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1. books 2021-22 ESSAY 2022-07-10

   The Dune Audio Collection by Frank Herbert | Audiobook | Audible.com

2. Myron J. Stolaroff: The Secret Chief Revealed BOOK 2019-12-29
3. Jan Kosturiak: Pomaly dalej zajdes BOOK 2019-12-29
4. books 2019 ESSAY 2019-12-29

   Blinkist: Serving curious minds. Blinkist: Serving curious minds. Blinkist: Servi

5. Andrej Kiska: Cesta manazera z pekla BOOK 2017-12-29

   3/5

6. Michal Truban: support ESSAY 2017-12-21

   3/5

7. 2017 ESSAY 2017-07-22

8. James Fadiman: The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide BOOK 2016-12-31
9. Tomas Bata: Reflections and Speeches BOOK 2016-03-17

   9/10

10. Herman Hesse: Demian BOOK 2014-04-22

    9/10

11. Adobe Reader X freezing after start for a few seconds ESSAY 2013-05-02

    Some time ago i noticed that when I opened a PDF file, Adobe Reader X stopped responding for sometime. I noticed it happens on Windows 2003, Windows 7 and Windows 2008. after some investigation I foun

12. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas BOOK 2013-02-12

    4.5/5

13. Laurens van den Muyzenberg: The Leader's Way BOOK 2013-02-12

    3/5 good ideas, bad execution

14. Advanced lookup/reference functions in excel ESSAY 2012-01-19

    lookup for values in another sheet, repeat in cycles: =IF(OR(MOD(ROW()-1,21)>17,MOD(ROW()-1,21)=0),INDEX(datasource!$A$2:$A$279,(1+ROUNDDOWN(((ROW()-2)/21),0)),1),IF(MOD(ROW()-1,21)>13,INDEX(datasourc

15. David Sedaris: When you are engulfed with flames BOOK 2011-01-31

    Audiobook with mixed recordings, some from live sessions, some just quite reading. The whole book is just a bunch of loosely connected stories, however it keeps a healthy pace somehow. Narrating it by

16. How to move Digsby to another PC ESSAY 2011-01-15

    Moving Digsby installation is kind of tricky, you have to locate and copy to new machine these two folders: 1, digsby folder with it's settings and cached files, without it, digsby will not work for y

17. Upgrading to 5.0 OS on BlackBerry 8900 ESSAY 2010-07-22

    Since RIM blocked OS upgrade for users who doesn't have a shiny and working BB data plan, I was looking a long time for a guide on how to work around this block. Many complicated guides are on the net

18. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad BOOK 2010-07-14

    I listened to the audio-book version of this book for a very long time. Story itself was not that super exciting as the original Dune series, as I expected, thou it was quite entertaining and catchy.

19. William Shakespeare: Othello BOOK 2009-02-09

    I still didn't make it all the way through to the end. Very difficult English for my level... wiki:

20. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man BOOK 2009-02-09

    Stream of thoughts of the young man - Stephen Dedalus. Very catchy and very natural to follow up and able to keep you awake for a very long time. wiki:

21. BCIT - Advanced Java Development associate certificate program review TECH 2009-01-09

    “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.” (Oktal) Here comes a short review of 'Advanced Java Development associate certificate program, that I was studying pa

22. Daniel Goleman: Destructive Emotions BOOK 2008-08-31

    (this blog post is work in progress) In my eyes, Buddhism was always a philosophy (or religion if you want), that has so close to science and scientific approach as no other religion does. As Dalai La

23. How to NOT update firmware in your NAS storage TECH 2008-08-31

    Once I had a NAS called Dlink DNS-323. Awesome device, I just loved it and I would have stayed with it, if my requirements didn't change. It says on dlink's website, that you should backup your data b

24. Tenzin Gyatso: How to See Yourself As You Really Are BOOK 2008-05-18

    Nice and short book written by great man, current dalailama, Tenzin Gyatso. I read few books from buddhist philosophers, and most of them were good. Interestingly, I found that flow of those books in

25. Intellij IDEA after install tips TECH 2008-02-29

    I worked with IDEA on OpenSUSE 10.3 linux distribution, but most of the mentioned settings should be cross OS. I also found blog post by Hamlet D'Arcy over THERE. Hamlet describes his top 10 list for

26. Writing with LaTeX on linux with pleasure TECH 2008-02-24

    For last 3 years, I was balancing between OpenOffice and Latex and I always slipped back to OpenOffice, just because the comfort that OO provides. But beautiful Latex world was so desirable for me, th

27. Bean Property Binding ESSAY 2008-01-25

    Example of bean property binding in Java. Sample application with beans which purpose is to set foreground and background color of JTextPane. Source: BeanPropertyBinding.zip Executable: BeanPropertyBi

28. Loan Calculator ESSAY 2008-01-25

    Simple loan calculator. GridLayout is used in top left panel and some custom renderers are used in JTable. Source: LoanCalculator.zip Executable: LoanCalculator.jar

29. Another Transfer ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Application for file transfer through LAN. If you know IP addresses of two computers on LAN and you run this program, you can transfer any file between those PCs. Includes checksum verification and de

30. Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert: Dune [series] ESSAY 2008-01-24

    First and best book from the ingenius author Frank Herbert. I did through it about 4 times and I swallowed every word. It is simply best book I've evere read. Most highly recommended. Even though it i

31. Ernest J. Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying BOOK 2008-01-24

    This short book is set in the late 40s in US state Louisiana. One young black men was accidently involved in liquer store robbery and after shooting and killing, he was the only one that stayed alive.

32. Swing Example Set ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Sample Swing app. Nothing especially interesting, it will load all fonts you have installed in your OS and provide their preview. Also on other tabs you can see some colors and pictures. Easy stuff. S

33. Sort And XML ESSAY 2008-01-24

    App will load deafault data and allows you to sort them by some basic keys. Then you can export list to XML. Source: SortAndXML.zip Executable: SortAndXML.jar

34. Shapes And Colors ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Funky table with different shapes and nice options. You can also choose some great look and feel's. Source: ShapesAndColors.zip Executable: ShapesAndColors.jar

35. Custom DnD ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Implementation of Drag and Drop in Swing component JTree. Source: CustomDnD.zip Executable: CustomDnD.jar

36. Age Counter ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Enter your birdth date and this will return your age. It takes days in months into consideration. Source: AgeCounter.zip Executable: AgeCounter.jar

37. Square Cutter ESSAY 2008-01-24

    Short app as excercise to Divide and Conquer algorithm. Mark one spot and app will cut the rest of the grid to 2x2 pieces in shape of letter "L". Source: SquareCutter.zip Run:

38. Custom DSDT loading on Toshiba P100/P105 laptops for Ubuntu/Debian TECH 2008-01-12

    Well, all Toshiba notebooks that belong to serie P100/P105 (or maybe also others), have problems with ACPI interface on Linux platform. Generally, sound is not working and there are problems with fans

39. “There and back again” - Linux distributions TECH 2008-01-11

    From my first attempt to use computer as a child, i followed IT development from eyes of MS OS's platform. I started on MS-DOS with nice blue classic file manager which was my first master and teacher

40. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness BOOK 2008-01-04

41. Sample Ant script for small projects ESSAY 2007-12-16

    I don't know yet how to put there ant code in a way that it will not conflict with wordpress tags, so build file is attached here: build.xml This script is assuming that you follow some basic conventi

42. Deploy your Java application as one .jar file TECH 2007-12-13

    At first, I wanted a tool that will pack everything into one simple .jar file and I can deploy my apps on web thrugh JWS more easily then. However, as far as I was playing with JWS vs. tools to pack a

43. Java Web Start under Linux TECH 2007-12-13

    I couldn't believe it, but the whole java web start and stuff around it is just messed up on Linux platform. First, I tried to develop simple Hello world application and it worked OK. Great, I said to

44. Debian customized installation ESSAY 2007-12-10

    Introduction to customized installation of Debian distribution with KDE desktop environment on desktop/laptop. No deep knowledge of *nix OS required, but some basic knowledge is required. Let's build

45. Vancouver’s first eclipse demo camp ESSAY 2007-12-09

    I attended first eclipse demo camp in downtown Vancouver. Great experience, friendly and open people including presenters and organizators. Everything went smoothly and in well organized manner. There