‘en’ […]

Here’s a guy that’s drawing in negative and use Photoshop to positive. There’s not much more to say … the pictures speak for themselves: And the best one in my opinion : Darth Vader 😀 Luke, I am your father ! Hrrr, hrrrr Amazing, isn’t it ? All inverted in his head

CG or computer generated graphics is commonly used to refer to any form of computer art or digital artwork. Computer generated artwork are mostly digital paintings of real-life counter parts but not every time. Here are the best ones that are available online:

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  Here are some nice photos with even better captions from a developer’s life:   When I show the boss that I have finally fixed this bug When the project manager enters the office When I’m deploying code to production When I try to fix a bug at 3 in the morning When my regex […]

This is the smartest and the funniest parrot I ever saw. Enjoy the video and a good laugh  

Jackie Chan on a Segway wearing a helmet that says Kaspersky on it and punching computer viruses ? You may be thinking I’m telling the dream I had last night. Well .. I’m not. Here’s Jackie Chan’s new Kaspersky commercial with Eugene Kaspersky: