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	<title>Mircea Bardac /random_thoughts</title>
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		<title>Interfete Evoluate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick update on one of my latest University projects. The website I have been working on named Interfete Evoluate currently hosts a lot of information about &#8220;interfete&#8221; and &#8220;evoluate&#8221; (Romanian words). We also have a blog on the website for keeping our readers up to date.
Enjoy, have fun and give us feedback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2008/01/13/interfete-evoluate/</link>
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		<title>Long time&#8230; no update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a very busy period of my life. I will try to be very short because time is very valuable right now.
The plans for my online presence include:

revamp personal website
find a way to keep/publish my old blog (=this blog) contents
decide on the hosting and the best presentation method for the projects I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2008/01/13/long-time-no-update/</link>
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		<title>A new version of the Windows Installer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a large part of this day updating the Psi Windows Installer, getting it ready for Psi 0.10 release.
If you don&#8217;t know, the Windows Installer has been moved to the Psi Darcs Repository (since Psi also switched from CVS to Darcs). The sources can be found here.
For a quick preview on how the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/22/a-new-version-of-the-windows-installer/</link>
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		<title>The Beauty and the Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had today a nice seminar of Systems&#8217; Theory. This subject is described by our student-ancestors as &#8220;a unique experience&#8221; (and that&#8217;s it, nothing more).
This subject has been known for years to as the killing subject of our faculty - the last killing subject, the last subject stopping you from starting a lean life researching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/21/the-beauty-and-the-theory/</link>
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		<title>THE Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Input Data:
* two semi-groups of 14 students each (some of them unexperienced with computers in general)
* one Linux lab for the Using Operating Systems course
* one TA (teaching assistant) (me)
Output Data:
* students understanding the way Operating Systems work, step by step, as this can&#8217;t be taught in one night/week
Problem: the best way to get from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/21/the-motivation/</link>
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		<title>The snapshot of a newcomer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The teacher holding the Using Operating Systems course asked the students of the first group in the series he teaches for to remain after the classes to get aquainted. I have attended this meeting, since I am a Teaching Assistant.
This was a good priviledge for gathering input on their feelings as new students. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/13/the-snapshot-of-a-newcomer/</link>
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		<title>Happy migration day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A happy migration day in my life of a Linux user.
I easily managed to upgrade my entire system from GCC 3.4.3 to GCC 4.0.2, using the wonderful ArchLinux distribution. 
Steps:

list self-compiled packages using a script
#! /bin/bash
installed=`pacman -Q &#124; sed -e &#8220;s&#124;\(.*[^ ]*\) .*&#124;\1&#124;g&#8221; `
repos=`pacman -Sl &#124; sed -e &#8220;s&#124;[^ ]* \(.*[^ ]*\) .*&#124;\1&#124;g&#8221;`
for pkg in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/08/happy-migration-day/</link>
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		<title>New school year&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, today a new school year starts, for the students in .ro.
The day started great for me at 7:30am, when my mobile wake me up after ~4h of sleep and I mean this. Preparations were done in the sound of MTV Music&#8230; this was the thing that really woke me up. At 7:30am, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/10/03/new-school-year/</link>
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		<title>Website upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I managed to break my website, when I tried installing PmWiki. I find PmWiki rather interesting, because you only need to unzip the code somewhere and it just works. No need for a special setup, no need for SQL databases - pure filesystem based.
My website is rather picky when it comes to mod_rewrite rules. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/09/28/website-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Google and Psi&#8230; and the world is rolling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was commenting in my last blog entry about Google&#8217;s recent aquisition - a company producing a windows only closed client.
Today I woke up and what do I see in the news: Google Talk is out - the IM client from Google supports XMPP&#8230; Psi is on the supported IM clients list.
Imagine me&#8230; with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mircea.bardac.net/blog/2005/08/25/google-and-psi-and-the-world-is-rolling/</link>
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