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: Mazda 17.88 Toyota 18.62 Honda 19.41 … Saab 42.87 Jeep 43.75 Land Rover 46.23
Natural trail “Kallidonia Falls”
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. […]
Linux guide to presentation programs.
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 […]
New Blog’s started!
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 🙂
The “magic” function Embperl::Execute
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.
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 […]
New movies in Limassol cinemas
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 […]
Java prorammers are coming home
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 🙂