Nudismul, sau dezbracatul in public

Lorand R. Minyo mi-a transmis o leapsa destul de personala, pe care nu prea am cum sa o refuz, ca mi-am cerut-o cu lumanarea. Sa ii spunem exercitiu de curaj.

La fel cum zice si el, mai jos au sa apara chestiuni personale, indecente, x-rated sau oricum altfel vreti voi sa le spuneti. Nu o sa va trimit pe disney.com ca stiu ca nu o sa mergeti, si o sa incepeti sa cititi cu interes ce scrie mai jos.  Dar, aduceti-va aminte: daca cititi, o faceti pe propria raspundere, si nu puteti folosi nimic de mai jos impotriva mea!

Explicatie scurta, ulterior adaugata:

Corina: si dupa ce se face leapsa aia?
Corina: care-i regula?
Corina: scrii 100 si ceva de chestii … jenante more or less despre tine ?
.marius: nu
.marius: se ia lista respectiva,
.marius: si se boldeaza chestiile care le-ai facut.
.marius: si is 200 fix…

Deci sa incepem:

01) Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02) Swam with wild dolphins
03) Climbed a mountain
04) Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05) Been inside the Great Pyramid
06) Held a tarantula.
07) Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08) Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09) Hugged a tree
10) Done a striptease
11) Bungee jumped
12) Visited Paris
13) Watched a lightning storm at sea
14) Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15) Seen the Northern Lights
16) Gone to a huge sports game
17) Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18) Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19) Touched an iceberg
20) Slept under the stars
21) Changed a baby’s diaper
22) Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23) Watched a meteor shower
24) Gotten drunk on champagne
25) Given more than you can afford to charity
26) Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27) Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28) Had a food fight

29) Bet on a winning horse
30) Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31) Asked out a stranger
32) Had a snowball fight

33) Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34) Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35) Held a lamb

36) Enacted a favorite fantasy
37) Taken a midnight skinny dip
38) Taken an ice cold bath
39) Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40) Seen a total eclipse
41) Ridden a roller coaster

42) Hit a home run
43) Fit three weeks miraculously into three days (oh those exams!)
44) Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45) Adopted an accent for an entire day

46) Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47) Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48) Had two hard drives for your computer
49) Visited all 50 states of USA
50) Loved your job for all accounts
51) Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52) Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53) Had amazing friends
54) Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55) Watched wild whales
56) Stolen a sign
57) Backpacked in Europe
58) Taken a road-trip
59) Rock climbing

60) Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice (Hugarian police doesn’t speak English… )
61) Midnight walk on the beach
62) Sky diving
63) Visited Ireland
64) Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65) In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66) Visited Japan
67) Benchpressed your own weight
68) Milked a cow

69) Alphabetized your records
70) Pretended to be a superhero
71) Sung karaoke
72) Lounged around in bed all day
73) Posed nude in front of strangers
74) Scuba diving
75) Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76) Kissed in the rain
77) Played in the mud
78) Played in the rain

79) Gone to a drive-in theater
80) Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it
81) Visited the Great Wall of China
82) Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83) Dropped Windows in favor of something better

84) Started a business
85) Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86) Toured ancient sites
87) Taken a martial arts class
88) Sword fought for the honor of a woman
89) Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90) Gotten engaged
91) Been in a movie
92) Crashed a party
93) Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94) Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95) Gotten married
96) Had sex at the office
97) Gone without food for 5 days
98) Made cookies from scratch
99) Won first prize in a costume contest
100) Ridden a gondola in Venice
101) Gotten a tattoo
102) Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103) Gotten
divorced
104) Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105) Got flowers for no reason
106) Masturbated in a public place
107) Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108) Taken illegal drugs
109) Performed on stage

110) Been to Las Vegas
111) Recorded music
112) Eaten shark
113) Had a one-night stand
114) Gone to Thailand
115) Seen Siouxsie live
116) Bought a house
117) Been in a combat zone
118) Buried one/both of your parents
119) Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120) Been on a cruise ship
121) Spoken more than one language fluently
122) Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone

123) Bounced a check
124) Performed in Rocky Horror
125) Read – and understood – your credit report
126) Raised children.
127) Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy.
128) Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129) Created and named your own constellation of stars
130) Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131) Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132) Called or written your Congress person
133) Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134) …more than once? (not yet)
135) Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136) Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
137) Had an abortion or your female partner did

138) Had plastic surgery
139) Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.
140) Wrote articles for a large publication
141) Lost over 100 pounds
142) Held someone while they were having a flashback
143) Piloted an airplane
144) Petted a stingray
145) Broken someone’s heart
146) Helped an animal give birth
147) Been fired or laid off from a job
148) Won money on a T.V. game show
149) Broken a bone
150) Killed a human being
151) Gone on an African photo safari
152) Ridden a motorcycle
153) Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph

154) Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155) Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156) Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

157) Ridden a horse
158) Had major surgery
159) Had sex on a moving train
160) Had a snake as a pet
161) Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162) Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163) Slept for more than 30 hours
164) Visited lots of foreign countries
165) Visited all 7 continents
166) Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167) Eaten kangaroo meat
168) Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169) Been a sperm or egg donor
170) Eaten sushi
171) Had your picture in the newspaper

172) Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173) Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
174) Gotten someone fired for their actions

175) Gone back to school
176) Parasailed
177) Changed your name
178) Petted a cockroach
179) Eaten fried green tomatoes.
180) Read The Iliad
181) Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
182) Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183) …and gotten 86
′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184) Taught yourself an art from scratch
185) Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186) Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187) Skipped all your school reunions
188) Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189) Been elected to public office
190) Written your own computer language
191) Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
192) Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193) Built your own PC from parts
194) Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
195) Had a booth at a street fair
196) Dyed your hair
197) Been a DJ

198) Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199) Written your own role playing game
200) Been arrested.

 

Si daca tot e o leapsa, ar fi frumos sa o dam si mai departe:

Evident, in stilul caracteristic, leapsa poate fi preluata de oricine, mai ales de cei din BlogRoll… 😉

Remote Desktop Applications

For moments when you are not able to use normal Remote Desktop Connection, there are some applications that using a third server can help you manage your remote windows machines.After trying a few, I got stuff narrowed to TeamViewer and ShowMyPc. Did you guys use them? Give some inside info if yes. Waiting for your comments. Maybe you have some other applications in mind…

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showmypc.jpg

Windows based hosting vs Linux based hosting

Lately, Microsoft entered the hosting business with full throttle. The number of Windows servers available on the web for hosting purposes, VPS’s on Microsoft Windows 2003 or DDS’s on MSVS grows quite exponentially.

At this point the end user, the customer does not care much what platform he is hosted on (i.e. Linux or Windows) if he has a simple website, maybe a forum, a blog or something like that because technologies are intertwined: you can get an apache webserver both on windows and linux, and you can get ASP support on Linux. Maybe if he needs some VB applications to run he will definitely need windows based hosting, but that’s about it. He gets FTP to upload files, a control panel (i.e. SWSoft’s Plesk) to manage domains, mail addresses, databases, name servers etc. The main problem here is scalability. Thinking in the future, you need to decide if you are going to expand, and in which direction because you can easily switch from Linux to Windows, but the reverse is not that simple. I would suggest Linux of course, being much more secure, robust and efficient.

Today I had to delete 1 folder on a windows VPS. How much do you think that took? whatever you said, the answer is no! Let’s see:

  • remote desktop to the VPS – 15 seconds
  • locating the folder in question – another 10 – 15 seconds.
  • trying the delete button, checking permissions 1 minute
  • googling for something as trivial as “how to delete a directory with a space in its name” and finding the right solution: 15 minutes. (this is an extreme drawback… Windows problems, are often not well documented)

Add to that stopping the VPS from virtuozzo (vzctl stop VEID), mounting it on the VPS Node (vzctl mount VEID) and going to the mount point ( c:\vz\private\VEID\root\Inetpub\FtpUpload ) and then unmounting (vzctl umount VEID) and restarting the VPS (vzctl start VEID) nand you’ve got yourself a good 25 minutes spent on removing 1 folder:

C:\Inetpub\FtpUpload\ \ÿta18594-ÿ\ÿ-;; &20 @tagged .by; quit %f;;…-ÿ\ÿÿ-ÿÿ\ÿÿ–ÿ\ÿ-;% scanned by %d.-ÿ\ÿÿ-ÿ

My advice? stick to Linux. Why? because Linux is well documented, it has a great community behind, mature, and many many more qualities can go here.

Internet Explorer vs. Firefox

It sounds bad huh? everyone talked about it, and probably will talk about it some more…

You know that some people requested that Microsoft removed Internet Explorer from the Windows install CD’s? Yes, they did. Do you know what Microsoft replied? Some of you know, some of you probably don’t, so here is what they said:

We can’t remove Internet Explorer from the windows install, because, if we do, you won’t be able to download Firefox…

Well, I’m not here to take sides, I’ve been using Firefox for some years now, and I like it, I’m using it, I almost love it. But today I decided to download Internet Explorer 7. Guess what I used to download IE? Firefox of course…

Why did I do it? Well, I’m kind of sick of the memory leaks in Firefox, and the recent hiccups I’ve been experiencing, and since I have to use Windows for work, why not give a chance to IE also, and try the software that’s supposed to be “compatible”.

I’ll just give it a chance, for now.

You will know that I switched to Internet Explorer from Firefox, when this webpage will be Internet Explorer 100% compatible.

Also, using Office 2007 for the past weeks, made me like it quite a bit. Today I just added some of my RSS feeds to it, right next to the 5 IMAP accounts I’m using at the moment, if all goes well, I might change to it indefinitely… Bye bye Google Reader…

For wordpress users: If you didn’t update to WordPress 2.3.1 yet, do it. It’s nice.

LINA! Open LINA!

lina_logo_only.pngNo no no, it’s not my new girlfriend… It’s a long expected platform for running software with native look and feel on different OS’s…

Their description is quite explanatory:

LINA enables Open Source applications to run on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems with native look and feel. GUI applications running on LINA are indistinguishable from the other applications on the user’s machine because they utilize the native libraries of the underlying operating system. LINA integrates native linux command line applications directly into the DOS, Mac OS X, or UNIX console. The configuration files of Web applications that run on LINA are fully accessible and editable.

It’s quite a nifty thing, and I can’t wait to get home and play with it!!!!

Read more on http://www.openlina.org

The return of the…

I really had no idea what title to use for this post, as it marks my return to the blogosphere… I have so many things to tell you, so many funny videos on YouTube worth linking up, so many jokes, so many things that happened…

Let’s start with something funny: Everyone remembers “Dragostea din Tei” right? the stupid Romanian song that went crazy in every non-Romanian talking country around Europe… Yeah, that’s it! You remember it! I’ve got two links for you right now

Now that’s crazy, but the opera version sounds a bit cool…

I returned from The Netherlands, and you can see some pics here. I flew a Fokker 70 on my way there, and the same Fokker on my way back. I can’t say that it was a pleasant first flight for me, but the pilot managed to land safely, two times 😀 and I have no complains. The funny thing is that there is some experimental model of Fokker out there, one which was built to land on MUD… Don’t ask me why, but they call it a mudder fokker (do I need to spell that out for you? 🙂 )

It was time to say goodbye to my trusty Nokia 3510i, and for the first time in many many years, I switched brands, and I got a Sony Ericsson. It’s a J220i, quite simple, quite lame, no Romanian T9 dictionary, which means less text messages from me from now on, because I’m lazy, and I can log into my Gmail account now over WAP or GPRS or whatever. The old Nokia did not support Gmail’s forms, and I couldn’t type my username & password…

Bored already? I thought you might be, so I’ll end here 😉

PS: I decided to stop using Microsoft Windows a few months ago, and I’m not using it anymore, Ubuntu became my primary OS, so all of you out there who want Joost invites, I’m sorry, but I can’t run Joost on Linux… maybe on one of the other computers around the house or in the office, if the “request” is really high…

And here we go!

Nu credeam ca o sa mai reusesc, era sa renunt la un moment dat, dar pana la urma, tot raul spre bine, sau cum spuneaaboutmac.jpg mai devreme un prieten, there is no joy without a little hustle!

Mai am inca multe de facut, si de invatat, dar merita… So right about now, I’m going to yell: “In your face Mr. Gates!”

In alta ordine de idei, mi-am petrecut weekendul instaland mac osx, am pus niste poze pe flickr, si probabil, dar nu sigur, ca o sa postez cu data de ieri si un post numit “birou de blogger” ca de aia am facut pozele 😉 deci: Biroul 1 si Biroul 2. Va rog sa nu va legati de Halle Berry ca nu v-a facut nimic, da?

Update: Nu este vorba de o masina virtuala, si nici de un produs al companiei Apple, este un Acer TravelMate 2482NWXMi, procesor intel, si momentan cu un superb dual boot mac OS X / Windows XP… Windows is going bye bye soon, linux will take over 😉

 

mere…

Pai, am facut azi primii pasi spre un sistem de operare MAC OS X pe laptopul meu… dupa lupte seculare care au duratjoblogo.gif cateva ore, ca nu vroiam sa pierd windowsul si tot ce aveam pe aici deja configurat si pus la punct, m-am cam prins care e faza: modificare de partitii, backup pe un harddisk extern, am salvat aproape tot ce aveam nevoie… A trebuit sa renunt la niste seriale pe care le adunam sa le scriu pe DVD’uri (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Heroes… 🙁 ) dar nu e stres. Se mai gasesc. Eh eu am reusit sa trec de primele probleme. Si iata un MAC OS X care se instaleaza frumos, stau si astept, ma enerveaza…

Trebuie sa plec in centru, azi canta Kumm in Roland Garros. Au venit niste prietene de la Timisoara cu care ar trebui sa ma intalnesc.

Totul mergea bine, pana cand a venit mult asteptatul moment sa pornesc noul sistem de operare… Ciu Ciu… s-a blocat… restart! se blocheaza din nou. restart cu dvd’ul inauntru, se blocheaza din nou… nervi, strigate urlete… mai incerc.. inca o data… poate cand revin. Daca tot nu reusesc, I’ll stick to my linux.

 

grrrrr…

 Update: ei bine, am incercat mai multe variante, de la 10.4.8 pana la 10.4.5 si nici una nu merge. I need professional help, I never thought I would say this. so tomorrow, either I get the help I need, either I just get my linux back, up and running.