Vladimir on July 16th, 2008

The computer generation of 1970’s and 1980’s to which I belong, has always been different in respect of what music they like, what places they like and of course the way they like their computers.

We mostly started out early playing…

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Vladimir on July 13th, 2008

I have been looking an alternative to replace my old, trusty IBM Thinkpad T43P. More then four years old technology and I still can not find an adequate replacement.

976-t43a Web developer laptop: Alternative to Thinkpad T43P?

Old but good, T43P is hard to beat even today

The model I…

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Vladimir on July 11th, 2008

German engineering or the Italian flavor?

My two favorite sports cars: Bugatti EB110 and Porsche Carrera GT.

Imagine you have a 300,000 euro in your pocket. The only way you are allowed to use it is to enter a store where these two cars…

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Vladimir on June 24th, 2008

Here is a case of a recent Google tech support experience. I know that big companies like to outsource tech support to save costs but for a technology leader like Google? It does not make much sense.

Problem with removing Google…

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Vladimir on June 17th, 2008

I went flying today, and although I managed to stay only half an hour in the air, I managed to shoot a nice video of the flight.

I still have it on my phone though (it’s a 640×480 video that Nikoa…

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Vladimir on May 31st, 2008

JailbreakSitting here, waiting while data from my old hard drives are being transferred to the new. I installed a new computer, installed Windows and during the last boot it decided that my graphics card is not properly configured so I…

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Vladimir on May 30th, 2008

If you type on Google my first name, Vladimir, you can find my site listed pretty soon, just below the actual president of Russia Vladimir Putin, and in company of some historically very important Vladimirs. For only six months that…

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