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 Vlad Nistor |  October 25th, 2009 |  165 views |My Certificate of Participation to the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory mission Yes, that’s right, I’m going to Mars. Well, not physically, but by name. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is letting people sign up by name to be transported to the red planet with their 2011 Mars Science Laboratory mission on a microchip. If you’d like [...]  vlad@nistor.co.uk |  Tags: Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Category: Net |  Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | August 11th, 2009 | 623 views |Google StreetView in Cluj-Napoca (click for larger image) Google StreetView, for those who don’t know, is a newer element of Google Maps which lets you have a 360 degree look around many of the worlds major cities like New York, London or Barcelona. The ever expanding array of locations means you can explore places “on [...] Vlad Nistor | August 5th, 2009 | 403 views |A year after Mark Shuttleworth announced Cannonical would release the source-code to their Launchpad platform, it is finally here. For those of you who don’t know, Launchpad is where Ubuntu gets built – the Soyuz component building all the packages for the distro and those in the PPAs (including mine); translated – the Rosetta component; [...] Vlad Nistor | July 25th, 2009 | 559 views |For a long time installing Adobe Flash player in 64 bit Linux was a pain in the but; not anymore. Earlier this year (Feb), Adobe launched a pre-realease alpha of the famous proprietary format player for 64 bit OSes. Because of this I decided to move from 32 bit Ubuntu and I love it. The [...] vlad@nistor.co.uk | Tags: Firefox, Flash, Screencast, Ubuntu 64 bit | Category: Net, Ubuntu | Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | July 22nd, 2009 | 271 views |Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia decided that it would now support the upload of the open-source Ogg Theora format for video to its website. The announcement was made by Wikimedia Deputy Dir. Erik Moller, in an interview with Beet.tv where he also discussed opening up video on the web and the support they’re getting from [...] vlad@nistor.co.uk | Tags: Firefox, HTML5, Ogg/Theora, Open-Source, Video, Wikipedia | Category: Net | Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | July 6th, 2009 | 395 views |Firefox 3.5 was launched a few days ago. Among the many improvements was the inclusion of HTML 5 with it’s <video> and <audio> tags. You may donwload it directly from thier website and compile it, or install the Ubuntu-Mozilla-daily PPA. You may see an example of such use below if you already use FF3.5 (click [...] |
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