Monthly Archives: July 2012

Cum să adormi supra-turat?

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Trăim într-o lume ciudată rău de tot. Ieri, toată lumea era stresată cu participarea şi rezultatele referendumului, în timp ce eu mă enervam într-un mare fel pe un om care nu mi-a greşit cu nimic, în afara faptului că există. Acţiunea se întâmplă la Olimpiadă.

Nu am mai fost atât de ofticat/turat/ambalat de ani de zile, de pe vremea când minunatul Miki Alexandrescu comenta cursele de Formula 1 (îl mai ţineţi minte?). Făceam cu nervii aseară, urcam pe pereţi şi vorbeam cu foarte foarte multă carne la adresa ˝minunatei˝ Alina Alexoi.

FraÅ£ilor, înÅ£eleg că a fost sportivă, ÅŸtie despre ce vorbeÅŸte, vede când sportivul are ezitări la diverse exerciÅ£ii, dar îi lipseÅŸte un singur lucru: nu ÅŸtie să FORMULEZE! zici că e în sala de gimnastică de la Deva, ba nu, de la ÅŸcoala generală număru’ 3 ÅŸi vorbeÅŸte cu prietenul ei imaginar, gimnast ÅŸi el…

Cum să nu poÅ£i citi după un script în timpul festivităţii de deschidere? Nu ar fi trebuit sa încerce să interpreteze… nu i-a ieÅŸit.

Cum să vorbeÅŸti despre omul de la aparat cu “Hai PiÅ£i” sau “Bineeeee Dumi!“? Sportivul nu te aude. Telespectatorii DA!

Cum să le spui gimnastele “echipa power praf” fără să explici de ce le spui aÅŸa? ÃŽnÅ£eleg că aÅŸa s-au autointitulat ele, dar până nu am trecut o tură prin Google denumirea asta, credeam că pur ÅŸi simplu face miÅŸto de ele.

Şi uite aşa, am adormit aseară turat la maxim, mulţumită Alinei Alexoi. Vă invit să mă contraziceţi.

PS: Respect coane Brylu‘ că ai pus un pic punctul pe Å£ aseară:

Să revenim cu TimeLapse-ul de Duminică

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Şi dacă e duminică, e Time Lapse!

Time Lapse este o tehnică a cinematografiei, care presupune fotografierea repetată la intervale prestabilite a unui obiect, peisaj, construcţie, fenomen al naturii etc. şi redarea fotografiilor la o viteză mult mai mare decat viteza la care au fost imortalizate pentru a crea un efect care să sugereze o accelerare a evenimentelor.

De exemplu, o scenă fotografiată o dată la fiecare secundă, şi apoi redată cu un frame rate de 30fps (frames per second), o să inducă o creştere in vietza acţiunii de 30 de ori.

Astăzi vă arăt un timelapse construit în 17 ţări, 343 de zile şi din 6237 fotografii de către Kien lam

Original Music: “Places and Faces” by William Lam.

Hardware: Panasonic Lumix GF-1, 20mm f/1.7 ÅŸi 14-45mm f/3.5-4.5.
Software: Lightroom, After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

Sysadmin day!

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Sysadmin DayOh Heeeeeloooooooo! And, like every year, the last Friday of July is marked as SysAdmin day! Give a hug to your sysadmin, get him coffee, give him a smile! They work all year round to get everything up and running around the office, and they surely deserve it!

A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage.

A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.

A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network.

A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.

A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.

When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.

A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.

So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin — and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this webpage.

Friday, July 27th, 2012, is the 13th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. (All day Friday, 24 hours, your own local time-zone).

Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It’s the least you could do.

Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let’s be honest, sometimes we don’t know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.

Show your appreciation!

I used to be a sysadmin.