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Suse Romania

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Open Source

Last Thursday was the launch day for OpenSUSE 11.1. As I told you before, I’m involved in translating this Linux distribution in Romanian, along with Alex and Daiana. This effort was not so well known, so we decided to make a site to make it known.

So, at suseromania.ro you will find news about openSUSE and the Romanian translation team, along with some unusual tutorials and original reviews, plus a forum (in Romanian, of course). Enjoy!

Tags: Linux, opensuse, SuseRomania

Romanian Restaurants Reviews

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, My Projects, Web stuff

It’s a big name for a small mashup (in romanian) from some of the guys out there doing restaurants reviews. It’s made using Pipes, the not so new anymore webapp from Yahoo! The data gathering is quite strange and difficult, as most of the websites used don’t have RSS feeds by category.

So what will you find ar rrr.strainu.ro? The latest articles about restaurants from Romania written by Metropotam, Ziarul Financiar, PAPABUN, Jurnalul de bucătărie and vinul.ro. You can read them online or get the list as RSS or JSON. If you have any other websites you would like to see here, you can always contact me.

UPDATE1: New source: gastronomie.ele.ro

UPDATE2: If you don’t want your site to appear here, just drop me a line. Do keep in mind that i’m not copying full articles and I do send the visitors to your sites to read the reviews.

Yet another contest

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, My Projects

This time from Worse than failure (formerly known as The daily WTF). It’s called the Olympiad of Misguided Geeks (OMGWTF), and it has a very interesting concept to say the least. The jury is pretty impressive too.

Via Hardcode. I guess they’ll have two Andrei’s in the contest, huh?

Layout change

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, My Projects, Personal

I have a new (green) layout on the main page. Now all my sites are green It’s nothing special, but it does seem better than the previous one. I also have some new homeworks (in a new language, Python) and projects. Enjoy!

Romania from the balcony

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Personal

I found an interesting project asking for pictures of Romania from your balcony. So, here is my picture (from Crangasi, Bucharest):

Tag: RomaniaDinBalcon

PR Update

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, My Projects, Personal

We’ve had a Google PR update these days, Strainu onLine is now at PR4. We’ll soon be over me previous site, strainu.3x.ro The blog and energreen both have PR3. The articles section has made a jump to PR2.

Superhero

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Geeks, Jokes&Fun, Personal

Because I’m on vacation and I don’t really feel like doing my homework, i decided to take any quiz I could find on the internet The funniest was the super-hero quizz. The results?

I am Spider-Man

Spider-Man 70% Hulk 65% Iron Man 65% Green Lantern 55% Superman 50% Robin 47% Catwoman 45% Supergirl 45% The Flash 30% Wonder Woman 25% Batman 25%

I am intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Yeah right!

How to make a (illegal?) buck

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Geeks, Society

I was trying to check my account on an well-known global website specialised in freelance software developement. (Un)fortunately, when I wrote the address in Firefox, I wrote .ro instead of .com. Surprise! The domain is registered by a Ploieşti, România-based company, is active and it offers pretty much the same services as its US counterpart.

After my unfortunate experience with Piatadesoft.ro, I became extremely careful with Romanian software sites, so the first thing I did was to check for the owner’s data. All I could find was a contact form, but no offline contact method. There are no projects on that website just yet, and my sincere hope is that there will never by any. If you read this, I strongly advise you NOT to use their services if they ever become active.

Blogs roundup

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Gadgets, Geeks, School

Well, since Andressa seems to have a good time in Poland and she doesn’t bother with the blog any more, we all have to find alternate sources of fun Here are my nominations:

• Entering the IT industry from Tudor Damian – some common sense pieces of advice for the future IT professionals
• Bash tricks: comparing floating point numbers by Petre – an somewhat old post about BASH. Interesting because that’s one of the problems in my homework for the Operating Systems course
• Yahoo! fights messenger spam by evolve – fact or just messenger trouble? We’ll see…
• Metro etiquette by Just me – an excellent idea! There is a good reason for the yellow footsteps on the Bucharest metro’s escalators. Ever wondered what’s that reason?

The Red Cross

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Society

Remember about it? It’s the oldest multinational in the world, born in 1863 The romanian branch was created in 1874 and was oficially recognised by the International Red Cross Comitee on the 23rd of August 1876. It’s current activity is more than discrete, but they seem to have helped the victims of the 2006 floods. The TV stations choose to ignore them, prefering to show the donations of certain well-known politicians rather than the collective efforts of the red cross voluteers. They also have a collaboration with Petrom.

YOU can also help, by donating money or by volunteering. You can also spread the word or buy some of their products.
I decided to write this article because the Red Cross calendars was one of the few things offered by the professors that I acceped to spend money on in highschool. The CICR is a very well-known organisation and the Romanian Red Cross Society deserves a simmilar media coverage. Unfortunately this blog is not widely read, so if any of the popular bloggers would like to help spread the word, I would be most grateful