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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31

Monday, May 31, 2010

Pirms gada bija ASV dollāra vājuma posms, tagad EUR vājuma posms. Bet tās ir labākajā gadījumā 10-15% svārstības, nevis 'krahs!' # My iPhone 3G crashed hard tonight for some reason. Having to restore a phone in the morning is no fun. # And then, naturally, my Windows VM crashes towards the end of the restore [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24

Monday, May 24, 2010

Es burtiski nesen taisīju algoritmus, kas apstrādāja 60k+ objektu sekundē (no teksta failiem, CSV) ar ļoti lielu paralēlismu # LTVRC vēl nav piekritis retranslēt TV3. Visitcamāk iedos TV3 četras reizes lielāku ceņņiku (jo ar to jāsedz visas izmaksas) un TV3 atteiks # Skatos #hokejs un instinktīvi nospežu blakus esošās klaviatūras Space lai nopauzētu action # [...]

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So, what is Microsoft Azure and how it compares to Amazon’s AWS

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

We had a Microsoft salesperson stop at our offices today to tell people about wonders of cloud computing and Microsoft’s Azure will save us all. The following is a short and non-exhaustive list of what Azure does not do according to their own experts: no Infrastructure as a Service – which means that they actually [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17

Monday, May 17, 2010

Tāds #hokejs mums IR vajadzīgs! # Kāpēc mūsēji stāv vārtu priekšā 'ne metiena pozīcijā'? #hokejs # For Latvian journalists – learn to use TrueCrypt with http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability # Make a 20G TrueCrypt partition with dummy data and then make hidden partitions there for each case. # http://www.tvnet.lv/zinas/latvija/330598-ilmars_poikans_esmu_neo – ne viens ne otrs pants Neo izdarītajam neatbilst [...]

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Hacker ‘Neo’ caught in Latvia

Thursday, May 13, 2010

A scandal has been brewing in Latvia over the last half year and yesterday the activity spiked shocking the media and some IT people in the country. I’ll go back and explain what happened first, what is happening now and why this could have a heavy impact on IT and journalists in Latvia. At the [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10

Monday, May 10, 2010

Vāks, atkal mājās nets pazuda. Citynet fail jau 4to reizi mēneša laikā. @Lattelecom we need you uz Kurbada 5! # Uploading Animefest7 bildes uz flickr – 4% complete. It's gonna take some time … (610 photos, 1.8 Gb) # I am very disappointed that 'United States of Tara' is not about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Maclay # Thunderbird + [...]

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Going to Debconf10!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

After a few months, today I finally got the approval and As I work for Accenture now, I got them to pay for the plane tickets and also spring for the ‘Professional’ registration, so more people can attend. I am very happy, and very grateful to the company and to the managers here in Riga [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03

Monday, May 3, 2010

Help test the hypothesis that cleavage causes earthquakes http://is.gd/bIuEu #boobquake #tryscience # Esmu Animefest – simtiem cilvēku, es dabūju pēdējo nerezervēto biļeti. Daudz teen un pat per-teen fanu. # Latvian Animefest 7 is very cool – lots of cool people, too bad the place was a bit too small for everyone. # Powered by Twitter [...]

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