can’t wait the day when I’ll be able to program DNA

today, Uros Nedic, the guy doing the lecture, arrived a bit late but I managed to find a beautiful park behind the institute with a great view of the Danube river

I had a nice time today

we were learning about Sun OS processes, threads, LWM, kthreads, DTrace, Zones and ZFS

Uros was great while teaching us/giving a lecture, answered all of our questions

I learned a lot

now, here are some pictures I took with my mobile phone, sorry for the bad quality

check out this video shot from the police vehicle

it took my mind out of the things I face each day…

if you look really hard you can spot me in the pics

yet another beer fest

and I’m as always regular at beer fests…

this year was so like other years

Guinness beer is once again served warm (ewww smiley here)

best beer is Paulaner weisbier (white beer)

beer prices are really high, much higher than at the stores which is kind of strange since this is a beer fest, prices should be lower

music is rather booring but I guess people don’t really listen to the music when they’re high on alcohol or other

Kiril Dzajkovski was here tonight and he was great (look him up at youtube.com)

he really has 3 big hits (drum and bass music) and the other tunes are high energy and very listenable but not something you’ll remember in a few years time

actually his hits are songs I used to listen a couple of years ago

I see he’s been combining etno music from the Balcans with high energy tunes and it sounds cool

the best part was a little black girl that did some rap music and then combined with Kiril in one of his songs…

I couldn’t really understand the lyrics she was singing but she was great

Cedric Gervais was booring as was Timo Maas

you’ll find clips at youtube, I couldn’t be bothered to make my own

pics first

we got some really cheap tickets (read it as FREE passes ) for Friday and since we’ve never been to Exit festival in Novi Sad we (my friend and I) decided to try it out

and it was a disappointment

the most notable performers for the night were Rony Size on the Main stage and Laurent Garnier on the Dance stage

Rony had a good sound system, great visual effects and good rhythm but I couldn’t understand a word he or his singer sang.
his singer was a bit more understandable though and the lyrics were not something I’d sing if I knew them
I like Kosheen more

Laurent Garnier had a problem with the bass on his sound system, you heard a crack instead of veeery deep bass.
and he ran some boring techno, a bit more dancey but still boring.

the other stages very mostly techno, at least in that part of Petrovaradin fortress where we hanged out

actually, the best part of the night was us hanging out in a small bar with some interesting girls from Bristol

I didn’t know Serbia had that many inhabitants as the number of people that were at the festival
the weather was great, there wasn’t any rain like few years ago, but it was pretty dusty, crowdy and without a decent number of places where to sit and rest

food was overpriced by at least 100% and I thought the Tuborg beer was good while my friend actually didn’t like it (more for me, hehe)

I drove back home completely sober (hehe) with a big hangover and my heart beating at sync with the techno tunes we’ve listened to

for those who have no clue what Neo Freerunner is, it is a mobile phone running Linux

backed by FIC (First International Computer of Taiwan) it is finally going mass market

it is designed to rival the original Iphone

the phone is unlocked (works with any mobile phone network provider) and uses open standards

the hardware specs are 500MHz Samsung S3C2442 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB Flash, 4.3″ diagonal display in 640×480 VGA Color TFT LCD, 3D graphics, 2 3D accelerometers, audio, USB port, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth, GPS

the recommended price is 400 USD

I like it

read more about it at linuxdevices

there were people from all over Serbia there.

we had a chat about OpenOffice (that was rather boooring for me) and then we went to have some lunch.

after that we relaxed in a cafe

I traveled with two guys in an old Volvo from Belgrade

Here are the pics

this is the first time I actually made a point to see a lunar eclipse

and I made some photos

fool moon

moon is getting eclipsed

total eclipse

That thing is going to land somewhere.

The satellite is as large as a school bus, has been powered off and is going to fall.

Some people think about shooting the falling satellite with a missile, but some argue that.

Read more about it here.