My First Place

September 30th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

I’m the happy owner of a three room apartment. I’m completely broke, and the place it’s a mess. At least I don’t have to break anything (cose it’s broke :) ) and I have a clean start.

19 Sep 2000

September 19th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

Go read this article. It’s written as a letter from his future self on what life will be like in 20 years. Kind of scary and certainly worst case scenario, but his point gets across, if you know what is happening outside, than for sure it won’t really look like science fiction. That would be the only case when I would have more to fight for.

What else ? Study, Study, Study. Did I told you that I enjoy my job. The moment I’m back to straight comercial applications I will be back on 9-5 until then 9-0 it’s a lot more fun.

Peer Reviewer

September 14th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

Lot’s of news. First I am now a Peer Reviewer at sXc, which is just great. Not to say, but: “You’ve been approved as a SourceXchange Peer Reviewer by Brian Behlendorf, our founder and CTO.” how can you not to feel good after such a news. A friend of mine pointed out that “we (from Eastern Europe) have to run twice as much just to have the chances other have”. I’m not sure if he is right, since Internet gives almost everyone the same opportunities, but in some things there is a huge difference.

New Tyrex, was released, and I have to make a sensor for it, therefore I’ve been reading a bit about JMX, but I guess I will have to read a lot cose I still don’t know how to introduce JMX support for RUE. I can choose (IMHO) between implementing SNMP support for RUE or to write some PA’s (Protocol Adapters) for JMX.

Configured another Internet/Linux server today, I just hate to do that, it’s so time expensive, all those little tidbits, set a few thing here, adjust a bit there, don’t forget to do that, next time I will write the whole process, because what’s worst is the feeling that maybe you forget something. And almost all the settings have to do with security. Man there is no such thing as security !.

Perception

September 7th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

I’m just amazed how much relativity is in our perception, I mean I’m not the best and I’m aware of that and makes me feel bad. On the other side others are feeling bad because they are not like me. Than the question, is the best feeling good because he is the one or he’s not thinking at all at this kind off little questions. Or maybe he’s feeling bad because he’s afraid than one day he might not be the best.

JMX

September 6th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

Lucky me I posted the monitor API initiative on Javalobby, otherwise who knows when I was to find about the JMX (Java Management Extension). I don’t know but i have the feeling that there is so much happening on Java, it’s very hard to get the news to people. The JMX was started basically at the end of 99, and when i started RUE (march 200), I’m sure I’ve been looking all over the Internet for something like that and I found nothing.

By the way I took a little vacation and I did a little face lift to this site, hope you like it. Also another news is that my sound card is working finally with SMP. After the “reorganization” of Aureal i was really concern that I will never get the drivers with SMP support but thanks to a few great hackers, a new project started at sourceforge. Yes its aureal.sourceforge.net, and those guys did a lot. That’s why I love open source.

Aureal Vortex

August 6th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

I guess it’s hacking time. I have a nice sound card (Aureal Vortex 8020 based) which since I’m running in SMP mode won’t work for more than 30 minutes. I tried all the patches (from mm and bofl) both did a change in single processor mode, but doesn’t help in bi. So, I guess it’s time to get dirty. Anyway I wanted some kernel coding lately.

RUE

July 19th, 2000 by Remus No comments »

Well it’s been some time from my last entry. What happened during the last months. Well a lot. Why a lot, because I’ve got my open source project. If your interested go check http://rue.nolimits.ro, yes it’s hot and strong, maybe not exactly now, but for sure it’s going to be. Am I satisfied ? No, i mean i was for about a day, when the last version was released, but after that things got normal.

There is also a lot of disappointment in this project. I’m not going to build it for me (do i will also use it), since I’m going to spend my nights on it, all i wanted is some kind of feedback, what people would like to have. I wanted to know that I’m working for something people will appreciate. After the announcement, i had almost 1000 visitors, ask me how many letters I’ve got. Answer 1. Tell me how many user subscribed to any of the mailing lists. NONE. Now maybe you will understand. Then i think-ed a bit about this, I’m sure if now there is no interest in this project one day will , I’m sure about this. Finally maybe a good optic would be to build it for me. I enjoy writing code i, like Java, and It’s not something obsolete to say that I’m loosing my time on it, so i will do it for me if anybody will afterwards be interested in the project will be welcome, until then it’s only my satisfaction.

On personal domain, i didn’t really had time for life, nor that here would be anything to desire attention (except my wife and friends, but they are all here with me), oh yes and now I’m one year older.

Windows 2000

March 2nd, 2000 by Remus No comments »

I’ve seen today Windows 2000 and I must tell you that I’m not impressed at all, have the same look as 98 but It’s twice as slow. I don’t know what those Redmond guys where working but they hided it very well. I’m just so happy that I’m a full time Linux user. By the way Happy birthday Nic!