“Born on the Fourth of July” was just on TV. It is a rather simple and shallow movie about Vietnam war and its veterans. It is also, supposedly, about how different things make people change. Like losing legs, for example. Or killing babies and stuff. As I said, the movie is very simplistic. Maybe it’s … Continue reading Born on the Fourth of July
Only one picture for the ‘Picture of the day’ project today. It is a police car, nice and clean, with URL on it’s door, pointing to http://www.police.gov.cy. It still makes me wonder how come that Cyprus is so degraded in terms of Internet technologies, while having Internet-aware government and pretty rich people. Go figure. The … Continue reading Picture of the day
Being uterly bored today, I decided to try WineX to run a few games on my home Fedora Linux Core 2 workstation. WineX is a commercial version ($5 USD) of Wine project produced by Transgaming Technologies. WineX is mostly Wine, plus a few goodies, like better support for DirectX. It seems that Transgaming Technologies website … Continue reading WineX 3.3 on Fedora Linux Core 2
Computer people use a lot of terms. Deeper these people are into computers, wider is their computer vocabulary. There are many attempts of computer/hacker/programmer dictionaries on the web. Hacking Lexicon is yet another one. It does have a lot of entries, and it groups terms by the subject nicely. Check it out for any term … Continue reading Hacking Lexicon
Olga and I watched “The Terminal” today. I’ve been looking forward for this movie and I wasn’t wrong. The film is excellent. Somehow this movie reminded me about all those films I watched while being a kid. They were from those times when movies mostly weren’t about the special effects or technology. They were about … Continue reading The Terminal