Guvernul a aprobat strategia națională e-România, propusă de Ministerul Comunicațiilor și Societății Informaționale (MCSI), Executivul alocând aproape jumătate de miliard de euro pentru perioada 2010-2013.

În acest moment, e-Romania este prezentat ca un portal CONCEPT. Informaţiile cuprinse nu au caracter definitv, urmând ca, respectând configuraţia actuală, să se construiască o bază de informare coerentă şi integrată.

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e-Romania va fi poarta ta spre serviciile guvernamentale!

Solutia este atat de “complexa” incat include opensource (tot respectul, dar gratuit) pentru administrare si continut (CMS bazat pe http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/). Deci, 500 mil. euro e pretul pentru instalarea unei platforme gratuite (ca Joomla, WordPress sau Drupal) plus hosting plus continut pentru un stat roman economicos si atent cu banii publici.

Ma apuc sa caut stat “economicos” care sa investeasca juma de milion de euro intr-un WordPress personalizat.

Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.

PS: stiu, sunt obsedat Via @mateo.

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Cum spune TechCrunch: Google rasuceste cutitul in IE6. Dupa ani in care IE6 a invartit cutitul in CSS, JS si HTML, zvonul s-a confirmat. Dani a confirmat. Toata lumea a confirmat. Vine jelitul IE6 prin dansul bucuriei \m/ Si relansarea razboiului browserelor acum cu Chrome si Firefox pe campul de lupta.

Un baiat de 16 ani din Canada a cerut parintilor sa-l duca cu masina la un hotel pentru a se intalni cu o duduie de 42 de ani (mama a 3 copii) cu care isi crease o relatie in WoW. Parintii nu au fost de acord si, drept urmare, tanarul a plecat pe ascus noaptea pentru a-si intalni sufletul pereche. Toata povestea si finalul ei, aici si aici.

Si o plagiatura de efect dupa intro-ul de la WotLK (via).

Nostalgie pentru zecile de instalari si reinstalari de pe dischete de 3,5′ (parca vreo 16 la numar) pentru Windows si Word for Windows (vreo 30 de dischete?). Norton Commander (nc) si DOS Navigator (dn) deveneau deja istorie datorita file manager-ului (viitorul Explorer) si aparatiei Internet Explorer 3, iar documentele WordStar erau deja importabile (format text ) de Word for Windows. Mai spun de colegi care ma rugau sa-i bag in Windows pentru a juca Solitaire sau Minesweeper?

Daca doresti sa traiesti aceasta experienta unica sau sa retraiesti traumele si sechelele inceputurilor GUI, Michael Vincent a recreat interfata unica si clasica a Windows 3.1 folosind JS, CSS, AJAX, PHP si MySQL:

The goal of this site is not to create an entirely complete mirror image of Windows 3.1, but rather keep the spirit and omit features when they are not justified by an effort to usability ratio. For example, Notepad lacks a find and replace feature because it is not worth the effort. Where features do exist, every effort is made to present them in exactly the manner that they existed in Windows 3.1.

C:\>C:\windows\win.com_

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Toate aceste activitati pot aduce un intreg zumzet in industria IT prin necesitatea refactoring-ului sau a portarii unui intreg set de aplicatii intranet care traiau in baza IE6, iar mai nou, scuza pastrarii XP (si a IE6) pentru ca Vista e greoi si instabil pica, atata timp cat exista Windows 7. Exista in momentul de fata 144 de brese de securitate in Internet Explorer 6, dintre care 23 nu sunt reparate. Inca 5 motive pentru parastas aici, iar alternative la Internet Explorer sunt peste tot (1, 2 si 3) mai ales ca HTML5 e atat de aproape.

Doar o comparatie, dar mergand prin Azeroth atent la discutiile din ghilda: programarea in PHP (si in genere) e ca un MMORPG. E o analogie exagerata poate, dar fiti atenti: cam cat de bun e codul scris cand incepi sa programezi cu tutorialul PHP.net? Esti un noob, un paladin (nu mai stiu care e cea mai preferata clasa) de nivelul 1 cu o arma de lemn si speriat de porci/iepuri/critteri. Si insistand excesiv, un nou limbaj de programare e o misiune (quest) pentru obtinerea de puncte de experienta sau pentru dezvoltarea caracterului.

Unii dintre noi se level-uiesc incet, ucigand demonii siteurilor personale, paginilor de contact, blogurilor sau guestbook-urilor. Altii sar direct la nivelul 40 in companii maricele sau foarte active online si isi regasesc caracterele la graveyard pentru gatuieli de performata, brese de securitate sau lipsa de potiuni de mana (idei de dezvoltare). Fiecare dintre noi invata, la rate diferite si cu cicatricele de rigoare. Totusi, cei ce avanseaza mai usor sunt cei care invata de la jucatorii experimentati. Exista, la fel ca si in WoW, un spirit de noncombativitate care, cred, oglindeste comunitatea PHP.

PS: daca nu ai auzit de incidentul Corrupted Blood, recomand sa citesti despre el. E un experiment sociologic fantastic. Adica exista si-n comunitatea PHP-istilor destui plague spreaders.

1. Is the filename extention right? Should it be .php instead of .html?
2. You can get to the web site? Are you working in “off-line” mode?
3. Make sure CapsLock is off. (Same for ScrollLock and NumLock)
4. Is there a (invisible) CTRL-M at the end of each line in the text file?
5. Does the text file end with a newline?
6. Are both ends of the (power/network/video/etc.) cable plugged in?
7. Did you unplug and re-plug in the cable to make sure its in right?
8. Is the cable plugged into the right jack? (Some jacks look the same: AUI and video, Some Sun’s have a ‘stealth’ video jack that you aren’t supposed to use, etc.)
9. “Did you get permission to run crack against that password file?” … “Is it in writing?”
10. Is the user pressing RETURN when you think they are? (Are they pressing it at all?)
11. Is the user typing a “/” or a “\”?
12. Does the user know which is the lessthan and which is the greaterthan symbol?
13. Is the screen paused via Ctrl-S? (press CTRL-Q to find out)
14. Does your test gear test what you think it tests? What happens when you run the exact same test on a known-good and a known-bad element? Do you get the results you expect both ways?
15. Does plugging a lamp into that outlet make it light up? (If you use a radio, be careful of radios with battery backups)
16. Is the laptop running off battery? (therefore obscuring a power problem)
17. Use cut-and-paste to copy that variable name (or URL, commmand line, etc.) to see if it was entered correctly.
18. Check the file permissions.
19. Check the environment variables (Use “strings” on the binary to find out what they really are supposed to be).
20. It’s too easy to answer “yes” when asked, “Is it plugged in.” It’s better to ask them to power it off, then power it back on OR ask them to “check both ends of the power cable” OR ask them if the power light is on, off, or blinking. (and if it’s blinking… RUN!)
21. Type it again (without using cut-and-paste) and see if you get the same results. (good way to find a typo)
22. Is the default route set? Is the netmask set correctly?
23. Traceroute from A to B. Traceroute B to A. Do they match up?
24. Is someone else also at that IP address? (Unplug the network cable and ping the address)
25. Are you really on the host you think you are?
26. Is the program reading the last line of the file? Is it being processed right?
27. Are you doing the test from the right machine? Would the test be more effective from a different machine?
28. (firewall ruleset issues) If you move the machine to another IP address does it still happen? If you move the machine to a different subnet does it still happen? If you put a different machine at that IP address does it still happen? If you boot the same machine on a different OS (like a CD-ROM based Linux or FreeBSD) does it still happen?
29. Does the same thing happen when you specify the IP address instead of the hostname? (Hint: the lmhost or /etc/hosts may be overriding)
30. Is that a file, a directory, a hard link, a symbolic link, or a mountpoint?
31. http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/index.html: Six classes of bugs limit network performance.
    • packet losses, corruption, congestion, bad hardware
    • IP Routing, long round trip times
    • Packet reordering
    • Inappropriate buffer space
    • Inappropriate packet sizes
    • Inefficient applications

    Any one of these problems can hide all other problems:

32. Are the binaries really the ones you think are running? (Did you install in single user mode when /opt wasn’t mounted? Can you check the md5 or sha1 checksum vs. a machine that is running properly?)
33. Is DNS configured right? Misconfigured DNS masks other problems and appears as bizarre problems that will send you looking everywhere except /etc/resolv.conf
34. Is there a rogue DHCP server on the network messing with you?
35. Is the device driver you’re trying to install for the device you actually have?
36. Did you remember to check this list?

Peste putine nu am dat pana acum De aici.

Apoteotic:

Joi seara pe la 12 a fost suspendat 24 de ore (la ora la care scriu mai erau 1:10 minute pana expira suspendarea) din motive de tipul:

An investigation of the World of Warcraft account has produced evidence that the computer(s) used to play the account are infected by a virus, Trojan or keylogger.

Cam atat m-a dus capul sa le scriu dupa ce luni mi-am resecurizat/reverificat sistemul (urmarind si indicatiile lor) si dupa ce astazi l-am lasat sa scaneze cu tot arsenalul din dotare (scanare care nu a gasit nimic):

Hello…

I received a mail about my account temporary suspension (24h) because my computer is virused/insecured/etc… I fully verified/cleaned my PC, using Kaspersky Inet Security 2010, checked for rootkits with Gmer, activated 2 firewals (windows default and kis2010), installed and updated windows defender, upgraded to IE8, installed all critical and useless MS patches, updated to FF3.5.1.

Still, nothing was found since i recovered my account… I appreciate your concern regarding my account, i know it was my fault indirectly for the account hacking (by not having an updated OS, windows defender, a good anti-virus — was using IE6 for debug purposes and AVG that I dont trust anymore), but now, everything will be ok (i`m secured to teeth)… Please, grant me access to my account.

Thank you.

PS: am fost obsedat de WoW. Si cred ca IE6 trebuie sa moara pentru ca el e de vina pentru contul meu spart si pentru zilele platite si nejucate

… desi, originalul generatiei mele suna cam asa:

Asa, Chop Suey si Break Stuff nu vor muri vreodat’ din playlistu de dimineata.

Bonus: