The wonderful parkytowers.me.uk website doesn’t detailed photos of both sides of the HP t630 thin client, so – in case this would be useful for anyone – here are some photos I’ve made: It’s a very useful little fanless (!) machine. The DisplayPort outputs even support HDMI-CEC when connected to a TV, out of the…

Back in January Kurzgesat announced that they’re doing a sale because they’ll be moving warehouses (see the announcement on Archive.org). This lead me to ask “is that really happening or is this just a marketing ploy to drive sales”? So, I did a small experiment by purchasing something from the shop back in January and…

Here we are in 2016, trying to start blogging again. Using Pelican is more complicate than it needs to be :-(.

Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Builders have become commonplace in current Java code. They have the effect of transforming the following code: new Foo(1, 5, “abc”, false); Into something like Foo.builder() .count(1) .priority(5) .name(“abc”) .canonical(true) .build(); This has the advantage of being much easier to understand (as a downside we can mention the fact…

If you need to “recover” your RoTLD password when the .RO domain is registered trough Gandi.NET (I say “recover” because you didn’t set it in the first place :-)) – do this: In the Gandi interface go to Account Management -> Update account information and set “Anti-spam system” to No Go to the RoTLD password…

Inspired by this post I decided to list the software I use/recommend under Windows. Free/Libre Open Source Software: LibreOffice (for of OpenOffice) – a very capable office solution. Most people don’t need anything more than this. If you are installing it for a non-technical user, make sure to set the default file formats to the…

Piggybacking on some memes floating around on the internet I would like to publish my list of “what every programmer should know”. A couple of introductory words: in my opinion the two most important things to learn for new programmers are terminology – to know what things / ideas / algorithms / concepts are called…