I’ve been loving my Mac Book Pro so far. OSX is, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant pieces of software engineering I have ever encountered; I almost feel sorry for not “going mac” earlier in my life. But, no matter how good it is, the only thing that has been going constantly through [...]
Get them here: 20081221_First_Parachute_Jumps The most cool ones should follow, as soon as I get the CD from the school guys Posted via web from nocivus’ ramblings
Bought a new mac book pro. Like with most new toys, I cannot stop playing with it. It’s 3.30 in the morning and I should go to bed. But somehow the evil apple still holds me tight in front of the laptop Posted via email from nocivus’ ramblings
I cannot begin to describe what I've jump been through. The mix of feelings of the first jump out of an airplane is absolutely mind blowing! My best take at describing it would be something in the lines of "to be born again". Only because the experience is as traumatic (in the best sense possible) [...]
I've always been curious about experimenting with different seats inside airplanes so, in this entry, I will try to sum up my conclusions about traveling on the 30th (the last) row of a Boeing 737-800, from Amsterdam to Lisbon with KLM Airlines (now AirFrance). I would assume I was going to get less stress and [...]
With 95 hours until my first jump, I started reading some stuff (maybe I shouldn't) regarding what can go wrong. This one (http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-if-Your-Parachute-Fails-to-Open) stroke me as especially motivating and positive. With that in mind, here are my next steps before the jump. I hope they will be of some use for future first time jumpers, [...]
I have been wanting to write this forever, also so I could remind myself of it whenever needed. And this is the kind of subject that traverses most programming languages/frameworks/systems as long as you are dealing with large quantities of data. There are probably more things one can do in order to allow an application [...]
Getting excited, so I setup an online stopwatch hahahaha http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2008&month=12&date=20&hrs=10&ts=24&min=0&sec=0&tz=0&lang=en&show=h&mode=r&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20to%20my%20first%20airplane%20jump Posted via email from nocivus’ ramblings
Not sure if it's the best way, but I found this example in an webarchive page and it kind of makes more sense than keeping a list of the threads and cycling all the time checking if they are active or not: while threading.activeCount()>1: sleep(1) Not sure if this works, but have to try Posted [...]
My computer is amazing. He (I will always refer to it as an entity, even though I am aware that *it* is still not aware of itself) is capable of executing a tremendous amount of operations per second and, yet, it's not capable of remembering and asking for (in a smart way) where do I [...]
I just found a really cool option on Windows XP for USB disks. It seems that, if you go to the device manager and check the properties on an external (USB) hard drive, there is an option to optimize the drive for performance. This means that windows will cache some data on the other drives [...]
With traffic information Posted by email from nocivus (posterous)
Being the android emulator slow as it is, I decided to give it a try running it from the command line. This is just a mental guide, so bear with me. The first thing we should do is adding the android SDK tools folder to our path, so we can run the required commands from [...]
Yep, finished another one: A concept I was planning ever since, during a storm in Amsterdam, I looked out the window and saw the trees dancing, like they were fighting each other. No, I was not on drugs. Posted by email from nocivus (posterous)
After a lot of requests (Ok, only my mother asked for this) I decided to put online new photos. But first, a quick explanation: 1. I finally finished my apartment's floor. Actually most of the things are now in place for a comfortable living on which looks like a normal apartment, at least by my [...]
…I think it's safe to say that they are all gone. This guy bought a McDonalds burger in 1996 and kept it (no special conservation) to share later. You can see from the pictures that it looks exactly like it was bought yesterday. Makes you wonder what the hell is it made from, LOL. Posted [...]
If you get the joke, you might laugh: Posted by email from nocivus (posterous)
Almost daily, in some form or another, I find myself listening to things like "the code should have a very high test coverage", or "we should go for 85% test coverage", or "our test coverage % is very low". I tremble whenever I hear these sentences. I will try to summarize something that makes sense [...]
I don't think their owners gave it some second thought http://humour.200ok.com.au/bad-domain-names.html Posted by email from nocivus (posterous)
http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/ Posted by email from nocivus (posterous)