I needed to get some very basic knowledge of economics principles, so I looked for introductory economics textbooks (in Czech). The classic Samuelson’s and Nordhaus’s book Economics was the most expensive one and its Czech edition was dated 1991. I wasn’t willing to pay such a big amount of money for an about 15 years…
Why to use separate terminal applications for remote connections when one can use Emacs? Why to run remote Emacs of different version, in different configuration, with echo delays, without your customizations, etc.? Why to pollute your desktop with another window and why to switch between it and Emacs all the time? Why to run multiple…
I finally became a photo.net subscriber. I don’t use the site much, but I like the idea of a non-commercial photo site supported by its users. I’ve found photo.net no longer requires a PayPal account to pay the fee, so it’s easier to subscribe now. BTW, do you know who is Philip Greenspun, the photo.net…
Yesterday we attended Christmas performance of a 3-generation family band Lučec – vnučec. They feature an interesting sound made by various old instruments, most notably vielles, manufactured by the band leader Jiří Košík. We really enjoyed it.
The famous Clint Eastwood’s movie Unforgiven went on Czech TV recently and I was pleased to watch it again. The classic Western themes of violence producing even more violence, guilt, pride, love, and seduction of money are performed here in an excellent way. Recommended.
Last week, Chinese prime minister visited Czech Republic. On the press meeting, apparent manipulation was used to disallow Czech journalists to ask real questions. Communists couldn’t do it better. Government of an E.U. country is afraid of its citizens to ask questions! Even worse, they are clearly afraid of questions related to human rights and…
There’s an interesting project for us running their weblogs on Lisp servers. Too bad I’ve got absolutely no time to contribute now. 🙁
I’ve added information on running the Epson Perfection 2480 Photo scanner and Epson Stylus Photo R220 printer on Linux to my small Linux hardware page. If you find those small pages useful, please consider sharing pieces of your knowledge on Internet as well, it can help to many people. My Linux hardware pages are almost…
Sony DSC-R1 full review is now available on dpreview.com too. Sony DSC-R1 seems to be a very interesting camera for an advanced amateur with limited budget. When I first read Sony DSC-R1 announcement, it was clear to me that device fixes all major imperfections I experience with my Olympus C-2100 UZ camera. Too bad I…
Today I had to print something. My aging DeskJet refused to print it in sufficient quality again. I had to use another printer connected to a Windows machine. That meant an interesting challenge to print a Czech OpenOffice.org document on Windows. OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 PDF export produced a document with Czech characters missing. This can be…