Posted on: April 23, 2009. No Comments »
We had a storm a few months ago and before the storm a number of lightnings struck the area close to where I live. I recorder a video of the lightnings and I noticed something weird…
The first image shows the view from our house. The second and third images show two lightnings. The third image is quite interesting, because the closest building on that image is around 20 meters away from where I was standing; and the lightning trajectory appears all the way to the bottom of the picture. It’s been ages since I last studied physics, so even if I knew how to explain how this happened, I have now forgotten! My thoughts so far:
- either the lightning struck less than 20 meters away from where I was. It doesn’t seem likely, because I assume I would have felt it striking so close. Moreover the clouds where the lightning started its trip [sic] appear to be far away close to the mountains.
- or the camera was able to capture the trajectory of the lightning behind the trees and buildings!
- or…
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…?
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Posted on: February 15, 2009. No Comments »
Update: The method described in the following proved to be useless in the summer, when the laptop became too slow (almost unresponsive). I guess setting the CPU Fan Control level to quiet does not work well when the environment temperature is relatively high. So, I removed the fan cover (all you need to do is remove 6 screws on my laptop) and injected some sewing machine oil on the fan! Now the laptop is TOTALLY silent again! Hurrah!
The noise level of the CPU Fan of my Sony Vaio VGN-SZ71E laptop was driving me crazy for the past few days. When the laptop was on, you could hear the fan operating even in the room next door. The fan was also producing vibrations, which I could feel when I had my arms on the keyboard palmrest! It’s needless to say you can’t work properly (i.e. concentrate on your work) under these circumstances.
I tried removing the chassis to see if I can replace the fan, but in order to have access to the CPU fan on this laptop model you need to disassemble pretty much everything! Luckily there is a workaround.
I had installed the Sony VAIO Power Management utilities, which allow me to manage the CPU Fan speed (Control Panel -> Power Options->VAIO Power Managent -> CPU Fan Control ). I set it to level “1-quiet” and I have to say it is much better now. Probably this has some impact on the performance, but this comes second to the peace of mind when working 
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Posted on: July 2, 2006. No Comments »
Today I finished a beta version of a simple java program that collects the statistics from a subversion repository. I have created a website for the program: http://www.freewebs.com/subvstats/
It currently works by checking the whole history of the repository, finding how many lines have been added/removed in each file by using the “svn diff” command and creating an HTML report.
A sample of the report can be found here: http://www.freewebs.com/subvstats/samplereport.html
The program should work for relatively small repositories. As soon as I have time I will document it more and generate more statistics. And yes, I am thinking of making it opensource, but not in its current state. I first need to find some time to document the code properly and have a stable version.
Keywords: Subversion, statistics, package, tool, program, software, java, subvstats.
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Posted on: September 5, 2005. No Comments »
At last after some months, I am officially on holidays, since Friday!
I booked the tickets and I am leaving on Thursday! I will probably stay in Athens for a couple of days and then go back home. I’ll be coming back on the 21st, hopefully with recharged batteries.
I had a very nice surprise party by Philipp and Arjun yesterday. Unfortunately I didn’t have any my camera at home in order to take a picture of the great cake! Well, we spent the whole day doing nothing…we should do it more often!
Even though I am on holidays, I also organise the data in my hard disk, in order to install the new one I bought.
P.S. Some pics from Norway as promised:
Overview of Trondheim from a hill close to the hotel.
A bear in the hotel.
The river that passes through the city. Wonderful view.
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Posted on: August 3, 2005. No Comments »
After 2 weeks or so we are starting again to regularly back to the gym. Weds and Sundays.
Apart from that I received today a mysterious email from a company asking for my details regarding a senior developer post in C. I don’t think my profile fits their needs, but I will send my details anyway.
Also my scepticism about the domain registration company is growing bigger. I was informed that someone sent an email to the anastasakis.net address three days ago, but I still haven’t received! Looks like I am moving to another company!
That’s it. I am already late for the gym and the rest are going to kill me!
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