andalucia/algarve/extramedura

seem that it is my yearly routine. i was in spain/portugal for 2 weeks visiting places i know and discovering some new ones. all in march 2011.

The Brain: A Secret History

by Michael Mosley mind control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvKQAYQT0bE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcWcLxeQ48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v30ZEGH9uGk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBcP34W_ec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9D64_nfkA emotions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjlC91QmoNY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ltcqZUd9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3L_Qt_GU8 broken brains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_r8qdKASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQrOcV14iE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6e5upTJAA

[pl] grzegorz braun – co z ta polska; tomasz turowski

grzegorz braun – co z ta polska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJeXq3bbDs4 warto rozmawiac – tomasz turowski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdh9jPYH74 + piotr jedlinski o tomaszu turowskim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNJOGm4b_R4 + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n395EoQcx5g

how tv ruined your life

s01e01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SiOYZmz7I s01e02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wSbXEDzHHY s01e03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6L5S14ygY s01e04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjF932SFoCc s01e05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdgkF_cMmU s01e06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faqpDw43ccg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aq0tnwEoM

intel x-25m ssd problems under linux

i got my hands on INTEL SSDSA2M120G2GC disk. read performance was perfect but during writes it was throwing kernel errors left and right:

chmod gou+rwx -R / ?

once in a while i press enter too early. end result of changing permissions on the whole file system can be quite bad.

something to watch

Adam Curtis – Power of Nightmares – The Rise Of Political Fear

spanish – useful web resources

some tests and flashcards: http://quizlet.com/subject/spanish/ fully-blown spanish learning websites: http://www.spanishdict.com/ http://www.spanishtown.ca/

php / adodb – memory usage

i’ve got seemingly simple php script running every night on one of my servers… on the same machine i started to experience nightly oom-killer. i’ve found out that adodb’s Execute statement can do something completely else than you would expect from it – it loads whole result into memory rather than going row-by-row.

firefox speedup

from this site. and it seems to be working. Go to MenuTools -> Error Console Paste the following in the “Code:” text-box: Press Enter or click Evaluate. The database will thence be vacuumed immediately.