My Little [Disturbed] World

Got Mail?

2010-12-10T18:16:00.001+01:00

I sure do, 306.000 e-mails. Exim sure was busy :)

Interesting spam

2010-12-10T04:10:00.002+01:00

Call me weird but I like to read spam. I like knowing what the spammers are doing every currently and today I received an e-mail from the wife of the former Yugoslav/Serbian president (war criminal/ass hole) Slobodan Milosevic. I've included a screen-shot of the e-mail below.

See, this is more interesting to us who live here in this region, because that man has made quite an impression on everyone, even though it was 100% bad. And this probably comes from Nigeria or some other African country considering the spelling and everything. But you've got to hand it to them, they are smart, did their reading on our history and everything... Aah, those Nigerians, what will they come up with next :)

Hannah Montana

2010-12-09T17:43:00.001+01:00

I never expected to say this, BUT, I've been searching for photos of Hannah Montana for about 20 minutes today. A friend asked me to get them for his kids computer wallpapers. I must say it was quite hard to get these in a pack. Torrent sites had little to none seeders and the rest was manual labour, which I was not prepared to do ;)

So, If you ever find yourself in need of Hannah Montana photos, I've uploaded some to my box.net account, here is the link --> Hannah Montana photos

Bunny bath

2010-12-04T05:59:00.000+01:00

This is a special photo. When I first saw it it made me laugh, then it made me feel sad. It's also the biggest reason why I decided to buy a little bunny to the woman I used to love. That was a long time ago, how time flies.

Anyway, it was a nice day today, I've made good progress on some of my new work, hope I succeed before new year arrives.

Can't wait for this year to be over. A lot of things need to be put behind.

Good FREE software that I use on a regular basis

2010-12-02T17:29:00.001+01:00

Skype: online chat, voice call software, very functional, secure and stable

ImgBurn: is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application

CDBurnerXP: my new favourite recorder, does the job and it's functional

Putty: is a free SSH/Telnet client that I use almost every day to connect to remote servers

Notepad++: is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages

TeamViewer: TeamViewer is a tool that let's you connect to a remote computer which is also running TeamViewer and offer remote support. Quite handy, lot's of functions. I've been using it since it came out, and haven't looked back since.

IrfanView: is a tool that I use to resize photos, save screenshots etc. Small and useful.

VLC: is a media player that can play almost anything, even RAR'ed movie chunks and damaged files. Very useful if you don't like installing codecs and that kind of crap.

µTorrent: is a tiny and fast BitTorrent client

TED: Torrent episode downloader - does exactly what it's names states

ShutDown Timer: ever wanted to lay down, watch a movie and fall asleep without worrying about your computer being turned on all night. With shutdown timer you set the timer and that's it. Your computer turns off after the set amount of time.

Well, these are my most used applications at the moment.

Flashing my NEC ND-3520A DVD/RW drive

2010-12-02T16:14:00.001+01:00

So I've been having some issues with my DVD recorder lately. Well not lately, for quite some time now, but I never got around thinking about it. Today I wanted to backup some files and guess what, the recorder didn't want to record the DVDs. It worked OK with some, but not with others. So I decided to flash the damn thing.

I downloaded the NEC ND-3520A flash tool, ran it, and It said that my firmware version was 1.04 - the current was above 3.07. So I had a way too old firmware.

Once I flashed it, powered down my computer and turned it on again, everything worked like a charm. I guess the firmware was so old it didn't have any information about the new media (DVD's,CD's) that were out there. My 100th post, Yay.

Well, I did something good today, now I can go out and make a snowman :)

Posting from my mobile phone

2010-11-28T01:52:00.000+01:00

So I wanted to test this feature. Here goes nothing :) Oh yeah, it started snowing yesterday.

Re-doing my workspace

2010-04-28T13:23:00.005+02:00

I've started with my desk and cables. I'm trying to hide the cable clutter by using some advanced cable management techniques.
Also, I'm putting my card reader and a new USB hub under the table, so I have quick access to some USB ports, those are always welcome.
I've ordered a 7 port Akasa USB hub. It looks slim enough to fit under my desk. I already mounted the card reader which has all the necessary slots, like SD, MS/MS pro, CF etc.
The next step is mounting my LED screens to the wall. I'll probably make a custom mount because the commercial ones are way too expensive.

Soltek SL-75FRN2 motherboard drivers + download

2010-04-12T23:16:00.005+02:00

Hello there!

So I haven't written much lately (no time) but here is something useful for all you people who are looking for soltek sl-75FRN2 motherboard drivers.

I have been looking for them for about an hour and got really frustrated. The company seems to have died or something so you can't find their drivers anywhere.

Everywhere I went they wanted money for the drivers and their stupid driver update programs (fuck you, you dirty bastards) but I still managed to find this one for free. Well they wanted me to pay them but it's a long story.

I finally managed to get my hands on one the drivers packs for this motherboard and decided that I must share this.

So I uploaded the drivers onto my box.net account for you to download. Hope this saves you a lot of time (and money).

Here is the link

Best regards!

Skype 4 + IrfanView 4.25 slovenian translations

2009-10-05T12:10:00.006+02:00

I get asked a lot if there are Slovenian translations for Skype 4 or IrfanView 4.25.
Little googling always helps because I found these 2 in less then a minute.
Anyway, if you need them, they will be on my blog all the time. I will try to constantly update these language files to the newest versions. On the right side of the blog, you will find the section with the downloads.
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Ljudje me velikokrat sprašujejo glede slovenskih prevodov za IrfanView in najnovejši Skype. V primeru da jih boste potrebovali, bosta ta dva prevoda vedno na voljo na tem blogu. Potrudil se bom da bosta datoteki vedno sveži. Na desni strani bloga boste našli okence s prevodi.

Rollerblading

2009-10-04T18:20:00.003+02:00

You know how it's like when you have something and never use it. Well my girlfriend bought me a pair of Rollerblades for my birthday a couple of years ago but I rarely use them. So last night I decided to try them on, for good times sake :=) It was dark outside so my embarrassment of falling on my ass was slightly lower, none would recognize me anyway ;)
So I visited my girlfriend who lives about 3km away and my feet were killing me. But when I went home I realized that the way over was slightly uphill so when I was rolling back it was much easier. I actually had a lot of fun. So tonight I'm gonna put them on again and cruise around town.

So long uncle Veletanlić Husein

2009-10-03T00:31:00.006+02:00

This week me and my family suffered a tragic loss, my uncle Husejn has passed away after one week struggle in Banja Luka hospital.

He was a strong and energetic person, one who often visited his relatives and friends and used to help others a lot.

When we first came to Slovenia, he picked us up at the train station. We stayed with him and his family for about two years.

He always joked, you could never tell when he was joking or being serious. Even if he said something stupid or harsh, you could never hold it against him because he would always say something that would make you laugh in the end.

He was also very street smart. He was raised in the old ways and was introduced to the harsh reality of life at young age. Therefore he adapted to situations very fast. He used to tell me things about life which I discarded very fast thinking: "what the hell do you know old man", but he was mostly right on the spot.

On September 21st, he was returning home just as he would do every day. There is an unsecured railroad crossing about 30 meters from his home in town of Bosanski Novi(Novi Grad) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Right when he was about to cross it with his car, a train came and you know the rest. His view was obstructed by a truck that was parked next to the railroad. Doctors fought for his life but in the end he lost the battle. May Allah almighty forgive him for all his sins and grant him the passage into paradise.

We were very close so these were on of the hardest few weeks of my life. Daily visits to the hospital which was 90 kilometers away, bad roads and greedy doctors who wanted more and more money. All that takes it's toll. Now I'm back in Slovenia and trying to move on with my life.

I will miss you.

Goodbye Jessy

2009-09-22T10:36:00.003+02:00

We had a goodbye party from a friend of mine the other day. It was fun.

SSD Raid

2009-09-22T08:34:00.002+02:00

So I bought these SSD drives right, but I had to wait for some time in order to get the raid controler. It's finaly here, now I can test the speed of this beast.
This image below is not mine, my phone screen broke so I didn't take any photos, but it gives you an idea of what it looks like. It's a 4 x 256GB raid field. It should kick ass with my new 100mbit fiber-optic internet connection.

Bajram Šerif Mubarek Olsun - Eid Mubarak

2009-09-20T10:02:00.000+02:00

Listen to some late night cool tunez

2009-09-17T03:30:00.001+02:00

Today's betting picks

2009-09-16T16:51:00.001+02:00

Liverpool FC - Debreceni VSC (0:1) (Handicap) 1 1,25
Blackpool FC - Newcastle United (under/over 2.5) (Under/Over) 1 1,65 2.06

Flash ping pong

2009-09-16T03:01:00.004+02:00

Here's a cool game I like to play every now and then.

Sorry, you will need the <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/" target="_blank">Flash Player</a> to play Flash Ping Pong.

pure-ftpd and tcpd_wrappers

2009-09-14T22:22:00.007+02:00

Have you ever had to deal with fuckz0rs from all around the world trying to put shit on your server. Well I know I have to. Some of my customers got infected with some key-loggers and managed to get their ftp passwords stolen. Now I have to deal with that. This happened to me once before and the smartass datacenter admin was so thrilled to say: "you were 0wned, you were h4x0red, you were rooted, etc etc".
And Idiot that I was, I believed him. I started scanning my server for rootkits and that kind of shit instead of looking for the real thing. Just thinking about it makes me angry.

I've downloaded the binary and csv geoip database, managed to crawl through it via php module. I've got all the Slovenian IP ranges.Now I just have to configure pure-ftpd to work with tcpd_wrappers so I can get it to work with hosts.deny. Enough about that for now.

Any-who, I've ordered a new computer for myself today, it's been a long time since I've bought something for myself. For about two years now, I was only selling stuff ;) It's a quad-core with 8GB ram and 2TB hard drive, a kick ass graphics card and a big screen. All I have to do now is wait.

This is my current computer configuration

Cool, beautiful, pretty, sci-fi nature wallpapers - PART 1

2009-09-13T16:27:00.007+02:00

I was digging around my old files and found some HQ sci-fi nature wallpapers. I thought some of you could use them.

Machinarium

2009-09-12T22:59:00.003+02:00

If you ever played World Of Goo, then you will definitely like this game.

Quote: "A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend.
The game will be released in the fall of 2009.

Soon I shall play you, soon!

REMOVE SPYWARE,MALWARE,VIRUSES FROM YOUR COMPUTER

2009-09-12T15:03:00.007+02:00

This is simple tutorial on howto remove most of the crap that slows down your computer. It might also save you some money. We will remove viruses, spyware, malware, rootkits, keyloggers, and then some more.

1. DOWNLOAD FREE AVIRA-ANTIVIR

Avira antivir is out of the best (if not the best) free antivirus solutions. It will clean most of the things that need to be cleaned before we run combofix. Most importantly, it will clean your system files, if they are infected. So download, run it and reboot your computer afterwards.

2. DOWNLOAD COMBOFIX
Combofix is a powerful program that will clean your computer through more than 40 stages. It will clean the path for programs that will clean your computer for some other stuff that clog your hard drive.
IMPORTANT: close your antivirus program and anything else you have running. Combofix looks like one of those MS-DOS accounting programs you have running on your old computer, but it does the job far better than anything else out there.

3. DOWNLOAD SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY

Spybot search & destroy is a powerful program that will search for more than 50.000 malware,spyware,bots,trojans and other bad bad signatures. After combofix, it will clean your computer to a greater extent. You should already feel the speed increase in your computer after you ran combofix. This will improve it. Run it, it will probably take a lot of time, depending on in what state your computer is at the moment. Be patient, go get yourself a coffee or something. This will take a while.

4. DOWNLOAD HIJACK-THIS

Finally, download hijack this. It is a program that will remove some other nasty entries in your browsers and such.

Your computer should be crap free now. Good luck.

Michael Jordan: Highlights from Early in his Career

2009-09-12T03:12:00.001+02:00

Multitasking

2009-09-12T00:33:00.001+02:00

Man travels through 37 countries on just £1

2009-09-10T17:07:00.002+02:00

A man has cycled over 29,000 miles (45,000 km) through 37 countries after setting out from his home in Japan eight years ago with the equivalent of just £1.

Keiichi Iwasaki: He has been robbed by pirates and arrested in India, almost died when he was attacked by a rabid dog in Tibet and nearly married in Nepal. Photo: SWNS
Keiichi Iwasaki , 36, left on his Raleigh Shopper bicycle in 2001 to go on a tour of Japan.
But he enjoyed himself so much he caught a ferry to South Korea and since then has cycled through 37 countries without returning home.

He has been robbed by pirates and arrested in India, almost died when he was attacked by a rabid dog in Tibet and nearly married in Nepal.
In total Mr Iwasaki has cycled over 45,000km (27,961 miles) on his favourite Raleigh shopper bikes but two have been stolen and two have broken so he now rides his fifth.
His biggest achievement is climbing the world's highest peak Mount Everest, which stands at 8,848 m (29,029 ft), from sea level without using any transportation.
Mr Iwasaki, originally from Maebashi, Japan, says that only his ''strong will'' has kept him going.
He said: ''Most travellers and adventurers need money but instead of giving up an opportunity to travel the world I want to clarify that dream can come true if you have a strong will.
''I have been travelling for eight years and I continue to do so from money I receive from performing tricks. I do not carry a credit card or traveller's cheque.
''My strong will is very important and I hope this trip will prove that. I wanted to travel the world in my early twenties, but I have not been able to do so until I was 28.
''I thought to myself that 'My life will soon be over before I do what I want to do!', so I decided to start this trip.
''I didn't want to use aeroplanes because I wanted to see and feel everything with my own skin. With bicycle, I can always feel the air and atmosphere of the place.''
Mr Iwasaki left home on April 15 2001 with just 160 yen, around £1, in his pocket after he became bored working for his father's air-conditioning company.
He rode around Japan for one year before buying a one-way ticket to South Korea in March 2002.
Since then he has travelled the world on his Raleigh Shopper bicycles and funded his travels by performing magic tricks.
In May 2005, he became the first Japanese man to climb Mount Everest from sea level without using any transportation.
He has also rowed from the source of the Ganges river in India to the sea, a journey of 1,300km which took him 35 days.
Mr Iwasaki is currently in Switzerland waiting to climb Europe's highest peak, Mont Blanc.
Following this he plans to travel to Africa, across to South America and then make his way back to Japan for the first time in over a decade via North America.
He believes this will take him five years before he begins to write a book about his trip.
* Countries Mr Iwasaki has visited: South Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech, Austria, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Switzerland.

Worlds tallest abandoned structures

2009-09-10T15:49:00.009+02:00

I've decided to save some interesting articles that I've stumbled upon while surfing the internet, to my blog. Here is one I found today.

Today, we’re going to do some urban exploring as we’re searching for the tallest abandoned structures around the world. We’re going to visit Russia, North Korea, the US and Poland on our quest for the rustiest. Once found, we’re going to climb the towers and buildings so make sure you leave your vertigo behind…
1. Ostankino Tower, Moscow – 540 m (1772 ft)
The Ostankino Tower was completed in 1967 to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was the first free-standing structure to exceed 500 m (1640 ft) and held that title for nine years until it was surpassed by the CN Tower in Toronto in 1976. The Ostankino Tower is named after the Moscow district in which it is located.
The Ostankino Tower in all its glory…

Image via English Russia
…during the fire in 2000…

Image: Elke Wetzig
It served telecommunication, observation and tourism purposes until it caught fire in August of 2000 when most of the tower’s interior was destroyed. Rebuilding the heavily damaged tower proved a long and costly task, so that both the tower and the idea of renovation have been abandoned ever since.
… and a stomach-churning view down during construction:

Image via English Russia
2. Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea – 105 floors, 330 m (1,100 ft)
The Ryugyong Hotel was named after the historic name for Pyongyang, “capital of willows”, the district it can be found in. Unlike a willow and more like a pyramid that would be every skater’s dream, it towers over the city of Sojang-dong; the whole country in fact. Construction of the ambitious project began in 1987 as a response to Singapore’s Westin Stamford hotel built by a South Korean company the previous year.
Not yet under construction in June 2007:

Image: Timur
Construction went on for five years but ceased due to lack of funds, electricity and building materials. It was abandoned for 16 years, but construction resumed in 2008 and the hotel is now being readied to open its doors in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of Kim II Sung’s birth. With 360,000 sq m (3,900,000 sq ft) of floor space and 105 stories, it would be the world’s tallest hotel. It is currently the world’s 28th tallest building.
Something’s going on – in February 2009:

Image: Myouzke
3. Mystery Tower, somewhere in Russia – around 300 m (1,000 ft)
The next tower is one of Russia’s tallest abandoned structures but that’s pretty much all we know about it. It certainly looks like a TV or radio tower and someone without vertigo has made the climb up those icy steps to snap some dizzying pics.
Where do you even hold on?

Image via English Russia
The tower when it’s not frozen over:

Image via English Russia
4. PacBell Building, San Francisco – 26 floors, 133 m (435 ft)
Though almost 200 m shorter than the previous structure, the PacBell Building in San Francisco’s South of Market district can claim to be the world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper. It was completed in 1925 and housed the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company, which is why it was called Pacific Telephone Building at first. Part of the Bell System, the company had bell motifs chiseled into its façade.
The PacBell Building rises behind SF’s MoMA:

Image: Christopher Beland
Renamed PacBell Building after the breakup of the two big phone companies, the Neo-Gothic office tower was sold to investor William Meany Sullivan and Stockbridge Capital Partners in 2007 at the recession price of $118 million. Though a request for a building permit was made in December 2008, no redevelopment has started yet.
Faded glory – the auditorium’s waiting room on the 26th floor in sunset glow:

Image: Jonathan Haeber
The PacBell eagles have kept a watch since 1925:

Image: Jonathan Haeber
5. Gliwice Radio Tower, Poland – 118 m (385 ft)
Radio Station Gliwice’s tower might not be the tallest abandoned structure mentioned here, but it has two records to its name: It is the only remaining radio tower constructed of wood in the world and the tallest wooden construction on earth.
The radio tower today:

Image: Tonkow1993
But that’s not all. The tower was completed in 1935 and with the impending Second World War, had a bit of a tumultuous history. It was used by the Nazis for broadcasting as Gliwice was a Prussian province until 1945 and therefore belonged to Germany. The Nazis even staged an attack on it by Polish soldiers as one of various border incidents on the night of August 31st, 1939 – an excuse for their invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 – a move that would start WWII, 70 years ago almost to the day.
Looking up at the wooden construction:

Image: Andrzej Jarczewski
The radio tower, nicknamed Silesian Eiffel Tower for some resemblance in construction to its famous Parisian cousin, was used until the 1980s. Though not in service any more, the tower has served as a museum since 2005. Most other wooden radio towers, popular in the ‘30s, disappeared by the ‘50s.
6. Broderick Tower, Detroit – 35 floors, 113m (369 ft)
The David Broderick Tower in Detroit, Michigan is a Neo-classical and Beaux-Arts limestone skyscraper completed in 1928. It was commissioned by Theodore Eaton, an importer and trader in chemicals and dyes, and was initially known as the Eaton Tower.
The Broderick Tower with a whale mural by local artist Wyland painted in 1997:

Image: Aaron Barth
The building was bought by David Broderick, an insurance broker, in 1945. Since Broderick’s death in 1957, the tower has changed ownership many times and closed completely in the 1980s. Except for bars or restaurants occupying the first floor, the building has been abandoned ever since. However, redevelopment has been underway and the tower is set to reopen in early 2010. Planned is a mall on the first four floors, office space on the two floors above and residential apartments on floors 5 through 34.
A view from the 17th floor down:

Image: Aaron Barth
A view from Broderick’s once exclusive Sky Top Club on the 33rd floor:

Image: Aaron Barth
Who would’ve thought that so many amazing towers and buildings would just get abandoned? If only we could put all that wasted space to use for where it is needed. Some of the buildings portrayed here are already under new contract while the others will have to crumble, er, fend for themselves.

Michael D. Duvall sex scandal

2009-09-10T14:06:00.003+02:00

This is how Heidi DeJong Barsuglia looks like.

If anyone is looking for her photo, here it is. It's small but you get the "picture" :D

Facebook and parenting

2009-09-09T15:42:00.003+02:00

This is why you shouldn't have your divorced parents on facebook.

Halo 3 ODST - live action trailer

2009-09-06T14:01:00.003+02:00

Even though I don't own an xbox, I'm thinking about buying one. This new game is going to kick some serious ass. Here is a live action trailer. Real people playing as ODST - Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.

True Blood, work, storm

2009-09-05T02:23:00.004+02:00

Lately I've been watching this show called True Blood. It's really watchable. It's about vampires living among us and everyone knowing it. Everyone knows but only some except them. One of those people is this girl called Sookie. She gets involved with an old vampire called Bill. The story gets complicated but it's really interesting. You should watch it.
Work is really going great lately. I've gotten a couple of new contracts. That's all I can say.
And this bad weather.. I like it. Just keep on raining. Rain is gooood.

District 9, farmwille, ebooks

2009-09-02T02:28:00.005+02:00

I just saw District 9 and it was a great movie. Certainly one of the most "think out of the box" sci-fi pictures I've ever seen. Hope there will be a sequel.
I also got hooked on farmwille the facebook app. Funny.
I have been creating my Ebook doomsday computer for some time now. I wanna gather as much ebooks as humanly possible. Call me paranoid but I wanna have something to read in case the internet decides to die one day. I've collected a lot of stuff, from physics to mechanics, cooking, building construction, solar and wind power, programming, etc etc. If they ever invent a computer2human interface (like a usb port or something), I want to upload all this shit into my brain. And then, McGaiver watch your back, cuz I'd be all up in that mothafucka, creating bamboo motherships and cyborgs from cookie dough. Aaight

Some tunez that are ending in my car

2009-08-31T01:19:00.001+02:00

1. The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (Main Version)
2. Lady Gaga - Poker Face
3. Jamie fox - Blame it
4. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Radio Edit Fade)
5. Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day 'N' Nite
6. Beyoncé - Halo
7. 3OH!3 - Dont Trust Me
8. Flo Rida - Sugar (Ft. Wynter Gordon)
9. Jeremih - Birthday Sex
10. Soulja Boy - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
11. Miley Cyrus - The Climb
12. Flo Rida - Right Round
13. Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
14. Keri Hilson - Knock You Down Feat. Kanye West and Ne-Yo
15. Shinedown - Second Chance
16. T.I. - Dead And Gone (Feat. Justin Timberlake)
17. Eminem - Beautiful (Explicit Version)
18. Sean Kingston - Fire Burning (Radio Edit)
19. The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
20. Soulja Boy Tell'em - Turn My Swag On
21. Lady GaGa - Just Dance (Feat. Colby O'Donis)
22. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
23. Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up
24. Taylor Swift - Love Story
25. The Fray - You Found Me
26. Britney Spears - If You Seek Amy (Radio)
27. Lady GaGa - Lovegame
28. Green Day - Know Your Enemy
29. Eminem - We Made You
30. Kristinia Debarge - Goodbye (Main Version)
31. Daughtry - No Surprise
32. Jordin Sparks - Battlefield
33. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
34. Brad Paisley - Then
35. Kanye West - Heartless
36. Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
37. Jonas Brothers by deMir - Paranoid
38. Zac Brown Band - Whatever It Is
39. Jesse McCartney Feat Ludacris - How Do You Sleep?
40. Pink - Please Dont Leave Me (Original)
41. Sugarland - It Happens
42. Jason Aldean - She's Country
43. Plain White T's - 1, 2, 3, 4
44. Keri Hilson feat. Lil Wayne - Turnin Me On
45. P!nk - Sober
46. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
47. Pleasure P - Boyfriend #2 (Amended Album Version)
48. Lady Antebellum - I Run To You
49. Dierks Bentley - Sideways
50. NeYo - Mad

The Pirate Bay is your friend

Chromium on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-08-31T01:11:00.002+02:00

Works great. All I had to do was to enable flash by copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins.

You have to start chromium with --enable-plugins prefix, just embed it into the shortcut, no hassle.

Everything works nice and smooth, really liking it so far.

ThePirateBay

2009-08-24T19:01:00.006+02:00

So stupid Swedish authorities decided to take TPB offline today. Things are not looking too bright for my favorite tracker at the moment. The site is still online but I guess the traffic is beeing tunneled from another country - hence the creepy slow connection.

Well, I wish them best of luck!

UPDATE:
as I've thought, they have relocated the servers. The site will be up as soon as peoples DNS servers update. I suggest using OpenDNS

Guess what I'm watching from today on

2009-08-19T23:07:00.000+02:00

Another hot day

2009-08-19T21:15:00.007+02:00

Lately, I'm getting up at 5 am, because otherwise it's impossible to do anything with the temperatures being as high as they are.

So I have some new photos from this morning aaaand another thing - I saved this little bird from my cat Ninja, otherwise he would have had her for breakfast. She was so tiny. There are some images and one video. I've also put in a screenshot of my desktop. I've been using the new ubuntu 9.04 for quite some time now and It works great for me. You should try it.

Enjoy

busy day

2009-08-17T21:15:00.002+02:00

I haven't slept for 30 hours.

Today I've figured out a couple of new things:

- LG mobile phone software sucks. Slovenian translation is translated with babelfish or something like that.
- I've barely synchronized 980 nokia's addresses and phone numbers with lg kf750 - painstaking experience.
- Started using IDrive - an online backup solution. I've installed it on all of our home computers so atleast the documents and some images are backed up.
- I've ran a couple of miles 5.30 in the morning. I'm getting good at this. I've been running for a while now and I feel much better. I have more energy and don't perspire as much.

Now I'm so tired I think I'm gonna fall asleep while writing this. Must get up at 05.00 am.

Cheers

Windows 7

2009-08-15T22:40:00.001+02:00

Hello there!

I've installed Windows 7 and now I'm testing the Blogger Buddy desktop widget. I guess it works :D

What's up

2009-08-12T02:32:00.001+02:00

Hello there, I haven't been active on here for quite some time now.

To summarize:

- I've worked a lot, like a lot
- I've been traveling a lot
- I've been injured, visited the hospital, got some stitches

Now I'm back and guess what I'll be doing now?

- Working
- Working
- Working

I also visited Bosnia after about 5 years and got back together with some old friends. Now we're keeping in touch all the time. I've even created a CS (counter strike) server for us to hang out some time. It's nice to keep in touch, now I'm angry why I didn't do this sooner.

So at the moment I'm resting and removing my stitches, getting high on sugar and working at home. I'm also visiting a couple of drupal camps in the near future so there's a lot of stuff going on. Which is nice ;)

51 Mustang

2009-07-08T00:25:00.003+02:00

2 of my favourite airplanes together. F22 Raptor and P51 Mustang.

I hope that I will get a chance to fly this mustang one day. This plane is a legend among airmen. P51D had a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, which was faster and could do better at higher altitudes than the Allison V-1710, which was used in first mustangs.

Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see the movie 'Up'

2009-07-05T00:05:00.003+02:00

God this is a sad story. You have to read it yourself to understand.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show

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It's raining but..

2009-07-04T01:22:00.001+02:00

Soon I'll be somewhere on a beach with a drink in one hand and something else in the other hand.

Can't wait.

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Testing the Flock browser!

2009-07-04T00:41:00.001+02:00

I love it. It's based on firefox and it has everything I need. If you use facebook, gmail, twitter, blogspot, youtube and other social networks, you will find it very useful.

Flock ftw!

Get it at http://www.flock.com

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Off to CeBIT 2009

2009-03-03T15:19:00.004+01:00

This is the third year I'm visiting CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. It's allways fun and I get to see things that will come out months or even years later. Then we usually visit Rotterdam and Amsterdam and then return home. I have a feeling this year is gonna be special.

Racunalnicar.com

2009-02-05T03:08:00.004+01:00

Here's another thing I started marketing, Racunalnicar.com. I hope to promote this service in my home town and the surrounding area. The service is still in development but hopefully it will catch on. I'm also making some related clothes and stuff (obleke pa take fore). Will post some images when they arrive.

Basically, we will offer 3 categories of services:

- computer diagnostics / repair
- web design/development
- computer networks related services

I'm expecting to be able to employ some tech guys/girls in a few months.

Skabudl.com

2009-02-05T02:18:00.004+01:00

One day I got bored reading news all around the web so I made www.skabudl.com. It's a news/photo/torrent/latest virus threats aggregator + search engine. It's mostly for my personal use. I don't like seeing all those banners and ads so in the future, I'll just strip the content from the source and voila. Greedy bastards.

Can you make money online, without paying a cent?

2009-02-02T01:55:00.006+01:00

By paying a cent I mean:

- owning a computer (or buying one)
- paying for internet
- paying for web hosting
- paying someone to code a website for ya

So let's say you don't have any money (you're broke) and you wanna earn some money with your computer "skillz". Since you're broke, you don't have anything to loose besides your time ,right? The goal is to earn at least 10-30 EUR in the first month, well even if you earn 1 euro you're profiting. Yaay.

What do I do?
Sitting in my new zen garden gave me some ideas. You could build an online community about a specific topic, like "guacamole". You could start your home town portal-community site, where you could have useful information for everyone living there, a nice discussion board, etc... You could make a community about rock climbing, canyoning, surfing, hiking, violins, your dysfunctional family, naked girls (check if it's legal where you live). Make a community about fixing stuff: cars, bikes, houses, space ships, etc. There are many many ways you could start from.

The most important thing is to just go ahead and make something and stop f****ng procrastinating. For instance, while writing this post, I decided to make a blog about this topic: Useful internet.

So how do I make a website when I don't know squat about programming? It's easy to do that today. There are tons of CMS (content management systems) out there like: Joomla, e107, drupal. Forums: phpBB, SMF, punBB. Galleries: coppermine gallery, menalto. You can use them for free.

"How about web hosting, YA KNOW, it's expensive and costs a couple of hundred bucks a year and my daddy says that yahoo/some local company is the best way to go." Tell your daddy to piss off and let's get on to next step. You have quite a lot of free web hosting providers like: 110mb.com, noadsfree.com etc etc. Find them, google, I don't care, they are out there. Many of them let you host custom domain names and no banners are required. They offer PHP, MySQL, lots of bandwidth and support forums. But make sure you backup your site daily, otherwise you could loose everything. Never trust your web hosting company with your backups. Well maybe www.supersplet.com, but hey, that's my company.

By paying I mean:

Domain name? You can get an .info domain name for a couple of dollars, like 2-3 dollars or get a FREE domain name like co.cc They don't just give you your desired name, especially if it has a famous relative in other TLD's (top level domains) but with some luck and creativity, you will find a good, free domain name. I was lucky with supersplet.co.cc - it was listed as free. Try it. You're good with this one until you start making some money but even then you don't have to change it, names are not THAT important, look at stupid names like de.licio.us or ... I don't know, I just think that de.licio.us is a stupid name for a website. But hey, they succeeded so why shouldn't you?

But I don't have a computer, my family is poor, my parents are cheap asses, my turtle ate it, my little brother/sister is using it all the time, it got infected with viruses, it's too old. I've heard it all. Being a computer repairman I've seen many situations where people make up excuses just to avoid working. What now you say.

Since this is article is about saving money, let's save you some electricity too. You can always go to the library where you can use their internet/computer to create stuff. You don't need any fancy programs like dreamweaver,photoshop,corel draw. Just plain ol' Internet Exploder/Firefox. You will be working mainly through them, since it is WEB you're working with. People tend to procrastinate when starting to work on something, like: I don't have a computer that can run Photoshop or I don't know how to use Photoshop or now I'm gonna make myself a nice shiny logo - they go on making that logo for about two months and forget about the whole thing. F**k the logo or the design. Make the website interesting through content. I've read somewhere that people actually fear nice designs subconsciously so they use bad ones instead - it's a win-win situation.

So how to profit?
For now put google ads on your site but in a month or two, as your user base will increase, try selling ads to local companies, hairdressers, auto-repair shops, computer repairmen etc, it will come to you.

And the most important rule here is: don't listen to your dumb friends who will most likely discourage you with phrases like: "there are probably millions of websites just like that out there", or "why would you make that kind of website". They are stupid and/or jealous. We have about 6 billion people on earth and most of them don't know how to make websites - they need them, so you're set.

And remember, even if you don't earn a penny, you will feel better knowing you tried.

Kubuntu 8.10

2009-01-31T23:52:00.002+01:00

I've missed Linux so I installed kubuntu 8.10 on an old box. Now I can't leave it alone. I've been messing around with amsn, ktorrent and firefox. Now I'm thinking about making a local test server (didn't have that one for a while now), for my in development web apps and stuff.

Steve Jobs keynote

2009-01-17T03:13:00.001+01:00

Windows 7

2009-01-17T03:12:00.000+01:00

I'm an idiot

2009-01-17T03:07:00.001+01:00

Thank god I'm a man

2009-01-17T02:55:00.003+01:00

Finally some good use of workflow charts: MEN vs WOMEN

Windows x64 and HP printer drivers

2008-11-02T12:31:00.003+01:00

I have a HP PSC1410 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier and since upgrading to 64-bit windows I couldn't get it to work correctly. So I decided to go searching for suitable drivers and I stumbled onto this page. After browsing a bit (and skipping to the last page of the forum right away), I found this link. There I downloaded the 64 bit HP PSC 1100 Windows XP driver and it WORKED, YAY ;) (it worked with my PSC 1410).

So there you go, hp you suck.

Most Useful Firefox addons

2008-11-01T12:56:00.020+01:00

I was bored so I've compiled some useful firefox addons from multiple articles, here they are:

IE Tab- Extremely useful for those sites that require Internet Explorer and for testing purposes, this add-on loads any Web page as IE would display it, in the Firefox browser. A simple button in the Firefox status bar quickly and easily switches sites to IE and back. You also can specify some sites to always open with IE Tab.

Screengrab - Screengrab saves entire webpages as images.

It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images.

All-in-One Sidebar If you like Opera’s sidebar but prefer to stick with Firefox, this add-on gives you the best of both worlds. Once installed, it gives you a panel at the left or right of the browser window which you can use to switch between each browser’s features. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.

StumbleUpon - allows you to discover and share great Web content matched to your personal preferences. Whether it’s a website, video, picture, game, blog, or wiki, StumbleUpon helps you find interesting pages recommended by like-minded people with a single click of the Stumble button. After installing the plug-in, click the Stumble button and you’re instantly delivered to a related site that others have given the thumbs-up. The more sites you rate, the better your Stumbles will match your tastes.

Cooliris Previews- Cooliris Previews gives you the power to browse and share Web links and rich media instantly. Just mouse over any link, and the Cooliris preview window immediately appears to show you the content. No more clicking back and forth or losing your search context. To send a link, just click.

Foxmarks A simple plug-in that keeps your bookmarks synchronized throughout multiple computers. these days, who has just one computer, anyway? Foxmarks works quietly in the background; the only thing you notice is that the bookmarks you keep are now consistent from your desktop machine to your laptop to your work machine and so on. Also copies your bookmarks to its home page, so you can also access them from a guest computer (such as your local espresso joint or library!).

Firefox Showcase -provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.

FoxyTunes is a Firefox add-on which gives you the ability to integrate some of the most powerful media players around such as iTunes and Windows Media Player directly into your browser window. You are given the ability to control your media player of choice from Firefox’s status bar or toolbar section.

Answers - Ever run across a word or acronym that you weren’t familiar with? Instead of rushing to a new tab to look it up in an online dictionary, Answers gives you the definition right on the page in a pop-up. It uses Answers.com, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and many others. Very handy for following an article or discussion that bandies about terms you’ve never heard of.

GMail Manager -allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

Yahoo Mail Notifier -This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mail account. It’ll display a little pop-up to catch your attention if you want it to. Clicking the icon takes you to Yahoo mail. Notification options include: customizable sound, notification alert, status bar and toolbar icon. Also allows the user to map different mouse buttons to open Yahoo Mail in different tabs, windows, etc.

GreaseMonkey- is other great addon designed for making forefox better. Greasemonkey extension (called ‘user scripts‘) can add more functionality or change the behavior of a web page. These scripts let you control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction. For instance, you can add video download functionality to video sharing site like youtube, OR disable all ads on myspace OR change the appearance of gmail and lots lots more.

Firebug - Firebug is an essential tool for developers working on Web pages. It allows you to examine and tweak the HTML, CSS and JavaScript contained in a page, all on the fly. Firebug opens either as a panel at the bottom of the page you’re inspecting, or in a separate window.

Session Manager is a handy utility to help you manage your Firefox tabs. If you’re a Web surfer who habitually visits the same sites every morning, all you need do is open the sites in separate tabs and/or windows, and then use Session Manager to save the session under a name of your choosing. After that, every morning start up Firefox and go to Tools > Session Manager, pick your session and voila, all the windows and tabs open up just as you saved them.

Download Statusbar - Manage your Internet downloads from a tidy toolbar, without the download window getting in the way of your Web browsing. Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.

Scrapbook -Collects web scraps of entire pages, snippets, images, media, embeds, etc. Also has a powerful notes feature that allows hand-entered data including javascript and HTML - so is a mini-development IDE. This is great for testing widgets and javascript code. There is also an “Edit before capture” mode that shows a toolbar for for interactive DOM object removal, entering of sticky annotation, remove selection and highlighting. The full power of this add-on is not well known by Firefox users.

Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox add-on which greatly enhances the application’s tabbed browsing features. Included are dozens of options involving tab duplication, merging, focus, and much more. In addition to improving the browser’s tab capabilities, this extension also features its own robust session manager.

Sage - turns Firefox into an RSS feed aggregator that makes getting the latest news easy. Using the left sidebar, Sage displays your available feeds, lists your feed history, and then shows stories with summaries and images in the main window.

Sources:
http://lifehacker.biz/articles/most-useful-firefox-addons/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/29/12-extremely-useful-firefox-addons/

Automobile manufactorer logos / icons

2008-10-18T22:26:00.006+02:00

I've found a lot of cool automobile manufacturer icons so I've decided to upload them here for you. They are all compressed into one rar file (5.5 MB). You can download them here.

jQuery, The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

2008-10-12T02:39:00.004+02:00

So what exactly is jQuery?
jquery.com says:

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

But let's take a look at this from a dumb man's perspective:

- it helps you make cool website interfaces like this one:
http://visionmasterdesigns.com/demo/ajaxinterface

- it can help you make cool galleries without stupid flash:
http://www.detacheddesigns.com/blog/samples/jQueryImageGallery/gallery.htm

- you can make nice handy menus with it:
http://query7.com/demos/jquerymenu.html#

- nice little image loader:
http://www.chazzuka.com/experiments/jquery-image-loader/jquery-image-loader-3.html

- nice little slide effect:
http://query7.com/demos/jquerybasicsslide.html

There are a lot of sites with tutorials for jQuery, here are some of them:
- jQuery tutorials for designers
- 15 days of jQuery
- 51 best tutorials for jQuery
- another 8 jQuery tutorials
- 35 essential jQuery tutorials
- Beginner jQuery tutorials

Cool Icons, do you need them?

2008-10-12T02:33:00.002+02:00

If your answer is YES, then you can take a look @ IconLook (http://www.iconlook.com). IconLook is a icon search engine that can locate you tons of nice looking icons. It also has links to the licenses and the original authors. It's also quite fast and has a nice clean look.

Does anyone use iGoogle?

2008-10-11T06:19:00.002+02:00

If not, you should. iGoogle simplifies many things. You can add many many gadgets and quickly take a look at important things for which you usually have to open multiple tabs or windows to see. For instance, you open a tab for the latest digg stories, you open another tab for your (g)mail, you open yet another tab for the weather forecast, etc etc. All that can be put in one page with iGoogle. You see what's up, then you can focus on one thing at a time. Well that's at least my 2 cents.

4Q - find out what your visitors think of your website

2008-10-09T19:29:00.005+02:00

Their website says:

4Q, an Avinash Kaushik and iPerceptions collaboration is a simple, free survey solution that lets you ask these all-important questions to your website visitors, and gives you real-time, complete access to the results.

It looks like a nice and clean(non bloated) service that's easy to implement and use. Avinash Kaushik is a web analytics genius so I guess I can't go wrong on this one.

I' have registered an account there and will try using their service on this blog. I'm just curious ;)

Oh yeah, I forgot to post a link, so here it is.

SmugMug - A good photo sharing alternative

2008-10-09T19:19:00.003+02:00

I was looking for a good photo sharing service and even though there are numerous websites out there, nothing impressed me like smugmug. They offer unlimited storage/traffic, you friends don't have to register to view your photos, no banners/ads, cropping, enhancing, ordering prints, private groups, sending photos to email, posting photos to forums or blogs, and much much more. It costs about $40/year and in 5 minutes I found tons of great photos. Congrats to guys @ smugmug, they have created a cool & enjoyable service.

Amazon S3 loweres prices, I love Amazon

2008-10-09T18:22:00.004+02:00

As I said a couple of post before, amazon is great, and now they have lowered their prices dramatically, this will drive down my backup costs significantly.

Current storage price (through Oct 31, 2008)
US: $0.150 per GB
EU: $0.180 per GB

New storage price (effective Nov 1, 2008)
US
$0.150 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.140 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.130 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.120 Storage used / month over 500 TB

EU
$0.180 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.170 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.160 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.150 Storage used / month over 500 TB

In my last post about Amazon S3 I wrote about automating backups, here are some backup solutions that will make your life easier:

- s3sync.rb (A cool script written in Ruby).
- S3 Backup (Windows client).
- duplicity (A not so mature Python script).
- Brackup (A Perl script written by Brad Fitzpatrick).
- Jungle Disk (Windows, Linux, Mac client and also a local WebDAV server).

Chestnuts @ Velenje Castle

2008-10-09T09:43:00.005+02:00

Yesterday we decided it's time to make some chestnuts, so where else to go then to the Castle ;)
As you can see we had fun and there's always more of us. I guess the next time we decide to make something like this we're gonna start selling tickets.

The one that made all this possible

Roberto closeup

The cook, he made allmost all the food

The clown

Chinese guy

Clown #2

The godfathers

The Bambulić brothers

don't know these 2

Security

Chocolate milk commercial

Rough rider

Chestnuts, the stars of the night

Hahahahaha aahahah

Norwegian working force

Backing stuff up on Amazon's S3

2008-10-08T00:24:00.007+02:00

Amazon Simple Storage Service can in one word be described as great, but that's still an understatement. You pay for what you use and it's still cheap.
I needed a good place to backup stuff from my new servers. Finding a good backup solution can be:
- hard
- costly
- time consuming
- frustrating

When considering the cost of a decent backup hard drive like 300GB WD VelociRaptor (282,15 Euros = 384,767955 U.S. dollars at the moment), power consumption, noise, unpredictable home electricity shortages and the fact that you have to buy at least four of those to be an effective backup solution, you realize that S3 is much much cheaper. My current backup costs at S3 are less than $13 a month. Now that's cheap.

That's where S3 shines. You register an account within minutes and you're ready to go. All you have to do now is to get some software (windows,mac,Linux) or write a simple Perl/Ruby script that automates your backups(Linux/Unix servers). There are also a lot of good existing scripts out there so you only need to modify them to suit your needs.

I've decided for a mixed method. Since there are a lot of files on the servers, I would pay more then necessary because of the $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests. My servers use cPanel control panel and it has a good method of backing stuff up on the server. Every user account is packed and compressed in one file, so at the end of the day I don't have millions of files (PUT, POST, or LIST queries) but only let's say 100 - and that saves valuable money. cPanel makes backups and sends them over to my home server. Backups go into a folder which is configured to be shared with SAMBA throughout the windows network. What I did next was that I used Jungle Disk - a windows S3 client to automate my backups to S3.

The reason why I went through all these jumps are next:

- I saved my servers from bandwidth outside my country/continent
- Servers don't have to encrypt anything, so that's saved server CPU time
- My customers don't feel a thing, since the backups are done fast
- Everything I send to S3 from my home computers is encrypted

To be on the safe side I also save backups on my home servers throughout multiple hard drives, you never know...

Barbecue @ Velenje Castle

2008-10-08T00:18:00.001+02:00

Me and a couple of my friends got together to celebrate a couple of things. For me it was the end of Ramadan, another friend bought a car and another one was just along for the ride :)
Ramadan was great, I got to know who my friends were and how backstabbing someone you think is your friend can be. Aaanyywaay.....

So we went and bought some food and drinks (and a portable barbecue) & went to Velenje castle. It was one of those days when you can relax and have fun and not worry about anything else. Here are some photos.

Some more SCARY and WEIRD trucks

2008-10-03T19:27:00.007+02:00

I've been looking around and came up with these trucks. Some are pretty scary, especially the one with the spikes everywhere.

The COOLEST trucks I have EVER seen - Luigi Colani design

2008-10-03T15:02:00.007+02:00

Luigi Colani, (born in Berlin on 2 August 1928 as Lutz Colani), is a German industrial designer whose father came from Madulain near St. Moritz in Switzerland and mother from Poland.

The prime characteristic of his designs are the rounded, organic forms, which he terms "biodynamic" and claims are ergonomically superior to traditional designs. His "kitchen satellite" from 1969 is the most prominent example of this school of thought. Many of his designs for small appliances are being mass-produced and marketed, but his larger designs have not been built, "a whole host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option."[1]

The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round. — Luigi Colani[2]

He has received numerous design awards.

Colani currently resides in Karlsruhe, Germany.

SCORP!O Feat. KAOS EFFECT - Vzpon In Padec

2008-09-28T21:18:00.002+02:00

Couple of my friends recorded a video for their new/old single: Vzpon in Padec. They RAP about success and downfall and the whole story will consist of one more video (I think). Anyway, It's cool, I like it, here it is. (It's in Slovene).

Lately I've been

2008-09-28T06:22:00.003+02:00

.. playing arround with my blog design. I think this one will stick for a while now.

- fasting. This month (Ramadan) is the Islamic month of fasting. We don't eat nor do we drink anything from true dawn till sunset. It's nice or should I say it was nice, because it's coming to an end in a couple of days. It teaches you patience and sacrifice and It gives your day a totally different meaning.

- making websites

- fixing people's LAN's

- watching "The Deadliest Catch" on Discovery

and some other stuff...

Z Beez need z HELP

2008-09-10T06:08:00.004+02:00

.. but that won't matter if the LHC kills us all today. Hold on tight Dorthy, Kansas is going Bye-Bye. Let's hope not.

cPanel

2008-09-09T18:52:00.007+02:00

I've had some issues with cPanel and had to contact their customer support service. They are very fast and professional. Well, at one occasion one of their representatives stepped on my nerves but then I his superior contacted me and we worked things out. That's what I like in some U.S. companies, professionalism. I'm sticking with cPanel because I know I can rely on them when the time comes.

Mortal Kombat like you've never seen it before

2008-09-09T17:08:00.003+02:00

I bet you've never seen this FINISH HIM ending ;)

See more gamer videos at PWN or DIE

New [old] server

2008-09-09T05:59:00.004+02:00

I've found an old computer that was catching dust in a corner of my room so I decided to make something useful out of it. It's an old 800 MHz Athlon with something over 300 RAM and 20GB hard drive. I'll install pfSense and make a nice router out of it. I have a couple of external hard drives that I don't use, so I'll probably hook them up to backup stuff too.
pfSense is an open source firewall based on m0n0wall/FreeBSD. It has a nice web interface and it's quite easy to configure.
Here are some screenshots of pfSense: http://www.pfsense.org/screenshots/

Igraj.me

2008-09-09T01:59:00.005+02:00

Today I've started working on a new project. When .me domains went public I bought igraj.me (translation: play.me). It's been some time since then so I decided to put it to good use. I'm going to make a flash game portal but with a different approach and touch. I've scrambled up a logo in about 5 minutes but that's probably not the final version. Now I have to get working on the code and planning. I'll probably spend a couple of hours writing stuff down in my notebook (paper one) before I even touch the computer.

MSN messenger, Google Talk, Skype

2008-09-09T00:26:00.006+02:00

I've been trying to talk to my sister online (she is in Norway) for couple of days now, so I've made some tests of the current popular communication software.
1. MSN Messenger couldn't even make an audio connection, it has probably something to do with msn's ports and routers on the other end. I gave up there.
2. Then we tried Gtalk. It connected immediately and we talked for a few days. Everything wen't O.K. Since I don't live with my parents anymore, we don't share the same computer but we all wanted to talk to each other at the same time. That means that we had to have a conference call. I remembered that Skype has that option so we all installed it.
3. Skype has had the best performance overall. The sound quality was much better than that of Gtalk and Windows Live Messenger. There were some glitches in sound every now and then but that was probably my sisters internet connection from the campus. Now we must try the video conference.

p.s.: Oh yeah, If you haven't noticed, my blog header now changes everytime the page get's refreshed ;)

Cool icons from Turbomilk

2008-09-07T23:41:00.005+02:00

Here are some cool icons I found at Turbomilk.com, I've packed them all in one file so it's easier to download. Click here to download.

I found everything at http://www.turbomilk.com

Where to live

2008-09-07T23:10:00.005+02:00

It seems that Zürich is the best place to live, again, according to BusinessWeek.com.

And another thing, a girl that works at CERN (lhc lhc lhc lhc), has made a rap video about, guess what? LHC, yeah, the Large Hadron Collider. September 10th is comming and if we are to die, listening to some RAP won't do us harm.

Halite

2008-09-07T21:41:00.004+02:00

Is your .torrent client a memory hog? Well even if it isn't, there is still room for improvement and that's why someone came up with Halite. A torrent client who's name came from a mineral (google it).
It's still in it's development stages but it looks promising. It's so darn light that it puts even microtorrent to shame (www.utorrent.com). I'm giving it a try.

foobar2000

2008-09-07T18:28:00.004+02:00

foobar2000 is a media player, something like winamp but much faster and light on the system resources. I've been using it since it's launch. The reason why I switched to foobar is mainly winamp's bloated feel [and look]. It has quite a few functions but the only important thing is the fact that it plays music. People think that music sounds better in winamp, well frankly, it doesn't.
Don't get me wrong, winamp is a great player, I use it from time to time but If you have an older computer(and windows) foobar2000 is a great choice.

Ramadan brings back memories

2008-09-07T14:31:00.002+02:00

Bosnian ćevapi from the Baščaršija district of Sarajevo and Banja Luka are probably the most famous ćevapi. Travnik and Tuzla are known for their ćevapi made of beef stewed with spices. This dish is very popular in some parts of former Yugoslavia as well. The stew is poured on lepinja or somun flatbread and few chunks of meat left there. Banja Luka is known for ćevapi which are multiple rolls (usually four) joined together. Bosnian ćevapi are made from two types of minced beef meat, hand mixed and formed with a funnel. Formed ćevapi are grilled.

ORIGINALNI BOSANSKI PROIZVOD

Ćevapi ili ćevapčići su bosanski nacionalni specijalitet sa roštilja i najpoznatiji bosanski brand u inozemstvu. Riječ je o malim valjušcima od mljevenog mesa, mahom teletine, sa dodatkom bijelog i crvenog luka, te različitih začina. Prosječna dužina ćevapa je oko 5 cm. Ćevapi se prže na roštilju, a tradicionalno se služe u lepinjama natopljenim umakom od prženja, uz dodatak sitno sjeckanog crvenog luka. Ćevapi se tradicionalno služe u ćevabdžinicama, koje su u Sarajevu u najvećem broju smještene na Baščaršiji.
Uz ćevape se mogu služiti i mliječni proizvodi kao: jogurt, kiselo mlijeko, kefir ili kajmak u lepinji. Ćevapi se u Bosni i Hercegovini služe u različitim porcijama, a postoje i regionalne razlike u pripremanju i obliku ćevapa.

A few interresting things

2008-09-06T14:40:00.007+02:00

- facebook will be switching to the new design de facto. so that means that you can say goodbye to the old one in about a week.
- ford manufactured a diesel fiesta that can do 65 mpg (about 4 l/100 km) but it won't be sold in Americas. apparently they don't like diesel there. they refer to it as the smelly stuff that runs tractors.
- Google turned 10 last year, but their logo stated 9 ;)
- LHC will not destroy us (apparently)
- five cheap tricks tv shows use to keep us watching

If we are to day next Wednesday then I'm taking this opportunity to say goodbye to you all. You are safe to eat in McDonalds, it doesn't kill that fast.

Twp TESLA coils play Super Mario Theme SONG

2008-09-05T01:10:00.006+02:00

This is great stuff ;)

Click here

Money

2008-09-04T16:06:00.005+02:00

So the other day I decided that It's time to start collecting some debts that people owed me. Most of them answered their phones but one guy didn't, even though I saw him that day in town. So me and my friends decided to pay him a visit (even though I don't do that kind of things). People tend to soften up when they see baseball bats. No one got hurt but the point of the story is that people will fuck with you until you decide to take things into your own hands.

New car - much fun

2008-08-17T13:03:00.005+02:00

My girlfriend and I have bought a new car (well she has). We went to pick it up to Germany - far far to the north. We took a train and traveled for 14 hours, visited many cities and had much fun. Then we drove all the way back to Slovenia with it, it was about 1200 km or 745 miles. We drank coffee at Starbucks, ate at Burgerking and met some new friends on the train. I actually got a customer for a website on the train from Münich to Düsseldorf. Anyway, here is a photo of the car, it's not the actual one but we didn't get to downloading photos from the camera, but this car is identical to the one we have. And I forgot to mention how much fun it is to drive through the town with it, it just slices through corners.

So long Bernie Mac

2008-08-12T14:41:00.004+02:00

Bernie Mac was a great actor and I will always remember him. He died on august 9, 2008 (three days ago).

This was copied from Wikipedia:

Mac was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised by a single mother, Mary. She died of cancer when he was 16 years old.[2] Mac attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy and started his comedy career during high school. He put on shows for neighborhood kids on Chicago's South Side, until moving to Tampa, Florida. During his 20s he worked in a variety of jobs, including furniture mover, UPS agent and bread delivery sales rep.[3]

Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005.[1]

On August 1, 2008, Mac was hospitalized with what his publicist claimed was pneumonia. The next day, responding to rumors that the actor was in "very, very critical condition," his publicist said that he was responding well to treatment, and should be released soon.[7] On August 9, his publicist announced that Mac had died from complications of pneumonia unrelated to sarcoidosis.[1]

The 2008 Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago, on the day he died, was dedicated to his memory.[8]

At the time of his death, Bernie Mac was working on the movie Soul Men with Isaac Hayes who, coincidentally, died the day after him.

Filmography:

1992 Mo' Money Club doorman
1993 Who's the Man? G-George
1994 Above the Rim Flip House Party 3 Uncle Vester
1995 Friday Pastor Clever
1996 Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood Officer Self Hatred, Get on the Bus Jay
1997 B*A*P*S Mr. Johnson, Booty Call Judge Peabody, How to Be a Player Buster
1998 The Players Club Dollar Bill
1999 Life Jangle Leg
2000 The Original Kings of Comedy
2001 Head of State Mitch Gilliam, Ocean's Eleven Frank Catton, What's the Worst That Could Happen? Uncle Jack
2003 Bad Santa Gin, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Jimmy Bosley
2004 Mr. 3000 Stan Ross,Ocean's Twelve Frank Catton
2005 Guess Who Percy Jones
2007 Ocean's Thirteen Frank Catton,Pride Elston, Transformers Bobby Bolivia
2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Zuba, Soul Men Floyd
2009 Old Dogs Jimmy Lunchbox

Sea + No phone = relaxation (vacation)

2008-08-01T01:37:00.004+02:00

I'm going towards my vacation today and I'm turning my phone off. I hope I finally get some rest, the energy is much needed.

picture is worth more then a thousand words, or in this case a bit more

2008-07-30T11:51:00.005+02:00

Can't think of a title, it should probably start with smthn. like GoDaddy or something

2008-07-30T03:38:00.007+02:00

Godaddy has some funny sites running on the same ip as their main site:

1) 2008PRESIDENT.NET
2) FLIRT4GUYS.COM
3) GODADDIE.COM
4) GODADDYGO.NET
5) GODADDYGO.ORG
6) GODADDYSOFTWARE.NET
7) THUGMONK.NET
8) X-PART.NET
9) advertisingcontrolcenter.com
10) airpony.com
11) ameliareynolds.com
12) bhamtext.net
13) birminghamtext.net
14) birminghamtext.org
15) bobagua.com
16) cebugamers.com
17) cigarandwineenthusiast.com
18) concordhillbuilders.com
19) flash88.org
20) flirt4gays.com
21) [b]g9odaddy.com
22) gbodaddy.com
23) godacddy.com
24) godadddy.com
25) godaddy.co.uk
26) godaddy.com
27) godaddy.net
28) godaddygo.com
29) godaddyradio.com
30) godaddysoftware.com
31) godawddy.com
32) godcaddy.com
33) godqaddy.com
34) gyodaddy.com
35) hencus-enterprise.com
36) homealbum.org
37) inlandcsl.com
38) joshuasliwa.com
39) mathsclass.org
40) quicksizzle.com
41) registrar.godaddy.com
42) seednet-asia.com
43) supportwebsite.com
44) szexnet.com
45) technotrackusa.com
46) therandomlists.com
47) tianzhiwen.cn
48) uhaulmoves.com
49) ultrareach.net
50) vmwareproduct.com
51) x-part.org
52) zillioncorporation.com

wtf?

Anyway, I've done some coding and shopping today, bought myself some new shoes. Also started tinkering with jQuery again, I'm making a lot of forms lately and I love jQuery's power. Also watched the movie The Invisible 2007 and Zapped 1982. Loved them both.

Music, food, good drinks

2008-07-28T00:14:00.003+02:00

...and a fuc*ing fast internet connection! That's how I like my breakfast.

btw, I finished a website today. feelz good

FC Rudar Velenje: FC Maribor 1:2

2008-07-27T02:27:00.005+02:00

Today I went to see a game between Rudar Velenje (my home soccer team) and FC Maribor. The game was interesting and my team was better in the first half of the game, but the other team played better in the second half so we lost. Talk about tough luck. Anywayz, here are some photos from the game.

Imperial alpacas

2008-07-26T18:44:00.000+02:00

Made me laugh...

Dropbox

2008-07-26T18:12:00.003+02:00

I got my invite for Dropbox today, from David (thanks!). I started using it immediately and it's great. Well maybe the speed could be better since it's uploading some images at the moment @ 41,6 Kb/s and my internet speed is about 50 megabits up/down. I'm still checking out all of it's functions but so far it looks quite useful.

p.s. If anyone needs invite I've got some left

Woopra - web stats

2008-07-26T02:08:00.006+02:00

I've tested woopra - the new web stats software by iFusion Labs. It has a nice interface and a lot of information. You can even chat with your website visitors - woopra has a function which opens nice chat dialogs (if you choose to do so). I might use it more often from now on.

Here's a screenshot:

A great song

2008-07-25T16:55:00.002+02:00

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Original

Tiesto remix

New facebook look&feel

2008-07-25T14:55:00.001+02:00

Testing my new internet connection speed

2008-07-25T04:46:00.003+02:00

2006-07-29T12:57:00.003+02:00

25.07.2008
correction: the old url doesn't work, this one looks like the one that was on scifi.com website:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMachine2/heromachine2.asp

There is a game online at http://www.scifi.com/superhero/game/ where you can create your superhero. Here is what came out after my imagination decided to reactivate.

It's been a while...

2006-07-04T22:56:00.000+02:00

Hello world!

Everyone keeps asking me why I write this blog in english - simple: I like to have the ability to practice my english skills doing something fun!

Moving along... A lot of stuff happened in the past few months. Like for instance, I had a surgery. My appendix allmost bursted so the had to get the darn thing out, and I also found out that there were some extra complications, infections... Anyway, I'm @ home, chilling, watching a lot of Veronica Mars series and drinking orange juice. My wound is now open. I had to get back to the hospital becouse of some infection so now I must wait for this thing to close itself. Grose. I spend most of my day in bed, but I like to sneak out and drive arround a bit - I got a new (used) car and I had to test it a bit. ... and now, I SHALL TAKE MY LEAVE!

blogs..

2005-06-10T00:49:00.001+02:00

25.07.2008
correction: domain sburner.net is gone, now it's sburner.com, although I don't use it much for blogging

Lol, I forgot I have a blog here, my real blog is at http://blog.sburner.net , don't really know why I registered this one over a year ago..

Anyway, if you see this, please visit my homepage at http://my.sburner.net or my real blog at http://blog.sburner.net ;)

First OnE

2004-08-08T02:31:00.000+02:00

Well hello there ;)

This is my first post so I won't blog too much. It's about 2.30 am now and I still have a lot of things to do, I actually registered this blog in my "free time". By that I mean the time I don't have something else to do, currently I'm fixing my server (changing my linux distro).
Ok, that's about it...