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Japanese cars are the most reliable in the world!

September 29th, 2004 No comments
Mazda Logo

Warranty Direct, who insure older cars against breakdown, published a survey of reliability of cars by brends.
Traditionally Japanese cars take first places.

Number of failures per 100 policies:

  1. Mazda 17.88
  2. Toyota 18.62
  3. Honda 19.41
  4. Saab 42.87
  5. Jeep 43.75
  6. Land Rover 46.23

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Natural trail “Kallidonia Falls”

September 28th, 2004 No comments

Troodos Map
We went to Troodos three weeks ago and walked by the way to Kallidonia Falls. We started from Psilo Dendro and passed 2 km to the first waterfall.
We went along small mountain stream (I don’t understand why it was called “Kryos Potamos river” … Well, maybe it looks like a river in the sprint time :) ) and enjoyed silence, fresheness and beautiful view. Also, we made a few photos.

Natural trail “Kalidonia Falls”
Starting point: About 700m from the road between Troodos and Platres near the President’s summer residence. Also accessible via a forest road which begins at the tourist road 2 kms from the Square.
Length: 3 kms Time: 1 1/2 hours
Points of interest: The trail follows a course along Kryos Potamos river, which never runs dry. It posses the Kalidonia Falls and ends at Psilo Dendro, in Pano Platres.

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Linux guide to presentation programs.

September 28th, 2004 No comments

Magic Point
I’ve found an interesing article about presentation programms for Linux – The Grumpy Editor’s guide to presentation programs.
It describes both well-known (at list for me :) ) graphical tools like KPresenter and OpenOffice and programms based on plain text files and a custom markup language: MagicPoint and Pointless.
Graphical editors give the best fit for overwhelming majority of users. But Linux gurus will prefer second group of presentation programms. Because they give them a possibility to create a perfect presentaion in they favourite editor: vim or emacs.

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New Blog’s started!

September 25th, 2004 No comments
Congratulation

I’d like to announce a new web blog of Maria Stepanova which was started yesterday. So, it’s a good idea to write your opinions, suggestions and other stuff in the blog to share them between people!
Congratulations :)

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The “magic” function Embperl::Execute

September 25th, 2004 No comments
Embperl

There are three most popular frameworks to embedding Perl into HTML pages: Mason, Embperl and Template Toolkit. It happend that I’ve started work with Embperl. It’s clear, compact, power and growing up tool to produce dinamic web sites.
There is a ‘magic’ function with allows you many features. This is function called ‘Execute’. So, let’s see it in details.

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Multimedia Refridgerator

September 24th, 2004 No comments

Multimedia Refridgerator
We have already got used to combination many devices in the one: mobile phones with camera, music centers, kitchen units etc. But company LG has decided to go to itself way and announced a new hight capacity refrigerator with a built-in 13-inch TFT-LCD monitor TV with 450-candela brightness, 120-degree angle view and FM tuner.
It’s impressive! I don’t know how about an utility of that refrigerator but LG has succeeded amaze people at list :)

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New movies in Limassol cinemas

September 24th, 2004 1 comment
The Terminal
Anacondas

Oh! Friday came and this means that cinema schedule was updated!
You can see two new movies at the weekend: “The Terminal” and “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid”.
I trust Tom Hanks (let’s remembe “Cast Away” and “Forrest Gump”) and hope that “The Terminal” will not disappoint you!
The second movie is a sequel (I think) or a variation of a scary story about huge and smart anaconda – “Anaconda” 1997. I was not impressed by “Anaconda”. It’s really boring movie. So, I’m affaid that its sequel is the same.
Enjoy

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Java prorammers are coming home

September 23rd, 2004 No comments

Java programmers ...
Indian programmers have already made a name themselves in the computer world especially in Java fields …
But many people treat with scepticism to them creative work and like to make fun of them.
Personally, it doesn’t matter for me where are people from. But I like this picture :)

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