Elentok's Blog

A couple of months ago there my desktop computer started doing this annoying stutter, every 15-30 seconds it would just pause everything (audio, video, mouse, keyboard), and I couldn't figure out why, I tried uninstalling stuff I didn't need anymore, ran CCleaner, several anti-spyware software, stopped unnecessary services, I even tried to stop "explorer.exe", but nothing, it still stuttered.

Yesterday my laptop died on me (probably the overheating nvidia chip problem), and it will probably take some time until it fixed, so I took another shot at fixing the annoying stutter.

Every Visual Studio user is familiar with this window... why didn't they just build the help when you install it? the installation already takes about an hour, so ten more minutes won't hurt anyone, but when you're in a hurry and just want a glimpse at the help files (and you forgot you've just installed) your visual studio gets locked up for about ten minutes, it's really annoying.

Don't get me wrong, I like Visual Studio, it's the best IDE I've ever worked with (and I think I've worked with at least 90% of the IDEs out there), and thanks to Microsoft Dreamspark I now have my own license key to Visual Studio 2008 Professional (I don't have to use the trial version anymore, woohoo).

Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 (from 8.10), and I must say I'm quite impressed, it feels a lot more stable than previous versions, and a lot more mature.

In 8.10 Wi-Fi wasn't very stable, I kept having to boot to Windows and then boot back to Ubuntu for it work, and now it just works.

The new themes they've added are really good, I'm currently using "Dust Sand" which has a Mac-ish look it without being a Mac-clone.

Today was a sunny da with blue skies, we started today's trip by going to St. Nicholas Cathedral, an amazing, gigantic structure, these photos don't do it justice:

It was a beautiful snowy morning here in Prague, in the next photo you can see the snowy view from our hotel room:

This morning (really really early in the morning) we have started our Prague vacation (my better half and I).

We reached the hotel at around 10am, fortunately we could check in immediately (and didn't have to wait until 2pm...) so we could get some sleep (hey, I woke up at 2am and couldn't sleep the entire flight! I needed some sleep...).

After a little rest we headed out of the hotel towards the old city.

I've been looking for a decent todo-list application for a very long time, and last week I decided to write one, I call it "Todo" (I know, it's very original...).

The purpose of Builder is to automate the following process of building and packaging software packages (at the moment only for C# and Python projects)

I've accidentally committed some changes to the source control without entering a log message, and when I tried editing the log message I got this error message:

Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook

For a long time now I've been using delicious to keep my bookmarks online so I can access them without logging in (I don't like entering passwords on other people's computers...).

It wasn't the best solution, but it worked.