2014-12-09
2014-09-08
Truth
A bit offtopic, but cool
"If you have to lie to defend your truth then it was never really truth to begin with."
from AronRa:
"If you have to lie to defend your truth then it was never really truth to begin with."
from AronRa:
2014-09-06
Just maybe...
Maybe, just maybe...
since we possibly live in a grand simulation
all the black holes, the astronomical ones
are in fact some sort of giant garbage collectors?
2014-03-14
A meme
"Science is the poetry of reality".
Just watching one of R. Dawkins docs
and had the urge to re-spread the meme, as it is so cool.
2014-01-13
2013-12-25
JAPANESE SYLLABLES
New stuff is out!
Yet another clone of Burmese Syllables - Japanese Hiragana syllables.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noniewicz.japanese1
2013-11-27
Good luck with Linux
I decide to install some Linux box on a spare, old PC I've found standing useless.
Its main purpose: to install Lazarus and compile ZenGL to see if I can build Linux versions of my games. After all expanding user base is always a good idea.
I consider myself quite familiar with all sorts on unix-like systems. I had a lot of experience back in my days as an admin (ca 1995-2003). And here I am... It is the 4th day of my still failed efforts to install somy/any Linux.
The hadrware: Celeron 433MHz, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB HDD, 128MB Radeon 9200 AGP VGA. As I said, old and weak, but should be satisfactory anyway.
1. CentOS 6.3 - failed because: not enought RAM.
2. Ubuntu 12.04.3 - failed because: needed 8.06 GB(or was it 8.6) disk, also does not detect that the network is connected (while it also says IT IS connected), so "continue" button stays inactive. Why did it say "for best results..." net/disk is needed then?
3. Fedora 4 - actually succeded, but too old to use
4. Fedora 19 (netinstall CD) - failed because: after installation and reboot the system is not bootable (!). Stupid grub2. I need to mention here, that it took hours to download the system from "nearest" source, and that it hungs on Libreoffice download. I tried several times, starting from clean DOS fdisk to remove partitions for sure. I've also read a lot about how to fix grub2 booting and what to do when grub rescue "console" is showing up. No success.... What were they thinking (the authors of F19) creating a system that by default does not boot after first, clean install? If I've ever created such a lame software solution I'd have to live under the bridge...
5. Mandrake 9.2 - failed because: apparently it takes more than the one CD I have, and no spare CDR-s at the moment.
6. Slackware 9.1 - failed because: same reason as above, need more media to complete installation.
7. Slackware 8 - failed because: during network config at the end of the installation I accidentally pressed something and # shell appeared, but unresponsive. After reboot, it seemed OK for a while, but then login as root was not possible because of some lacking /dev/tty* or sth. Fdisk-ed the crap.
I'm now installing Mandriva 2007 - apparently old, probably will fail too.
Yet up my sleeve - Red Hat 9 - will it be too old?
If it fails I will have to aquire some DVDR-s and get me yet another distro...
update:
Mandriva got installed, but it seems pretty old, and now I can't manually compile the damp RPM to the version required by fpc.
And why is it that every problem I encounter has "resolution set to wontfix" ?! Like here http://www.rpm.org/ticket/61.
I consider myself quite familiar with all sorts on unix-like systems. I had a lot of experience back in my days as an admin (ca 1995-2003). And here I am... It is the 4th day of my still failed efforts to install somy/any Linux.
The hadrware: Celeron 433MHz, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB HDD, 128MB Radeon 9200 AGP VGA. As I said, old and weak, but should be satisfactory anyway.
Short history of failed installations:
1. CentOS 6.3 - failed because: not enought RAM.
2. Ubuntu 12.04.3 - failed because: needed 8.06 GB(or was it 8.6) disk, also does not detect that the network is connected (while it also says IT IS connected), so "continue" button stays inactive. Why did it say "for best results..." net/disk is needed then?
3. Fedora 4 - actually succeded, but too old to use
4. Fedora 19 (netinstall CD) - failed because: after installation and reboot the system is not bootable (!). Stupid grub2. I need to mention here, that it took hours to download the system from "nearest" source, and that it hungs on Libreoffice download. I tried several times, starting from clean DOS fdisk to remove partitions for sure. I've also read a lot about how to fix grub2 booting and what to do when grub rescue "console" is showing up. No success.... What were they thinking (the authors of F19) creating a system that by default does not boot after first, clean install? If I've ever created such a lame software solution I'd have to live under the bridge...
5. Mandrake 9.2 - failed because: apparently it takes more than the one CD I have, and no spare CDR-s at the moment.
6. Slackware 9.1 - failed because: same reason as above, need more media to complete installation.
7. Slackware 8 - failed because: during network config at the end of the installation I accidentally pressed something and # shell appeared, but unresponsive. After reboot, it seemed OK for a while, but then login as root was not possible because of some lacking /dev/tty* or sth. Fdisk-ed the crap.
I'm now installing Mandriva 2007 - apparently old, probably will fail too.
Yet up my sleeve - Red Hat 9 - will it be too old?
If it fails I will have to aquire some DVDR-s and get me yet another distro...
update:
Mandriva got installed, but it seems pretty old, and now I can't manually compile the damp RPM to the version required by fpc.
And why is it that every problem I encounter has "resolution set to wontfix" ?! Like here http://www.rpm.org/ticket/61.
2013-07-31
YAP PUZZLE
Also YAP Puzzle (Yet Another Puzzle) is finally published.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noniewicz.puzzle1
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noniewicz.puzzle1
RUSSIAN ALPHABET
An unexpected offspring...
Burmese Syllables inspired me to create its clone. This time with Russian alphabet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noniewicz.russian1
2013-05-25
NUMBERS, DISTANCE AND SPACE
> Assume there are 7 billion (7*10^9 = 7000000000) people on Earth. Assumption entered. > Assume the distance between Earth and the Moon to be 384400 km. Assumption entered. > Assume every human is exactly 1.5 m long with arms fully extended. Assumption entered. > Calculate, how many times would a "chain of humans" suprass the distance to the Moon? Working.... A chain of humans would measure 1.5*7*1e9 = 10500000000 meters, which is 10500000000/1000 = 10500000 km, so it would be 10500000/384400 = 27.315296566077 times The answer to your inquiry is: If every human 1.5 m long kept each other at arms full length in a chain, the length of that chain would be equal to a little more than 27 times the distance form Earth to the Moon.
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